Browse by Artist: KALKBRENNER, PAUL

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Superimpose
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 016CD

"Paul's releases on BPC have already rocked the house. He can't and won't keep his hands of jogs, so he just mixed up his brand new debut album Superimpose at the age of 23. He receives his inspirations mainly through his live acts with which he enlightens his listeners, makes them shake their funky asses, hypnotizes them until they break out into screams of pleasure. Paul is burning for his sound and everyone who listens to him burns with his beats -- minimal melodic tech-tracks and melancholic slowbeat. Paul we love you!!!"

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Zeit
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 032CD

"The second album of Paul Kalkbrenner is titled Zeit ('time'). Not a bad title for a good record. Time always plays an important role and we also have no time to lose. That is the spirit of the age -- never pausing. Sure. Music devotes a great deal of time to this subject. Paul Kalkbrenner tells stories of good times and bad times, of added on times like in a soccer game and half-worth-times. Stories of seasons and stories of time healing all wounds, of memories of good and bad feelings, of presence and absence. Musicwise that means to deal also with in-between times, to import something from another time. This is the way time-engine-music is created, modernity out of dusty memories. The aim to create something timeless is seldom archived. This music nevertheless can claim this. There will be time for love. This is another subject of this record -- the time you spend with your loved one. And loneliness. Therefore electronic dance music sometimes changes into something else: deep pop with a glittering undertone."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Brennt
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 050EP

"Using 'Brennt' ('burning') as a synonym for a Paul Kalkbrenner record suggests itself. It seems he reserved this title for a very special occasion. 'Brennt' sounds like a new variation of Kalkbrenner`s sound-spectrum, which used to be based on a constant continuity as it was last seen on 'Zeit'. Is Paul Kalkbrenner now looking back on his output with an rather relaxed laissez-faire-attitude? In this context the title track presents itself the following way: the tight woven sounds create a new kind of atmospheric deepness -- a cross-over of straightness and melancholy. The deepness of the sound is typical for all of the tracks."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	F.Fwd
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 062EP

"'Just about everything that could be extracted from the bowels of my hard drive has been assembled on this record,' Paul Kalkbrenner on his new release for BPitch Control. F.FWD/ Miles Away follows last year's Brennt strongly considering the quirky computer upgrades and emotional energy Paul puts into his music. Paul's conception of techno is communicated loud and clear: F.FWD/Miles Away retains a well-known model. 'Pure techno,' as he says. 'My music never has a goal inasmuch as I would never do a conceptual album'."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Steinbeisser
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 072EP

"All in all: technoid and dry, covered with a sugary coating that we love him for. Paul Kalkbrenner shows us once again his preference for ordered continuity form two angles. 'Steinbeisser' hammers soft dreams into your ear that leave much room for paced synchronized head-nodding and playful eye twitching. Someone say then that Paul doesn't know his master. Here before us we have the personal union with the predecessor and transformer. 'Mundgucci' on the flipside blows away the hypnosis like sand across the dance floor. The harmonies of the strings act against a high-pressure bass line that leave no desires or questions unanswered."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Press On
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 081EP

"Paul Kalkbrenner is the cinematic orchestration coming from the BPitch Control camp. Coming off of several short films and two packed evenings of movie theatre productions, he is daring new heights again. Here you have his pilot film Press On which marks the release of his full length film project Self. We were able to obtain a few script exerts through some dark back alleys. Let's try them. (Music on.) 'John 3-21' sets in as our protagonist (P.) open his window shortly after waking up. In comes heavy rain and, for this time of year, way too warm wind. The first breeze strikes the face of our hero with luminous ferocity. (P. goes, the camera stays focused for a moment on the window and curtain.) In this split second it becomes clear that the curtain cloth, which blows rhythmically, is consistently finishing the same soft movements. A feeling of estrangement yet also melancholia and entrapment start to seep in."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Self
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 083CD

2009 repress, originally released 2004. "Self is the new full length film of the BPitch film buff Paul Kalkbrenner. After numerous short films, lastly the 'Self-pilotfilm' entitled 'Press on' (BPC 81), he presents with this work his third movie theatre production. We received script extracts through some dubious connections. Curtain opens. (Picture black/white. music on: 'Page one'.) Our protagonist (P.) steps out of his run down building onto the street. He sets off in a certain direction without hesitation. After a while, he stops one more time to think and looks up to his window on the upper floor: it's closed. No turning back, P.'s search can, no it must begin. (Camera turns from the window to the street. There is an accordion player, ending scene, over.) (Music on: 'The Grouch') P. walks through the city focused yet shaken. The objects stand there in a special light. We perceive them with an almost anxiety-stricken form of clarity. P. acknowledges them. One can sense his thirst for impressions. He stays however in a cocoon. He builds his own world around things without affecting them in their integrity. (outro with: 'The Palisades'.) (Music: 'Press on'. hard cut: total shot and close ups of P.) Next to the river lie huge planes filled with monumental structures. No people, just warm, rain-drenched dew. He steps again unrestrained through intimate small alleys. (Transitional music: 'Castanets.' People hush, faster cuts.) Here rampant life rules. Everyday P. appears however in a parallel universe. A cat and mouse game follows with his own shadow. It's a kind of constant flux of various possible P. personalities. ('Queer Fellow'.) (Music: 'Marbles,' then 'Since 77') Finally some quiet sets into P.'s restless search. He stops at a park to think. His gaze stops with the sight of children playing -- an almost lovely moment. An accordion player sits on his own bench yet again. Now his music reveals its total Janus mentality: difficult to say, whether it gleams a happy sensibility or one of mourning. Everyone must find their own Self: the end is uncertain. (Music fades out. The fog rises.) It's getting a bit cooler; P. closes his jacket and disappears in the dusk."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Ta-Tu-Tata
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 110EP

"Paul Kalkbrenner's 12" Ta-T�-Tata is finally out, one year after his third album Self and his remix for 'Agoria: Trance!' Such comfortable pads! Melody! And what's more: Dignity, which he takes along into the freshness of summer. Paul grants trance a place of rest, a place to lounge, but also a rhythm that drags you along and hypnotically pulls you onto the dancefloor. Side A 'Gebr�nn Gebr�nn' is Saturday Night Fever. Watch out -- after the first half, Paul goes disco with the Bee Gees! Side B's 'Ta-T�-Tata' driving forces weaving structures into the pads. Let's note: Trance is dignity and grandeur and allows one to think of something beautiful. Dignity, which as an aesthetic category means something fathomable the essential characteristic of which is an impression of grandeur and dignity, occasionally even holiness, transcending ordinary beauty. The sublime and dignified is therefore also always associated with a feeling of un-attainability and immensity. It causes amazement, which is connected to awe and/or horror. To Kant, an object is sublime when it evokes sublime ideas within the perceiver. He finds such objects primarily in nature while the mental grasp of the beholder plays a decisive role: 'Thus the broad ocean agitated by storms cannot be called sublime. Its aspect is horrible, and one must have stored one's mind in advance with a rich stock of ideas, if such an intuition is to raise it to the pitch of a feeling which is itself sublime.' (From: The Critique of Judgment)."

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Keule
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 131EP

Paul Kalkbrenner presents tracks on Keule that are not as snappish as in his younger raver years, but frizzle and sizzle and kick you right in the face. Side A is a plain techno classic -- dry, clicky beats, minimal synths, a cool break, but also hypnotic and catchy -- it feels like a flashback to your first rave. Side B is rather playful. "Atzepeng" is a 4/4 beat and a synth bassline that is catchy from the very beginning and grooves with an incoming second melody. Very jazzy and dancey. "Freund Blase" doesn't waste time but kicks in right away. An incoming melody mates with the beats, gets wild with them and then withdraws to let them stand alone and grill you up -- Paul Kalkbrenner as the barbecue chef of the summer months.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	ReWorks
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 137CD

This is Berlin-based Paul Kalkbrenner's fourth full-length CD on the BPitch Control label, featuring re-workings of his earlier 12" tracks by Wighnomy Brothers, Sascha Funke, Agoria, Ellen Allien & Apparat, Joris Voorn, Alexander Kowalski, Modeselektor and Michael Mayer. ReWorks is a very special project that Paul has been planning for a long time. He asked some of his friends, whom he also very much appreciates musically, for remixes. Paul opened his treasure box so everyone could pick the track he/she likes most and play around with it. The result is a wonderful remix album that not only gives a new touch to some of Kalkbrenner's greatest tracks, but was fun work for the experienced remixers. Wighnomy Brothers introduce us to the record smoothly, but in an exciting way. They crafted their version of "Steinbeisser" without any beats and only concentrated on pure sound. Sascha Funke's "Miles Away" gets down to business right away -- striking beats and a sing-along melody of a reverb synth that, towards the end, builds up to an upbeat peak. The first half of Agoria's remix of "Page 1, 2, 3" is a beat that lays itself upon you hypnotically, and the second half shows off with a great accordion line from the original. The wake-up call comes from Ellen Allien & Apparat. First melodic, swinging beats jump around happily, then break, facet and beat again, in unison with the melody. Joris Voorn's version of "Press On" is a blend of thrilling anticipation and impatience. Alexander Kowalski focuses on a straight and pushing beat of a dry bass drum with a nice reverbed vocal sample. Modeselektor sound like a techno marching band with their version of "Gia 2000," and Michael Mayer is the whispering fade-out. One chord only is enough to set free all those happy happy-hormones that make you dance to the stereo and start this CD all over again!

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	ReWorks 2
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 139EP

This is a pretaster of Paul Kalkbrenner's ReWorks album. He asked some of his friends, whom he also very much appreciates musically, for remixes. The result is a wonderful remix album that gives a new touch to some of Kalkbrenner's greatest tracks. On the A-side is Ellen Allien & Apparat's remix of "Queer Fellow," with melodic and swinging beats which jump around happily, then break, facet and beat again. On the B-side Modeselektor are a techno march band, while Agoria's remix features a beat that lays itself upon you hypnotically, backed by a great accordion line from the original.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Reworks 3
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 142EP

This is yet another taster of Paul Kalkbrenner's ReWorks full-length, where Paul invited his most dear and most talented friends to remix their favorite tracks. In this version, Kompakt-veteran Michael Mayer presents a whispering intro, which slowly unfolds as a first-rate dance track. Sascha Funke's "Miles Away" gets right down to business with striking beats, a sing-along melody and a reverb synth that builds to an upbeat peak. Wighnomy Brothers introduce us to their version of "Steinbeisser" that contains very few beats at all. Spheric facets and little clicking sounds sporadically appear like stones you skip along the surface of the sea.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Altes Kamuffel
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 153EP

Like Sascha Funke, Paul Kalkbrenner benefits from his temporary stay in Aix-en-Provence. Paul's new tracks are, as usual, first-class techno burners. "Altes Kamuffel" starts off with a soft and trancy synth line, and is infiltrated by a straight beat and then the bass hits your stomach, the clap drills crisply into your sinuses, and the high, playful synth warms up your heart. "Ick Muss Aus Dit Milieu Heraus" is there right away and builds up continuously. Even with a longer break in the middle of the track that gives you the chance to catch your breath, you can't really stop -- more, more, more.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Berlin Calling - The Soundtrack
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 185CD

After the amazing success of its digital release, BPitch Control releases the Berlin Calling soundtrack on CD. Renowned Berlin-based DJ and producer Paul Kalkbrenner delivers the perfect music for this movie, which he also stars in. The film's synopsis: "Berlin electronic music composer Martin (Paul Kalkbrenner), known as DJ Ickarus, is touring with his manager and girlfriend Mathilde (Rita Lengyel) from club to club around the globe and is about to release their biggest album to date. However, all of his plans are thrown out of kilter after Ickarus is submitted to the emergency ward of a psychiatric clinic high on drugs after a gig - a tragicomedy in Berlin of today." The soundtrack contains nine exclusive tracks by Kalkbrenner, including the movie's hymn "Sky and Sand." In addition, the package holds five of Paul's previously released tracks -- among others "Gebrunn Gebrunn" and "Altes Kamuffel" -- as well as a remix of the title track from Sascha Funke's "Mango," also released on BPitch Control. This release comes in a high class digipack and holds, as a special bonus, two exclusive tracks that have not been released digitally before -- "QSA" and "Train" -- as well as a special large sized Berlin Calling poster.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Berlin Calling Vol. 1
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BPC 198EP

2009 film highlight Berlin Calling, Hannes St�hr's fictitious drama, is about the up-and-coming DJ Ickarus (played by Paul Kalbrenner), and this is volume 1 of the soundtrack. The film skillfully distances itself from "hip" biopics and instead offers 100% authenticity and classic storytelling. These three tracks by Kalkbrenner form an absolutely harmonious trilogy, perfectly portraying the film's atmosphere: a subliminal, seething energy, and a devouring emptiness, cycling faster and faster around aimlessness.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	Berlin Calling Vol. 2
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	BPC 206EP

This is the second soundtrack rendering of Hannes St�hr's film Berlin Calling. Paul Kalkbrenner's Berlin Calling Vol. 2 continues to accompany the protagonists from St�hr's moving and somewhat tragic depiction while surfacing a humorous and well-spirited undertone. "Bengang" transmits more of a classic house-element with subtle hints of percussion while "Torted" pulls the track's speed, making it an uncompromising energy-booster.

Artist:	KALKBRENNER, PAUL
Title:	2010 - A Live Documentary
Label:	PAUL KALKBRENNER MUSIC (GERMANY)
Format:	DVD
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	PKM 001DVD

Following the fictional account of the life of DJ Ikarus in the movie Berlin Calling (BPitch Control), here is an exhilarating, live glimpse into Paul Kalkbrenner's real life as a musician. With far more than 100,000 concert-goers, the 2010 live tour by Paul Kalkbrenner was a milestone for electronic music. No other German musician within the electronic music genre had access to the big concert halls as Kalkbrenner did, playing himself into the hearts of fans everywhere. To capture the vibes of this unforgettable tour, Paul Kalkbrenner and his team decided to film more than 20 shows in high quality. The finished product is a fascinating 10-track trip through Paul Kalkbrenner's shows all over Europe, which shows his unique status as a live electronic music artist. On the second part of the DVD, the viewer gets a glimpse into backstage and on the road scenes from this tour with lots of additional interview footage by Paul Kalkbrenner himself, his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner and various other people involved in the tour. After 140,000 sold copies (over-the-counter) of the Berlin Calling Soundtrack (BPC 185CD) and a sold-out tour with ticket sales of 65,000 in Germany, Austria and Switzerland alone, this DVD is the next big chapter within the success story of Paul Kalkbrenner, which started in the early '90s in youth clubs in East Berlin. NTSC format, running time: 120 minutes. Aspect: 16:9 (DVD), Sound Format: Dolby Digital 2.0 and 5.1, DTS, English subtitles.

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