Browse by Artist: ELEKTRO GUZZI

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Hexenschuss/Elastic Bulb
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 016EP

Vienna's Elektro Guzzi challenge the meaning of "live" in electronic music. Bored of laptop sets? With a "classic" set-up of guitar, bass and drums, Elektro Guzzi align themselves with an unheard level of discipline, tightness and danceability. Produced by Patrick Pulsinger, these tracks are great dancefloor movers, state-of-the-art analog recordings and prime examples of Elektro Guzzi's incredible creativity. Played live with no overdubs, these tracks break down the demarcation separating man and machine.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Elektro Guzzi
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 018CD

Vienna's Elektro Guzzi challenge the meaning of "live" in electronic music. Bored of laptop sets? With a "classic" set-up of guitar, bass and drums, Elektro Guzzi align themselves with an unheard level of discipline, tightness and danceability. No computers, no pre-recorded loops, no solos. Probably the first time techno is really played live. As sequential as they may sound, they couldn't be more analog. The quest for the ultimate live presentation of techno has come to an end. Produced by Patrick Pulsinger (Hercules & Love Affair, M-Plant, Cheap), the album is a masterstroke resulting in great dancefloor movers, state-of-the-art analog recordings and a prime showcase of Elektro Guzzi's incredible creative capabilities. Played live with no overdubs, this record breaks down the demarcation line separating man and machine. Everything in techno has been done? You ain't heard nothing yet. Elektro Guzzi are not interested in exploring their minimal and dubbed-out soundscapes in long, epic jams, where coincidental ideas born out of improvisation are the unofficial band member. Elektro Guzzi are interested in structure. They produce and perform like any modern electronic producer and performer wanting that every element of a track is exactly where it is intended to be. There is no computer backup material they prepared earlier, no loops and things, no overdubs. However hard it is to believe, what you hear is 100% live. There, they connect the hypnotizing force of their analog techno with the visual treat of a band doing it all right in front of your eyes. You hear it, you witness it, and you dance.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Elektro Guzzi
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 018LP

2x12" version. Vienna's Elektro Guzzi challenge the meaning of "live" in electronic music. Bored of laptop sets? With a "classic" set-up of guitar, bass and drums, Elektro Guzzi align themselves with an unheard level of discipline, tightness and danceability. No computers, no pre-recorded loops, no solos. Probably the first time techno is really played live. As sequential as they may sound, they couldn't be more analog. The quest for the ultimate live presentation of techno has come to an end. Produced by Patrick Pulsinger (Hercules & Love Affair, M-Plant, Cheap), the album is a masterstroke resulting in great dancefloor movers, state-of-the-art analog recordings and a prime showcase of Elektro Guzzi's incredible creative capabilities. Played live with no overdubs, this record breaks down the demarcation line separating man and machine. Everything in techno has been done? You ain't heard nothing yet.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Extrakt EP
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 021EP

The Extrakt EP captures the latest state of Elektro Guzzi's incredible live sound, recorded in London with the outstanding capabilities of Brendon "Octave" Harding, the trusted engineer of dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry, and mixed by mega-producer Patrick Pulsinger. The four cuts capture Elektro Guzzi's raw side, turning out dark, sexy grooves with an almost indie edge -- probably their most danceable and DJ-friendly studio material to date -- specifically produced for the vinyl format.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Live P.A.
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 023CD

This is the second full-length release from Vienna's Elektro Guzzi, who play their brand of techno 100% live: no laptops, no loops, no sequences. Their unparalleled live success has made them a leader in the field at Sónar, Mutek, Berghain, Fabric, Amsterdam Dance Event, Time Warp, etc. Elektro Guzzi had the biggest head-start on the 2010 circuit, and it has always been considered a main advantage of having a band on stage: you can see and feel what you hear, and in techno this is only true for Elektro Guzzi. What sounded incredible on their debut album is a revelation live. They have made most laptop acts sound rather dull, and since then, they have been in fast-forward evolution mode. Live P.A. captures the latest state of Elektro Guzzi's incredible live sound, recorded in London with the outstanding mixing capabilities of Brendon "Octave" Harding, the trusted engineer of dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry. The set, originally recorded for Resident Advisor, captures Elektro Guzzi's raw live side, turning out dark grooves with an almost indie edge -- probably their most appealing material to date. The CD version has been newly mixed by their producer Patrick Pulsinger (Hercules & Love Affair) and is available in full resolution for the very first time.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Parquet
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 027CD

Elektro Guzzi deliver one of the most thrilling live performance models for techno and an innovative leap in the art of band performance at the very same time. It's almost the antithesis to what a band is supposed to be. While they use guitar, bass and drums only, they take the most unusual playing techniques and put them together into a rigid mechanical form where it all makes instant, evident sense. Yet, if they had not performed live extensively, becoming audience favorites from Mutek to Sónar or Berghain to Fabric, it would be hard to believe this is really how the music is created. Parquet, their second studio album, sees them in an unprecedented monomaniacal techno mode. Throughout the nine tracks, the distinctions between instruments and roles are totally vaporized. While their instrumental approach is at the core of their aesthetics, it really doesn't matter anymore if one sound comes from a guitar or bass or drum -- it has all been merged into one sonic unit and all there is, is the music as a unified entity. While all the qualities of live performance are at hand -- real-time interaction, visual plausibility, instant miniscule adaptations -- it is a radical break with what group performances have been about so far. Parquet is as much a straight-up club music record as it is rich with nuances and details. Astonishingly, while being their most rigid and dance-centered work to date, it also holds outbursts of beauty with tonal lines, ringing overtones and warm resonances. The rhythms are stripped down to the core and structured for affecting longer stretches of perception. Every track comes with a distinctive, almost "branding" feature -- like the hypnotic meter-shifting line of "Affumicato," the gated chords of "Pentagonia" or the abridged rhythm of "Absorber." Actually, it all was recorded directly to analog tape. No edits, no overdubs. It's the man-machine in real time and a hint at the love Elektro Guzzi put in the process.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Parquet
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	2x12"
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	MACROM 027LP

2x12" version. Elektro Guzzi deliver one of the most thrilling live performance models for techno and an innovative leap in the art of band performance at the very same time. It's almost the antithesis to what a band is supposed to be. While they use guitar, bass and drums only, they take the most unusual playing techniques and put them together into a rigid mechanical form where it all makes instant, evident sense. Yet, if they had not performed live extensively, becoming audience favorites from Mutek to Sónar or Berghain to Fabric, it would be hard to believe this is really how the music is created. Parquet, their second studio album, sees them in an unprecedented monomaniacal techno mode. Throughout the nine tracks, the distinctions between instruments and roles are totally vaporized. While their instrumental approach is at the core of their aesthetics, it really doesn't matter anymore if one sound comes from a guitar or bass or drum -- it has all been merged into one sonic unit and all there is, is the music as a unified entity. While all the qualities of live performance are at hand -- real-time interaction, visual plausibility, instant miniscule adaptations -- it is a radical break with what group performances have been about so far. Parquet is as much a straight-up club music record as it is rich with nuances and details. Astonishingly, while being their most rigid and dance-centered work to date, it also holds outbursts of beauty with tonal lines, ringing overtones and warm resonances. The rhythms are stripped down to the core and structured for affecting longer stretches of perception. Every track comes with a distinctive, almost "branding" feature -- like the hypnotic meter-shifting line of "Affumicato," the gated chords of "Pentagonia" or the abridged rhythm of "Absorber." Actually, it all was recorded directly to analog tape. No edits, no overdubs. It's the man-machine in real time and a hint at the love Elektro Guzzi put in the process.

Artist:	ELEKTRO GUZZI
Title:	Cashmere EP
Label:	MACRO RECORDINGS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.50
Catalog #:	MACROM 032EP

Cashmere takes Elektro Guzzi's signature man-machine sound up a notch. On the title-track, layers of circling, angular chords cause goosebumps, while a warmly pulsating foundation of bass and drums locks in the groove. The "Reverse Mix" does exactly what it says: reversing the arrangement and re-building the track back to front. On "Crack Fox" shifted bass lines and countering melodic scraps push the whole thing forward, all set off against ultra-steady drum work, swelling in lengthy waves towards eerie peaks.

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