Browse by Label: AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Gazon Gasolina/So Dazed
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	AGF 001EP

"AGF announces Quio...AGF is a content producer and believer. Living in Berlin, Quio is an MC and singer living in Berlin -- formerly known as MC Looney Tunes. Quio goes pop or occasionally comic. 'Gazon Gazolina' is a downbeat tune recorded in October 2003 when Quio was highly pregnant maybe that explains the speed ??? 'So Dazed' is a spring tune -- and a serious attempt to be charming." File Under: Hip Hop, Clicks and Cuts ragga, pop, two step hybrid, charts. 5 tracks, including AGF remix.

Artist:	AGF/DELAY
Title:	Explode
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	AGF 003CD

"AGF aka Antye Greie (Germany) and Vladislav Delay (Finland), both known for their various solo releases and worldwide performances release their first full length collaborative album. A dialogue between a drummer and a vocalist, 2 musical activists combine their talents and express their views with music they aspire for, exploring in their unique way. AGF and Vladislav Delay exercise a conscious decision to stay away from their signature sounds and styles featured on their solo works. Explode Baby is a complex collaboration with special ingredients both artists possess and bring in. The album hosts big and small stories, where human touch is always present and imagination is given a room to breathe. The album displays a mutual mix of their influences and musical needs. Antye Greie and Vladislav Delay collected inspiration for this album from the contemporary life and people seen around, in news and on the streets. Observing the world from various angles. Recollections of what was witnessed or heard, felt or understood. Bringing the memories in and keeping the emotions open, they translate what's under into an eclectic and personal collage of sound and soul where sometimes less is more. Self-release from home studio. Music in their common language. The world as their inspiration. AGF/Delay share a passion to cross borders, musically and while travelling, with an open mind. Subtle suggestions. Definite expressions. Silent explosions."

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Like Oooh!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 004CD

Quio is a Berlin-based MC, singer, and performer who started MCing in 1997 as MC Looney Tunes. This is her first full-length album, and her second release for AGF Producktion. She performed with drum n' bass and hip-hop DJs in Berlin and throughout Europe, going on to meet DJ G-Serve from Audiotaxi and DJ Christine Lang. Quio is also a part of a radio show on Berlin's former pirate radio station TWEN FM. Quio met AGF (Antye Greie) when they both performed in a club, and various collaborations followed. In 2003 they started Quio. AGF and Quio have put together their different herkunft, to come up with some unique new combinations of hip-hop lyrics and experimental electronic beats -- mixing drum n' bass MC rhymes with anthem-like sad tracks. Between walking to playgrounds, talking to mothers, saving babies from being driven over, spoon feeding, clothes washing and food shopping, Quio has compiled an album full of eclectic combinations -- uptempo beats and sweet, melancholy tunes; two-steps and Greek string guitars; heavy metal and electroclash. Quio wants to be misunderstood and taken unseriously. She will break unbearable content into amusing snippets of new sense, or break up nonsense while replacing them with playful clichés. Her ability to MC along with a vast array of breakbeat music such as drum n' bass, U.K. garage, hip-hop etc. has gifted her with both twisted and profound lyrical content. Guest artists include 15 year-old singer Lise, Dr. Dee, AGF, Audiotaxi, Daddy Jotka, DJ G-Serve, MC Chubba, Dr. Data, and Lempapa.

Artist:	ZAVOLOKA & AGF
Title:	Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 005CD

This is a collaboration between Ukrainian musician, producer and graphic designer Zavoloka aka Kateryna Zavoloka and German vocalist, poet, musician and producer AGF aka Antye Greie. During several live collaborations and some sound material exchanges they developed the concept of creating techno for trees. Nature beats. The idea was to extract existing environmental sounds and form a variation of beats and vocal snippets to make powerful nature-techno. The inspiration evolved out of the structure of forest leaves and berries, translated into musical rhythm and moods. Nature Never Produces The Same Beat Twice contains 50 one-minute compositions each dedicated to a certain plant. The tracks are split into five subgroups: trees/bushes/meadow/flowers/spices. The structure of the pieces are woody, spicy, discontinuous and recurrent, with flavors like: grain, sappiness, chime, species, extraction and vitality. One technique they used to produce these irregular but repetitive beat patterns was to set up an old-school metronome, count in and start to battle the beat with live drumming played through self-designed sound banks, directly recording into powerful converters. Blending English and Ukrainian folk tradition, this material is feminine and organic and sounds like nothing else.

Artist:	LAUB
Title:	Deinetwegen
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 006CD

Laub are Antye Greie and Jotka and Deinetwegen is their fifth studio album. Deinetwegen sounds like a 21st century post techno version of the blues. Since their previous release, both members found families and developed into serious adulthood and are ready to show the world what a German post-techno band can do. The duo are ready to show the blues, with all their dust, moody narratives, and other complicated arrangements, much in the spirit of John Lee Hooker and Muddy Waters -- clear, simple, reduced, honest. This is their interpretation of German 21st century blues. No sampling of old records, but certainly studying the old material helped them to write lyrics about things observed in the multimedia offices of Berlin Prenzlauer Berg. The title track is the key song, with Laub-trademark vocals and pop references that refuse to function as pop. The song is not only a love song to the people in their lives, it is also a pure devotional hymn to the blues.

Artist:	QUIO
Title:	Phiu!
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	AGF 007CD

Quio, the MC and singer based in Berlin's buzzing club scene, has finished her second album with electronic producer, AGF. She is one of the few female MCs in Germany, and she drops her rhymes over drum'n'bass, garage and dubstep. With Phiu!, she continues to follow her own path. She is already highly acclaimed by critics for her first album, Like Oooh!, released in 2005. On this record, the versatile vocalist shows once again how multi-faceted her styles can be. From the angry rapper to the delicate singer, from the light-hearted MC to the serious speaking artist. Be assured, with Quio's vibrating mixture of hip-hop, club, electronica and pop you will never get bored! She plunges readily in and out of her collected influences: from Ol' Dirty Bastard over the Beastie Boys to Tanya Stevens, Lady Saw and Sovereign, from The Smiths to Phoenix. All these are minced up, recombined and given the unique electronic flavor of Quio's producer, AGF aka Antye Greie. Strong beats support high-impact rap, and deep bass brings out the tangent fragility of Quio's vocal lines. Quio has also invited some prominent guests to support her crazy styles: Nicolette, Edu K, Audiotaxi, Lise, Afia, Kwaku, Nanie, Lempapa, Dr. Data and Al Haca.

Artist:	AGF
Title:	Words Are Missing
Label:	AGF PRODUCKTION (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	AGF 008CD

Berlin-based AGF (aka Antye Greie) is a vocalist, software musician, producer, label-owner and e-poet. With her fourth solo album, Words Are Missing, she leaves words behind, instead using voice, beats and drones to create a huge palette of unique sounds to work around the phenomenon of silence, speechlessness, deconstructed language and impeded communication. The subjects in which the wordlessness is expressed are carefully chosen and vary from dark-memory experiences like visiting the concentration camp in Buchenwald (when the artist was 16) to beat-driven humorous content, like the track called "Kreuzwortraetsel ("crossword"). The listener witnesses a recorded alphabet turning into a trilogy of compositions called "Letters Make No Meaning (Weapons No War Germs No Disease) I," "Cognitive Modules Party II" and "Ooops For Understanding III," and the differences between recorded silences in tracks 8A. "Present" and 8B. "Absent." The album's artwork delivers a deeper insight into the meaning of the compositions which features a total of 16 works of calligraphy, drawings and photography by AGF designed into an elaborate book format by the renowned designer, Alorenz. The CD comes in an upright digipack with a 20-page booklet that distracts the origin of words into a conceptual letter play derived from abstract calligraphy. Exploring a personal form of poetry into electronic music, pop songs, calligraphy and the world wide web, AGF's entrancing live performances and sound installations have taken place all over the world in museums, auditoriums, theaters, concert halls and clubs.

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