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Artist:	ATOM HEART
Title:	Volume 2: The Solicited Tracks 1996-2006
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	RI 026CLCD

"'Music is everywhere!' stated AtomTM in an interview back in 1992 -- and, YES how right he was! During Atom?'s over 20 years of music-making all sorts of people, companies and other entities were approaching him, each one of them in need of one thing: music. The music that was needed always had to fit a certain format, context or idea and in most cases its use was for a limited amount of time, copies or listeners...a special piece of music for a special purpose or listenership. 'While going through my audio archive,' continues AtomTM, 'I found quite a number of compositions I had forgotten about entirely. It was quite a task to find out why I had done them and most importantly, for whom -- though after a bit of research I was able to put the puzzle back together.' And so it came about that this CD finally took shape: Atom Heart - Volume 2 - The Solicited Tracks 1996-2006. The fact that none of the compositions presented here, really made it 'into the world,' but all of them remained rather hidden in some strange cultural corners, let AtomTM take the decision to finally 'make them public.' Here we find tracks made for compilations, online projects, books, exhibitions, releases that never were released and all sorts of other formats or uses. Fine, careful remastering was applied to all the tracks in order to unify them sound wise, since, (listened to from a technological point of view) they were recorded over a time span of more than 10 years. When listening to this selection, you may be surprised how coherent, in all its sonic diversity, this album turned out -- AtomTM's unique signature is the backbone that keeps it all together. The Solicited Tracks 1996-2006 is an elegantly sequenced musical selection, which leads us through rhythmical, sometimes calm or abstract compositions that strangely seem to make perfect sense as a whole -- as if destiny or history finally put them into the right place." Autographed and numbered limited edition of 500.

Artist:	BUND DEUTSCHER PROGRAMMIERER
Title:	Stoffwechsel
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	RI 055CD

"Bund Deutscher Programmierer (Federation of German Programmers) is inviting you to listen to their album Stoffwechsel (means as well 'metabolism' as 'change of fabric'). On this album we present you 50 minutes of highly complex programmings executed with German precision. The sound of Stoffwechsel you may roughly describe as digital meanderings where breaks, cuts, interruptions, transitions, the settling and dismantling of structures play the main role. Again Atom?, the brain behind it all moved the limits just a tiny bit further on this unexpected yet unique demonstration of how mental music can be."

Artist:	THE DISK ORCHESTRA
Title:	[K]
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RI 057CD

"One of Atom's his most demanding works. The Disk Orchestra is a 50 minute continuous flow of audio, bouncing between cut-up, collage, composition and ridiculous surprises. Those 50 minutes of sound are composed out of 99 tracks, some of them as short as 4 seconds. 'The most difficult part' states Atom? 'was to come up with 99 tracktitles'. Amongst the 99 segments the astonished listener will find modified J. S. Bach pieces (computerfuge), a reprise of Johann Strauss' 'blue danube' as well as either abstract or rhythmical pieces touching almost any musical style known to mankind. Amongst the masterpieces on this album may be the track 'philips's fill' a 1:30 minute rollercoaster ride through drummers madness, created editing (no overdubs!) drumfill samples."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Real Intelligence IV
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	RI 059CD

"On this compilation you will find the 1999-2001 highlights, which surprised and inspired listeners during the last couple of years: Dos Tracks, Erik Satin, Los Samplers, XXX, BDP, Midisport, The Disk Orchestra and the Roger Tubesound Orchestra. As if this was not enough, rather interesting decided to include 4 previously unreleased bonus titles which make this compilation a 'must have' for all those who like the sound and of 'R.I.'. The bonus titles 'space bossa', 'mambo si, trabajo no!', 'affirmative' and 'hypnotize' perfectly complete this selection of 'r.i.' classics, ranging from Latino influenced compositions via abstract funkiness to electro." The four bonus tracks are all produced by Atom? (as is every other track on this compilation, of course), under the image/name of "Real Intelligence IV"; 26 minutes of exclusive music.

Artist:	STEREONERDS, THE
Title:	HD Endless
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	RI 060CD

"It all started early 2002, when The Stereonerds, based in Melbourne, Australia, made a couple of tracks which contained samples from Atom's 'Harddisk Rock' 12". John and Tad decided to write to Atom himself and ask for permission to use the samples on an album they had been working on. To their surprise Atom liked what he heard and soon both parties got into closer contact. Now, a couple of months and hundreds of emails later, Rather Interesting proudly presents you HD Endless. The Stereonerds manage to expand the way too narrow classification called electro. Tracks such as 'HD Endless', 'Transhuman Melody' or 'Präzision' evoke futuristic flashbacks, utilizing well known musical references which are skillfully twisted into unheard digital masterpieces...from down under."

Artist:	CARBON, LISA
Title:	Standards
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$16.00
Catalog #:	RI 061CD

"Producer and executive programmer: Atom. Lisa Carbon plays Moog. a remarkable sonic cocktail that refines the artistic approach of the previous album Trio de Janeiro in a very interesting way. In fact the new album is a kind of 'flashback signal' that reflects essential aspects of the earlier RI catalogue like Machine Paisley, Midisport or the first Senor Coconut album published in May 1997. Beside the jazzy style and Latin mood transported by most of the songs the album also features a wide spectrum of technical experiments that are characteristic of the whole RI catalogue: The listener is confronted with humorous electronic freestyle-tracks such as 'Duck-Cha Cha (with sampled voices and Moog-sounds imitating Donald Duck), 'Gagarin' (with late 60s backward-tape experiments and 'serious sci-fi-electronic space music' in the middle part of the song) and 'A Bailer el Tape-Charleston, perhaps the most experimental track of the CD; an eccentric cut-up of harddisc electronics combined with samples similar to animated cartoons -- incredible. Even a song by David Bowie is featured on the album -- 'Space Oddity' --a wonderful soft and light synth-journey with added guitars and electronic Latin rhythms, sometimes interrupted by strange digital chords -- perhaps the climax of the album. The last song 'Fiesta En Belo Horizonte' almost morphs to the musical style of Senor Coconuts's latest production Fiesta Songs? the perfect outro of the newest masterpiece by the innovatress Lisa."

Artist:	ATOM TM
Title:	Muster
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	RI 065CD

"Muster, the German word for both 'example/sample' or 'pattern', welcomes us with an artwork that shows baroque garden ornaments, photographed from orbit. This 50 minute piece of permanently evolving structure and sound is a complex, well-thought and thoroughly crafted composition which is in fact inspired by the phenomenon of the ornament itself. Muster in this sense can be understood as a large, meandering ornamental pattern or rhythmical figure that, most of all, does not refer to, or reproduce any musical structure heard so far. On Muster you won't find melodies, harmonies, words, a message or reference to existing musical styles, since the accent was laid upon the development of the musical particle (one may call it 'atom' :) ) itself: rhythm and its sonic elements, being in permanent flow. At the same time this complex block of sonic information may sound 'orbital' to us - a musical structure as conceived by a being not from this planet: an alien observer. While this work can be considered as a leap forward in atomTM's creation, it may resemble some of his earlier works, such as Schnittstelle, The Disk Orchestra, Bund Deutscher Programmierer or CMYK, just to name a few, while it certainly shows that those works where just a step towards a far larger picture, which atomTM has begun to paint now. Matured as a composer, atomTM may indeed quote himself on this masterpiece, while he stands fairly alone in a vast desert called 'electronic music'."

Artist:	ATOM TM
Title:	Music Is Better Than Pussy
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	RI 066CD

"For all those of you who faced slight problems concentrating on the music supplied on Rather Interesting's previous release (Muster), now, here comes something more concrete and digestable: Music Is Better Than Pussy -- in fact a title that doesn't need much of an explanation. The music on this album itself reflects the title pretty well, as each of the 5 tracks explores musical themes in a very pure and straight-forward manner, using fairly well-known sonic codes. The tracks, each between 6 to 14 minutes in duration, deal with repetitive, polyrhythmic structures, glued together by steady kickdrums, an element one doesn't hear very often on a Rather Interesting release! Tracks such as 'Your Ambition', 'Value Is Nothing' or 'Tanzfläche' develop powerful rhythmical themes over layers of textures and sequences, while other titles ('Clicktrack', 'Suck My Groove') deal with the funk itself. A subtle leitmotif of Music Is Better Than Pussy are short, partly sung or spoken vocals that appear on almost all of the tracks. For those of you who care about words, the lyrics can be found on AtomTM'S myspace blog: www.myspace.com/atomtm. Music Is Better Than Pussy coherently connects AtomTM's own musical past, present and future, and introduces a giant retrospective of his work that will consist in his entire(!) Remastered audio catalogue being online soon in 2010, the year in which he celebrates his 20th release anniversary."

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