Browse by Artist: ANTONELLI ELCTR.

Artist:	ANTONELLI ELCTR.
Title:	Click
Label:	ITALIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	ITALIC 016CD

"After the euphoric reception of the CD Me, The Disco Machine and various hits in the last two years, pop dandy Stefan Schwander has programmed a new album entitled Click. The new album's most important attribute is its modernity. Click is now, a prototype for the future, providing an independent musical language and expression for Antonelli: his personal digital creation, minimally arranged, using economical aesthetics, a hedonistic attitude, abstract programming, a crisp sound and class detail. Click is a personal comment on electronic music in 2001 and displays Antonelli's view of digital club music. Click is an unambiguous statement for a kind of music which must be constantly renewed and repositioned. The music delivers despite its discipline, sublimity, elegance and beauty. The digital sound swings, every single click vibrates. The sound's precision is perfect. A pure, digital sound."

Artist:	ANTONELLI ELCTR.
Title:	The Blackout Quintet
Label:	ITALIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ITALIC 054CD

"There are 8 new titles on Stefan Schwander's latest album The Blackout Quintet, all composed by the techno dandy himself. This is Schwander's fourth album under the alias Antonelli. The music on The Blackout Quintet is best described not just as haunting but as positively ghostly. It is set in the hours of transition between day and night, in that shadowy no man's land from dusk to darkness or darkness to dawn. This emphasis on time and time passing is reflected not just in the music but in the titles of the tracks themselves: after the night, the morning, the quiet night, gespenster (ghosts). And to project day and night metaphor onto the techno or club context, the music could be said to belong somewhere between dancefloor and after-hours, or even to that private zone after after-hours when the party is over and you're floating gently back to reality. Antonelli's dreamy melodies create feelings of abandon and paranoia at the same time. In two pieces ('Topaz,' 'The Wave'), the intensity of the music is generated by a symphonic, feedback-like wall of sound, which builds up in layer upon insistent layer. Other tracks on The Blackout Quintet (e.g. 'After the Night') recall the music of Angelo Badalamenti, the film composer beloved of David Lynch (Twin Peaks, Mulholland Drive) who is also celebrated for his pop music (including songs for the Pet Shop Boys). More than anything in fact, The Blackout Quintet does beg to be described as film music, despite there being no film to go with it, nothing to give the music a concrete visual structure and nothing to subordinate it to or put it on a level with images and events. Indeed, The Blackout Quintet is intentionally self-sufficient, and as a result achieves that freedom and breadth which enables music to put its listeners into a state of semi-delirium, allowing them, if they are lucky enough, to catch a glimpse of a ghost or two."

Artist:	ANTONELLI ELCTR.
Title:	The Blackout Quintet
Label:	ITALIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	ITALIC 054LP

Double LP version. The full 8 track CD is included, plus 3 bonus remixes by Oliver Hacke, Error Error & Lawrence (exclusive to the LP version). "The music on The Blackout Quintet is best described not just as haunting but as positively ghostly. It is set in the hours of transition between day and night, in that shadowy no man's land from dusk to darkness or darkness to dawn. This emphasis on time and time passing is reflected not just in the music but in the titles of the tracks themselves: after the night, the morning, the quiet night, gespenster (ghosts). And to project day and night metaphor onto the techno or club context, the music could be said to belong somewhere between dancefloor and after-hours, or even to that private zone after after-hours when the party is over and you're floating gently back to reality. Antonelli's dreamy melodies create feelings of abandon and paranoia at the same time."

Artist:	ANTONELLI ELCTR.
Title:	Laziness
Label:	LEVEL RECORDS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	LEVEL 005EP

"Antonelli Electr. is delightfully composing himself back into a perfect arrangement between house and minimal techno. One thing, two sides -- and a gradual change of perspective, developing from straight techno beats to a gas and steam cogeneration plant. Side A starts off with 'Dusty,' a straight techno track with a slurping bass that easily masters the quirky house chords. 'Slipstream' is an accelerating impulse for the dance floors and will make them hit and kick till their hearts are content. Side B sways more into serenely playful sounds: 'Snowflake Funk' is sure funky, even jazzy with a clearly swishing and rustling scent. 'Laziness,' the last track then tumbles over into a new interpretation of deep and dubbed minimal techno -- playful without being abstract -- a snapshot of relief and liberating contemplation. Laziness EP is not entirely without double and maybe triple irony, yet it displays too much friendliness and equanimity to be full-swing iconoclastic, and what is more, it will knock over your flower tub real good, too, just as the mood pleases."

Artist:	ANTONELLI ELCTR.
Title:	A Ghost Should Care EP
Label:	MINUENDO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MND 006EP

"The German artist Antonelli Electr. sings this luxury reference for Minuendo. A Ghost Should Care EP is one of the most complete references from this German artist -- in it he draws sound in a perfect harmony, coloring in details from Detroit to deep minimal. Antonelli has been a reference since years in the European electronic scene, we can check it, in his works in labels as Italic, Level, Kalkpets, Scape. The main track 'Repeat the Beat, Volume 10' is a spread of acoustic sensuality, dressed as a round melody supported by atmosphere and chords, where Antonelli opens his world doors. 'A Ghost Should Care' is the track that gives name to reference, and is a great tribute from Antonelli. We find a deep and complete track in 'Passaje to Nagoya,' which follows the mitic line from 'The Morning' for the good deep minimal lovers."

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