Browse by Artist: ALLIEN, ELLEN

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Remix Collection
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	BPC 080CD

"This is a selective and very nice collection Ellen Allien has offered us. She stays active remixing next to her own productions -- that we know. Here we have yet again and comprehensively all the small remix pieces from 1995 - 2003 that comprise her vinyl releases served to you in one dish. There is even a little extra: Ellen Allien's Gold Chains Remix has been released along with it and belongs to the most recent ones. The inspiration for the remix collection came rather spontaneously. Ellen Allien packed all remixes in a pretty iPod, and that's how she passed time on planes. By now some of them belong to her favorite tracks. Maybe the remix collection is simply a testament to her own life filled with all the gigs, travels, own releases etc., which also includes remixing or achieving the thing in itself. It's perhaps an exercise in memory, as it seems, since Ellen Allien combines many personal things with what she does. It's well known that Ellen Allien has a relentless appetite for new sounds and genres. It is remarkable however how many ingredients she juggles freely while always maintaining her own style as if it were an automated signature... The list of the mentioned heads reads like a mix between global and central, hence Berlin. Apparently, Ellen Allien has her ears everywhere but still stands on solid ground nonetheless. Musically, this much electronic diversity gives good reason for her own work which makes looking for a formula senseless. What appears unanimous is Ellen Allien's stubborn and slightly queer way of absorbing the original without any heartburn. It rather seems like a very soothing way to pass the time." Artists: Sascha Funke, Gold Chains, Vicknoise, Apparat, OMR, Barbara Morgenstern, Ellen Allien, Covenant, Gut-Humpe, Goldenboy with Miss Kittin. A few copies left on BPC, this is now licensed to Asphodel in the US.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Stadtkind
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 021CD

"Finally Ellen Allien is now able to present her debut album Stadtkind The choice of title seems obvious, as the inevitable confrontation with Berlin as an urban area was always present in her childhood. This link is noticeable in the urban aspect of her music. She talks her own musical language within a psychotic, romantic and electronic plot. The chopped up sounds ornamented with atmospheric lo-fi attacks will keep you down and lift you up. The album contains among straight clubstompers and distraught spoken word electro, abstract down beat tracks too. Kneedeep and always straight out the middle of struggling daily life. The emotional range resembles to the concord's condensation trail: from light and airy heights to heavy as lead techno beats. The driving force is Ellen's vocals, which contains the whole musical spectrum of Sadtkind. It is the differentiated intensity of singing. You will never feel like you have to fall out of the window. In spite of all this, Ellen with her music on Stadtkind never gets lost in local vastness. The tough sound which boosts out of the speakers is still straight bpitch control. Berlin can be everywhere, right?"

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Stadtkind
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	BPC 021LP

Double LP version. Debut album from 2001. "She talks her own musical language within a psychotic, romantic and electronic plot. The chopped up sounds ornamented with atmospheric lo-fi attacks will keep you down and lift you up. The album contains among straight clubstompers and distraught spoken word electro, abstract down beat tracks too. Kneedeep and always straight out the middle of struggling daily life. The emotional range resembles to the concord's condensation trail: from light and airy heights to heavy as lead techno beats."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Flieg Mit Ellen Allien
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 027CD

"On Flieg mit Ellen Allien, Berlin based DJ and BPitch Control label owner Ellen Allien presents her current favorite DJ set. The musical spectrum is very broad. The will to have fun is what ties the whole set together. In this sense techno from her point of view is not necessarily meant to be dark and hard. More important is to make this kick perceptible through melodies and singing -- the bass drum is not all. The positive vibe of Flieg mit Ellen Allien is also evident in the track selection: from Meinrad Jungblut, Paula, Quarks, to Aeric, Little Computer People and Philippe Cam you can get lifted from the ground. Simply a summer mix."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Weiss.mix
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 047CD

"On Weiss Ellen Allien devotes herself to her own musical preferences and inspirations from the past as well as to current musical tendencies. The result is a DJ-mix full of variety, which is very explicitly mirroring the DJ´s profile. It`s a statement for openness and flexibility. Ellen Allien doesn´t have any kind of dogma. All tracks are forming a unity of equal relations. The combination of experimental styles with more conventional creates the unique flow, her very personal style with some space for surprise. Weiss is a surface for projecting the network structures Ellen Allien works in: the Bpitch spectrum covers 'sound', art-work and the product. On the other hand she is working hard as a dj. That means you have to be open towards new styles without losing your own identity. One has also to be very selective. In the mix Ellen Allien sticks to clear and sharp cuts while leaving enough space for every track to convey its massage. At the same time she once again proofs her dj-skills." Artists include: Closer Musik, Kiki, Redshift, Sylvie Marks, DJ Maxximus/Something J, Andrea Parker feat. DJ Assault & DJ Godfather, Squarepusher, Feadz, Cex rmx vs. Electric Company, Ellen Allien, Akufen, Archetype, Otto Von Schirach, Phoenicia, Mono Junk, Apparat, Modeselektor, Electric Company, Superpitcher.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Berlinette
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 065CD

"Berlinette firstly draws upon the album title itself revealing Ellen Allien's identification with the city. Ellen Allien has found the key to her Self in this international context when one considers the philosophical notion pertaining to the experience of one's person through a relation to the other, i.e. the quasi dialectic of an I with an Other. She is continuously set in relation to Berlin, especially abroad. Berlinette is thus supposed to reflect this precise experience without any pretense for irony. The presentation of her label BPitch Control also happens this way. Ellen Allien not only delivers the feeling of Berlin city, but also offers her own experiential horizon defined by network structures and the idea of autocracy and independence. Individual systems make way for a tight co-operative in the collective. Ellen Allien allowed herself little time to complete Berlinette. One should under no circumstance understand her second album conceptually. Rather, she is en route searching for a new sound aesthetic that pays respect to her wide interests, activities and of course her personality. The quote 'I demand the complete summary of all artistic powers for the accomplishment of the art work as a whole.' of Kurt Schwitters, the great pioneer of German Dadaism, could perhaps come from Ellen herself. Her artistic approach equally reminds one of Dada: the combination of all possible musical pieces such as text, arrangement, sample, and beat. Here she shows a new face which sets forth what Stadtkind started. However, the principle of minimalism has given way to a more sharpened approach which is more than a kind of experiment in the process of production."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Trashscape Remixe
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 066EP

"The Trashscape Rmxs leave enough space for Ellen Allien to span an audible terrain from her own phantom all the way to her long-time heading the pack for

inspiration. A cross section is being presented through some contemporary tendencies in the large playground of electronic music. America's bootleg and remix wonder child Kid 606 is just as much aboard as Apparat, who is usually busy coding binary emotions, and then there is Raz Ohara, a living hybrid between all styles, like Anthony Rother with his native Elektro realm."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Alles Sehn Remixes
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 073EP

"The Alles Sehen Remixes are the second extraction from Berlinette, the second album from Ellen Allien. They primarily show mutual and respectful touch and go recording for the flow of the originals. The remixes go left and right from where Ellen Allien set a secondary foundation on Berlinette with the abundance of vocals in order to touch on contemporary and, especially, experimental contexts. No one seems to be able to get around the challenge Ellen Allien is setting today: the positive and negative statements about her musical output are being opposed once again."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Astral
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 085EP

"Allien leaves everything out on 'Astral' and, instead, offers her own definition of minimal Elechtech. To define means only as much as the word itself: to represent in elaborate terms something within its boundaries. Ellen Allien pins down every centimeter of the dance floor with precision. She knows how every corner, every angle sounds around her. In the process, she moves onward conscientiously. What can you say but that she is fully realized, especially in regard to her surroundings from the years past to those ahead. Ellen longed for space with the frequency of the beat. Her attempt to breach the threshold of technoid elektro continues to push out of the genre. (If it weren't so then it just wouldn't be Ellen Allien). Powerful bass lines dig a track, grinding their way into your ear lobes, to then be hit with breaks over and over again. Cheers to renewal."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	My Parade - DJ Mix
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 094CD

"It seems to have been great fun for Ellen Allien while preparing her new mix-CD My Parade. For this time she strikes with a good deal of stereotyped thinking. Where with her two albums Stadtkind (2001) and Berlinette (2003) she as producer set a concise mark in the electronic scene, and now follows the continuation of her mix range from a parallel perspective. Which with Flieg mit... (2001) and Weiss (2002) is a counter project for a firm adjustment with ambitions on a certain sound. In order to know however what makes Ellen Allien exactly now Ellen Allien, lets call it taking a break from the here and now. Confidently a clear statement is to be heard from her in April 2004: 'I love techno! Club me, I club you! Dance with me, Break with me, rock with me -- in the end techno is my only friend. Dream girl, dream boy..."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Magma Remixes
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 105EP

3-track EP featuring remixes from MFA & Modeselektor! "With 'Magma' Ellen Allien sets out to loosen us up for her third album Thrills (BPC106). Everybody will sweat in this small workout because Magma is like a little steam turbine with which Ellen Allien softly digs up the dance floor so that we can dance at the center of the earth, sweating profusely in the heat. Whoever doesn't understand that Ellen turns more than just a few knobs is, so to speak, not seeing the forest with all the trees in the way. Almost fourteen years of techno certainly leave their trace and, one must say of course, they've brought about a bunch of fun and coincidences. Ellen Allien, our magical fairy, steers the techno of 'Magma' with a baddass rowdy voice, like swinging around a wild red flag in order to push the limits of the tube even further. The MFA are the latest BPitch Control import from England. Here they come along with the given relentless six minute mini-rave, just how we know the Brits. Ellen Allien's 'Magma' thus experiences a new limelight. For whomever this still doesn't hit home, they might try to clean their ears and buy some eyeglasses. In the end Modeslektor win over our hearts. They're like the young, almost invisible, friends who take whatever first opportunity and jump out of a pocket to confuse everything like crazy. Once again we don't know what to say about it. We like this chaos because Modeselektor aim to destroy everything first so that they can then change it and frame it up. It's just twisted differently yet again -- drop it like it's hot Frau Allien."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Thrills
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 106CD

Techno-goddess Ellen Allien returns with her third studio album. Teaming up with Holger Zielske (Smash TV) with whom she also produced Stadtkind (BPC 021CD/LP) and Berlinette (BPC 065CD/LP), Thrills harkens back to the dank, dense warehouses of German clubs like Tresor and Detroit basement acid house blowouts. Allien also conducts experiments with new-old units such as the Roland 808 and an ARP 2600 (her new favorite instrument) to produce warmer, more relaxed digital sounds. Thrills connects the dots of 808 State, Gina X and Kompakt. And where Berlinette, her stunning second album, introduced her techno to a wider audience, she now turns around and exposes that wider audience to her techno, raising her stunning profile while alerting the world to the brilliance of her label BPitch Control. Allien has never been more in the moment, never been more relevant. The basslines rise like tides, synth lines tickle like feathers and beats bounce bounce bounce. This is what it sounds like to be modern and mature. This is what is sounds like to be fluid. What it sounds like to rock while standing still. What it sounds like to be Ellen Allien.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Your Body is My Body Rmx
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 113EP

"With the 'Your Body is my Body' remixes, Ellen Allien follows the course she has established with 'Magma' and her third album Thrills: Dance, lose control, turn your inside out! Troy Pierce's mix comes across as a calm, minimal version, sprucing up Ellen's elechtech from a straightforward, hypnotic angle. Pierce turns it into a neat dance floor track. All you wanna do is nod your head to the beat to forget where you are. Later on, you might ask yourself what that name on your door is supposed to mean. And of course, the Minus-BPitch Control connection is a welcome revival of the old Detroit-Berlin axis. The original version is the best example for what Ms. Allien has always associated with Hypnotich Elechtech: Straight and clear lines with few distractions and discreetly placed vocals make it so you can (and must) dance with your eyes shut and your ears wide open. BPitch Control label-mate Kiki opens a Pandora's box with his mix and dissects Ellen Allien into tiny slices, which are merely held together by the power of the pads and melodies. What remains is Ellen Allien's voice, which before was more integrated into the sound, but now acts as the track's common thread."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Down RMX
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 116EP

Remixes of "Down," a track off Allien's superb and successful third long-player, Thrills. Miss Dinky from Chile delivers the first deep and brainy remix, rendering the original dancefloor-killer into pure atmospheric groove. Drama Society, the Italian super-dance-bomb, make their track deep and enigmatic -- a black-and-white thriller where deep really means deep, with rumbling and hammering bass. The Paris-based FuckALoop remixes a mean hip hop electronic massacre by TTC and transforms Allien's track into the cinematographic variation of an animated dance night where, in slow motion, even the most complicated moves are made with elegance.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Go
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 160EP

"Go" is an allusion to Ellen Allien's very first track, "Just Let the Groove Go" (1994), using the vocals as the basis for a dark and ethereal new version. Marcel Dettmann still plays the original version in his sets and now presents his own rework. Both versions use the same vocal sample but combine it with different beats -- Allien goes for hypnotic, dry beats, while Dettmann goes for dub-tech à la Hardwax. Both versions will get the hearts flying.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Boogy Bytes Vol. 04
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 171CD

This is the eagerly-awaited fourth installment in BPitch Control's Boogy Bytes series, mixed by the label queen herself, Ellen Allien. Allien describes this mix as "emotional, noisy, trippy, weird and sexual," an apt characterization of her typology of sound that is perhaps more crooked, more abstract or technoid than others, but with a seamless queue of artists that you can't help but be excited about. As a DJ, she maintains that emotional and direct contact to the audience always comes first -- likewise, she tries to anticipate all the facets and interactions of daily life where music is a companion, whether it be dancefloor, airport, studio, office or living room. For example, the bass drum is not set into the foreground, obviously, neither should it dominate the feelings of the listener. Ellen Allien sketches a voyage that consists of a generous arrangement of tracks that allows space and room for the listener's own perception of the music and what he or she might add based on their own mood and experiences. 2007 was a special year for Allien, and also for electronic music "made in Europe" and so, that element resonates within the mix. Between poem producer AGF and Little Dragon is music that is fluid and malleable with club nights and daily wanderings in mind. The riveting cover-theme continues with photographer Axl Jansen's instant-action shot, which perfectly reflects Boogy Bytes Vol. 04: full of motion and emotional. Other artists include: Vera, Ricardo Villalobos & Patrick Ense, Melon, Andres Zacco & Lucas Mari, Seph, Konpiùta, Moessap, Sozadams, Richard Seeley, Lucio Aquilina, Melchior Productions, Friendly People, Damian Schwartz, Sascha Funke, Gaiser and Kassem Mosse.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Sool
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 175CD

Sool is the fourth full-length solo release (following Stadtkind, Berlinette and Thrills) by the inimitable queen, Ellen Allien. Welcome once again to the Allien world: this one is subtle, mysterious, and minimal. Created in the deepest and darkest of Berlin's winters, 2007-2008, Sool is intended to be a valve, a loophole, a respite from the crazy summers into the introspection and hibernation of winter. This could easily be Allien's most intimate album yet: the sounds of everyday life and snatches of whispers reveal themselves with field-recorded closeness, the beats are as soft and as near as a heartbeat, ambient synth sounds are as long and spacious as an arm stretching across a couch, and everything is arranged in exactly the right place, as in a well-appointed parlor. But Sool also illustrates that minimal is not only meant for private moments, but also for the dancefloor. Some songs clang with an industrial aggression, others throb with a stark intensity, while still others gently coax you onto the floor just to break your heart, e.g. "Frieda," which features Allien's soft, skillful vocals. As Allien herself asks, "...what does minimal mean for me? Minimal is just there. Permuting that, shaping this kind of immediacy with my own hands -- that was close to my heart. A whiff of positive, but nevertheless abysmal energy creates room for the ears." So what exactly IS Sool? Sool is Allien's own personal creation -- a ghostly presence that resides within the objects and architecture of everyday life and everything that is within and surrounds her. Sool is an alluring portrait deep inside the most active parts of the brain and the quietest area of the heart.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Sool
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	BPC 175LP

Double LP version. Welcome once again to the Allien world: this one is subtle, mysterious, and minimal. This could easily be Allien's most intimate album yet: the sounds of everyday life and snatches of whispers reveal themselves with field-recorded closeness, the beats are as soft and as near as a heartbeat, ambient synth sounds are as long and spacious as an arm stretching across a couch, and everything is arranged in exactly the right place, as in a well-appointed parlor. But Sool also illustrates that minimal is not only meant for private moments, but also for the dancefloor. Some songs clang with an industrial aggression, others throb with a stark intensity, while still others gently coax you onto the floor just to break your heart. Sool is Allien's own personal creation -- a ghostly presence that resides within the objects and architecture of everyday life and everything that is within and surrounds her. Sool is an alluring portrait deep inside the most active parts of the brain and the quietest area of the heart.

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Elphine (Troy Pierce Mix)
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BPC 181EP

"Elphine" is a track off of Ellen Allien's highly-acclaimed Sool. Zander VT and Troy Pierce purify this track with a pair of special remixes. "Elphine" creeps into your subconscious and produces positive energy. For Zander VT's remix, the characteristic "Elphine" hook crosses the whole remix theme and pushes the audience straight onto the dancefloor. Troy Pierce's remix is unique, pushed by an impulsive bass line and newly-arranged vocals, taken from the original.

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