Browse by Label: CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)

Artist:	GEIOM/M. CANEY
Title:	Blanket/Four Fifty Five
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 007EP

"Geiom, a.k.a. Kamal Joory from Nottingham UK, is known for his remix work for Anthony Manning, as a longtime affiliate of Lee Norris (Metamatics), as a member of Tone Language, and as an acclaimed solo artist on Neo Ouija. Here, he delivers two tracks which simply fit perfectly into the City Centre Offices catalogue. On 'Blanket', he works with long time friend Mr. Caney and explains what happens when digitized high frequencies meet squirky drums, a melody as deep as the ocean and an (almost) acoustic bass. 'Four Fifty Five' is almost dubby, somehow lazy, maybe melancholic but definitely great. It's a track that will stick to your head. Both Geiom and M. Caney are working on a full length for City Centre Offices, due next year."

Artist:	VANLOO, BILL
Title:	Tones (For Sarah)/Harmonic Study 1.3
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 012EP

"Despite the fact that this 7" is Bill Vanloo's first ever release on his own, he is well known already because he built his reputation playing gig after gig over the last couple of years in the Detroit area. 'Tones' is is nothing else but a lovesong. Soft, beautiful melodies play pingpong with each other, boogie with something we call subbass and enjoy the work of various delay-units which might remind you of some of the early Detroit Escalator Co.-tracks. 'Harmonic Study 1.3' looks at the story from a completely different angle, assembles drones and drones and drones and carefully adds rhythmical accents to this lullaby for microchips."

Artist:	CANEY & KAMAL JOORY, MORGAN
Title:	Darling/Darling (Remix)
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 014EP

"After last year's stunning 7" on City Centre Offices, Morgan Caney & Kamal Joory (aka Geiom) return with a kind of special record. Right on time for Christmas, they give us one of the most beautiful tracks ever written. With pretty unusual, because acoustic sounds, both Morgan and Kamal sing and play themselves straight into our hearts. On the b-side they re-think the harmony of the a-side in a more digital, experimental way. 'Darling' is a taster of their long-expected album."

Artist:	STATIC WITH VALERIE TREBLEJAHR
Title:	Turn On Switch Off
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 016EP

"Static aka Hanno Leichtmann returns with three new tracks. For the title song, he teamed up with Valerie Trebeljahr, the singer from Lali Puna. 'Turn On Switch Off' is the piece of music the summer was waiting for to truly begin. A fluffy Rhodes-inspired dream with a deep bass, even a harp and Valerie's unique singing. 'Promesse de Bonheur' and 'Give Me Your Loving', both exclusive tracks to this release, give you and idea of what Mr. Static is working on at the moment and what directions he will take for his next album, both relaxed and intense pop tracks. Finally, Jan Jelinek aka Farben rounds up this EP with his interpretation of the title track."

Artist:	FIREWIRE
Title:	A Tribute To the Manzini
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BLOCK 020CD

Firewire are: Frederic Stader (aka DIN-ST, DJ MAXXIMUS): Machines; Carl Crack (ATARI TEENAGE RIOT, WHATEVER): Voice. "Frederic Stader and Carl Crack met sometime during the 90s in Cologne at a Cosmic Orgasm-Rave. Back then, Frederic was a doing a project called Fever (later on DHR), Carl was the voice of Atari Teenage Riot. They got along well and worked on ideas together, on and off. Some years down the line, the idea of a common project became more and more important to both of them. They started recording. Then, in 2001, Carl Crack died and Frederic finished off the recordings himself. A Tribute To The Manzini, a release which has been approved by Carl's family, is a short but intense journey through a long forgotten world of distorted soul. Something you would not necessarily expect if you are familiar with both Frederic's and Carl's former work. Or maybe you would. From the haunting beauty of 'Open Ur Eyes', via the disturbing, Acid-infected 2Step error of '4 Ever' to the monstrous intensity of 'No Exit', each and every track remains a unique example of two exceptional musicians working together on something they both feel has to be done. An unusual release for CCO you might think. We don't think so. But this is another story."

Artist:	STATIC
Title:	Ghost Boy
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 021EP

"Taken from his current second album for City Centre Offices (Flavour Has No Name), 'Ghost Boy' is another brilliant collaboration with Tarwater's and To Rococo Rot's Ronald Lippok on vocals, what starts in a dark, almost irritating, but at the same time fascinating, atmosphere quickly turns into beautiful popsong. 'A Pleasant Place' is an absolute Static classic, which finally makes it onto vinyl. The b-side kicks off with our soulbrothers Isan, who, if there would be something like a 'Grand Prix of Lullabies', would definitely win that contest easily with their interpretation of 'Ghost Boy'. Finally, Static's long-time partner in crime Nicolas Bussmann aka Resistance delivers a wild, extreme interpretation, which, finally, should wake the ghost."

Artist:	WHARTON, DONATO
Title:	Built to Fail EP
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 023EP

"Built around one of the core tracks of his highly acclaimed album Trabanten (CCO, Towerblock 017), 'Built To Fail', Wharton delivers three new tracks which take his musical visions one step further. 'My Orange Lifejacket' combines the crackles of a digital campfire with soulful, processed guitars, weeping for a better tomorrow with one of the most peaceful and brightest melodies around. 'Collision Stills' takes the sunshine for granted, introduces a bassdrum to those of us who prefer not to dance when listening to music and explores the beauties of high frequencies. not only twitchers will feel at home. 'Glazed', on the contrary, was obviously written and orchestrated in the small hours of the night, shifts back and forth between pulsating crackles, fragmented voices and repetitive guitars. Suddenly, all is blue ... all is unplugged ... all is calm ..."

Artist:	DICTAPHONE
Title:	Nacht EP
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 024EP

"After the highly acclaimed album M.=Addiction, Dictaphone finally return with four new tracks. 'Peaks' and 'Warszawa w nocy' are based around recordings made in a rehearsal room somewhere in Berlin with some microphones hanging from the low ceiling: Roger D�ring (saxophone & clarinet on the Dictaphone album), Stephan W�hrmann (drums) & Piotr Rybkowski (bass) met up for a couple of sessions over the last two years .When Oliver Doerell heard those recordings, he immediately started to work on them. And finished them. 'Peaks' is more than a homage. Clearly inspired by the theme of a well known TV-series, it takes that certain haunting groove and transforms it into the most perfect base for D�ring's saxophone. 'Warszawa w nocy' sounds like a million things happening at the same time, but in the end, all there is is noise, hiss, a pleasantly disturbing groove and the saxophone. The B-Side features two classic Dictaphone tracks, made by Doerell and D�ring. Truly cinematic."

Artist:	REMOTE VIEWER
Title:	You're Going To Love Our Defeatist Attitude
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	BLOCK 025CD

"Somewhere in the Greater Manchester Area, on an average street, in an average attic of an average house, every now and again, time stands still. This is when Andrew Johnson and Craig Tattersal sit down and switch on their machines, opening the gates to the land of The Remote Viewer. This, however, does not happen too often, just in case you want to know why it took so long to compile new tracks for a new release on CCO. After their album Here I Go Again On My Own released in 2002, we are happy to announce the return of The Remote Viewer. You're Going To Love Our Defeatist Attitude picks up where Andrew and Craig pressed the Stop button after recording their last album, but at the same time takes their sound to a completely new level, a much more acoustic one. With Nicola Hodgkinson (from Empress) on vocals, Andrew and Craig dig deeper, haunt some friendly ghosts in detuned pianos, introduce a vocoder to the band, polish their little rhythms and make them shine even brighter. It is an intimate world these two gentlemen are orchestrating, a world in which time doesn't really matter, a world which is always there, which always awaits you with open arms."

Artist:	DUB TRACTOR
Title:	Faster EP
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 028EP

"These five new tracks give you a good idea of the direction Anders Remmer has chosen for his new album. Elements already present on the More Or Less Mono album feature even more prominently in this new work. What used to be pure electronic music has turned into a one-man band. Anders focuses more and more on his guitar, bass and voice, constructing beautifully crafted indie hymns. The title track 'Faster' and 'Right / Wrong' bring back memories of classic tunes like 'I Don't Care'. Combining his love for floating guitar hooks and simple though effective beats, Dub Tractor evokes a time when acoustic instruments were constantly employed in new and unpredictable ways. 'Cirkel' and 'Not At The Lab' are two wonderful instrumental tracks, which highlight Anders' skills of harmony, dub and structure. Finally, 'A Meter' makes you wonder what would have happened to music if the iBook had been invented in the 60s."

Artist:	MIWON
Title:	Brother Mole
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 030EP

"Hendrik Kr�tz aka Miwon has been an active member of the Berlin-based electronic music scene for a very long time. Hundred's of live P.A.s created a big fan base for his soulful electronic pop music. As the initiator of the already legendary 'laptop battles' he did important ground work for the development of electronic music in Berlin in general. Apart from a long deleted split-12" on the Grundrauschen imprint, Brother Mole is his first release. The title track is a blueprint of modern synth-pop. A pumping bassdrum, lush chords and catchy vocals make 'Brother Mole' an instant hit you will be whistling walking down the street. Be prepared for some serious addiction. A perfect track for CCO's very own John Tejada to remix. He transforms the track into a dancefloor anthem. An even more kicking bassdrum and a much straighter arrangement turn the track into a killer DJ-Tool. 'Spiralize' shows Miwon's love for more dirty, gritty sounds. His dreamy melodies do the rest. 'Rain Or Shine', the closing track, is a lullaby for lonely laptops. Deep and haunting."

Artist:	CYNE
Title:	Running Water
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 033EP

"Following on from last year's Growing EP on City Centre Offices, Cyne finally return with a 12" taster for their highly anticipated full-length Evolution Fight. This gargantuan 8-tracker is based around 'Running Water,' a key track from their forthcoming album that's available here in regular and instrumental versions. The flipside also features brand new and exclusive track 'Maintain,' while for many the highlight of this gigantic EP will be the Four Tet (Domino) remix of 'Automaton,' possibly Kieran Hebden's most upfront B-boy endeavour yet and for our money the finest remix undertaken in his illustrious career so far. Finally, Miami-based beat scientist Locsmif presents his take 'Growing,' the title track of Cyne's CCO-debut from 2004."

Artist:	AROVANE
Title:	Tides
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 001CD

Emitting "future classic" status within seconds of play, this sophomore album by Berlin's Uwe Zahn is filled to the brim with liquid harpsichord euphoria, bridging that gap between early 90s "classic ambient" and more contemporary static like little else known. "Shortly after the release of Arovane's debut album on Din, CCO releases his follow-up album Tides. Inspired by a holiday spent in France by the sea, Tides marks a new step in Arovane's career. Based on hip hop grooves and live played guitars, Tides does not concentrate on digital glitches, but on warm melancholic songs. As Bleed From the German DeBug magazine put it, 'Tides is the iMac of electronica LPs. Wonderful, translucent, somehow familiar, but simply so great that you have to say hello.'"

Artist:	STATIC
Title:	Eject Your Mind
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 006CD

"Modular pop, anthemish circuit cuddlings, or maybe simply electronica, always on the verge between song and track: there is a good number of cosy little drawers one could open in order to find an appropriate language to describe Static's music. One can be sure, however, that in a better world, Static's music would be played on heavy rotation everywhere between Iceland and Japan and lucky owners of oldskool jukeboxes would cut dubplate after dubplate to feed their little machines with tracks from Eject Your Mind. Static is one of a few monikers of Hanno Leichtmann, a Berlin-based musician. If not working on Static material, he plays in various other projects like Paloma, Ich Schwitze Nie or DJ Attach� & The Beige Oscillator. On Eject Your Mind, Static combines quiet dsp-stills with a warm, almost investigative pop appeal, resulting in a perfect illusion of a crumbly-glitchy electronica aquarium, in which small sounds, dubby echos, minimal beats and beautiful melodies walk hand in hand. Such music needs vocals. So, Static picked up the phone and invited Ronald Lippok (To Rococo Rot, Tarwater) and Justine Electra to join him in his studio. The CD-version also features a special video application ('type f for fullscreen'), developed by Joshua Goldberg, a New York-based video artist, together with Mr. Static, to give macintosh users the chance to visualize this beautiful, stunning album."

Artist:	THE REMOTE VIEWER
Title:	Here I Go Again On My Own
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 007CD

"Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson aka The Remote Viewer have been active in the UK-indie-scene for a good number of years now. Both started as members of Hood (Craig played drums, Andrew guitar) and recorded four albums with the band. Here I Go Again On My Own is the second Remote Viewer album to date. The ten tracks are all very personal, intimate moments full of fragile warmth and quiet melancholy taking you by the hand as soon as the guitar comes in and plays along to colorful melodies and small clicky beats. This is an album sounding like a dreamy day spent alone in the countryside, when you look down a hill and whisper songs from another world. File under indietronics."

Artist:	CANEY & KAMAL JOORY, MORGAN
Title:	Magic Radios
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 008CD

"The Magic Radios album and live experience represents a happy collision between two musicians from very different backgrounds. All the way from the ultra precise world of contemporary electronics to imaginary soundtracks of the wild praries and the mating rituals of the pioneers. yeeeeee haaaaaaa! Kamal Joory has produced many recordings for various electronic labels (Skam, Neo Ouija, Staaplatt, Nature etc) as Geiom -- also taking his sound to various open-minded corners of the globe and providing interactive soundscapes for international performance artist Simone Kenyon and the milleux collective. Morgan Caney - a versatile and well travelled musician/composer, whose experience has taken in playing at Ronnie Scotts (as part of the experimental jazz ensemble) scaring people in tunnels ( part of his ongoing sonic art tapeworks project ) and teaching Himalayan children the joys of the human beatbox. Gorge Aplenty on a myriad feast of warm and delicate melodies, vacuum cleaners in space junkshop vibes, Latino piano, insect percussion, lovesick cowboy vocals, electro brakes, spine-tingling violins, acoustic shredding, campfire. expect to find this and more in a typical live transmission from Magic Radios."

Artist:	DENZEL & HUHN
Title:	Time Is A Good Thing
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 009CD

"Recorded high above sea-level at upperroom, a snug attic studio in Berlin, giving it that same crackling fireside glow. But there's also something sub-marine about it, exploring the depths, alert to the sonar patterns, the throbbing of turbines, the tolling of a bell-boy far above. this is no coincidence: Denzel + Huhn's affinity for underwater scenarios recently had them working on music for a samadhi floatation tank. If you wanna categorize d+h's sound, think of a crossover between the static but lively crackling glitches of your old vinyl collection, treated by digital circuitry, a bass as heavy as a high-rise building and the warmth of a noisy drone telling you everything you ever wanted to know. Somewhere between .snd's seriousness, a playful and charming reminiscences of a world called 'indie', and a fascination for obviously Berlin-inspired dub-metaphors, d+h create their own sonic universe, experimental of sorts, heart-grabbing for sure."

Artist:	DICTAPHONE
Title:	m.=addiction
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 010CD

"From the very beginning, Dictaphone was the idea of Oliver Doerell. Born and bred in Brussels, multi-instrumentalist Doerell now lives in Berlin and has been working on the Dictaphone project for the last three years. Together with Roger D�ring, saxophone and clarinet player, he has slowly been developing his version of electronically processed slo-motion jazz, which is nothing but a collection of beautiful lovesongs. A deep bass meets an ocean full of warm, enchanting melancholy. m.=addiction feels like a French autumn dream. Strings are struggling against precisely placed artefacts and rhythmic noisy bits. Field recordings from public swimming pools meet strange messages recorded with old dictaphones. Maika Spiegel ('minimal compact') makes one of the tracks even more beautiful with her unique voice. m.=addiction simply makes you drown in a soft, velvety atmosphere."

Artist:	I'M NOT A GUN
Title:	Everything At Once
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 011CD

"I'm Not A Gun are John Tejada and Takeshi Nishimoto. Techno's best kept secret, John Tejada (Playhouse, Palette, 7th City etc.) has decided to take a break from his usual (strictly electronic) productions. Together with his friend Takeshi Nishimoto he sits back on the veranda of postrock-instrumentals and relaxes. Tejada on drums, guitar and electronics, Nishimoto on guitar and bass dream away their day -- and make ours. With airy gestures and a sunny state of mind, they jam themselves into textures which have learned their lesson from the best records of the Chicago school: jazzrock does not have to be a pretentious monster, but can sing a poem of the utopia of unhierachical communication. As soon as structure wins over the solo, dialogue over technical skills and the lightness of swing over the pathos of improvisation. With I'm Not A Gun, everything seems to be structure, dialogue and lightness. In a cheerful dizziness, these instrumentals seem to plan themselves, accepting no control from the outside world. Tejada and Nishimoto are just following that stream. Everything At Once is music of the inner ear, floating sessions full of trust in a higher sense of justice. Music which finally arrives at itself, unfolds, blossoms and stretches out its feelers. Here, work has got nothing to do with effort, and producing nothing with reason."

Artist:	SCHNAUSS, ULRICH
Title:	A Strangely Isolated Place
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 013CD

"Electronic music has rarely found itself a popular home. Switch on your TV set or go to the cinema, however, and you'll discover a world of vast and endless possibilities brought to life with instrumental textures designed to arouse an emotional response. Add some guitars, unforgettable tunes and even a sliver of voice here and there, and you have yourself a soundtrack with instant mass appeal and an emotional vocabulary that is enriched with every single listen. Ulrich's debut album followed these principles perfectly, and this, his long-awaited follow-up A Strangely Isolated Place extends and expands on a formula which is uniquely and unforgettably his own. This is a record with an unashamed love of many forms of popular music, as well as a technologically inspired method of delivery, ...Isolated Place starts off with timeless melodies and embroiders itself with indie stylings, some vocals and a euphoric, larger than life sound that betrays the loneliness of its highly evocative title. Moving away from the widespread fascination with all things 'micro', the scope here is big, although every fragment of sound from the opening melancholy bliss of 'gone forever' to the dusty detuned breakbeat of 'a letter from home' has been carefully wrapped and labelled 'fragile'. For this is music that has been assembled piece by piece, every fragment carefully chosen and given a sense of belonging, a home. Ulrich Schnauss has brought to life a place that you may have never visited, but it's a place that you have always known." Last copies of the European version (now out on Domino in the US).

Artist:	STATIC
Title:	Flavour Has No Name
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 014CD

"Hanno Leichtman's Berlin studio is a friendly place. You imagine it in half-light, scattered cushions, open bottles of wine and an opulence of form welcoming his family of collaborators and friends to dip into his world of shimmering pop. Flavour Has No Name sets out the agenda in a multi-coloured display of variation and a love of a melody that will not remove itself from your mind. This is, simply put, a perfect pop record. With guests: Justine Electra, Ronald Lippok, Christoff Kurzmann, and Lali Puna's vocalist Valerie Trebeljahr."

Artist:	YASUME
Title:	Where We're From The Birds Sing A Pretty Song
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 015CD

"Yasume is the collaborative effort of 22 year old Midlands resident John Xela and 24 year old Californian Gabriel Morley. John is probably best known for his work on the Neo Ouija label as 'Xela' and Gabe has just released a dark and crunchy EP on (Warp approved) Team Shadetek's imprint under his anagram-moniker 'Logreybeam'. In setting out to record this amazing album both artists laid their ideas against a backdrop provided by a big influence on them both -- David Lynch. Twelve months were spent honing the sound and perfecting the tracks -- bringing to life eight amazing cinematic soundpieces best summed up by the album's title : Where We're From The Birds Sing A Pretty Song. An album that reflects the varied and seemingly incongruous elements at play : intricate beats, cinematic strings, dub aesthetics and, perhaps most importantly, an intuitive understanding of evocative instrumental songwriting."

Artist:	BOY ROBOT
Title:	Glamorizing Corporate Lifestyle
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 016CD

"It had to happen. Imagine two successful solo artists, Michael Zorn and Hans M�ller (used to be a member of the highly successful Swedish project Boulderdash), just happening to meet at work in Berlin and realising that they share not only an interest in music, but, more specifically, a love for that particular tinge of electronic music that finds itself surrounded by a dubby effervescence. The 10 tracks on board manage to encapsulate and dissect a pool of sub-generic ideas that scarcely make an appearance on a single body of work, perfectly fusing the musical signatures that each artist has perfected over the course of the last few years. From an unfolding rigid digital riddim that Mr Zorn structures so well, a cascade of twilight melodies weaving itself in and out of the ride to a ballearic vibe that seems deliciously out of place, like a tranquilised, late night version of post-rave blues. If you're familiar with the work of both of them, you will be instantly aware of the magic at play. Over the last couple of years, Zorn has acquired a reputation for deep technoid tracks, focusing on complex rhythms. M�ller fits perfectly into that image, adding his own vision of percussive structure and melodies, playing the melodica and the kalimba imbuing the whole album with a more acoustic edge."

Artist:	WHARTON, DONATO
Title:	Trabanten
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 017CD

"Debut album by Donato Wharton. At the age of 18, he signed his first record contract and moved to Cologne. There, he became interested in digital music and started producing hip hop instrumentals for the up-and-coming scene of Stuttgart. Trabanten is Donato's first real solo effort -- an important move away from supporting other artists to focusing completely on his own ideas and visions. Donato, for whom Hendrix's Electric Ladyland is as important an influence as the more recent work from musicians like Vladislav Delay, Radiohead, Mogwai or jazz and hip hop in general, allows his tracks a lot of time and space to develop. He masters the more than difficult task of combining very detailed sound design with an ability to write wonderful, deep, intense songs. Doing so, he is one of few tellers of digital stories. And those stories are full of ideas. Without trying to describe the tracks in detail and bring up boring overused metaphors, Trabanten is the perfect soundtrack the time of the day when you go offline, switch off your phone and concentrating on music is all you really want to do. Trabanten requires attention, but the listener is rewarded. The way Donato Wharton pastes his sounds together, the way he gets all those noises out of his machines and, most importantly, the way he combines them with acoustic fragments and his guitar-playing, is unique. The fact that he is busy composing music for theater pieces makes complete sense."

Artist:	KLEINE, CHRISTIAN
Title:	Real Ghosts
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 019CD

"This is the story of Christian Kleine, someone who is famous for his electronic music. Be it on his own or as a member of Herrmann & Kleine, Christian and his PowerBooks formed an entity. They still do, but for a long time, other instruments have been living in his studio. Instruments that were there long before he bought his first computer. Maybe this is one of the reasons why it took 18 months for him to complete his new, second full-length. Among other things, Real Ghosts is a meditation on Christian's musical roots. Not a restart, not a sudden denial of electronic music. The time was just right to get out the guitars again. 'I always played guitar, I simply did not record it very often. This is new. For Real Ghosts, I used whatever instruments were available. Guitar, bass, harmonica or computers.' The most obvious change is indeed Christian's focus on his guitar-playing. Real Ghosts is a real rocker. Distorted walls of guitars, head-nodding beats and the deepest, fattest basslines make Real Ghosts a completely different story, open up a complete new world. Take a track like 'Ghostwriting' for instance, where the synthesizer is simply overrun by loud guitars and precise flageolett-figures, gains ground again in an ongoing fight. This short track sums up the two sides of Real Ghosts: lush atmospheres and grounded directness. Christian Kleine combines these two elements like no one else. Sometimes is it good when things take a little longer. And maybe ghosts need more time to develop, anyway."

Artist:	SWOD
Title:	Gehen
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 021CD

"Translated as 'go', Gehen represents a labour of love from two musicians experienced in the art of seductive and evocative music making. Having first worked together producing live soundtracks to silent movies, Oliver and Stephan tread a delicate board of crystalline piano cascades and the sort of subtle electronic tinkering you can barely recognise or absorb in one sitting. It's fitting that the pair are so used to tailor-making their harmonious shards of sound to moving imagery, Gehen evokes a plethora of half forgotten films and life experiences offered up in glimpses in the back of your mind. If you can imagine a sitting specially programmed by film directors Th�o Angelopoulos or Krzysztof Kieslowski, or the music of Eric Satie, Ryuchi Sakamoto or Keith Jarret's 'K�ln Concert', you'll have some idea of what to expect."

Artist:	JULES, MARSEN
Title:	Herbstlaub
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 023CD

Martin Juhls' latest recording offers an ethereal narrative that accompanies both its title and artwork perfectly. Translated as "autumn leaves," Herbstlaub effortlessly weaves ethereal samples and live instruments in a manner that's almost impossible to fathom: the recording of a string trio, a harp orchestra, a symphony in rehearsal -- all are pieced and unraveled alongside his own played instruments. The soundtrack evolves without the interference of beats or unnecessary padding -- unfurling with endless strings and delicate loops that don't seem to have a beginning or an end. File next to Arvo Part, Gas, and Alberto Iglesias.

Artist:	REMOTE VIEWER
Title:	Let Your Heart Draw A Line
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 024CD

The new studio album by the founding members of Hood, and their third full-length release for City Centre Offices. Eschewing technology in favor of the bedroom studio, this is Remote Viewer's most song-oriented album yet. Craig Tattersall and Andrew Johnson craft quiet, almost shy songs that are composed in a way that make you think they were never supposed to leave the studio. Fusing melancholy indietronics, ghostly vocals, detuned toy pianos and glockenspiel, deep bass murmurs, quiet glitches and gentle guitar fret-work, listening to Let Your Heart Draw A Line picks up where we all put the stylus of our turntable to sleep after listening to their last album over and over again. The songs on Let Your Heart Draw A Line are the most intimate moments Andrew and Craig have been sharing with their listeners so far, as they

allow us to crawl into our speakers, just to be sure that we would not miss anything, to be sure that the music was indeed music and not a private conversation of whispered ideas, thoughts and advice. Deep and moving songwriting at its best.

Artist:	STUDIO PANKOW
Title:	Linienbusse
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 025CD

In the first collaboration between City Centre Offices and Germany's cult label Source, Studio Pankow is the mixed venture of three musicians who have been pivotal to the development of electronic music: David Moufang (Move D), Jamie Hodge (Born Under A Rhyming Planet, Conjoint) and Kai Kroker (Rawell). Between them the three have had releases on labels as influential and diverse as Warp, Ninja Tune, Plus 8, Rising High, Plug Research, WMF, Fax, Reflective and, most importantly, David Moufag's seminal Source Records. Between Moufang's deeply emotive emissions as Move D and Hodge's organic techno for Richie Hawtin's Plus 8 imprint, both artists created a new electronic variant that acted as a missing link between the groundbreaking constructions that typified Detroit techno and the artificial intelligence movement pioneered by the Warp label. The tracks that feature on this album were recorded in

three sessions over a time period of more than four years. The three artists, each residing at a different location, would converge at Kai's studio Pankow and start improvising. This bunkered-down intensity is ever-present on Linienbusse, at times nodding towards their familiar fascination with beats and hazy strings, at others developing the session into an effervescent glow of minimalism and velvet ambience. On the incredible title track, for instance, this sumptuous reduction features a solitary piano that acts as a sparkling, reflective counterweight to the celluloid and fuzzy transmissions that lie beneath. With a title that roughly translates as "regular busses," you get the feeling that somewhere outside these artists' collaborative space, life very gently slowed down until each single detail and intonation of mundane existence became perfectly clear, captured here for posterity.

Artist:	CYNE
Title:	Evolution Fight
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 026CD

Gainesville-based hip-hop artists Cyne release their long-awaited second album (their debut full-length for CCO). Following the same technical approach that accompanied the recording of their first album Time Being, Evolution Fight features diced-up sample-based beats constructed on the MPC, vocals recorded in a compact bedroom studio and ProTools used to mix everything properly. The band (Speck, Enoch, Akin and Cise Star) also layered 16 samples of live instrumentation for that big '70s feel, starting with the incredible 8-track percussion and horns featured on "Plight About Now." Meanwhile, "Growing" features The Mercury Program laying down the bass, Rhodes and vibes, imbuing the track with a euphoric yet self-reflective quality. Content-wise, Akin & Cise Star are lyrically influenced by prime political rap of the past from artists such as Public Enemy and Paris. Stylistically, however, Cyne bring to mind the quieter but no less deadly school of thought via Lakim Shabazz, C.L. Smooth and most obviously (due to similar vocal styles) the early work of Common (Sense). Ultimately, however, the production on Evolution Fight has an incredibly bouncy and contemporary touch that shines as bright as Prefuse 73, J.Sands, mcenroe, Spinna... even Madlib would get blunted to this. The production at the heart of Cyne is rooted in the early nineties when producers like No.Id, Pete Rock and Jay Dee simplified things by concentrating on new sample sources... and that good old boom and bap.

Artist:	PORN SWORD TOBACCO
Title:	Explains Freedom
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 027CD

Henrik Jonsson hails from G�teborg, Sweden and this is his first full-length album and his second release for City Centre Offices. Last year, Jonsson, aka Porn Sword Tobacco, set the speed for the future of ambient-inspired campfire music. Reminding us of the possible greatness of pioneers like Harold Budd and Brian Eno, Jonsson managed to adapt the endlessness of a piano tone for our digital, laptop-based generation. Taking off in his comfortable domain of introverted crackles, nature sounds, and tiny piano fragments, Explains Freedom switches moods as fast as a turntablist changes his records and offers snapshots of a slow-motion world we all miss. "Eudaimonia" is a blueprint for your early morning wake up call, "Watt Towers" should play as a loop in every crib, "Talk is Cheap, Swords are Sharp" is what you feel when you see the sun coming up behind a big mountain, "Folkhemmet" is the dance the elderly dance when they fall in love and "Futuristic Rasta Money" makes you realize that Henrik Jonsson is not the person you thought he was. Explains Freedom is peaceful and hopeful -- as if the world is a flower.

Artist:	BOY ROBOT
Title:	Rotten Cocktails
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 028CD

Electronica aimed firmly for the dancefloor, Rotten Cocktails is Hans M�ller (Boulderdash) and Michael Zorn's second album after 2003's smasher Glamorizing Corporate Lifestyle (CCO 016 CD/LP). Boy Robot is the meeting of two ex-software industry solo artists who have forged a musical history all their own. This release is all about power, about the punch of a hefty bass drum, about the type of energy thought to be impossible in what we call electronica. Assembling disco-stompers, French filterhouse, and rocking robotics, Boy Robot merge their unique approach towards melody and sound with sometimes straight, sometimes dreamy beats, converting every dancefloor into a mosh-pit of the freshest electronica ever heard. Rotten Cocktails is a m�lange that will never let you down: let's drink to that.

Artist:	MIWON
Title:	Pale Glitter
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 029CD

Berlin-based Hendrik Kr�z aka Miwon's debut full-length release. Kr�z has been an active member of the Berlin-based electronic music scene for a very long time, and his hundreds of live P.A.s created a big fan base for his soulful electronic pop music. As the initiator of the already-legendary "laptop battles," he did important groundwork for the development of Berlin electronic music in general. After the release of his 12" Brother Mole, Miwon returns with Pale Glitter -- one of the most perfect pop

Artist:	ZORN
Title:	Eckermann/Vian
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	BLOCK 011EP

Artist:	XELA
Title:	Tangled Wool
Label:	CITY CENTRE OFFICES (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	CCO 018LP