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Artist:	FRICK, PAUL
Title:	Do Something EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 012EP

"As a studied composer, native Berliner Paul Frick is predominantly writing experimental music for classical instruments. In addition to that he's producing music for theatre, radio plays and experimental improvisation. It is only through his assistance in Konsens, a producer team and audiovisual live act, that he has come to electronic music. Now he's laying on a fine 4-track EP on Kalk Pets. Soul-breathing and yet reiterative house music, hypnotic and sometimes technoid. The classically-produced tracks get their sinews from a particular state of hovering. A spark of melancholy resonates, but instead of loftily diffusing it arrives at a condensed lightness. Many organic resp. acoustic sounds are used. Some of these sounds have been sampled from earlier compositions of Frick's for classical instruments, again others he has recorded directly for the album. A brilliant debut album of the young Berlin producer."

Artist:	FRICK, PAUL
Title:	Knock On Wood EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 015EP

"Some months ago, back in 2007, producer and musician Paul Frick released his first solo house EP Do Something on Kalk Pets and scored quite a success with it. His new EP Knock On Wood is up to shake the dancefloors of technoid soul even more. The Berliner presents us with three extraordinary sound set-ups: 'Slow Dance' is a track that doesn't necessarily incite cuddlesome swaying but strains your legs much more than the title suggests. The title track 'Knock On Wood, Babe' features Matthias Engler on the marimbaphone. Engler and Frick are occasional collaborators in the field of experimental music. The classical trained percussionist is co-founder of the 'adapter' ensemble and plays (among others) with the Ensemble Modern (that might be known even to pop fans through its collaboration with Frank Zappa in 1992). Frick's previous ardour for pop music is represented by his catchy sound-collages. The third track on the EP, 'Steal My Heart,' consists exclusively of 'stolen' sounds that he sampled from other artists. Crawford, known and fancied by Berlin's club scene for his eclectic DJ sets, comments very charmingly on every new sound, revealing who it was sampled from. So the systematic sound rip-off is to be understood as a homage to the artists that are stolen from."

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