Browse by Label: ELEKTRO MUSIC DEPARTMENT (GERMANY)

Artist:	VA
Title:	Elektro Music Department 2
Label:	ELEKTRO MUSIC DEPARTMENT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	EMD 002CD

Second volume of tracks from this Berlin-oriented label, featuring tracks by this collective revolving around Klaus Kotai and Mo Loschelder. Tracks by Kotai, Kotai/Bader, Midnight Caller, In Hope For The Best, Mo Feat. El Puma, etc. "Known for a very minimal, subtle sound with deep Korg bass sounds. Most of the releases on the label came from Klaus Kotai and Gabriele Loschelder aka Mo. Their tracks are not meant to be melodic, but rather made up of sophisticated repetitive sound patterns." Opening with the stunning Suicide-style "So Straight", this is another impressive batch of Berlin mono-bass propulsion.

Artist:	CUSTOMERS, THE
Title:	Furious
Label:	ELEKTRO MUSIC DEPARTMENT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	EMD 003CD

"It couldn't have been prevented: the night came. It said, the eagle had landed. The dark shining voice rose only a single time, probably the most powerful one, that the electronic aspects of life provide. Furious from Klaus Kotai and Daniel Pflumm is black, merciless, absorbing. In the total absence of history the tattering and the exciting moments of the eightees join the technoide high of minimal music. The 'Berliner Aristocracy Of Techno' (de:bug) plays off the retro-styles against the minimal styles in an art-philosophical and nightlife-contextual way. The sound figures of the older elektro music department-releases experience a pressing recurrence: Minimal grooves, that do not forget the drastic in the history of techno, more floorbretter, guitar-sounds combined with vocals, conceptual individualities, jingles. The dirtyness of Chicago-house is only apparently being teased by minimal pattern: 'Paint The Black House White'. You only perceive a giggle. It's time. Never. Nowhere."

Artist:	100 RECORDS
Title:	What Is It Like to Be A Bat?
Label:	ELEKTRO MUSIC DEPARTMENT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	EMD 018EP

"The man ... Dirk Budde ist promovierter musikwissenschaftlicher. Als musiker war er zuna-chst keyboarder in new-wave-bands im Raum Kassel, 1994 zog er nach Berlin um techno-produzent zu werden. In den neunzigern erschienen drei releases auf dem eigenen label 100 records, im jahr 2000 'Society of Mind' auf Elektro Music Department. ... His music ... 'What Is It Like To Be a Bat?' klingt, wie wenn Joey Beltram aus der sounddatenbank von autechre tracks baut: so ausgearbeitet wie die pattern sind, so wenig sind sie als songs aufgebaut. In ein geschmackssicheren fru-hneunziger-techno-setup baut dirk bell die weirdsten sequenzen ein, die vollstandig aus den sounds heraus -- nicht aus nachtra-glichen effekten. ... And his thinking Dirk Budde: 'Society of Mind' war als buchdeckelzitatvon Marvin Minsky geklaut. 'What Is It Like To Be a Bat?' liegt ein aufsatz von Thomas Nagel zugrunde, der sich mit dem philosophischen korperseele-problem befasst. 'United Kingdom' ist auf Jean Cocteaus film La Belle et la Bete. 'Synchronicity' spielt mit der gegenu-berstellung diverser synchronizitaten. 'Relief' soll als hoffnunf auf erlosung aus dramatischen lebenswelten gelten, dem 'Dramadreieck', vergleiche Stephan Karpnam. Be aware!"

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Artist:	KOTAI
Title:	Sucker DJ
Label:	ELEKTRO MUSIC DEPARTMENT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	EMD 019EP