Browse by Label: RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)

Artist:	ATOM HEART
Title:	Dots: 10th Anniversary Box II
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$23.00
Catalog #:	RI 024LCD

"Box number two of the Rather Interesting reissue series, following Flextone. The box contains the second R.I. release Dots, again, digitally remastered and adapted to todays technical standards, plus a CD entitled BGD, which stands for 'Background Design'. BGD is basically an entire album which had been long forgotten and was just recently rediscovered, transferring the rest of the R.I. archive from Frankfurt to Santiago. BGD is a 50 minute longplayer, consisting of textures and ambient compositions recorded in 1995. BGD is very much in the vibe of the calm and sparse Dots. It has been meticulously edited and remastered for this release. Accompanied with an 8-page booklet containing detailed information about Dots as well as BGD and original artwork, this double CD box is the perfect collector's item or simply the missing element for those trying to purchase old R.I. material. Just as the previous box set, RI 024cl comes numbered and signed by Atom himself."

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:	ROGER TUBESOUND ENSEMBLE, THE
Title:	Plays Just Notes
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	RI 058CD

Described as the missing link between Atom Heart and Sun Ra, this is the latest in digital reconstruction from Atom Heart's RI label. From Lazlo Curas' liner notes: "There is so much to say about this music. I don't mean so much to explain about it because that's stupid. The music speaks for itself. What I mean is that so much flashes through my mind when I hear this album that if I would write a novel about it full of life and scenes and people and blood and sweat and love. And sometimes I think maybe what we need is to tell people that this is here because somehow in this plasticized world they have the automatic reflex that if something is labeled one way then that is all there is in it and we are always finding out to our surprise that there is more to Blake or more to Ginsberg or more to Stravinsky than whatever it was we thought was there in the first place. So be it with the music we have called jazz and which we never knew what it was because it was so many different things to so many different people each apparently contradicting the other and one day I flashed that it was music. Electric music is the music of this culture and in the breaking away from previously assumed forms a new kind of music is emerging. The whole society is like that. The old forms are inadequate. Not the old eternal verities, but the old structures. And new music Isn't new in that sense either. It is still creation Which is life itself. Music is the greatest of the arts for me because It cuts through everything, needs no aids. It is. And In contemporary music roger tubesound Defines the terms. That's all. It's his turf."

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:	CMYK
Title:	CMYK
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	RI 062CD

New Atom Heart album! "In times when especially electronically generated music seems not the most exciting thing to listen to, Rather Interesting presents an astonishingly surprising piece of music to you: CMYK. Somehow following the paths of earlier Rather Interesting albums, such as for example Dropshadow Disease or Fonosandwich, CMYK, besides just being an inside joke for graphic designers, for sure is one thing: surprising. Whatever one may expect, from the first second on, no expectation whatever will be fulfilled. From top to bottom CMYK is a logical flow of audio, themes and extremely visual musical topics that lead one to another in a coherent yet absurd manner. There are complex programmings such as 'Hard Shuffle', 'Evil Swing', textures and atmospheres as well as little undefinable bits that lead into rather concrete marimba recordings such as 'Boys, Boys, Boys'. CMYK: Rather Interesting."

Artist:	ATOM TM
Title:	Son of a Glitch
Label:	RATHER INTERESTING (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$19.00
Catalog #:	RI 064CD

"After a rather silent 2006, RI is back and fresher than ever! This is the long awaited Atom TM full length album, charismatically entitled Son of a Glitch. The title in combination with the most disturbing artwork in music history very much is self explanatory: it's funky, it's glitchy, it's nasty, it's funny and highly complex at the same time. Way beyond what critics often misunderstand as an ironic or just humouristic soundscape, Atom TM demonstrates with perfection that his music escapes any sort of superficial categorization. Whenever you think 'it's just been a joke,' you're confronted with wisdom that is dressed in the most funky arrangements and most horny complexity. Atom TM himself introduces the album with a spoken word section, insulting no one more or less than you, the dearest listener. Spoken or sung vocal elements in English and German lead throughout the album. Last but not least, the album features the guest appearance of Audiocrip, Mikrosopht and Original Hamster."

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