Browse by Label: HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)

Artist:	.H
Title:
Label:	HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	HI 009EP

"Shortly after the release of their second full-length album, Mark Fell from SND teams up with Hobby Industries for a very special 12", containing solo material only. Recorded during the sessions for the Mille Plateaux album stdio, Mark manages to transform the famous SND sound into something you wouldn't necessarily expect. Even more stripped down in parts, the few remaining elements have even more space to develop their own ideas or to fight against high-speed dsp-processors. With the six tracks for Hobby Industries, the listener is confronted with a kind of rougher, more direct approach compared to earlier releases. Speed, groove, repetition do not recognize the authority of sequencers, bpm's or grids here. .H must a field recording of what happens, when a musician leaves the studio after a long session, but leaves the machines switched on. All the little chips and boards and knobs and screens and harddrives just enjoy each other's company. Isn't that what you always wanted the next SND record to be like? Mark Fell is from Sheffield where he grew up and studied. He works with Mat Steel on SND (Mille Plateaux) and with Jez Potter as Shirt Trax (OR)." Limited stock.

Artist:	VALEO/ACUSTIC, RJ
Title:	Split 4
Label:	HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	HI 012EP

"US producer RJ Valeo originates from New York. For Hobby he has produced three tracks which combines the ideas about minimalism with his interest in micro-beats and snippets of understated melody -- a mixture which results in a laidback but still in some way upbeat clicky instrumental popsong for the 21st century. Still the music of RJ Valeo is for people with a certain kind of love for repetitive grooves of the likes of SND or Gas. Acustic is Danish born and Copenhagen based Jesper Skaaning. He should be no stranger to lovers of quirky melodic electronica, which he has been producing since the end of 1980's. A former collector of old synthesizers and drum-machines his sounds was originally inspired by pioneers of synth-pop, the more leftfield composers of electro-acoustic tendencies, and a huge love of happy and romantic Italian soundtracks thrown into the mix."

Artist:	SPINFORM
Title:	Superstarna EP
Label:	HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	HI 013EP

"Erik Moller lives in Uppsala outside Stockholm. From there he has been responsible for various releases as Spinform and Unai : Unai is the name he uses when he's in a dubby and reduced house mode , and the official home for this project is the German Sub Static label, which has released 2 EP's and an album of Erik's productions during the last 2-3 years. Annorlunddag and Nattflykt .. dominates the A side with a clearly digitally manipulated idea , but Frestelser .. should not be overheard, as it itself links to the more acoustic sounding tracks on the release... something they are good at up north, as fellow Swede , Christoffer Berg confirms this with a dreamy remix (as Christoffer Brus), ending this EP."

Artist:	BRUS, CHRISTOFFER
Title:	EP
Label:	HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	HI 014EP

"Christoffer Berg lives in Gothenburg, Sweden, where he is part of a busy and energetic clique of producers mixing their musical skills with studio technique. Most of the sounds find their way to labels around the world, concentrating on an acoustic sounding Nu-jazz and broken beat style... As Hird, Christoffer can be put into the before mentioned genre, but luckily for Hobby he also concentrates on producing more slow and melodic music, sounding not far away from well disciplined children playing electronica with their toy -- instruments recorded in an old analogue studio...Where most electronica is about focusing on letting the machines and plug-ins do the magic, Christoffer has success in creating a fine balanced organic and warm sound."

Artist:	OPTO
Title:	2nd.
Label:	HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)
Format:	LP
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	HI 016LP

LP version, last copies. Now deleted on CD. "Between Jan-April 2003 Carsten Nicolai (Alva Noto) and Thomas Knak (Opiate) produced their 2nd Opto collaboration. The work was commissioned from Japan, and the music was to collide with a clothing line based on an 'in the woods' theme. As a direct request, the music had to work with a more organic, light and melodic feeling, compared to their first Opto release (Opto Files, Raster Noton, in 2001). At the same time as the commission was accepted, Carsten found an old battered cassette in a forest, north east of Berlin. The tape contained almost inaudible lo-fi recordings of someone playing small guitar pieces. The forest ambience and the old guitar recordings was to be the template for 2nd. When collaborating on their first Opto album, the way of working, was to send soundfiles back and forth Berlin and Copenhagen. This also became the idea for 2nd. Carsten got help from assistants to restore the recordings of the found magnetic audiotape, and passed the guitar files to Thomas, who then started working on beat structures, then adding recordings of a nearby forest. The recordings was made at different hours during two days, hence the tracktitles. This way it's possible to listen to the album as one long track which guides you through 48 hours in about 40 min, or choose to pick the melodic and daylight bits from the more moody and static night productions. 2nd might not sound as either Alva Noto or Opiate solo, but definitely as Opto, as the blend of dsp and glitch meets the old way of sampling concrete sounds."

Artist:	SPINFORM
Title:	Bryter Tystnaden
Label:	HOBBY INDUSTRIES (DENMARK)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	HI 019CD

Erik Möller lives in Uppsala outside Stockholm, Sweden, and this is his first full-length release on Hobby Industries. He has had various releases and remixes as Spinform and Unai for labels such as Force Tracks (Mille Plateaux), City Centre Offices, R.U.C., and Sub Static. The latter is the official home for his more dubby and reduced house offerings, but Bryter Tystnaden follows a more laid-back path with stretched out songs, eschewing the click beat patterns of his previous releases. Bryter Tystnaden instead, aims for rhythms that have almost frozen still, with haunted melodies that place him with one leg in both the realm of abstract electronica, and the new classical/chamber movement. This release was mostly recorded in an old deserted manor out in the Swedish countryside, and somehow the ghostly ambience of the surroundings has crept into the sounds caught on tape. Creaking pedal rhythms, the lonely tinkling on a long untuned piano, slowly decaying chords from a reed organ and tones from a broken guitar seep through electronics coated in static and hiss. Whether it's the ancient feel of the Rn'B-styled "Lurliv," the medieval post-rock of "Som En Film," the foggy waves of "Yppersta Utposten" or just the sheer stuttering bliss of "Framtidsminnen," Spinform has chosen to place heartbreaking melodies before abstract theories, without losing that future touch -- putting the 1906 into 2006.

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