Browse by Label: KALK PETS (GERMANY)

Artist:	ROMAN
Title:	So Ghost? - Remixes
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 002EP

This is Roman's second release on Kalk Pets, featuring remixes of tracks off his forthcoming album So Ghost?, which will be released on Karaoke Kalk. The artists include musician, remixer and DJ associate of the Frankfurt-based Playhouse label Losoul, giving us his very own interpretation of the track "True Love Owes Us Shit," Pascal Schäfer who is well known from his releases on Karaoke Kalk and Kalk Pets, giving us ample evidence how a straight bassdrum can stir up a typical surrounding, and finally, Torsten Mauss and Volker Bertelmann as Tonetraeger, who present their interpretation of "Unbroken Smile," turning up the vocals and reinventing the original track into a deep and floating mix. So ghostly.

Artist:	ANTONELLI
Title:	Esplanada EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 003EP

"A revival that we're wishing for. Today's maniac bigger-stronger-faster attitude in music makes them almost vitally indispensable as a contrast and a rest: Deep, subtle House-tracks. Music that draws upon its own magic. Tracks full of warmth, depth and substance. Like the new tracks by Düsseldorf-based producer Antonelli that are now released on Kalk Pets. Antonelli and Kalk: Sounds as familiar together as if it had been growing (up) together. (In fact they spent quite a long time together eating at one table -- though not off one plate). Kalk and Antonelli: A step that wasn't planned -- but all the nicer it is to considerately take it now. Meanwhile one authorizes to dance, the other proves more playful and melodious than ever before."

Artist:	JUNCTION SM
Title:	Junction SM
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 006EP

"Straight und sexy! Junction SM are Sonja Moonear and Dandy Jack. Sonja Moonear, a creative and talented DJ from the Swiss mountains, and Dandy Jack, a live musician well-known through his productions as well as his amazing live performances, are the two ingredients of the duo Junction SM. Their first performance happened by chance with the help of Weetamix promoter Dimitri. Suffering a last minute cancellation by US legend Robert Hood, he let Sonja & Dandy take the control of the whole night. A one hour blackout paralyzed half of the country on that night. And when the electricity came back, the club, still packed, was ready to explode. So did both musicians playing together till the early morning. Junction SM was born. Two years after this magic moment, Junction SM is ready to give birth to its first EP on Kalk Pets. Both actors' inputs are generating such a generous and various sound flow that it gives the impression of a perpetual live production. Straight and sexy."

Artist:	LEICHTMETALL
Title:	Wir Sind Bumen Remixes
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 007EP

"One season after Leichtmetall released their album Wir Sind Blumen on Karaoke Kalk in summer 2006, here follows its complying tool. Grinser tinkers about with an excellent mix feat. a wonderful squeeze-backing by Max Loderbauer who in the past has made quite a splash on Cadenza as one half of N.S.I. A blissfully playful track with a furious break. Dennis Busch aka James Din A 4 is responsible for the other tracks: 'Unkerich RMX' is a real groover with a smashing wind section whereas the 'Rumpelritter' (rumbling knight) mix lives up to its name, getting giddy included. Reminds a little bit of the very early Profan releases. Gorgeous!"

Artist:	DEWALTA & AQUATIC
Title:	Nebelhorn EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 008EP

"It was quite a time, almost 20 years ago, when David Koch (aka DeWalta) and Frithjof Meissner first met on that corn field under the sunny sky of a tiny little village, somewhere near sweet Heidelberg/Germany. Back then David started to study acoustic instruments, mostly wind instruments. Sessions, bands and different projects led him to further studies and finally to the profession of jazz. Meanwhile Frithjof began to develop a curiosity for collecting music, besides his classical string playing. Besides David's musical education, he started his own 'musical research,' including issues like composing, phrasing, sound design and production techniques which brought him finally to his music lab and studio in Berlin. Since the two guys are enjoying living together in Berlin, they spent some years racking their brains over the phenomenon of electronic dance music. The first 12" result can be listened to on the Nebelhorn EP, released on the German Karaoke Kalk sub-label KalkPets."

Artist:	METEO, DANIEL
Title:	Memento
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 009EP

"Jack of all trades Daniel Meteo released his debut album Peruments in 2006 on his own Meteosound/Shitkatapult imprint. Now he is presenting with 'Memento' a club version of his musical world on Berlin label Kalk Pets. The actual hype for well-trained, cleaned up and straight functional minimal techno does not seem to touch Mr. Meteo, who prefers to take an extra ride around the block to have a 2nd look into deepness and other musical horizons and music-music. So Memento offers a tech house EP combined with a big love of ideas, motive, harmonies and sound very euphoric on the floor. Daniel Meteo runs his own little booking agency Flow.er and runs the label family Random Noize Musick (Shitkatapult, Musick, Meteosound) together with Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere and Lorian Schmieg. As DJ, he travels the world and produced with Tom Thiel as Bus two long players and several 12"s on Pole's ~scape label, as well as remixes for artists like The Orb, Apparat, Masha Qrella and Dntel."

Artist:	ANTONELLI
Title:	Ride On Black Train EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 010EP

"With his second Kalk Pets release, Antonelli refines his sound for another couple of revolutions more and such, in the 10th year of his making music, proves once again that the congenial one-man-band is up to continually amaze us over and over again. Speaking of continuity: one's tempted to construe 'Ride On Black Train' as an invitation and to cheer the hypnotically rolling-rolling-rolling train to pleeeeeease go on and on and on. A bass drum, as tasty as manna but with a slightly dry note to it. Melody-miniatures that you'd wanna spread your bread rolls with thick as thick can. Sounds and soundies to regain your faith -- and yeeeeeeaaaaaaah, harmonies! Meanwhile the track romps through the eight-minute mark and you wouldn't mind some stops but then again everything has to end and this spirit-thing, oscillating between alarming and conciliable, makes you quite weak in the knees after all anyway. So in turn the curious skeleton humbly contains itself and certainly doesn't try to challenge the reverse side's almighty train. And why should it? With its gentle bass drum and the elastic bits of melodies the endearing skeleton stands for itself, tatting with a gentle stoicism and spinning around in osseous circles. The sleeptrack again should be above all understood as a finger exercise -- not least due to its brevity. And considering its curious, feverishly swelling undertone you wouldn't necessarily want the latter to rise and shine... it's flickering, it's pulsing, it's driven -- but relax: before it gets uncomfortable, it's already over."

Artist:	FRICK, PAUL
Title:	Do Something EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 012EP

"As a studied composer, native Berliner Paul Frick is predominantly writing experimental music for classical instruments. In addition to that he's producing music for theatre, radio plays and experimental improvisation. It is only through his assistance in Konsens, a producer team and audiovisual live act, that he has come to electronic music. Now he's laying on a fine 4-track EP on Kalk Pets. Soul-breathing and yet reiterative house music, hypnotic and sometimes technoid. The classically-produced tracks get their sinews from a particular state of hovering. A spark of melancholy resonates, but instead of loftily diffusing it arrives at a condensed lightness. Many organic resp. acoustic sounds are used. Some of these sounds have been sampled from earlier compositions of Frick's for classical instruments, again others he has recorded directly for the album. A brilliant debut album of the young Berlin producer."

Artist:	FRICK, PAUL
Title:	Knock On Wood EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 015EP

"Some months ago, back in 2007, producer and musician Paul Frick released his first solo house EP Do Something on Kalk Pets and scored quite a success with it. His new EP Knock On Wood is up to shake the dancefloors of technoid soul even more. The Berliner presents us with three extraordinary sound set-ups: 'Slow Dance' is a track that doesn't necessarily incite cuddlesome swaying but strains your legs much more than the title suggests. The title track 'Knock On Wood, Babe' features Matthias Engler on the marimbaphone. Engler and Frick are occasional collaborators in the field of experimental music. The classical trained percussionist is co-founder of the 'adapter' ensemble and plays (among others) with the Ensemble Modern (that might be known even to pop fans through its collaboration with Frank Zappa in 1992). Frick's previous ardour for pop music is represented by his catchy sound-collages. The third track on the EP, 'Steal My Heart,' consists exclusively of 'stolen' sounds that he sampled from other artists. Crawford, known and fancied by Berlin's club scene for his eclectic DJ sets, comments very charmingly on every new sound, revealing who it was sampled from. So the systematic sound rip-off is to be understood as a homage to the artists that are stolen from."

Artist:	DEWALTA
Title:	Hide & Seek
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 016EP

"DeWalta a.k.a. David Koch from Berlin is an extraordinary musician. Koch runs his own label Meander with two friends and studied classical jazz before he discovered electronic dance music as his personal calling. Since then he has been experimenting and researching in this ever-changing field, either on his own or together with other musicians and producers in Berlin such as Aquatic, Audio Werner and Pier Bucci. In collaboration with Aquatic he released his debut EP Nebelhorn on Kalk Pets in 2007. DeWalta's music is a wide-ranging mix of multi-cultural, pumped up sounds and selected influences from Detroit techno. A DeWalta track was included on Berlin's much loved Watergate club's 2008 compilation CD Watergate 01. As well as two releases last year on Meander, he recently also put out a 12" on the Berlin label Vakant. But his year of hot productions isn't over yet -- the next 3-track composition by DeWalta is coming here as Kalk Pets (Vol. 16). It's sure to be another fresh dance interlude ideal for the grey autumn and with warm greetings from the capital!"

Artist:	MALUCO
Title:	Right Time? The Remixes
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 017EP

"Max Loderbauer, Pier Bucci and Argenis Brito presented us with their sun-drenched acoustic showers under the name of Maluco on Karaoke Kalk in 2008. For spring 2009, the trio's South American sounds have now been remodeled into brand new electronic dance mixes by three very diligent, and indeed very striking ladies. First up is the almost 10 minute-long Soul-Friction Remix of 'Evandro' by Sonja Moonear. A native of Switzerland, she is in great demand as a DJane as well as a prudent producer of monumental techno music. She is also one creative half of the electronic live-duo Junction SM who call the label Kalk Pets their home and have released their debut back in August 2006 (Kalk Pets 6). Dinky aka DJ Dinky is reviving the fresh sound of 'Sam.' The native Chilean is a true globetrotter, currently living in Berlin, where she runs her own label Horizontal. Her most recent longplayer May Be Later has been released on Vakant in autumn 2008 and is utterly beautiful, like the soundtrack of some sublime travel documentary. An exotic adventure in the midst of a big city. Last but not least, Chica Paula is delighting us with her 'La Del Barrio' version of 'Right Time,' testing the mind with such a relaxed sound that there's just no time for moping about. The Maluco-rush isn't at all a new arena for the Chilean musician: Together with Max Loderbauer she is known as Chica and the Folder, an electronic indie-duo who has latest played live at the 10th anniversary party of the Monika label at Volksbühne, Berlin, in 2007."

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Artist:	SCHÄFER, PASCAL
Title:	Day Return
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 004EP

Artist:	GARLAND, WECHSEL
Title:	Not Easy EP
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 005EP

Artist:	VSQ
Title:	Thisisthat
Label:	KALK PETS (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	KALKPETS 019EP