Browse by Label: BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Remix Collection
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	BPC 080CD

"This is a selective and very nice collection Ellen Allien has offered us. She stays active remixing next to her own productions -- that we know. Here we have yet again and comprehensively all the small remix pieces from 1995 - 2003 that comprise her vinyl releases served to you in one dish. There is even a little extra: Ellen Allien's Gold Chains Remix has been released along with it and belongs to the most recent ones. The inspiration for the remix collection came rather spontaneously. Ellen Allien packed all remixes in a pretty iPod, and that's how she passed time on planes. By now some of them belong to her favorite tracks. Maybe the remix collection is simply a testament to her own life filled with all the gigs, travels, own releases etc., which also includes remixing or achieving the thing in itself. It's perhaps an exercise in memory, as it seems, since Ellen Allien combines many personal things with what she does. It's well known that Ellen Allien has a relentless appetite for new sounds and genres. It is remarkable however how many ingredients she juggles freely while always maintaining her own style as if it were an automated signature... The list of the mentioned heads reads like a mix between global and central, hence Berlin. Apparently, Ellen Allien has her ears everywhere but still stands on solid ground nonetheless. Musically, this much electronic diversity gives good reason for her own work which makes looking for a formula senseless. What appears unanimous is Ellen Allien's stubborn and slightly queer way of absorbing the original without any heartburn. It rather seems like a very soothing way to pass the time." Artists: Sascha Funke, Gold Chains, Vicknoise, Apparat, OMR, Barbara Morgenstern, Ellen Allien, Covenant, Gut-Humpe, Goldenboy with Miss Kittin. A few copies left on BPC, this is now licensed to Asphodel in the US.

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:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Stadtkind
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 021CD

"Finally Ellen Allien is now able to present her debut album Stadtkind The choice of title seems obvious, as the inevitable confrontation with Berlin as an urban area was always present in her childhood. This link is noticeable in the urban aspect of her music. She talks her own musical language within a psychotic, romantic and electronic plot. The chopped up sounds ornamented with atmospheric lo-fi attacks will keep you down and lift you up. The album contains among straight clubstompers and distraught spoken word electro, abstract down beat tracks too. Kneedeep and always straight out the middle of struggling daily life. The emotional range resembles to the concord's condensation trail: from light and airy heights to heavy as lead techno beats. The driving force is Ellen's vocals, which contains the whole musical spectrum of Sadtkind. It is the differentiated intensity of singing. You will never feel like you have to fall out of the window. In spite of all this, Ellen with her music on Stadtkind never gets lost in local vastness. The tough sound which boosts out of the speakers is still straight bpitch control. Berlin can be everywhere, right?"

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Stadtkind
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	BPC 021LP

Double LP version. Debut album from 2001. "She talks her own musical language within a psychotic, romantic and electronic plot. The chopped up sounds ornamented with atmospheric lo-fi attacks will keep you down and lift you up. The album contains among straight clubstompers and distraught spoken word electro, abstract down beat tracks too. Kneedeep and always straight out the middle of struggling daily life. The emotional range resembles to the concord's condensation trail: from light and airy heights to heavy as lead techno beats."

Artist:	FUNKE, SASCHA
Title:	2:1 Für Die Liebe
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 026EP

"On '2:1 Für Die Liebe' the 24 year old Sascha Funke from Berlin uses his very own musical language, as we loved it on the preceded release 'Luftschloß'. His musical preferences are located somewhere between Berlin and Cologne but his own style can not be tieddown to one of these cities. He simply hovers between his special dry funkiness (simply Funke) one the one hand side and straight, minimal structured tracks with playful virus melodies on the other. After last years very successful releases on Kompakt, he now feels drawn to Bpitch Control as his base."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Flieg Mit Ellen Allien
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 027CD

"On Flieg mit Ellen Allien, Berlin based DJ and BPitch Control label owner Ellen Allien presents her current favorite DJ set. The musical spectrum is very broad. The will to have fun is what ties the whole set together. In this sense techno from her point of view is not necessarily meant to be dark and hard. More important is to make this kick perceptible through melodies and singing -- the bass drum is not all. The positive vibe of Flieg mit Ellen Allien is also evident in the track selection: from Meinrad Jungblut, Paula, Quarks, to Aeric, Little Computer People and Philippe Cam you can get lifted from the ground. Simply a summer mix."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Berlin 2001 A/B
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 031.1EP

"Berlin 2001. Dedication, Representation. This compilation is the chronological successor of the first BPitch Control compilation Berlin 2000 which started this series. Every shade of it is reflected in its musical counterpart on Berlin 2001. The label is to be found among the context of techno, which picks up and alienates the urban structure to put the urban change in concrete terms by abstract sounds. BPitch Control`s characteristic dealing with the structure of electronic music, which originally involves break beat, ambient and house conveys an understanding of this music, that leads to the infancy of techno." First of 4 vinyl EP volumes. Featuring tracks from: Ellen Allien, Trike, Märtini Brös, Dash.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Berlin 2001
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 031CD

"Berlin 2001. Dedication, Representation. This compilation is the chronological successor of the first BPitch Control compilation Berlin 2000 which started this series. This city, its changes and the life in it, is recited and can be experienced. Every shade of it is reflected in its musical counterpart on Berlin 2001. The label is to be found among the context of techno, which picks up and alienates the urban structure to put the urban change in concrete terms by abstract sounds. BPitch Control`s characteristic dealing with the structure of electronic music, which originally involves break beat, ambient and house conveys an understanding of this music, that leads to the infancy of techno. In this case the return to the origins means the abolition of diversification. BPitch Control does not aspire homogeneity. The only compartment to be categorised voluntarily feels like a honour at the same time: Berlin. Berlin 2001 can be understood as a chronological diary of the development of techno, as well as an journey through the entire last year. BPitch Control and Berlin grow at the same speed, not only with one another, but together. The title Berlin 2001 -- Dedication. Representation summarises all that. This compilations dedication depicts the personal and emotional relation to the 'state of the art'. It is again a kind of balance sheet of the label and the city's relation. This becomes obvious by the chosen artists on Berlin 2001: They whether live in Berlin or at least had a release on BPitch Control. The joining together mobilises creative powers by applying the highest principle of BPitch Control: the collective. The further fundamental idea of BPitch Control is the agreement of being total open towards all sides -- as it can be seen on the formal principles. The artwork is done by Berlin's avant-garde graphic designers Pfadfinderei and extends the classic cover artwork by a short animated film on the CD, that provides the equal space for the sound and the visuals -- reflecting the tight relations between musical output and visual implementation at BPitch Control. Tim Buktu, Barbara Morgenstern, Mitte Karaoke, Märtini Brös, Mark Verbos, MIA. and Dash are friendly related artists. Together with the label's own artists Ellen Allien, Smash TV, Kiki, Eedio, Sascha Funke, Trike, Paul Kalkbrenner, White Dolemite and TokTok they represent the many facets of the 'Sound of Berlin'."

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:	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:	AMOON, ALEX
Title:	I'm The Virus
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 043EP

"You'll need not even 10 seconds to notice that Alex Amoon's 'I'm The Virus' debut EP on Bpitch Control is once again a new approach to define music. Alex Amoon uses electronic equipment for producing in a jazz-like manner. He combines musical resources stripped of their original context. He feels at home on all floors and combines the best of Drum'n Bass, Techno and abstract electronic music. You can even tell that there are influences of classical singer/songwriter music of Post-Rock and Hip Hop. What you hear is a very intensive examination of the wide field of music."

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:	TRIKE
Title:	Interflug
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 045CD

"Trike is one of the first Bpitch artists and has released several lovely tracks during his time on board. In this broad and open pool of musical ideas he shows that Techno 'Made in Berlin' combines the past with the present. Interflug can be characterised best by its dry Techno sound, which is significant for Trike. The beats roll out of the speakers with a creak and invite you to a hypnotising dance that will make you forget yourself. The uncomplicated way of integrating the vocals into the sound works 100 percent here. They are more subtle embedded in the background and give enough space to the whole structure of the tracks. That's why he fails the pink pop grid, where you easily can get caught when catchy vocals shift into the foreground. Trike does it without cheap showmanship, but doesn't lack some funny effects. The groovy rolling bass line is his best fellow company. It doesn't have to be too fast -- there's definitely enough time to catch your breath. Trike catches the groove without overloaded structures. He enjoys the clarity of a minimalistic construction. On the other hand to judge Interflug as minimalistic falls short, since he has a special liking for Electro sound. In geographical context you can clearly see his refined musical ideas as a reference to the axis Berlin Detroit at its best times."

Artist:	BELOW, NORA
Title:	Crystallize...
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 046EP

"'Crystallize' builds a bridge between all imaginable varieties of electronic music. That includes Industrial as well as Power-noise -- rhythmic noise and Nora Below's favorite music style. On her debut 'Crystallize' she rocks with her Atari and the resulting sound isn't always easy to digest. But as you adjust to the sound, you will discover the special charm of Nora's music. On 'Crystallize' it unfolds between electro-synthie-modulations and the secrets of the night. Alienated vocals, accompanied by her electro sound, remind you of 'Horror in the Skyscraper'. Nora Below has her fun with it."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Weiss.mix
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 047CD

"On Weiss Ellen Allien devotes herself to her own musical preferences and inspirations from the past as well as to current musical tendencies. The result is a DJ-mix full of variety, which is very explicitly mirroring the DJ´s profile. It`s a statement for openness and flexibility. Ellen Allien doesn´t have any kind of dogma. All tracks are forming a unity of equal relations. The combination of experimental styles with more conventional creates the unique flow, her very personal style with some space for surprise. Weiss is a surface for projecting the network structures Ellen Allien works in: the Bpitch spectrum covers 'sound', art-work and the product. On the other hand she is working hard as a dj. That means you have to be open towards new styles without losing your own identity. One has also to be very selective. In the mix Ellen Allien sticks to clear and sharp cuts while leaving enough space for every track to convey its massage. At the same time she once again proofs her dj-skills." Artists include: Closer Musik, Kiki, Redshift, Sylvie Marks, DJ Maxximus/Something J, Andrea Parker feat. DJ Assault & DJ Godfather, Squarepusher, Feadz, Cex rmx vs. Electric Company, Ellen Allien, Akufen, Archetype, Otto Von Schirach, Phoenicia, Mono Junk, Apparat, Modeselektor, Electric Company, Superpitcher.

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:	MODESELEKTOR
Title:	Death Medley
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 054EP

"The boys of Modeselektor return to their past as passionate Hip Hop and Break Beat fans and DJs without embarrassing nostalgia. It's more like seeing your high school love again and realizing that you still can have fun with each other. The music plays with memories, cuts them in parts, puts them back together in a new way and pushes them with joyful noise and fat beats into the present: '... a huge bunch of flowers assembled of chain saw massacres and sweet honey floating around the edges...'. Because Sebastian Szary and Gernot Bronsert not only rock as if they would chafe their fingers bloody on Heavy Metal riffs every night with a sufficient supply of beer in the name of anarchy. They also create but fragile and hovering sound clusters."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Gemeinsam
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 055CD

"Cruising together through the Bpitch Control network: no wonder that after three years of label history you still can be surprised by the wide variety of the label's output. Those who still think Bpitch Control works within these old categories missed the point electronic music was developing to over the last few years and still is. Techno as a defining element has become somewhat the new 'zeitgeist'. As we have now arrived in the year 2002, Bpitch Control broadens its musical horizon with not only with the help of friendly related artists from Berlin's music scene, but draws larger circles. Internationality is the new motto. Under the title Gemeinsam there will be also a label-tour to follow. The possible combinations of today's Bpitch Control music seem nearly unlimited and range from abstract electronic music to independent guitar music. That ability to create new impulses is characteristic to every Bpitch Control release as you can perfectly see on this compilation of collected Bpitch Control works. Thereby always looking fast forward -- even though this compilation is more a 'best of this year' so far. The rocking artists are Sascha Funke, Paul Kalkbrenner, Kiki, Feadz, Eedio, Alex Amoon, Tim Tim, Modeselektor, Trike and Barbara Morgenstern. There are also some exclusive tracks by Apparat (Shitkatapult), Kero (Shitkatapult, Bpitch Control), Sylvie Marks (HAL9000, Gigolo) and Ellen Allien."

Artist:	MODERAT
Title:	Auf Kosten Der Gesundheit
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 057EP

"What do guys like better than their moms, munchin on self-baked cake over their 'rents designer couch and even football itself? Well, playing around on their electronic gadgets and passing around computer files. Then, when even best friends participate and the whole thing develops without a plan chaotically, it must be paradise on earth: 'MODEselektor + appaRAT' aka Moderat. Three nice laptop dorked out boys for whom one would love to bake cake every Sunday as well as wash their dirty football socks. Actually, Sebastian Szary, Gernot Bronsert and Sascha Ring all really don't like football, rather ping pong where you can cut and slam etc.. They like it China style, i.e. always moving around the table in a flash. That is perhaps why they make this kind of music: fragmentary pieced together sounds that are played into every corner of the table by the driving bass. In between, you find flirtatious planes that creep into your ear just like when a ping pong ball is cut hard and curves its way over the net."

Artist:	MARKS & HAL9000, SYLVIE
Title:	Bad Woman Meets Zen On The Street
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 058EP

"Sylvie Marks and HAL 9000 once again let robots and super-computers do their dance: nice conflation of indie-tronics, electronica, and melancholic pop. Her fragile vocals swerve from recitations to singing, thus leaving no desires unreciprocated. 'Bad Woman' bridges another gap: whoever didn't realize that DJ's can sing will now know what's up. Put your hands in your pocket, sharpen your ears, and listen closely. 'Mad Zen' immediately gets more aggressive for the dance floor making you pull your laces tight. Deepness leads the way here along with a driving beat that heats up with heavy elektro velocity. The last piece shifts gears and moves in another direction: the four hits the one straight up and ends up as a gadget-like-dance-floor-buster via Green Velvet, raunchy girls attitude, and British school-girl charm. Nice, you can almost see Sylvie's hair flowing."

Artist:	HOUSEMEISTER
Title:	Anti-Gestern EP
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 061EP

"If you ask concretely what Anti_Gestern means then Housemeister will answer: 'simply looking straight ahead, without further making formulations, leaving everything open. It's not against retro, but rather pleading for newness while not forgetting the original feeling of Rrriot on the dance floor.' 'Einfach.Kicken' sounds exactly how one might imagine Housemeister as a person: an independent ball of energy where sunlight sometimes emanates out of the stroboscope. The whole EP never loses sight of the dance floor. 'Einfach.Kicken' entertains with little gimmicks, glow worms on acid. It's worth noting lastly that the whole song was recorded as a session. In the middle there is a transition that makes you flip out. Forget the 70s kids. That was yesterday. Today there's Housemeister. And by the way, Dr. Caligari would be thrilled."

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:	KIKI & SILVERSURFER
Title:	Restless
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 063EP

"'Finnish decency meets Greek indecency' Kiki short and sweet on his new collaboration with DJ compatriot Silversurfer with whom he now shares equipment in the studio right next to the BPC office. It's not an exception that creativity doubles in this case -- the result is an exponential leap forward -- just how we hoped. 'Wasp' with its 'mean' (Kiki) wasp sound declares straight up with a dry attitude what one might think of 'rave' in the new century. Dancers are subject to the soundtrack of the millennium without any chance of putting up a fight. 'Wasp' stings deep and dreamlike."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Berlinette
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 065CD

"Berlinette firstly draws upon the album title itself revealing Ellen Allien's identification with the city. Ellen Allien has found the key to her Self in this international context when one considers the philosophical notion pertaining to the experience of one's person through a relation to the other, i.e. the quasi dialectic of an I with an Other. She is continuously set in relation to Berlin, especially abroad. Berlinette is thus supposed to reflect this precise experience without any pretense for irony. The presentation of her label BPitch Control also happens this way. Ellen Allien not only delivers the feeling of Berlin city, but also offers her own experiential horizon defined by network structures and the idea of autocracy and independence. Individual systems make way for a tight co-operative in the collective. Ellen Allien allowed herself little time to complete Berlinette. One should under no circumstance understand her second album conceptually. Rather, she is en route searching for a new sound aesthetic that pays respect to her wide interests, activities and of course her personality. The quote 'I demand the complete summary of all artistic powers for the accomplishment of the art work as a whole.' of Kurt Schwitters, the great pioneer of German Dadaism, could perhaps come from Ellen herself. Her artistic approach equally reminds one of Dada: the combination of all possible musical pieces such as text, arrangement, sample, and beat. Here she shows a new face which sets forth what Stadtkind started. However, the principle of minimalism has given way to a more sharpened approach which is more than a kind of experiment in the process of production."

Artist:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Trashscape Remixe
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 066EP

"The Trashscape Rmxs leave enough space for Ellen Allien to span an audible terrain from her own phantom all the way to her long-time heading the pack for

inspiration. A cross section is being presented through some contemporary tendencies in the large playground of electronic music. America's bootleg and remix wonder child Kid 606 is just as much aboard as Apparat, who is usually busy coding binary emotions, and then there is Raz Ohara, a living hybrid between all styles, like Anthony Rother with his native Elektro realm."

Artist:	MODESELEKTOR
Title:	Ganse de Frau
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 069EP

"Crash course in the history of Modeselektor: Szary aka the perverted Persian and Gernot aka the rambunctious Rumanian -- together you get Modeselektor. Up until now, their two releases for BPitch Control have introduced a new language with words like 'Sound-Hack' through bit-crushing and thousands of other ones. Modeselektor continue to always strike through conventional audio habits with their grandiose Live and DJ-sets in the end of which one often gets to see an entire club dancing the Polonaise in circles with synchronized shoulder leans. Long live ACDC on broken beats."

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Koax Remixes
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 070EP

"What does Apparat do so well then? He transforms his idea of the world into such a fragile sound shell that one gets goose bumps, almost interrupting breath, wondering how this sound in codes can exist. His freeing up of layers, that others sonically stack on top of one another, make room for a series of interpretations that were not meant to be this much. But precisely this is exactly the wonderful thing about it. Consider the fact that one even has the chance to always start a new or simply desire it. And when this seems to be the case, as if it were a testament to the love of music, the answer obviously is yes." Remix - Ellen Allien.

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:	ALLIEN, ELLEN
Title:	Alles Sehn Remixes
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 073EP

"The Alles Sehen Remixes are the second extraction from Berlinette, the second album from Ellen Allien. They primarily show mutual and respectful touch and go recording for the flow of the originals. The remixes go left and right from where Ellen Allien set a secondary foundation on Berlinette with the abundance of vocals in order to touch on contemporary and, especially, experimental contexts. No one seems to be able to get around the challenge Ellen Allien is setting today: the positive and negative statements about her musical output are being opposed once again."

Artist:	FUNKE, SASCHA
Title:	Bravo
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 075CD

"Sascha Funke is releasing his long awaited debut album called Bravo. It's true that the first signs of Sascha Funke's interpretation of techno lifestyles are keywords like continuity, independence, and translation. This 26 year-old Berliner is living a contradiction for all the spaces left in between: a simultaneous demand for pragmatic rationality and emotional pontification. Alone translating between these two poles is already a characteristic of how Sascha Funke sounds. It's still flavored with plenty of quotes, meaning he has a sharp nose for pop, even letting coincidence be the basis of the production process. A new belt is s pulling techno tight. Bravo musically presents a rather 'state of the art', if not conceptual, approach even when the motif of Bravo has been around for two years as the hunt began. So Sascha Funke continues steadfastly there where his previous releases had been resting. For Sascha Funke continuity is a positive loaded term that states it to be important to complete one's own path and not lose oneself in the ditches and thresholds. In so doing he also throws up another image of daily life in the techno context. He manages to create further free spheres and independence in the life-world grey zone of creativity and the collective, which can be heard on Bravo. The fact that he remains himself and juggles his own inadequacies makes his music not only more pleasurable but also the person behind it all more transparent. What he calls 'rowing with technology' is overshadowed elsewhere by the immediate and pure, aseptic production. On Bravo he then engages his path safely: that what is usually determined to be the paradigm in techno, namely a rapid rise on a bolting industry train, he counters not only as a producer but even as a DJ who works for patience and one's own confidence in personal skill. So the positive sense would see him without passion. What's always decisive for him in unsure situations is the dance floor itself. Short momentary reactions and the belief that 'techno is always that what you make of it' leaves Bravo without competition in the set selection of his record bag."

Artist:	TIMTIM
Title:	Let's Pretend We're Going
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 077CD

"On his debut album, Let's Pretend We're Going Berlin-based TimTim develops a set of delicately constructed landscapes, which stride a new path between the label traditions of techno and experimental elektronika. TimTim has paved his own road on the map although: at a crossroads between classical singer/songwriter and bleeping elektronika, he combines both by constructing electronic tracks into songs and a new category arises. This fusion of all categories formulates an approach towards an independance of BPitch Control by TimTim, with a further recess and specialization. In addition, where TimTim's musical socialization begins today, the electronic influences are broad. The categories, which are the foundation of the music world, speak likewise for themselves: beside post rock and punk the electronic avantgarde stands equally on the shelf. This discontinuity of category leaves a fragmentary collage, in which everyone can occupy their own field like Let's Pretend We're Going does. TimTim is a guitarist, drummer and songwriter and has appeared in various Berlin bands for many years. He may play in another league on Let's Pretend We're Going but he finds his own language, which offers enough space to his large musical passions for development. Sometimes melancholic to subtle, the sound is composed entirely by TimTim. And in this, the mental contradiction between song and track is broken up and again translated."

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:	KIKI
Title:	Age of Cancer
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 082EP

"We proudly present: His excellence Kiki's fifth masterpiece at the imperial court of the Bpitch Control dynasty. Onward minstrel, let us hear his story. Kiki, in his saddle, on a bank. Below him in the plains and above him in the skies the powers are blustering, in expression of his inner engorgement. But in this hour in between darkness and light, two souls are fighting in his chest. The augurs have always been forewarning him for the 'Age of Cancer' he was born in, an extremely sensitive zodiac sign urging towards the outside with heart and soul. Only through wise demure he would be able to direct his reign into fruitful paths, he was admonished by the sages. So in the daytime he induced to build dikes, to reclaim new land and to erect buildings of symmetrical shape. Linear routes were drawn through his kingdom."

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

"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 t

Artist:	VA
Title:	BPitch Control: Berlin 2000
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	BPC 006CD

Artist:	VA
Title:	Berlin 2.000
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	BPC 006LP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Berlin 2001 C/D
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 031.2EP

Artist:	BUKTU, TIM
Title:	Infant Coversongs
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 036EP

Artist:	MARKS, SYLVIE
Title:	Baby Take Me A Little Bit Higher
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	10"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 037EP

Artist:	VA
Title:	Kollective 3
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 048EP

Artist:	KERO
Title:	Busted Berlin
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 052EP

Artist:	KLOCK, BEN
Title:	Tag Der Arbeit
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 059EP

Artist:	MOCHIPET
Title:	Dim Sum
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 067EP

Artist:	ANDERSSON, TOMAS
Title:	The Rockacid EP
Label:	BPITCH CONTROL (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	BPC 071EP