Browse by Artist: SMASH TV

Artist:	SMASH TV
Title:	Electrified
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 040CD

"Electrified is a tight variety of Electro ? ElecTech. It bears the sign of the new millennium, transformed into 8-bit pixel optics, and hints to their b-boy roots. It is like the soundtrack for a project by the Chaos Computer Club, where a highrise-building at Alexanderplatz is used as a LED-like video screen for playing video games via telephone. While listening you move between digital abstract sounds, vocoder sounds and oldschool references as Electrified is the interface."

Artist:	SMASH TV
Title:	Nobody Remixes
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 044EP

Following the release of their first long player Electrified (BPC040), this is the first remix version. The original will soon become a dance floor filler. With its hypnotic biting bass line and vocoder voices it will make you move. 'Nobody' doesn't sound a bit like retro or revival but rings in Electro2100. The Berlin beat monster Modeselektor saws up 'Nobody' to its basic components and puts them together in their typical manner. Something completely new is about to be created. For 1 1/2 minutes you can follow this dissection process `til it gets stripped from its Elechtech background and gets planted into some kind of intelligent/abstract soil. Sonorous."

Artist:	SMASH TV
Title:	Bits For Breakfast
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 087CD

"Increased coherence is the central theme on Smash TV's new album Bits for Breakfast. Multiple sound designs settle here on so many levels of meaning that only the word, synthesis, is left for getting the sound of Bits for Breakfastdown on paper. The conscientiously minimal construction of tracks is only one side to many possibilities. They are being intuitive by standing at the edge between a hypnotic vacuum with a steady bass-line and digital vocals that are then triggered. In contrast there is the working process of Smash TV: the golden thread of the album is sewn with thorough and rational Cut & Paste techniques based on memory and snippets of experiences. This is actually how Bits for Breakfast sounds: a presentation of a musical spectrum that is fully able to go against time in flight along with the knowledge that there is always more/ there must always be more. In the beginning it might sound like Elektro, and Raz Ohara takes apart your ears in the opener 'Queen of Men.' In the end, he blows such soft bubbles on 'Can't Wait to Operate' that it would be so nice to be covered by them."

Artist:	SMASH TV
Title:	Tech-Tech-Talk
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 104EP

2005 release. "'Tech-Tech-Talk' is Smash TV's most recent prophecy since the liturgical feast Bits For Breakfast (BPC 084). All of this presented on the altar of BPitch Control, in the temple of electronic music. And for those the navel of the world is not in Delphi, but in Berlin! Not until this morning it stood before us, just as back in the days of chiseled stone, nowadays on paper or screen: From now on there should be a hard and a soft continent. A lot of decision makers would surely ask the fortune-tellers, 'how will the interaction work in times to come?', but even in those circles the answer would of course be a mystery. They should have asked us instead, because Smash TV offers the up-to-date answer. 'Tech-Tech-Talk' is the technOracle that can make the quadrature of the circle (also called the Greek synthesis) succeed.'"

Artist:	SMASH TV
Title:	Yellow Asteroids
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 130EP

This new Smash TV release, Yellow Asteroids, will make the soundtrack to all the upcoming open air festivals and summer parties. Holger Zilske aka Smash TV enchants with two tracks that are actually just one: one musical theme, two variations. Generally, Smash TV's sound has become more compatible for DJs, more danceable and deeper over the last few years. The A-side bears a typical Smash TV melody, carried by a squeaking and pushed-up synth sound, sneaking with wary steps into a straight and upright 4/4 beat. The synth then disappears when a protracted break comes in, almost painful in its length, then reappears with a new drive to ride on to the very final moment. The B-side brings shifted beats and rhythmic effects, letting the track bounce -- moving hips, alright. All in all, Smash TV gets closer to his goal of filling the dancefloor with tracks of substance and self-reliance.

Artist:	SMASH TV
Title:	Locomotive Breath
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 170EP

Holger Zilske isn't a dark horse in the scene of electronic music. As Smash TV, he has always instigated the masses with his ecstatic, technoid live-sets. This 12" really breathes new life into the dancefloor. Both songs consist of minimal, striking beats -- the first boasts elaborate percussion and kicks asses with specially-modulated bass. "Breath Me" gives us the creeps. The accords create an enthralling harmony, which finds its climax within an apocalyptical break.

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