Browse by Label: LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)

Artist:	DAEDELUS
Title:	Meanwhile
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	LI 001CD

"With a string of releases on Plug Research, Hefty, Tigerbeat 6, and Eastern Development, Daedelus has refined a style that has no imitators. Contrasting IDM styled cut-ups with childlike arrangements from the 30's and 40's, he has created a sound that is entirely new. His productions find the hidden common denominator between modern electronics and sampled music from days gone by. Recording out of Santa Monica, Daedelus has recently begun to incorporate hiphop into his mix, with guest spots from Busdriver (Afterlife), Sach (Nonce), Abstract Rude (Project Blowed), Madlib (Stones Throw), and High Priest (Anti-Pop Consortium), all leading to his work on the Mush full length The Weather with Busdriver and Radioinactive."

Artist:	ERAST
Title:	Goodair + Minimissing
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LI 003CD

The German electronic artist formally known as Nikakoi (WMF Records). Features an Atom Heart remix. "If the relationship between Erast and Laboratory Instinct was a marriage, their actual creative output could be completely described as honeymoon. The relaxed and non-cramped manner of giving birth to their juniors clearly shows their satisfaction and admirable logical concept. Even their first-born Goodair EP was an absolute stroke of luck, and now a sister is born that is characterized by the same brilliant quality: 'Minimissing'."

Artist:	DAEDELUS
Title:	A Gent Agent
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LI 004CD

"Acclaimed Los Angeles producer Daedelus fires his second salvo from the Berlin-based label Laboratory Instinct in the form of a new, full-length recording. A Gent Agent makes good on the promise made by the spy-meets-I-and-I spirit of the renowned bedroom artist's recent 'Meanwhile EP'. The BBC has called his music, 'fiendishly clever and devilishly original'. Pitchfork found his sounds 'effortlessly charming.' Audiences in Japan, Europe and the United States have witnessed the man the San Francisco Examiner called 'an alt-tronic genius' working his magic live."

Artist:	V.L.A.D.
Title:	Xiringuitos Perdido
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	LI 005EP

"V.L.A.D.'s music emerges from the death throes of new wave and electro-body-music... In fact, V.L.A.D.'s tunes are often based on unrestrained tempos with electro sounds typical of Human League, New Order or Fad Gadget. His metal roots regularly emerge through an undeniable obsession with nerve-racking and distorted sounds a typical feature of the most experimental drum'n'bass German productions. With this universe both schizophrenic and epileptic, V.L.A.D. has become one of the new French producers whose works are today in demand by such different people as the Paris label artefact, the Angstrom compilation or even Warp."

Artist:	ATOM TM
Title:	iMIX miniLP
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LI 007CD

"iMix miniLP is his first solo outing under the Atom TM guise since 1996, not to mention his first album for Ryo and Miho's Berlin-based Laboratory Instinct. Presented in his inimitable and unique Atom style, Schmidt brings da funk on the rocking dance-club outing iMix miniLP. Over the course of seven sample-heavy tracks, Schmidt distills stylistic traces of his various aliases-Se�or Coconut's spicy rumbas, Flanger's mutant space jazz, and Geeez'n'Gosh's spindly click-hop-into lush slices of sexy acid funk."

Artist:	DELL & FLUGEL
Title:	Superstructure
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LI 008CD

This is the premiere collaboration between Christopher Dell and Roman Fl�gel (Alter Ego, Eight Miles High). Brace yourself for Superstructure, an incredible poly-stylistic fusion of jazz, hip-hop, glitch, dub and techno. Flanger devotees will be drawn to the pair's like-minded genre-defying approach, with Dell's sparkling vibes a recurring focal point throughout the album's nine adventurous tracks. The wild, vibes-drums duet "Miniaturisation" suggests the playful outcome of a lost Frank Zappa-meets-Thelonious Monk session, the mysterious "Wolkenb�gel" marries clip-clopping tom-tom rhythms with Hancock-flavoured Rhodes ruminations, and "4 Door Body Cell" offers bright minimal techno bolstered by lashing handclaps and frenzied cymbal patterns. Distinguished by a rich array of soft gamelan tinklings and burnished trumpet musings, the jazz-tinged stuttering hip-hop of "Urban Practise" is equally arresting, with Dell's cascading vibes detouring into an oblique solo that would do Monk proud. Bookended by the glitchy soul-jazz and clipped syncopations of the warm opener "Superstructure" and the darker, hypnotic glitch-dub of "Dirty Realism," this remarkably assured album inhabits a unique computer-enhanced interzone of futuristic sounds.

Artist:	DELL & FLUGEL
Title:	Study For a Skyscraper EP
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	LI 009EP

After their first full-length collaboration called Superstructure, Berlin-based Christopher Dell and Roman Fl�gel (Alter Ego, Eight Miles High) release Study For A Skyscraper EP, featuring two Superstructure CD cuts not included on the vinyl version. Clearly designed for the club, the bright bumping techno of "4 Door Body Cell" and the infectiously grooving title track are exquisite dance floor material. Best of all, A Guy Called Gerald (Gerald Simpson) contributes what he calls a "drop-tech infusion" of Dell & Fl�gel's entire album. This UK acid house pioneer alchemizes the album's sonic particles into a fabulous slab of driving electro-techno.

Artist:	ERAST
Title:	Cyberpunk
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LI 010CD

A unique concept underlies Cyberpunk, Tbilisi, Georgia-based Nika Machaidze's full-length Erast debut for Berlin's Laboratory Instinct. If that beginning sounds particularly cinematic in nature, the album as a whole exudes an equally bold sensibility, with each one of its sixteen tracks an evocative mini-soundtrack for the mind. Throughout Cyberpunk, Erast's music bursts with multi-layered interweaves of staccato, classically-tinged melodies in compositions that are intricate, at times labyrinthine. The album presents a diverse universe of sound collages, sparkling carousels, rambunctious gamelan settings, and mesmerizing reveries of cascading harps, silken strings, and bright piano flourishes. Cyberpunk's healthy sampling of frenetic jungle and drum'n'bass rhythms recalls Erast's past work while songs like "Influtusa" with its pizzicato plucks and thrumming pulse of clicks, snaps, hi-hat flutter, and bass burbles, chart new pathways. Some songs inhabit darker zones while others bask in paradisiacal settings of bucolic warmth. While the title track's industrial elements, for example, conjure a brooding ambiance, billowing glistens of animated sparkle and soulful string stabs in "Txili" generate a sunnier mood. The album effortlessly moves between spectral electro-boogie, haunting galaxial atmospheres, percolating breaks, glissandi showers and deep orchestral melancholy. Ambitious pieces like "Kitchen Sonatine/Happy Meal" and "Dimpitauri" demonstrate remarkably the ease with which Erast fuses multiple styles into compelling wholes. Cyberpunk impresses as a breathtaking work of imagination and invention, Machaidze's most fully-realized Erast statement to date -- a definitive release and a major event.

Artist:	A GUY CALLED GERALD
Title:	Proto Acid/The Berlin Sessions
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LI 011CD

Britain's A Guy Called Gerald (Gerald Simpson) made his Laboratory Instinct debut with a "drop-tech infusion" mix of Dell & Fl�gel's "Superstructure" that appeared on the duo's Study For A Skyscraper EP. Now the acid house pioneer and drum'n'bass legend issues his own superb full-length Laboratory Instinct, appropriately-titled Proto Acid The Berlin Sessions. Having literally influenced generations of music-makers with an incredible discography that's grown incrementally deeper since the '80s, the Manchester UK native and now Berlin resident executes the infectious 71-minute jam with a masterful meticulousness. Drenching Detroit-styled techno in sparkling electro, the set, recorded live in one session using two laptops and a DJ mixer at Gerald's Diehold Studio on February 11th, 2006, flows with a relaxed ease. With one exception ("Auto Rebuild," the third track, is a remake of 1990's "Automannik"), the album's 24 raw, club-oriented tracks are all new. Asked to describe the album's sound, Simpson says, "To me it's proto acid; it's how I feel house/techno music would have sounded if the whole rave thing hadn't happened in England ... This stuff has direct lineage to Chicago and Detroit in the mid-to-late '80s." Don't think that, for Simpson, acid's definition is limited to something as obvious as the 303 either. On the disc itself, Simpson doesn't waste a moment but immediately invigorates the set with the pumping tribal groove of "Marching Powder" before moving on to the steely funk-throb of "The Strip." The mix's strutting electro strain makes its first appearance in "Auto Rebuild" and dominates thereafter, though its presence is subtly modulated from one cut to the next, at one moment oozing a house vibe and the next techno. While differences distinguish one track from the next (though Simpson avows that his influences are more machines than particular artists, a seeming Drexciya influence emerges in "Droid" and the dark synth-driven "Feel the Heat" while dub rears its head in "Xray" and "Bass-o-Train"), there's clearly a unified feel to the album. "Skitzoid" casts a mechano spell, "Night Flight" breezily rocks, and the jacking cut "Voltar" broils feverishly for almost eight minutes. Bringing the mix to a chilled close, "Sweet You" floats in a billowing haze of jazzy pianos and locomotive drum brushes before vaporizing in a cloud of cymbal accents.

Artist:	A GUY CALLED GERALD
Title:	Proto Acid: The Berlin Sessions 2
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	LI 012EP

Following last year's critically-acclaimed Proto Acid album, the Berlin-based acid house innovator A Guy Called Gerald provides a taster for what to expect from the second installment. "Voltar" starts off with shuffling drums and tribal beats, evolving into haunting sounds and what could be a Native American Indian chanting are gradually introduced. An adventurous take on house music. "Sweet You" features subtle breaks and understated drums, providing the basis for dreamy Motor City chords, a plunging, resonating bassline and old school piano keys. Don't miss this opportunity to sample the latest experiments from Gerald's lab.

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Artist:	VA
Title:	Advanced Public Listening 1
Label:	LABORATORY INSTINCT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$14.50
Catalog #:	LIRD 1001CD