Browse by Artist: DICTAPHONE

Artist:	DICTAPHONE
Title:	Nacht EP
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 024EP

"After the highly acclaimed album M.=Addiction, Dictaphone finally return with four new tracks. 'Peaks' and 'Warszawa w nocy' are based around recordings made in a rehearsal room somewhere in Berlin with some microphones hanging from the low ceiling: Roger Döring (saxophone & clarinet on the Dictaphone album), Stephan Wöhrmann (drums) & Piotr Rybkowski (bass) met up for a couple of sessions over the last two years .When Oliver Doerell heard those recordings, he immediately started to work on them. And finished them. 'Peaks' is more than a homage. Clearly inspired by the theme of a well known TV-series, it takes that certain haunting groove and transforms it into the most perfect base for Döring's saxophone. 'Warszawa w nocy' sounds like a million things happening at the same time, but in the end, all there is is noise, hiss, a pleasantly disturbing groove and the saxophone. The B-Side features two classic Dictaphone tracks, made by Doerell and Döring. Truly cinematic."

Artist:	DICTAPHONE
Title:	m.=addiction
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 010CD

"From the very beginning, Dictaphone was the idea of Oliver Doerell. Born and bred in Brussels, multi-instrumentalist Doerell now lives in Berlin and has been working on the Dictaphone project for the last three years. Together with Roger Döring, saxophone and clarinet player, he has slowly been developing his version of electronically processed slo-motion jazz, which is nothing but a collection of beautiful lovesongs. A deep bass meets an ocean full of warm, enchanting melancholy. m.=addiction feels like a French autumn dream. Strings are struggling against precisely placed artefacts and rhythmic noisy bits. Field recordings from public swimming pools meet strange messages recorded with old dictaphones. Maika Spiegel ('minimal compact') makes one of the tracks even more beautiful with her unique voice. m.=addiction simply makes you drown in a soft, velvety atmosphere."

Artist:	DICTAPHONE
Title:	Vertigo II
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 032CD

Vertigo II is the second album from Oliver Doerell and Roger Doring under the Dictaphone tag, further honing their delicately homespun tape loops and jazz emissions into a new kind of midnight effervescence that has won them a sizeable following and a dedicated audience for their hugely acclaimed live shows. As anyone who has had the indignity of using one will know, dictaphones tend to be awkward little buggers that happily tape a conversation across the room whilst rendering the intended subject incomprehensible. Dictaphone have taken this appellation as a starting point and there is undoubtedly something of the "overheard" about Vertigo II. Laying down a membrane of mealy clicks, glitches and sliced digitalis, Vertigo II at times resembles the intricate bedrock of artists such as Jen Jelinek or Angelo Badalamenti. Vertigo II happily indulges in sonorous bass, allowing the loose-limbed horns and digital detritus to roam the spectrum without becoming detached from the guiding core. Peppering the album with snatches of shortwave-interference (most memorably a snooker match), found-sound snapshots and soundtrack conventions (including a haunting nod to Ed Wood), Dictaphone manage to massage an astonishing amount of material into an end result that feels as light as a feather and refreshingly clean, while avoiding the inherent sterility this can often imply. Littered with a vault full of lost memories and escaped snatches of conversation, Vertigo II reads like a montage of recollections torn and taped by David Lynch in a smoky hotel room, someplace in the middle of nowhere.

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