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Artist:
TOBIAS.
Title:
Leaning Over Backwards
Label:
OSTGUT TON (GERMANY)
Format:
2LP
Price:
$18.00
Catalog #:
OSTGUT 009LP
2LP version.
Tobias Freund
's debut album for Ostgut Ton also serves as the album introduction to his
Tobias.
moniker, giving a fascinating and profound insight into his special world of music and sound science. Being a part of the music business since 1980, you could easily fill books with his works and creations. Formerly based in Frankfurt am Main and now happily living in Berlin, Tobias. started his quest in sound as a synth avant-gardist with a Korg MS20, worked a day job as a studio engineer (i.a.
Milli Vanilli
and today for
Aerea Negrot
,
Nina Kraviz
and
Heartthrob
, amongst others), remixed, released as
Pink Elln
and with projects such as
Sieg Über Die Sonne
and
NSI
(with
Max Loderbauer
) and runs his own label Non Standard Productions. On this album, Tobias. renounces the ubiquitous dictate of computer synchronization. Degraded to a plain recording device, the computer makes way for the classic drum machines Roland TR 808 and a Korg Mini Pops. Known for having a life of their own, their unpredictability wins over standardized convenience. Tobias.' sound gets recompensed with dynamics and an agility that doesn't lack attention to detail, accuracy and thoughtfulness. Rooted in jam sessions with just beats and efx units, the moods and music on
Leaning Over Backwards
range from unswerving club tracks to occasional ambient or drone-like atmospheres or meet up as hybrids. Take "The Key," for instance -- produced in Santiago by Tobias. and his long-standing colleague
Uwe Schmidt
(
Atom TM
), you can hear splintered beats and gloomy pads expanding into
Drexciya
n depths. It all comes full circle with "Now I Know." Equally fantastic and fey, Tobias. makes use of
Aerea Negrot
's (
Hercules & Love Affair
) remarkable voice, turning the closing track into a longing piece of
Blade Runner
pop music.
Leaning Over Backwards
bewitches with its nonconformity and almost frightening idiosyncrasy. Tobias. creates a style of techno that is far away from steamroller kick drums and the rules of functionalism -- this is techno as a perpetual motion machine.
Artist:
TOBIAS.
Title:
Leaning Over Backwards
Label:
OSTGUT TON (GERMANY)
Format:
CD
Price:
$15.50
Catalog #:
OSTGUT 018CD
Tobias Freund
's debut album for Ostgut Ton also serves as the album introduction to his
Tobias.
moniker, giving a fascinating and profound insight into his special world of music and sound science. Being a part of the music business since 1980, you could easily fill books with his works and creations. Formerly based in Frankfurt am Main and now happily living in Berlin, Tobias. started his quest in sound as a synth avant-gardist with a Korg MS20, worked a day job as a studio engineer (i.a.
Milli Vanilli
and today for
Aerea Negrot
,
Nina Kraviz
and
Heartthrob
, amongst others), remixed, released as
Pink Elln
and with projects such as
Sieg Über Die Sonne
and
NSI
(with
Max Loderbauer
) and runs his own label Non Standard Productions. On this album, Tobias. renounces the ubiquitous dictate of computer synchronization. Degraded to a plain recording device, the computer makes way for the classic drum machines Roland TR 808 and a Korg Mini Pops. Known for having a life of their own, their unpredictability wins over standardized convenience. Tobias.' sound gets recompensed with dynamics and an agility that doesn't lack attention to detail, accuracy and thoughtfulness. Rooted in jam sessions with just beats and efx units, the moods and music on
Leaning Over Backwards
range from unswerving club tracks to occasional ambient or drone-like atmospheres or meet up as hybrids. Take "The Key," for instance -- produced in Santiago by Tobias. and his long-standing colleague
Uwe Schmidt
(
Atom TM
), you can hear splintered beats and gloomy pads expanding into
Drexciya
n depths. It all comes full circle with "Now I Know." Equally fantastic and fey, Tobias. makes use of
Aerea Negrot
's (
Hercules & Love Affair
) remarkable voice, turning the closing track into a longing piece of
Blade Runner
pop music.
Leaning Over Backwards
bewitches with its nonconformity and almost frightening idiosyncrasy. Tobias. creates a style of techno that is far away from steamroller kick drums and the rules of functionalism -- this is techno as a perpetual motion machine.
Artist:
TOBIAS.
Title:
Street Knowledge
Label:
STREET KNOWLEDGE (GERMANY)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
SK EP
"Quick white label action reissue with an extended and crispy Villalobos version."
Artist:
TOBIAS.
Title:
I Can't Fight The Feeling
Label:
WAGON REPAIR (CANADA)
Format:
12"
Price:
$12.00
Catalog #:
WAG 040EP
Wagon Repair presents an EP from Berlin resident
Tobias Freund
, a founding contributor to
NSI
,
Sieg Uber Die Sonne
,
Pink Elln
and
Odd Machine
. "I Can't Fight The Feeling" is forged for the floor with pulsing keys and a deep bass throb. "Beat Study One" boasts a filthy synth bass line, and "Go" is just as dark, with chilling synth and a tight cymbal loop. "Beat Study Two" features a tight percussive loop that morphs against stuttering electronic tones.
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