Browse by Label: SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)

Artist:	NOTIC NASTIC
Title:	Fullscreen
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	NN 001CD

Notic Nastic is an intriguing, anonymous group of New York/Berlin-based musicians fronted by their strikingly beautiful, chameleon-like band-mate who acts as the face of the band. Together, they deliver their unique sound and energy with a fierce yet almost alien sensuality. After receiving much critical acclaim throughout Europe with their debut album and energetic live shows, Notic Nastic's clear voice and message inspires people to be aware, to take action and to go Fullscreen. This fierce follow-up to their debut release, It's Dark But It's Okay (STRIKE 110CD) draws influence from the two vibrant cities they represent. Fullscreen is playful but contains a potent and positive message. That message is for people to wake up to the forces that manipulate our choices in this world, to no longer be sedate and inactive but to make informed decisions about who and what they support. Their distinctive sound combines hard-hitting, finely-crafted beats, combined with soft yet profoundly passionate lyrics and vocals. The opening track "Cyanide" is a revelation -- fearless and honest. The fast-paced, twisted industrial sounds are matched with the storytelling of an awakening, of breaking free of constraints. Notic Nastic will tour again, bringing the energetic live shows they are both recognized and celebrated for. Notic Nastic want you to know that this is the age of information and the truth will set you free.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Cozmik Suckers Vol. Yellow
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 005CD

"CUTE LABEL ALERT. Virgin CD-attempt by this fresh-faced/Berlin-based releasing entity, featuring tracks from Spacetank (actually, a very apt name for this doused pulse-wash), T.Raumschmiere (Panasonicilian machine-fuck), Hörzu! (echoplexed/filtered 4's), Nanospeed (Schematic-like rhythms and digital dots), Magnum 38 (this crazy electro-techstep drama), Down't (10 minute industro-pulse-drone), Static Lounge (7 minute epic skull-snap-flange with aleatoric melody-notes), Lab Generator (accelerating Mills-esque freakout), Makeem the Vinylistic (odd hands-in-the-air acid hip-hop), and Shrubbn!l (fuzzy whatnot). The new thing, replete with prog-chops and keen sense of humor. Seekers of the anti-IDM, flock to this..." -- Hrvatski. Limited stock.

Artist:	NANOSPEED FEAT. SPACETANK
Title:	Membran Tracks
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 013EP

"Deep crackling technodubs. The music combines a pulsating mechanical beat with fizzing,crackling, whirling electronic effects. Only the opening track dispenses with the thumping beats in favor of a low rumbling drone. What would be a dark menacing sci-fi soundtrack is lifted several levels and transformed by the addition of the throbbing rhythmic beats, reminiscent of a huge industrial machine relentlessly pounding steel. Various layers of electronic fizzing, bubbling and grinding evolve and mutate under this beat to create a beautifully dark undertone. This album conjures images of endlessly throbbing industrial machinery."

Artist:	RECHENZENTRUM
Title:	Heimkeht
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 015EP

"Overwhelming sound collage by this Peel Session-proofed artist. Unique. Marc Weiser (the man behind the music) and Lillevaen (the man behind the visuals) provide deep aquatic techno and raspy electronic hip hop under the name Rechenzentrum. They construct an elaborate and highly complex collage of deep hypnotic techno house sounds and intricate well-defined visuals... intelligent and deep without being overtly chin stroking. Like Markus Nikolai, Dimbiman, and Ricardos Villalobos from Perlon, Rechenzentrum are putting the funk back into deep minimal techno."

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	Zartbitter
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 016EP

"Truly stellar new 12" from Marco Haas aka T. Raumschmiere, a release that will hopefully elevate this label in more peoples eyes (and ears) to the 'buy on sight' status. The first track 'Zartbitter' is a crushing mid-tempo groover with some awesome Eastern tinged strings oozing in and out of focus, and that sets the tone for the whole record. 'Bitterseuss' slouches along at a similar pace but this time it's the sound of your drunken neighbor passing out with a My Bloody Valentine record stuck in the runout groove. The whole thing is some sort of drone/techno hybrid, perhaps swimming in the same murky pool as Fred Bigot/Electronicat, evocative and brutal in turns. A no-brainer." -- Billy Kiely 4 tracks, 23 minutes.

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Multifunktionsebene
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 020CD

"Debut album from Sascha Ring 'mathematically calculated using algorithms from 1999-2000'. Impressive in its deviation from the Autechretarian mind-set (slightly more repetitive, slightly more bleepy, slightly less post-apocalyptic). Has less in common with the Shitkatapult 4/floor backcatalogue than... say... Team Doyobi. Some nice trick(l)y sounds and b(l)eats, could go over well with the Arovane/Phonem IDM (innit dark, mate?) crowd. Mastered by Robert Henke, if that's any indication of anything you'd want to know about Sasca's rank. Quizzical..." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	KERO
Title:	CFC Windsor/Detroit
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 021CD

"Experimental jetset tracks by one of Detroit's finest underground producers, Sohail Azad, aka Kero. A veteran of the Detroit/Windsor underground club community, his work as a multimedia designer and producer has made him an established fixture within the region. Musically, Kero is inspired by 'unusual sonic landscapes and complex sequencing techniques' coupled with a taste for the experimental, achieving a unique sound that should inspire an increased profile in the near future. Grounded with a more solid bottom-end groove than most experimental pieces, this LP is as advanced stylistically as it is dancefloor-friendly. Fans of Phoenecia and Autechre will appreciate Kero's sonic dismantlement and hybrid sound designs as he works a fabric of complex edits and melodic abstractions into a funky flow over a series of cybernetic grooves. Another laptop wizard from the Detroit/Windsor school of robotix."

Artist:	BOXTYPE
Title:	Goiter EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 023EP

"Boxtype -- that is Bao-Nghi Droste from Heidelberg. With his ultra-reduced, minimal knarz tracks -- deeper than San Andreas fault -- he keeps on rattling the dancefloor crowd. Is the PA not working? Is the record scratched? Or is the DJ a roughneck? Yet, under the swarm of scratches and noises, the clubber will notice a mighty bass drum crawling deep down into his ear. And all of a sudden, well-known dub elements emerge resulting in a seemingly senseful whole. But only for a short moment until the situation escalates again. Well, brilliant. You won't stop smiling. A good, rocking knarz tune."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Bockflinte EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 025EP

"Berlin-based artist Phon.o -- with previous releases (2 EPs + 1 album) on Kit Clayton's label Cytrax -- wildly shoots around on SK 25 and he truly hits the goat (->bock). The prey are 4 really funky and groovy tracks: 'Parlersam The Cat' is like a hunted puma running around on dubby, off-beat, shuffle paws. 'Back And Fore' reloads the shotgun with heavy, deep chords and paves the way for 'Samstag Slicker', a damned nasty dance floor rocker battering brutely around with weird, rough chords and a sneaky synth. With 'Francesca Boogie', phon.o shows us how to use the goats shotgun (-> bockflinte) in a different way and comes up with an extremely groovy, hip-swinging experimental dub slammer."

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Tttrial And Eror
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 026CD

"The Apparat strikes again! Shortly after his first release Multifunktionsebene, which received much attention worldwide, Sascha Ring is presenting his new mini-LP/CD Tttrial And Eror, on which he tries more than before to get his machines under control. The results are stunning: Kind of abstract, deep and minimal but still following the harmony and the groove. Tricky beats and surrounding sounds which are far away from 4/4 floor but closer to the dancefloor than one might think. For the track 'Pressure' the Apparat invited the saxophone player Hormel Eastwood, recorded him and put the sounds in his machines for recalculating. The emerging sounds are outstanding and differ from any other electronic music, old or new. Despite his studio work Sascha Ring is never tired of playing live and rocking the crowd with his laptops."

Artist:	VA
Title:	The Cozmick Suckers Vol. Black & White
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 030CD

"The Berlin based record label Shitkatapult and its owners Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere and Sascha Ring a.k.a. Apparat strikes back for the 30st time! With the The Cozmick Suckers Compilation Vol. Black & White. After Vol. Orange, Vol. Blue, Vol. Yellow and Vol. Silver this is the fifth compilation in the Cozmick Suckers series and again it is featuring the whole wide music range of Shitkatapult dimensions: from abstract gnarz sounds to high-end micro house and from punk rocking techno to jazzy ambient spheres. Shitkatapult spreads out a concept of music (how we call it outernational) to cure everyones electronically polluted hearts and desires. The release features well known Shitkatapult artists like Apparat, Sami Koivikko, T.Raumschmiere, Rechenzentrum, Fenin and Magnum38 new faces like Munit, Napoli is not Nepal and Zoy Winterstein plus special guests like Kyborg, Steinbruechel, John Hughes (Slicker) and Charly Cooper (Telefon Tel Aviv) of Hefty Records/Chicago. It is 71 minutes of music for clubs and homes, days and nights, car rides and chill out zones. Minimal deep funkiness meets relaxing atmospheres. With The Cozmick Suckers Compilation Vol. Black & White Shitkatapult shows once again that it is a record label far outside the norm and not easy to be categorized. Shitkatapult delivers special music for special people."

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	The Great Rock'n'Roll Swindle
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 032CD

"There's definitely something real big taking charge here! Mr. Raumschmiere flashes his two-finger British fuck-off pose as if it just took just two to do all the work - straight up punk attitude. His new EP/CD titled The Great Rock'n'roll Swindle doesn't just gleam with presence of mind but actually ends up being a great big lie. What we have here rocks and rolls in quite a major way. So where's the swindle? The opening title track knocks down pins as seldom heard before. It belongs in every real DJ's first-aid kit for those moments when the crowd is waning in need of a boost. The unmistakable gnarz-bass battles venomous melodies in a high-tech web. It's a track for all thugs with a prep-school degree. First slam it in your face and then think about it later. Sami Koivikko doesn't fuck around with the remix long, shamelessly plunging the scenery into a rave-mood without loosing the bounce. Up next and once again there's the techno-punk T.Raumschmiere: his fuck-off fingers pound the 'enter' key', hitting the system with flatulent bass noises that burst into soundscape crackles, which he probably borrowed from label-mate Apparat ? 'bow down big man to get your credit'! In the end Raumschmiere and Rechenzentrum wrestle for the correct anti-posturing of slightly dubbed basslines coming from the adjacent hall along with absurd quotes out of the clothing chest. You're even getting cut-ups from a metal guitar! Think they're having fun with us? The CD contains six tracks that have been released on different 12"es before, plus two new tracks. It does not contain the remixes, which are only available on the 12" EP."

Artist:	NAPOLI IS NOT NEPAL
Title:	Revolv_er
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 033CD

"Napoli is not Nepal, Shitkatapult is not Karaoke Kalk -- nothing is as it already was before. Hendryk Bayrhoffer follows the charming logic of his artist's name with the full-length release Revolv_er, a relaxed hoax of mysterious connections that appear hidden beneath the truth. In so doing, this Cologne musician by-passes copy-paste samples and instead appropriates solid jazz musicians onto his hard drive who all carry his name. Napoli Is Not Nepal grabs us gently by the ears with the last church-day motto 'du stellst meine fuesse auf weitem raum' ('you put my feet into vast space') and takes us delicately into an unknown world made of lo-fi swabs that slowly but surely begin to turn. In 'A Night Outside the Bunker' a hippie-style guitar digs steadily into even downbeat valleys in order to guide the way. The 'Electrobastard' cuts the path like an adulterous song from air. An insight floats towards us from the loudspeaker of the psycho-delicatessen shop: 'this world is sound moving around.' Right on, feet remain standing in vast space and only the world underneath moves while a western-style guitar plays lonely loops in bangkok -- as if sobbing. A portable piano is pulled out and swings to the emotive crackling lines of the jazz sonnet 'Selma.' A beaten-up trumpet whispers with the glissandi of a peace-style guitar that shoots sparks from a cosmic camp-fire in order to exclaim: 'l'univers c'est moi.' A vibraphone sends its sound waves like some donated life into the ether. A vocoder transforms prayers from nightly depths. A sitar twangs at dawn and, in the distance, a complete jazz orchestra plays evergreens at the amphitheater. This world is reality as long as it's listened to. Do not be scared."

Artist:	ILAR, ANDERS
Title:	Replik
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 034EP

"Damn Swedes, Shitkatapult gets frosty! 'Replik' is the fitting title this 29 year-old Goeteborger, Anders Ilar, has chosen for his clear gletscher-like winter-techno 12'. Trimmin' up where Edward Scissorhands cut off, Anders seems to be slicing three laissez-faire ice sculptures from Shitkatapult's frigid repertoire. For 'Replik', he finally grabs the ice-pick and carves the name Shitkatapult in big letters up on the shimmering green, iced ceiling of the Skagerak. He does this just in case T.Raumschmiere comes flying through on a wild goose looking for a landing place. The techno bat strikes into the suffocating and echoing surface without sense or hesitation. Fine rips split sound tracks into the depth and hit rock bottom. It's true, northern lights, as them Swedes know, make insomnia a regular occurrence so that depression is met again. Complete pragmatism comes from Sweden and has unveiled itself as a real exported craze in the shape of Abba, furniture, and pornos. The principle is that ideas must work."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Mokkastübchen EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 035EP

"Phon.o comes out of his playpen with a crushing package and supplies Shitkatapult with four monstrous turds as lethal munitions -- the shit is hot. This Berlin man has the digestion of a power plant and a rectum like pliers; one with which you could tweak the Eiffel tower. With that he serves up crude raw materials consisting of Hiphop and Breakbeats, Techno and Dub which become raucous monsters of an intimidating size. In 'The Weird Soap' beats the size of a bat bang away in precise cut-up scratch scenes of a looped television. 'The Garagedude V2' is a plowing, intelligent beast of a track even if it's on the tragic side: it's about a folk singer with an acoustic guitar who wants to cross himself via teleporter with a laptop in a self-made experiment; however he fails to achieve the materialization out of this digital make up. 'What is kleingehacktes?' is in no need of an explanation as phon.o skips in zigzag mode across the dance floor while slapping his open hand. Like a thunder-gnarz, the gadget takes apart the helium-suffocated last words of an MC who just asked the wrong man the wrong question. For dessert Phon.o gives out a piece of 'Sachertorte Am Morgen' tasting best when consumed in a techno-armchair. You can smell it all the way to America when Phon.o releases his digital-pop flatulence. It's no wonder that Kit Clayton demanded a stool sample for his label Cytrax, from which three tracks have already been completed. 'Mokkastübchen' is Phon.o's second EP on Shitkatapult and it really just has this title as camouflage. Were it ever to come to a celebrity death match in the states, a battle against Prefuse 73 would be promising for this 25 year-old German -- the element of surprise being on his side."

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Wir Sing EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 036EP

"Shitkatapult has snagged three songs for a 12" release which will almost immediately earn the respect of the directionless masses, late-punks, and post-ravers. Here we go with the funky aerobics for released reservists of the highest rank who fuse bodily conditioning with mental fixation. This happens before any visit is possible to the Portuguese street cafes of your given breakfast hood. 'Wir sind und wir bleiben die Unreparierten' merges two girls' silver voices with the unparticipatory tone of an automated subway intercom to the point where all waiting passengers are dancing in synch with the chorus line. 'Sturm brich los' comes as an electro-shock and whoever dared go near the EBM-niche of the early 90s will hear alarm bells ringing. Yup, it's all about a hi-tech cover version of the equally titled Tommi Stumpff piece from a 1991 LP Trivial Shock, which the former musician actually sees as his worst record. 'Gnadenlos' is yet another Stumpff text from the year 1989 which has breaking relevance in context with the forever-current 80s hype. 'Verkauf dich so schamlos wie noch nie' could be referencing the inflation-like relaunches of past heroes and anti-heroes insinuated as a self-ironic typical German synth-pop-dance-floor-smash-hit. "

Artist:	LIDBO, HAKAN
Title:	Clockwise
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 038EP

"'Microsonic' is an electro-stomper stapled together with the most important conventional effect elements of the last 20 years. This is polished up with refreshing and silly micro-music fragments. Well, there is almost nothing out there musically that evades Mr. Lidbos grasp. 'My First Honest Penny' illuminates the fact that this old Swede knows exactly what kinda sound is necessary to wrap label chief T.Raumschmiere around his finger. Here we have the Munster family with their artificial hips on the black and white dance floor of their deteriorated home combined with gnarzing thunder beats, while a suspenseful organ plays the mighty song of dread. If a video-clip were ever to be made for this track then only Ed Wood would be ripe and worthy enough to do the job."

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Schlag Deinen Fernseher Kaputt
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 039EP

"With the given reactionary club culture based on punk socialization, the future-objectors Alfred Bierlek and Wolf Dosenbiermann, der osten und der westen respectively, reach for the most modern means of production in order to distribute secret prophecies of timeless meaning to the people. Das bierbeben operate tactically with repetitive electro beats and synth-pop appeal in the same vain as one once had to hear a Judas Priest record backwards to decode the satanic verse. On top there are few but poignant verbal messages with which the ensemble beam their listeners into a time warp that diminishes somewhere in a deja-vu interval between two Jaegermeisters. All this at a time when the DDR still existed, when watching TV was retarded, and when the future was a beer can away." W/ T. Raumschmiere remix.

Artist:	GWEM
Title:	Frank Sinatra/Fymw
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 040EP

"Shitkatapult, the favorite label of special people who like special music, is on again with something outstanding: Gwem aka Gareth Morris from London, described as 'mircromusic-glampunk-raverocker' releases his new single. Signed by the label because of two tracks that Gwem left on Shitkatapult's answering machine, you can be sure to find new and exiting music on this 7". The arrangements, simple and earnest, are somewhere between rave and rock. This is no electronic music on the basis of a punk socialization, but rather punk music as the result of nerdy adolescence. This is 'Jackass' for geeks."

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Duplex
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 041CD

2011 repress. "From Schallstrom and Mexican beer, Berlin based Apparat emerges with a full-length that has hit the jackpot (minus the bling), partakes in the recent fornication between acoustics and electronics and reaches deep into conveying new and evocative sound scapes. This new long player's screw-music will penetrate deep into your ears and hunt out the pain. Duplex is a collection of new material, poetically absorbing you in every way, steering a symphonic cakewalk blitz through your emotions, and successfully/intentionally bypasses the mundane and empty laptop sounds of the giant electronic music sweat-shop. It's full of shock-and-awe, not unlike when you first took that hit of acid and listened to trance-techno (ok, maybe we're going a little too far but hell, we're excited about this album). Listen to the songs on headphones after a long day. Listen intently and you'll hear the recipe a la Duplex: Mexican digi-mosquitoes, droning Catholic organs, heart-wrenching distorted horns, and finally Apparat's renown, shuffled thump beats."

Artist:	ILAR, ANDERS
Title:	Hydro
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 042EP

"Anders Ilar is an ol' bastard. First he seduced us with winter-techno and then he gave us a cure in the form of an ambient pill we had to swallow. Now he is packing three completely different tracks onto one 12" for at least 23 dance floors. What's he up to? At least there's DJ fodder for everyone! It is said that freezing to death is peculiarly more pleasant than other fatalities. As if kissed by the Schneekönigin herself, one sinks into self-loathing with 'Hydro' and gets drunk by the hydrostatic depths of the frozen soul-mometer. White cotton-ball harmonies float, suppressed and held by a short line, to the naturally glossed waves of bass-strings made of elk organs as thick as an arm, which simulate osmotic melodies out and about. One used to call it Trance but we hate this word because it was terribly overdone. So we'll take this opportunity to call it Trans: Transporter-Musik."

Artist:	KOIVIKKO, SAMI
Title:	Salmiakki
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 043CD

"Debut full-lengther that hits you with a mean one-two combination that ought to throw you back to the dance floor every time. Sounds like Berlin, but he's really from Finland. The ten perfectly synched tracks push rapidly through this album, not in any real rush to get to where they're going, but rather more driven by a malevolent urge to hunt down unsuspecting road kill-to-be from time to time. The road kill is that perception that good techno died back in 2001. This is definitely something for the dance floors but not the meat markets, even if it means dancing alone on a crowded floor. Still one can certainly understand Salmiakki as techno-listening, if you will. It's this modest yet distinct presence animating you like a dream of rhythm. Daytime thieves, butterfly collectors, music empathizers, emotional doofs, they should all be able to make some sort of discovery on Salmiakki. Sami Koivikko's subtle emotional shifts are simply a ton of fun. There are long-lasting riffs, miniaturized melodies, vague signs swaying between melancholic joy and harmonic sense, always well hidden in the logical web of elements."

Artist:	MAGNUM 38
Title:	4 Fois Le Petit Mort
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 044EP

"It's time to start 2004 with some retribution. 4 Fois Le Petit Mort summarizes four tracks of music into one that we would die for: cross-cutting work on Shitkatapult's sound without any residual handicap. Whoever had hoped for an extension of drum n bass crimes should now look to call the serious fraud office. 4 Fois Le Petit Mort is the right ammo for the DJ magazine when blow up dolls and cardboard persons block the dance floor. The 'Sägemann' dresses up as a dentist who is pushing down his nervous foot onto the bass pedal of the patient's chair, thus giving the gnarz-sound some root treatment. Is someone trying to up the ante here at Raumschmiere's throne? 'Klink Jive' is the shuffling night sister under minimal techno vibes and a runner in every rubber clinic amongst patients with open legs. The concept of 'Klick Klick' could easily be heavyweight rawkus garage at marching tempo. It's a track for the trucker disco with free parking for a 40-ton truck. Last but not least, the 'Zerstäuber' dies a small death in the final groove. This doesn't happen without sending a 101 guide to broken rhythm schemes through the pa for IDM-SAT test-takers. This is the perfect record for in-between two Shitkatapult discs."

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Duplex Remixes
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 045EP

"Accompanying vinyl-only EP of remixes by some of today's most adventurous and respected electronic producers. Whereas the original work reveled in the enviable austerity of moodiness required for an optimal home-listening headphone experience, these remixes are perfect for solitary dancers who prefer dark rooms and corrosive beats to the strobe-controlled world of club culture. The a-side features manipulators from both sides of the Atlantic. Kompakt artist and The Orb collaborator Thomas Fehlmann takes 'Schallstrom' and all but strips it of the delicate piano refrain that centered the original, in the process transforming it into a lean and dirty track befitting Berlin's long and twisted dub wise techno backing. Seattle-based L'usine Icl, who has recorded previously for such labels as Ghostly International and Hymen, distorts and buries the vocal-heavy 'Contradiction', trading in its stridently syncopated beats for a crunchy blip-hop anthem of melancholic proportions. The B-side veers into more constructive and thoughtful territory. Monolake (aka Robert Henke) captures the cinematic tendencies of 'Steinholz', but opts to make a completely different movie along the way. As illustrious and otherworldly as its inspiration, this version holds true to the intricate and organic textures that make Apparat's music so enigmatic. To finish things off, the operatic and soaring 'Wooden' is deconstructed by Shitkatapult's own Anders Ilar, who underscores the track's core emotional thrust with a broken rhythmic bed that sounds as wooden as its namesake."

Artist:	LIDBO, HAKAN
Title:	Clockwise Remixes
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 046CD

Extended remix EP, featuring remixes from Matthew Dear, Si Begg, Apparat, Lidbo. Plus bonus video. 11 track CD. "The life of Anne Frost and John Lane can definitely be described as a routine. Anne is hard working, lives in London, works in a restaurant, and has a thirteen-hour day. John Lane, also from London, is a bank employee and the typical nine-to-fiver. Breakfast hours are regulated strictly. This is the deeply sharp plot of 'Clockwise,' the identical name from the piece on Hakan Lidbo's Shitkatapult EP (Strike 38 from 2003). That one swerved with a musical narration between pulp'n'bass and yap-phonics painted by undertones of toothpaste and edible sounds. The actual interesting part about Anne and John's catchy stories remains in the fantasy of the listener. In some way it stays open, whether or not they both know each other, maybe even fuck, given a nice lunch break. As for fucking, it was obvious that Hakan Lidbo wouldn't forget to finger the ol' label whores at Shitkatapult. In so doing, it will only be a short while before the Proms are called up and turned onto pushing a special version of 'Clockwise.' Sibegg, Brighton Noodles Imperialist, is busy transplanting Anne and John's story into a British undercover-agent comedy. A bomb is ticking, suspicious signs strike keys conscientious of accusations as the protagonists stutter, since the emergency number isn't working with Dr. No in charge of the bass-buzzer on the power lines. Hakan's punkslut Minimix has nothing but quacking spite for Anne and John's day in day out routine, coming and going as fast as the point of a ridiculous joke. Apparat, that old fogy, winds the tempo down so far until it's running backward since it's nighttime and John is dreaming Anne's dream. Matthew Dear, the platinum boy from Ghostly International who respectively gave the minimal techno experience life and enjoyment in 2003, shuffles with Anne and John in the clacking and scratching infinity of reduction, where beginning and end always hang out in the middle. Vinyl has been pressed for all those who like to see big names united on one record without needing to switch the plate. The CD is complete with all the tracks and remixes of the EP as well as an extra mini-movie for home use. Hair dressers would be smart to buy it for their salons, where people like Anne and John go to have their hair done up. Of course there will be others who gaze in the mirror and wonder about it."

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	No Future No Past
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 047CD

"Germany and the others! It can't go on like this! Das Beirbeben churns forth this time with a whole agenda of timeless white wine wisdom. Its deducible quality from the system is as overdue as the revolution of commercially viable target groups between the ages of 14 and 49. No Future No Past is a poetic album for the modern dissident ethos. It is the mobilization of the fraternity with a polemic banner and the vengeance of the mirror image with its original -- the cream of the crop of German brewing art forms. It's a huge downer that one can't guzzle this music with its rockversive booze-pop being pumped from an infinite keg. It's not just that the dial is on par, but the synth and emo-phonetics here also find a home beyond the eighties somewhere between today and a forgotten time. Each track comes along so powerfully that these people from the Bierbeben have no choice but to embrace any accusation of over-achievement. Even the four old ham tracks from their previous EPs receive a new finish. All songs are as much danceable in public as all alone at home. You can listen to all of them one after the other even the one with Jake The Rapper, who is a guest on this record and is loved by almost everyone. One comment in regard to the lyrics: fuck yeah! It's not so bad that this music will appeal to folks who wear cute sweaters with 'Hamburg' or 'Berlin' printed on them. Bierbeben has even composed a track for them: 'File Up In Line'. Then there are two videos to watch on a computer since your TV must be broken by now and since it's twice as nice to see them in double vision. Damn straight we're not worthy."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick 01
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 048EP

"Musick to play in the club: Musick is a new division of Shitkatapult -- no further words: Just Special music for Special people." Four track EP featuring: Elastic Heads, T.Raumschmiere & Peter Grummich. "We're talking about a new project called 'Musick', a 'division' founded to connect new investors with realistic 'option models', i.e. by going public at the record exchange. Musick is more than just a label - Musick is a word that doesn't even actually exist! With 'Kicking!' the Elastic Heads (Andreas Stobernack aka Kyborg, NBI and Trike, BPitchControl) make counting-rhyme techno, ideal for a fun game of musical chairs in the conference room during the lunch break. Jerry Abstract is a guy that T. met in Seattle, and right away one of his tracks was stapled onto Musick. The track sounds almost like it could be from the boss himself, just different, not to be understood as flattery, since 'Grittin' is way too coarse and XXL -- just like Americans tend to be. And the boss himself is entangled in finely knit techno: With 'Konig Shuffle (PT. 2)' he blows a dented fanfare from the pinnacles of the rusty knight's castle down to the disco-barn where office buffaloes like us live. And then there's the unknown Peter Grummich, who sent a demo and a business plan, which, in terms of minimal techno, calls for more investment in marketing this brand, particularly 'Dirty Disco Rock', as he calls his campaign."

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Reproduktion/Staub Rmxs
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 049EP

"Two songs, 'Staub' and 'Reproducktion,' from the Bierbeben album No Future No Past are being released as a 12" with remixes for those people who might want to hear more of them. Amazingly enough, the remixes come first on each side for your enjoyment. Whignomy vs. Robag Wruhme, the remixers of 'Staub' don't know a single janitor, except the one at De:Bug magazine, but she is also from the DDR. Anyhow Whignomy vs Robag Wruhme build up a Tricky style disco with plenty of acid-punch. What does a woodlouse hear under the rug? Pieces that stink like dust mites. Brina Vino elaborates: 'I'm still sick from yesterday.' Wolf Dosenbiermann: 'Egypt?' Der Osten: 'I'm lucky my name isn't on this.' Peter Grummich buttons up 'Reproduktion' for himself and programs a lasagne layer by layer out of Gnüdel with Rockfleisch-sauce. It's accompanied by this three-legged double-hollow bass beat that works with 'IÜ' sounds like DJ DSLs 'I Ü I Ä Ö Ä ÜH' from Happy Bear but, instead, much faster. This is a bit far-fetched but when you hear it for real you might get all mixed up since, in truth, this is a rave track. Alfred Bierlek: 'I have to puke soon, no right now, hualp.' Der Westen: 'Is it me?'"."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Special Musick For Special People
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	4LP
Price:	$42.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 050LP

Deluxe 4LP boxset edition celebrating Shitkatapult's 50th release! ([here is also a CD/DVD version, but since it is PAL format only, it is not distributed in North America]. "Panorama to the people! Shitkatapult presents a new program to spoil music lovers at new heights all the way to seventh heaven, where we love to vegetate. Yup, what you have here is a revelation with secret ornaments of a lifestyle that is bathed in the positivism of electronic particles. Fans who are pinching their nipples in suspense are forewarned, and also all those who are concerned with the multiplication of facts are thus told: this is the absolute best Shitkatapult in the whole world. This is no exaggeration with the 24 outstanding tracks that make you go berserk. Featuring sixteen Shitkatapult artists from all over the place." Features: Rechenzentrum, Magnum, Anaphie-stic, Apparat, Anders Ilar, Boxtype, Fenin, Peter Grummich, T. Raumschmiere, Phon.o, Hakan Lidbo, Das Bierbeben, Sami Koivikko, Napoli Is Not Nepal, Kero, Gwem And The Gwemettes, Elastic Heads, Kyborg, Bus, Modeselektor, Lusine ICL, Motor, Richard Devine, Quasimodo Jones.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick to Play in the Club
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 051EP

"Musick is the brand spanking new underwear line from Shitkatapult for quick reaches into your record bag. There are three dirty joints that peel off from the material where the needle drops. Gwem's dramatic rave ballad 'Small Hours' is fit for an early Sunday morning. Grime sits on the backburner of an auto-scooter given the artist is from London. The cerebral words glide with the mental downfall of a hydrofoil over emotions wound up by the snare-sweeper. Small melodies stick like tears underneath the pits of raised arms. The guitar solo works its way heavily with a bare chest right through the middle of the track. Oh yeah, Gareth Morris is Gwem, a heavy metal dude and Atari ST/old school rave DJ (the E stands for E). Brett's Holz is a gnarly cubbard made with professional skipper technology. It sounds a little like the after-thoughts from T.Raumschmiere's brain, as if they ever really existed anyhow. Peter Grummich pours filigran-techno into the infinite groove and bangs out an epic one, maybe even two, with challenging subtlety. Even this one is bound to find gifted and technically versatile dancers, however no where close to those trampling animals from Riverdance who are not allowed to move their upper bodies. Supposedly, they are conditioned with electric shocks which is tasteless to the end. This has obviously nothing to do with Musick anymore."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick 03
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 052EP

"Drugbeat are Motor, but with vocals. Motor are Bryan Black and Olivier Grasset. Black is originally from Minneapolis and has worked with Prince. Frenchman Grasset is said to be a world-class drummer. They are also the band Xlovers. They are doing a Throbbing Gristle remix for Mute, a little record on Novamute, and right now they're working on a Marilyn Manson remix with Felix Da Housecat -- a remix of Manson's remix of 'Personal Jesus'. You could add a few more examples of their likely glory, but for Musick, Drugbeat put the blueprint for this industrial, sugar-coated electro basher straight to vinyl. Zurich-based Uese (Urs Jeitsch), the would-be drummer of a hardcore band, is producing electronic music instead -- and he's not the only one. 'Cucuzza' is a longish pumpkin plant. In this case it's fodder for the high-speed rack-railway with side-rods und Samba wagons, for a journey into the grey zone on twisted tracks with juicy tunnel inserts. Holz sands this splinter of saw-tooth techno and gets an A+ in woodwork class. The guys at the back will not get away unpunished -- with at least two lunch-breaks of being locked in the girls' bathroom. President Ido is a promoter from Osaka, 23 years old and a mighty good DJ. The boss says Cutie Kantie is his girlfriend. 'Miss Orange' sounds like a mixture of 8doogymoto and Mouse On Mars, but who knows -- maybe Ido is also the Pres of the Japanese ghetto-tech faction -- and naturally they cook up their very own rice'n'shit variation."

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Silizium EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 053CD

2011 repress. Originally recorded for a Peel Session at the BBC in 2004, Silizium EP is a full-length release from Berlin-based Apparat. "A balance between things that you know people will like and things that you think people will like" is what John Peel had to say on his homepage about Apparat's music programming concept. John Peel passed away a few months later from a heart attack while vacationing in Peru. Apparat (Sascha Ring) could only find a more fitting farewell mood with the rerecording of his session: a sonic dedication to a huge mentor from Shitkatapult and their people. Apparat is known as a fluctuating mood-maker by way of his computer companion, swinging the composer's stick with emotion and conducting pieces of lonely melancholic beauty with godly discretion. New strings are thanks to the violin and cello of Kathrin Pfänder and Lisa Stepf aka Complexácord, whose soul-drenched expression lets your mind sway, as they harmonize with dreamlike perfection. It reminds one once again of the experimental modus operandi combining classical instruments with electronic music. Singer Raz Ohara and clarinet/sax player Hormel Eastwood find their chosen virtuous and emotional space on this promising cloud. What remains are warm dark drops of elegiac pop that pour down the back of your heart. Also includes remixes from Bus, Telefon Tel Aviv, and Rechenzentrum.

Artist:	QUASIMODO JONES
Title:	Rock'n'Roll Dream
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 054EP

New Hakan Lidbo project, with remixes by T. Raumschmiere and Beate Bartel. "Quasimodo Jones and Kid Rock are the same sides of a 5 cent coin. They both stand at eye level on the stoop of the entrance to their RV in a trailer park of White Trash USA. Their musical affinity is not only similar to ringing bells made of silicone, but they also speak with an aggressive tone when it comes to their brutal images. The direct comparison to Kid Rock is of course a stinking farce cause he's a lazy bum. Quasimodo Jones has already recorded 23 albums that he made himself. The records were never released because they were ahead of their time. Quasimodo Jones makes 'Rock with 70s plugins and his guitar'. As a producer he was able to blackmail Hakan Lidbo who will supposedly receive a first class star-banner on his gravestone. Rock'n Roll Dream hit first place with readers of 'Hustler' magazine in the category of hog-rotten rock songs. This is why T.Raumschmiere drops off a remix with only one hand. Even the astounding Beate Bartel heard about it from the center of the earth where she has been residing of late. From here she sends her recordings against the laws of gravity straight up a shaft directed at select groups. 'Somebody stop me before I kill again,' the other piece of Quasimodo Jones, is of another caliber maybe 22mm spooky electro. The nice thing about this record is, moreover, that it's not an album. That one's still on the way says the official smog warning coming from the Shitkatapult camp. But who really is Quasimodo Jones? Jones is an orphan from Wisconsin and also a tramp who cites the riddim of train-wheels as an early musical influence. He learned to drink, throw down, and accept Elvis as King from his stepfather. His mother taught him to scream since that's how he came out into the world thanks to her alcohol and heroin abuse. Even though he never handled it well, Jones was allowed to stay at home since school was regarded as something for rich snobs by his caretakers. His first experience on stage was at the tender age of 8 with the Oak Ridge Boys. His second performance was with a stolen guitar from the neighboring kid where he sang Elvis songs and ended up in juvi. This is where he first discovered smoking up along with other drugs. He is most proud of having hit his stepfather in the face with a baseball bat, knocking all of his teeth out as he fell from a tree onto the ground. His favorite show is Alf."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick 04
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 055EP

Featuring: Uese, Jerry Abstract, Elastic Heads, DJ Flush. "Glorious yet pious followers of gnarz-techno and bratz-shuffle find their home in two grooves on the black label 'Musick', divided into an A and B side. Since following blindly is a game of dark forces, this vinyl release remains black and dour in mood in the sense of: whoever laughs first loses. It's a game with talkative, miniscule breaks that are perfect for a party called 'voyage to Jerusalem' in a mosh-pit of globalized black zones. Uese from Zuerich blows into a shadowy bratzen-horn. Seattle's Jerry Abstract does a house-kufen scraping into black metal. The Berliner perma-smilies Elastic Heads hum to a tune of sobering up in an electro rubber cage. Capitol city's Flush, a cool DJ dude from Berlin, throws on the light-dimming turbine for the purpose of hygene, so he says."

Artist:	QUASIMODO JONES
Title:	Robots & Rebels
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 056CD

Where West meets West, when the schaffel-punk meets art-funk, when Shitkatapult meets the high-plains drifter, Quasimodo Jones is created. Jones is the neucowboy who idolizes Hank Williams but covers Cabaret Voltaire. The result is Robots & Rebels -- a cattlecall of dissent from an alternate reality. Producer Hakan Lidbo and singer/ performer Quasimodo have cooked up their own rock/indie-pop language with the voice of tightly sequenced, bass-heavy electronic music.

Artist:	FENIN
Title:	Grounded
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 058CD

A technoid album for the dub and reggae freaks. This is the long-awaited debut album from Berlin-based Lars Fenin, the man who symbiotically fuses techno and dub for Shitkatapult. After founding his own reggae band in Berlin called Tribal Notes, he quickly became familiarized and directly involved with the early burgeoning electronic music from Berlin's expanding club and music scene. His first 12" titled Herr Pitzelberger appeared in 2000 on Shitkatapult, and since then he has been at the core of the label. He followed with releases on Echochord, Meteosound, and Textone. Fenin's productions have little to do with what is generally understood to be dub-techno or techno dub: rather than minimal techno tracks overloaded with effects, Fenin crafts old school, grounded productions that emerge from studio handiwork involving classic overdub techniques created live on a mixing board. The term "dub" thus derives from a much earlier incarnation and understanding of reggae. On Grounded, the musical spectrum is set pretty wide from technoid pieces like the deep "South" to the old school dub piece "Interlude"all the way to pure reggae songs like "No C.I.A." or "Thrill." The strength of the album is located where techno, dub, and reggae are brought closer together successfully.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick 05
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 059EP

5th volume in this series, featuring: Autoplump, Das Bierbeben, Scapegoat, Magnum 38. "After the last few Musick records kicked ass this one is even better. For the most part this is accentuated best by the ending 'sick' since some market specialists may think they know better. Autolump is Fil Le Gonidec, who jump-started his career as the roadie for Killing Joke and the orb as the Internet says. His track is titled 'God Speed' fittingly and is quickstep house of Biblical wonders or even deep religious convictions stocked with all the visions that one may come to expect from the creators. 'Staub' from Das Bierbeben is being served here as Robag Wruhme's vodka-quake schnakker. These Jena-bred clowns sonically resemble colleagues like The Soft Pink Truth or Mouse On Mars which results in a type of knee-deep excess including bonafide digressions into pop-clouded realms. At Shitkatapult Felix is called Scapegoat and at Freizeitglauben Berlin he's Donna K. 'Anticipate' is no track but more or less a moody Hack'n'Slay party with a bonus level and goodbyes from Max Payne at the end. It's a grand pounding from the techno-shredder up against any hesitation. And since DJs also want to dance you can just let the record go until Magnum 38's 'Alligator' ends up being the consolation prize. No mouse will take a bite out of the fader, as they say in industry terminology."

Artist:	GRUMMICH, PETER
Title:	A Roboter
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 060EP

"Peter Grummich, who has released on such renowned labels as Shitkatapult, Kompakt, Sender, Spectral und Musick and remixed Das Bierbeben and Miss Yetti -- to name just a few -- presents the hymn 'A Roboter' taken from his album Switch Off the Soap Opera including a remix of Jay Haze. The B-side rocks along with 'You Don't Know' which is also featured on the album and the exclusive club burner 'The Clippers,' a track that Peter Grummich is especially proud of. One can only guess that Peter Grummich's almost 20 years of DJing experience could bring his production work to the far out point where it stands right now. Enjoy it! Whoever believes that all of Germany has sworn off minimal techno, since all that you hear are bombastic outfits with noise, shouts, cuts, ammo and at least one obligatory guitar riff, should hear Peter Grummich's album Switch Off The Soap Opera."

Artist:	GRUMMICH, PETER
Title:	Switch Off The Soap Opera
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 061CD

Berliner techno-minimalist guru Peter Grummich's new album Switch Off The Soap Opera. After almost twenty years of DJing, Grummich looks a lot like someone who is concealing a shoddy rave monster that crept into him the past decade or so. He likes to wade barefoot in the bass since his is cushioned quite well and is nice on your skin, three or four layers as it is. Grummich trips rather seldom, instead he varies in dance-like tiptoe steps, steady-paced. If he loses his tact the robots are likely to be blamed, showing us that he doesn't lack humor as minimal musicians often like to make us believe. He could have succeeded as a carnie hypnotist with those eyes of his; instead he gazes deeply into the soul of his tracks until they are graced with the hypnotic spark that emanates from his ear. This happens when the layers find their synapse equilibrium in loops, which shouldn't be all too innocent for the brain when those big waves are set in motion. The setting is a bit stuffy since there are a lot of danceable sounds putting the room under pressure, but hey, at least it's never cold. Airing out only occurs when the party is had, which surely comes from a true minimal jump-off of this sort.

Artist:	HOLZ
Title:	Mein Block
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 062EP

"Maybe we were too blockheaded of not having properly introduced our Musick-To-Play-In-The-Club-star Holz (German word for 'wood'). But now that his smartly titled EP Mein Block (my block) is on its way it is about time for us to apply the jemmy in order to see, who is behind that moniker, that stands for vibrating planks of techno. Born in 1985 René Finken is a twenty year-old student and other than his music suggests he is not from Berlin but from the city of Aachen near the Dutch border, where he studies German and English language and literature as well as philosophy. At the age of 6 he started playing keyboards and when he was 16, he fell in love with electronic music triggered by some freeware tracker software named Buzz, that allowed him admittance to the netaudio scene. In 2004 he debuted with the title 'Brett' (English: plank) on Musick 02, a gnarzy cupboard from the picture book of his mentor in chainsaw operations T.Raumschmiere, one could guess, and he left a 'Splitter' (English: splint) on Musick 03, which was difficult to remove from one's ears. René also publishes as Renniac on a netlabel called Stadtgruen and makes music with a friend as Tha Diskonerdz. Concerning the record. 'Axt' (English: axe) is the most self-rotating piece of techno since 'Querstromzerspaner' (English: shredder-grinder) by T.Raumschmiere, who fortunately for Holz now is into rock and ambient. Mein Block goes out to all the blockheads who cannot get enough of joiners joy behind their bark. 'Glut' (English: blaze) concludes the record with suspicious signs of an after-hour party including subliminal Laura Palmer reminiscence areas."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Trick or Treat
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 063EP

... including remixes by Funkstörung and Kit Clayton. "The forthcoming Phon.o album Burn Down the Town is gonna be like a mixtape a la booty karaoke and promises a permissive mess on record. Yet still before that the 12" Trick or Treat will be released which features well-known artists along with Carsten Aermes aka. Phon.O. Never was groove'n'bass so plumped up, rarely was hip-hop so ankletish. Trick or Treat is Phon.O and Kevin 'just don't bust my bladder' Blechdom's answer to 50 Cent in the candy shop. This may already be a hit for Halloween, and this song should be mentioned in one breath with the foot stank of Usher, Timbaland and the Neptunes, whereas Kevin Blechdom smells more like Missy Elliott and Destiny's Child. Four years ago an American named Kevin Blechdom moved to Berlin in order to study 'German genitalia.'The funk comes from Funkstörung: their remix of 'Trick or Treat' bears traceable elements of this tolerant music style around the groundwork of Kevin Blechdom. Here the famous Italo-Bavarian combo shows a brilliant finger technique and seems a little shy to force the lust of the singer shamelessly and slaphappy to go all haywire. 'Hoes ova Bros' -- such rhymes make ghetto-tech drop its underpants, and that's what 'Busted in da D.' is supposed to do. Phon.O twists the words of a white thrash dude from Detroit named Sadik006 who remains unpunished. Big surprise that the beast from San Francisco Kit Clayton himself puts his hands on a remix even though he vowed to never make music again. Apart from having a rarity bonus, this piece is as superior as you can expect it from the most intelligent person in the never ever dying- out world of rave music.To sum things up one should say, that with such good music, Phon.o ought to be granted great success, which is indisputably required if the horny young man from East Germany wants to sell records. True Dat."

Artist:	PHON.O
Title:	Burn Down the Town
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 064LP

Featuring Kevin Blechdom, Gold Chains and more. "The fact that Carsten Aermes aka Phon.O still has pole-position locked in with us should be no mystery to whoever heard his Mokkastübchen-EP, now three years old, but it smelled so good for so long. We're thankful that Burn Down the Town has properly become, in itself, no masturbatory self-experimentation. Phon.O aims nicely and bold into the open body of booty karaoke, in fact, with the help of his versatile taste inventory and speed. This is his own trademark and solidifies his role as a musical heavyweight and sexually confident Eastern German. If the hectic rammer-beats of ghetto-tech are more something for followers of ejaculatio praecox, then the rough stop 'n go patterns of Phon.O are more fit for pleasure-seekers of perverted lags."

Artist:	GRUMMICH, PETER
Title:	Maria (Dirty Floor mixed by Peter Grummich)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 065CD

This is the first mix compilation at Shitkatapult selected and mixed by DJ Peter Grummich. This tech-house ode to partying is being released in order to prove that Shitkatapult and the Berlin club Maria don't merely join forces for live shows, but also love collaborating in high-gloss stereo sound. The story starts in 1998 as the Berliner techno circus of the '90s was slowly suffocating in serenity. The club Maria at the Ostbahnhof was founded by five local artists and geared towards an ambitious concept of "dance music." Heavily emphasizing "intelligent" in the front and "live" programming in the back, club Maria quickly became a home base for art spectacles like the Transmediale or even alternative events to the Loveparade like the Interference Festival. Their booking history has earned a reputation from then until now, known for strong content without boundaries. Shitkatapult's yearly Shitparade is clearly the high point for all those who bust their ass for the label to bring you the right content. This goes for Peter Grummich as well who proved himself as the best choice for this mix comp after his six hour DJ set. His uncompromising style aimed at the party to the point where thunder comes crashing down never gets uncomfortable for the listener. Grummich mixes a compact selection of the best recent releases into a nice sounding invitation to club Maria, leaving ignorant deaf trancers on the sidewalk. The dirty punk-funk of Ark, the messy techno of Matthew Dear alias Audion and the highly-praised Audio Werner are also on board as is Maria's subtle house favorite Leo Cubanero or Ghostly/Spectral-multifunctional electro/hip-hop bouncer Tadd Mullinix aka Dabrye aka James T. Cotton. Rumors that claimed the Maria had good music but wasn't the place for partying has long since been drowned in puddles of sweat from the wild celebrations ever since. This is a mix that has it goin' on.

Artist:	JUILLERAT, JUDITH
Title:	Slack Time Rmxs
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 066EP

Here come the remixes of "Slack Time," one of the numerous hits on Judith Juillerat's debut album Soliloquy, released on Shitkatapult. With its paradoxical casualness the listener becomes irresistibly attracted to the intimate moments: melodies composed with little bugs, a mature composure in tempo, and intertwining free flow. The remixes come from French funk master Ark and Berlin-based multifunctionalist Thomas Fehlmann. Ark cuts the original sounds and elements into bits and pieces and makes them into a nervous breakdown-inspired minimal funk dancefloor burner. Fehlmann delivers two hypnotizing tracks in an outstanding sound quality: to the dark ambient feeling of the original track he adds the deepness of his personal dub universe and delivers the secret hit on this 12". As an extra gift side A features an extended version of the original track.

Artist:	JUILLERAT, JUDITH
Title:	Soliloquy
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 067CD

French chanteuse Judith Juillerat presents her impressive debut album, fittingly called Soliloquy. For those quick to compare one can already mention her in the same breath along with Barbara Morgenstern or Gustav. Judith's electronic songwriting feeds off of a rich repertoire of whimsical musical figures and fancy tousled sounds. But in its perfect aesthetic balance it resembles imaginatively superimposed calligraphies in which every single sweep and stroke, each twist and turn, leads to an inspiring, meaningful expression. Soliloquy arrests attention with a paradoxical casualness that develops an irresistible attraction. An almost compelling voyeuristic element can hardly be dismissed while listening. You become an ear-witness attending an unexpected occasion of intimate and stirring moments. Melodies composed with little bugs, a mature composure in tempo, the intertwining free flow, plus freely interfering fragments unfolding an oppressive yet unrestrained beauty, all beckon to question the back-breaking, overly styled pettiness of daily routines. Judith finds her musical expression through improvisation and spontaneity, and she cites artists such as Can, Amon Düül, Einstürzende Neubauten, Tarwater or Apparat as sources of inspiration. It should not go unmentioned that Soliloquy was produced without a computer. Playing with old and new analog and digital synthesizers and beat boxes, a mini-sampler, effect machines, a microphone as well as acoustic instruments such as the piano and guitar. Track by track, she puts her songs and soundscapes together using a multi-track recorder. Whether this kind of old school production technique can be understood as the reason for the maturity of her music remains to be seen.

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Berlin, Montreal, Tel Aviv
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 069EP

After Sascha Ring aka Apparat paid tribute to the beauty of melancholy and loneliness on his last album Silizium, now he connects melancholy with the necessary push to the dance floor on Berlin, Montreal, Tel Aviv. These tracks were recorded live over the course of the last year in the most prolific clubs in each of the named cities. The warm melodic parts are carried by abstract beats. It grows into powerful, freeing eruptions after the lengthy build-up of suspense. "Berlin" is thus the deepest track on this EP and is great fodder for DJs who have the courage to get emotional. "Montreal" contains parts from the opera Pia and is an electro track that also utilizes some synth pop elements. "Tel Aviv" is the most pulsating track on the EP and gives us a more unknown look into the darker sides of Apparat's soul. All this is counteracted with some absurd happy melodies.

Artist:	ABSTRACT, JERRY
Title:	Musick 08: Mudtsmut EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 070EP

Seattle-based Jerry Abstract knows how to combine funk with dirty techno and give names to his oeuvres that nobody understands. "Recoyl" drags along with an absurd shuffle beat, and silly low-bit melody. "Krahnk" plays around with small bits and pieces of a vocal sample, complemented by a heavy bassline that can be well compared to the old school no future sound. "Mudtsmut" gnarzes like a goofy version of a T.Raumschmiere song from the old days. "Boxiqu" is a percussive killer with drum sounds dry as hell, vocals cut in pieces and short intense use of trippy effects. The right EP for the silly times of any dirty dancefloor.

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Im Kreis
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 071EP

Shitkatapult is releasing a Das Bierbeben full-length Alles Fällt soon -- it's precise, nice, and a good Bierbeben album, more of a band project this time around: guitars, electronics, vocals: a sedated world. "Im Kreis" was knocked out as one of the several hits on the album and is being released with two Cristian Vogel remixes on this 12". Both remixes are totally different from each other and could not be more unique, yet there still is a strong connection to the original: side A has the familiar Vogel monster with heavy bass throbbing, breaking drums time and again and suddenly everything comes together into a broken whole. On side B he delivers a dark ambient analog mix, 9 minutes of total symphony, atmosphere, and the complete lack of any resemblance to anything.

Artist:	QUASIMODO JONES
Title:	Musick 09: Love Commando Rmxs
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 072EP

In 2005, Hakan Lidbo produced "Boston-based" Quasimodo Jones' album Robots & Rebels with lots of punk/techno/industrial chansons. Remixed by Hakan Lidbo and Tomas Andersson, this time the original "Love Commando" mutates to a love roll commando. Hakan Lidbo himself adds a creepy hookline to his original and makes the track into a catchy psychotic tune. Tomas Andersson -- Bpitch Control techno scene superstar -- puts hand on his mates' files like nobody else could do it: no more melodies! Like a fucked-up fashion fair, both mixes are gunning down any club.

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Alles Fällt
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 073CD

Berlin and Hamburg-based Das Bierbeben are a stormy electro 5-piece, and this is their sixth release on Shitkatapult. Member J. Müller says of Alles Fällt: "Bad advice or jewel? We like our new album. There were some long nights and days; even with the prevalence of expanded consciousness some favorable listeners of electronic music react either spitefully or aggressively to a slightly misprogrammed bass drum. The style and messages of our lyrics are thus in opposition to this tension." Lifting influences from as diverse entities as Asmus Tietchens, Faust, Asia Hung, Peer Raaben, Dopplereffekt and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Alles Fällt seeks to distract your average electronic listener into total sedation. With hypnotic bass throbs, danceable beats, '80s keyboard scrawl, and driving guitar, paired with soft, listless female German vocals, this record is an irresistibly smooth, smoky club companion.

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Alles Fällt
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$16.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 073LP

Double LP version. Berlin and Hamburg-based Das Bierbeben are a stormy electro 5-piece, and this is their sixth release on Shitkatapult. Lifting influences from as diverse entities as Asmus Tietchens, Faust, Asia Hung, Peer Raaben, Dopplereffekt and Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Alles Fällt seeks to distract your average electronic listener into total sedation. With hypnotic bass throbs, danceable beats, '80s keyboard scrawl, and driving guitar, paired with soft, listless female German vocals, this record is an irresistibly smooth, smoky club companion.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick 10
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 074EP

Number 10 of the Musick series is a compilation again. Featuring tracks by Elastic Heads, DJ Flush and Fenin, this release comes along as a pure Berlin EP -- dark and deep as Musick can be. It starts with a slow and deep acid tech-stepper, "Heat." This track may catch any large dancefloor with its ultimate loop grooves and dark, sweaty feeling. "Baila Redux" compliments the raving old school Chicago-Berlin connection with a goofy touch of Ibiza. Proud, dirty and minimal. And finally, Fenin offers a strange mixture of techno, deep house and dub elements. This track illustrates a European wide wave of techno music that digs deeper to get through to the flesh. All in all, a diverse and multifunctional 12" that fits many occasions.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Shitkatapult Empfiehlt! EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 075EP

Shitkatapult Empfiehlt! ("Shitkatapult Recommends") was compiled exclusively by T.Raumschmiere. Starting with a live track from Apparat, he shows an alternate route to kicking music without necessarily being another 4 to the floor artist. Fraction is a brand new talent from who debuts here with his Aphex Twin floor progression. Side A finishes with T.Raumschmiere himself, made for endless playing, looping and rocking. The B-side opener is a new cooperation between Lars Fenin and Daniel Meteo, with a floor piece that keeps a dubby element but also aims to be a clicking techno piece for the floor. Magnum 38 follows with a track in the best "pump gun musick for your party" tradition. Soap & Skin completes this EP with a crazy piano piece out of nowhere.

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Alles Fällt (Losoul Remixes)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 076EP

Remixes of Das Bierbeben's shockingly good hit "Alles Fällt." For the remix work they signed Losoul, who turned the original into two graceful dancefloor pearls. One is a stripped-down 8-minute piece that could very well be defined as a dub version. The other mix uses a dirty bassline that is definitely a burner. For your extra pleasure there is a cover version of Campingsex's "Schließ die Tür," and a schnelle (or fast) version of "Alles Fällt," that will be sure to tickle your dancefloor urge.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick11
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 077EP

Shitkatapult releases another 12" with sick smash hits for the dancefloor. On the A-side Schieres -- who formerly collaborated with T.Raumschmiere under the name Schrubbn -- delivers one of the best and most unbelievable rave hymns of the last few years. The track could be from 1995 if it wasn't that ironic and weird. For the B-side, T.Raumschmiere sat down with Motor to produce a version of the Cypress Hill classic "Insane In the Brain." The result keeps clear of any hip-hop reference, slowly winding out of the speakers at 100 bpm like an evil worm that crawls into the ears of the listener to destroy all memory of the original version.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Musick To Play In the Club
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 078CD

This CD collects the highlights of the first 11 releases of the Shitkatapult Musick 12" series/sub label, such as the Robag Wruhme remix of "Staub" by Das Bierbeben, the massive electro burner "Alligator" by Magnum 38, or the deep acid track "Breathe" by Peter Grummich. Some big names like Motor from Novamute, Peter Grummich from Spectral, Kompakt etc., Robag Wruhme from Krause Musik, Tomas Andersson from BPitch or the Shitkatapult anti-boss T.Raumschmiere should increase public interest, but they certainly are not the only big arguments here. Hysterical hymns, dirty burners and heavy floor fillers -- this compilation features everything the label stands for! Additionally to the single tracks there is an mp3 DJ mix by the Shitkatapult/Musick homie DJ Flush on the CD to please the iPod generation. Listen to it on your monster PA while riding to the club or put it on when there are no good DJs around at your party. When people start going crazy you know what Musick is about: sick stuff for the dancing crowd. Other artists include: Drugbeat, Jerry Abstract, Quasimodo Jones, Elastic Heads, Scapegoat, Fenin and Holz.

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	Random Noize Sessions Vol. 1
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 080CD

Berliner Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere is back home with his new full length work on his own Shitkatapult label. Random Noize Sessions Vol. 1 features a collection of lost studio and live recordings from the past six years (1999-2005). Music-wise these tracks follow the same idea as the Anti album on Hefty records (Chicago, 2002) -- dark ambient tracks, beats and pictures: random noize. From the beginning to the applause-ending (from his ambient live set in Düsseldorf church, Johanniskirche) this whole CD is a breathtaking movie, and in the best tradition of dark Asian movies fighting the new minimal deal. Titles like "In The Ghetto," "Radikal Mediation," "Neulich Im Bestattungs-Discount" follow the general T.Raumschmiere idea. After his major releases on Novamute, Random Noize Sessions Vol. 1 is not only a new album, but also a missing link between his punk techno anti-spectacle and his inner vision of techno/ambient music. These are traditional new music footprints following Robert Hood or Mike Ink, and married to influences from great artists like Coil or Steve Albini. Free of any chic or trendy idea, Random Noize is purely sick music at its best. The track "Die Alte Leier," the most clubbing track from the album will be released on the 12" version and will include a wonderful old school exclusive techno track entitled "It's All About the Leierei" by Alex Cortez and T.Raumschmiere from 1996 as a B-side. This album was mastered by Cristian Vogel.

Artist:	ILAR, ANDERS
Title:	Ludwijka (Extended Visit)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 082CD

This is the fifth full-length release from Sweden's infamous electronic producer, Anders Ilar. Ludwijka (Extended Visit) is an extended version of a small vinyl edition formerly released on Merck Records -- and a wonderful musical trip through dark, but warm territory. Besides the tracks on the original vinyl EP you will find on this CD a 19-minute monster bonus track masterpiece. As planned by Mr. Ilar, this CD does not offer any silence, any break between the tracks, any 3-minute thinking or any deejay friendliness. It's an intense and extended visit into Anders Ilar's world and history -- a sonic rendering of his hometown of Ludvika. As Anders himself describes: "...for the tracks here I used a lot of sounds that I found on old tapes from my childhood ('77-'79) singing and talking and playing the piano or just making noises. So all the little voices you can hear in there are actually me. Then I made some new recordings last year -- I recorded more piano, and I asked my father to play a few tones on his old trumpet. Also some noises from the cat were used. The crow calling was provided to me by Swedish radio for a remix project, and some other bird sounds were found on the Internet. And musically, it's probably inspired by all the music I've listened to over the years. So you see, it's a very personal album for me."

Artist:	APPARAT FEAT RAZ OHARA
Title:	Holdon
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 083EP

"Apparat, aka Berlin's Sascha Ring, presents Holdon, the first 12" single from his great Walls full-length. "Holdon" is a very special track as it shows all of Apparat's talents in best shape: broken beats, pop music and club and electronica production merged together perfectly. Raz Ohara adds vocals that are just born for this track. Also including remixes by Apparat's close friends: Funkstörung follow-up project Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o -- who deliver a big stomping fat hit remix with hip-hop, beats and endless flow. Modeselektor brings the noise on his own version. The flip features an exclusive extended mix of the album track "Fractiles," which showcases Apparat's perfect skills on the dancefloor.

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Walls
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 084CD

2011 repress. Walls is the fifth full-length album for Apparat, aka Berlin's Sascha Ring, who had one hell of a year 2006. His collaboration with Ellen Allien, the critically-acclaimed album Orchestra of Bubbles, forged electrifying new connections between techno, electro and pop music. Somewhere in between all the laud and acclaim and touring, he managed to record his first solo studio album since 2003's Duplex. Despite its title, Walls isn't about dividing lines. Instead, it describes a circle that pulls many elements together into a protected, enclosed space where they jostle and roam free: strings and mallet instruments; rock guitar and gravelly sawtooth synths; stuttering digital percussion and muscular studio drumming. What might be most striking about Walls is the way it creates a kind of single, sustained mood -- this is an album for listening to all in one go, front to back. This is one of those road-trip records, one of those coming-down records, one of those bedding-down records. The record veers from the chamber minimalism of "Not A Number," with its cello and vibraphones, to the bluesy rock of "Hailin' From The Edge." "Fractales Pt. 1" offers a sound that longtime Apparat listeners might recognize as most typical, while "Bassis" is, in its purest sense, a pop song, as ephemeral as clouds and as solid as the ground you're standing on -- a fitting contradiction for a record that draws equally from software and acoustic instrumentation. Important guests and collaborators on this record include Telefon Tel Aviv's Josh Eustis, who did the album's final mixdown in Chicago, as well as the talented Raz Ohara, who contributes his smoky vocals. Walls houses a magic box: a compact hour of music that promises to give back many times as much in pleasure. Apparat has melded his genius as a sound designer with his growing songwriting talents to craft 14 songs brimming with ideas, energy, texture, light, color. They are hummable, embraceable, swimmable, possibly edible.

Artist:	SUN ELECTRIC
Title:	Toninas Remixes
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 085EP

This release takes a tour through electronic music history covering electronica, ambient, house and techno. Max Loderbauer and Tom Thiel aka Sun Electric were part of the initial revolution of electronic music and defined what we call ambient or electronic music today. This year Shitkatapult released Lost And Found (1998-2000), with previously unreleased tracks from the last great period of Sun Electric. "Toninas" is remixed by Ricardo Villalobos and the duo of Thomas Fehlmann & Daniel Meteo.

Artist:	SUN ELECTRIC
Title:	Lost + Found (1998-2000)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 086CD

Lost + Found (1998-2000) is the never-released follow-up album to 1998's Via Nostra by Berlin's Sun Electric (Max Loderbauer, Tom Thiel). Who is Sun Electric? Sun Electric is to ambient music what The Sex Pistols was to punk music. But since electronic music abandoned the pathetic poses of rock music, nobody had to die to make this unique band history. The Sun Electric members are regarded as innovators of ambient music -- or electronic listening music or intelligent dance music -- depending on what you prefer. After electronic music exploded in the late '80s/early '90s, the music seemed more or less to be restricted to forming the heartbeat of homogeneous party crowds. Like The Orb's Alex Paterson, Loderbauer and Thiel allowed the sounds to detach themselves from the action on the dancefloor to lead a life of their own. After having released six albums on the R&S/Apollo label, Loderbauer and Thiel lost interest in their hardware equipment and explored computer-based modes of music production. Lost + Found is more than an archaeological find, it's the rediscovery of electronic music as an alien experience, as a sonic challenge. Thiel and Loderbauer avoid the pathetic narcissism of overproduction: the plague in current electronic music production. Lost + Found was recorded in the three successive years after Sun Electric's final album was released in 1998. Listening to Lost + Found, one might feel like visiting a jungle: the music creates a complex soundscape, reminding of the noises of weather conditions and the sounds of a multitude of unknown animals. While current electronic music triggers the movements of the dancer's bodies like an aerobics class, the effects of Sun Electric's music on mind and body are complex and open.

Artist:	VA
Title:	SmaShits
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 088CD

For its 10th anniversary, Berlin's Shitkatapult risks an overflowing cup of festive reflection. The drunken cheer spawned the simplest of plans: to dust off the good old German tradition of drinking songs, take them out of the world of wood-panelled shacks and dusty trophies and, just in time for the fifth season, give them a sparkling new overhaul: a dash of strobes in a Berlin pub, so to speak. For this very exclusive concoction they shook, stirred, poured and spared no pains. Besides a bunch of sing-along evergreens, expect some brand new input for the bottomless archives of German drinking songs, bound to scare some of you and warm the cockles of others. SmaShits will slid in nicely along with the Shitkatapult label's recent releases by Anders Ilar, Apparat and Sun Electric. There are fruity vintages from favorite martial arts whizz kids Deichkind, who present "Prost" (feat. Das Bo), an arty smash snuggling up to equally infectious anthems by Geld Et Nelt and T.Raumschmiere (feat. Ellen Allien) as well as the sensational cover of (in)famous German punk hit "Steifheit" (Betoncombo) by Das Bierbeben. From disco to delirium in three easy steps. Shaking up those evergreens, expect (Heino's) "Caramba Caracho Ein Whisky," by Anaphie vs. Phlex, "Die Reblaus" (Hans Moser's grandeur appropriated by Marc Marcovic) and "Red Red Wine" in a dubstep version by Fenin (feat. Gorbi). As part of this aural drink fest, check out Rainald Grebe and soft drink stomper "Trink Ein Cola" by Dirty Dishes. And last, but not least, we have snared the tireless media sentries of Studio Braun for a "Bierlied!" The icing on the boozy cake: Helge Schneider chips in with his keyboard ode to secret drinking, "Allein In Der Bar." The CD will be accompanied by a lavish 20-page booklet featuring alcohol-soaked ramblings by Rocky Schamoni, Kai Pohl, Jörg Sundermaier and Daniel Meteo, plus a few lyrics to shout along to and a cartoon. Here's to you!

Artist:	APPARAT
Title:	Things To Be Frickled
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 089CD

Presenting a double CD release compiling a fine collection of Sascha Ring aka Apparat's remix work. Things To Be Frickled is a mega-showcase of current electronic music pioneers merging and redefining ways of making music. Killer club tracks as well as silent epics each find their home in Apparat's musical cosmos. This CD is not meant as a follow-up to the successful Walls album, rather, it is a way to understand Apparat's background, friends, influences, works and ideas. Things To Be Frickled presents a new motion in electronic music that takes both steps: loops/tracks/club music vs. songwriting, soundscapes, and new ways of experimenting and understanding what is possible with bits and bytes, instrument(al)s and vocals. CD1 showcases 11 giant mixes Apparat did for artists such as Paul Kalkbrenner (with Ellen Allien), Francesco Tristano, Swayzak, Boys Noize, Lusine, Nathan Fake, Meteo/Thiel, Nitrada and Raz Ohara plus an unreleased live Apparat re-version of "Let Your Love Grow" by Moderat (a cooperation between Modeselektor and Apparat) featuring the great Tikiman (aka Paul St. Hilaire). CD2 assembles 11 remixes done for Apparat plus several Apparat remix 12"s, all of them appearing on CD for the first time: Telefon Tel Aviv, Modeselektor, Chris De Luca vs. Phon.o, Thomas Fehlmann, Monolake, Boys Noize, Lusine, Anders Ilar and Raz Ohara. Also featuring a previously-unreleased mix of Shrubbn!! remixing "Hailin From The Edge."

Artist:	FENIN
Title:	Breakin'/A Try Mixes
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 090EP

Breakin'/A Try Mixes showcases all of Fenin's class and quality seen from a remixer's perspective. "Breakin'" is a dancefloor piece with a popcorn melody line upon a grooving funk techno beat. The remix version by Der Dritte Raum is a fat production. "A Try" features Gorbi on vocals and is remixed by Daniel Meteo & Max Loderbauer/Tom Thiel aka Sun Electric. Meteo's house remix is pure deep funk, while Sun Electric produce an arty ragga track with splattered vocals.

Artist:	FENIN
Title:	Been Through
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 091CD

This is the second full-length release from Berlin's Lars Fenin for the Shitkatapult label. From his start in the late-'90s up until now, Fenin has crafted a unique dub techno trademark sound. However, Been Through steps out of the dub techno circus to involve much more. Rhythm-wise, you can recognize that the dubstep era influenced the Berlin producer: 4-to-the-floor beats have been replaced by strong broken patterns that evoke a dancefloor feeling but with their subtle breaks and moves, develop into a unique approach to electronic dancehall. Fenin is also accompanied by fantastic guests -- Gorbi, a Berlin-based singer from Ghana, lends his unique voice to four tracks on this record. Far away from being a wanna-be Jamaican reggae toaster, Gorbi showcases a real African singer spirit in his work. If you are looking for the original reggae tip of Been Through, you might prefer Jamaican toaster Scorcha with whom Fenin created "Complain," which is a first-class digital riddim. To make it a classic Fenin album, you can also still taste the dub techno beat on tracks like "Miles and More" and the first single track "Breakin." "Breakin" is a little machine -- it merges the dub techno and dubstep fever with a taste of electronic pop. Abstract fun and deep grooves. To complete the album, there are three ambient tracks: the heavenly "So Weit So Gut," "Years Ago" and the opener track, "Dub Eraldo," which was made together with Eraldo Bernocchi, an Italian avant garde jazz guitarist and electronic producer who has worked with people such as Thomas Fehlmann and Bill Laswell.

Artist:	WARREN SUICIDE
Title:	Requiem For A Missing Link
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 093CD

This is Berlin-based art/music duo Cherie and Nackt aka Warren Suicide's first full-length release for the Shitkatapult label. Since 2006's The Hello on Fume, their world has been overflowing with projects: drawings, videos, visual concepts, theater music, composing, web sites, productions, sessions, remixes and new ideas. Requiem For A Missing Link is a condensed expression of their multimedia works -- 12 great songs merged into one big composition beyond genre boundaries. Tracks such as "Run Run," "Land Of The Free," and "Home" are perfect pop masterpieces between electro and rock, pop and avant garde arrangements. String pieces, distorted basses and drum loops underline the clear voices of Nackt and Cherie. Beatles-punk-electro. This whole album is like concept art without underlining any heavy meaning: like the title track proclaims, "I want to love what I don't understand," Warren marries dark tales and unforeseeable events into something very fresh. This is special music for special people who can love beyond understanding. The cover art is another fine drawing by Cherie herself.

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	Animal Territory/Brenner
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 095EP

Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere introduces the second 12" chapter of his album I Tank U. This 12" features Puppetmastaz and Deichkind with The Crack Whore Society as debuting guest vocalists. "Animal Territory" presents Puppetmastaz on a heavy rock synth beat. It's rap/tech/rock as classical Def Jam link between Beastie Boys and Run DMC. "Brenner" takes a deep step into the rap history of tomorrow. The clear techno beat tells the story of a burnout party feeling with no return.

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	I Tank U
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 096CD

After years of waiting, Shitkatapult label-head Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere finally releases the album that completes the series begun by the two previous Mute albums, Radio Blackout (2003) and Blitzkrieg Pop (2005). I Tank U is the end result of a musical progress: it is dark electronica, techno history, and songwriting, jammed in a terrific rock record. The number of featured guests on this album is remarkable: the notorious energy rappers from Deichkind with The Crack Whore Society, the alien rappers from the Puppetmastaz, the great Tim Vanhamel from Deus and Millionaire, the artist duo Warren Suicide, as well as Lilian Hak, Barbara Panther and Gene Serene. The rapping techno beats, cranky patterns, eerie melodies and those front row beasts gushing with energy do not compete with each other, but create an entity together. The live drums and guitars meet generated synth sounds and distorted bass lines. After all, it's the two instrumental tracks, the rock tunes sung by Haas himself, and the analogical mixing by Moses Schneider that make I Tank U more of an electronic rock album than a rocking electronic album. This release defies any prevailing pessimism about stale techno by doing whatever it fancies and saying no to all strictly defined label boundaries. After The Great Rock'n Roll Swindle (Shitkatapult, 2002), the crude techno long player which assembled his first 12"s, as well as the ambient album Anti (Hefty, 2002), T.Raumschmiere released Radio Blackout (2003) and Blitzkrieg Pop (2005) on Novamute, Mute's techno-oriented subsidiary. He has toured all around the world as a popular techno DJ as well as with his live band, reanimated his love for ambient through the re-edition Random Noize Sessions Vol.1 (Shitkatapult, 2006) and issued some rad-as-hell techno as Shrubbn!!, Together with Ulli Bomans. No matter what the guise, T.Raumschmiere continues to defy rules in a refreshing way, just in the nick of time.

Artist:	T.RAUMSCHMIERE
Title:	I Tank U
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	3LP/CD
Price:	$50.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 096LP

Previously released on CD by Shitkatapult, now available in a 180 gram 3LP version: the first two records are the full Tank U record plus an exclusive vinyl track, the third record is all-instrumental, plus one CD, one pin, one patch and one sticker. Packaged in a deluxe boxset. After years of waiting, Shitkatapult label-head Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere finally releases the album that completes the series begun by the two previous Mute albums, Radio Blackout (2003) and Blitzkrieg Pop (2005). I Tank U is the end result of a musical progress: it is dark electronica, techno history, and songwriting, jammed in a terrific rock record. The number of featured guests on this album is remarkable: the notorious energy rappers from Deichkind with The Crack Whore Society, the alien rappers from the Puppetmastaz, the great Tim Vanhamel from Deus and Millionaire, the artist duo Warren Suicide, as well as Lilian Hak, Barbara Panther and Gene Serene. The rapping techno beats, cranky patterns, eerie melodies and those front row beasts gushing with energy do not compete with each other, but create an entity together. The live drums and guitars meet generated synth sounds and distorted bass lines. I Tank U is more of an electronic rock album than a rocking electronic album. Either way, T.Raumschmiere continues to defy rules in a refreshing way, just in the nick of time.

Artist:	WARREN SUICIDE
Title:	What Did You Do?!
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 097EP

What Did You Do?! presents Warren Suicide in the hands of friends. Three glam-rock/tekkkno/house remixes showcase the dark side of a master plan. Shrubbn!!'s "Land Of The Free" remix is a straight techno mix for the main floor. "Knock Knock" is a crystal clear disco house remix by Khan, and "What Did We Do?!" is another great track from the original Warren Suicide album, Requiem For A Missing Link. The remix by Steve Morrell is never-resting, irresistible, and fuck-off insane.

Artist:	CLP
Title:	Supercontinental
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 098CD

This is the first full-length release from the collaborative project by Berlin producers and DJs Chris de Luca and Phon.o aka CLP. Rising from Berlin's underground, CLP are forging their own definition of funk, throwing together old school hip-hop, dirty South synth-sounds, early Miami-bass and crunk. CLP sent their instrumental-tracks to talented and -- with some exceptions -- mostly unknown rappers in the U.S. and South-Africa. The result is an explosive mixture of styles -- from dirty techno to ghetto beats. Truly supercontinental, indeed. De Luca gained international recognition as one-half of Funkstörung -- most notably remixing the likes of Björk and the Wu Tang Clan -- but they went their separate ways in 2006. Phon.o's DJ'ing specialty mixes techno with speeded up hip-hop instrumentals, and in Berlin he's one of the few DJs that play ghetto-tech, Miami-bass and crunk. Now, under the name CLP, they bring together the best of both worlds: their stoic braveness in experimenting with strange new sounds, and a new fondness for ass-kickingly explicit pop songs. On old drum machines the code CLP meant "claps." When the Sugarhill Gang switched the snaredrum on "Rappers Delight" to handclaps, they turned things around, creating on vinyl the sense of a party crowd clapping the beat for the rapper. CLP borrowed this old block-party idea and the philosophy of letting anyone who's got skills get on the mic. There's only one problem: there aren't so many block-parties going on in Berlin - and a lot of Berlin rappers are too caught up in gangstawannabe posturing. So CLP looked elsewhere, using Myspace to find talented MCs in other parts of the world. The project flourished with an exchange of ideas, beats, and vocals, making their way back and forth across the Atlantic. It's time to get ready for some intergalactic hip-hop, ghetto beats, sexy booty IDM and dirty techno. Featured contributing artists include: Tunde Olaniran, Yo Majesty, Kovas, Mochipet & Hustle Heads, Rayzaflo, Spoek, Damaged Good$, Cerebral Vortex, Zion I & Data MC, and White Gold Princess.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Strike 100
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$21.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 100CD

The Shitkatapult label celebrates their 100th release with a killer pack of 25 tracks on 2CD/3LP format, featuring an all-star line-up, including many exclusive tracks. Label-owner Marco Haas (aka T.Raumschmiere) ushered Shitkatapult into the world with 1997's Stormbow 10", and then with 1999's Cozmick Suckers Volume Orange compilation, hurling the label into the world with a bang, gritty crackles, expansive sounds, cool experiments and warm, optimistic boldness for the floor, the bedroom and everything in-between. Pan, zoom, cut: over a decade later, and a cool 100 releases down the line, this compilation takes the label back to its dreamy vision, a spiky, feverish, beautiful thicket, and throws together 25 "listening/electronica/ambient" highlights not a million miles away from, say, a Weimarian or Leningrad master class of electronic music. While the majority of the tracks are exclusives for this special occasion (The Orb, T.Raumschmiere, etc.), some were culled from previous records (Soap&Skin, Das Bierbeben, Judith Juillerat) or dug up and licensed from the classics vault for an overall oeuvre of unrivaled proportions. Take Apparat's stunning Johnny Cash remix, for example, or Bus reworked by AG Penthouse or Julia Hummer's heart-wrenching collaboration with Pluramon, "If Time Was On My Side," an apt motto for the assembled artists, dedicated to music despite all odds. But why do it? Because it makes sense, say the wistful woods that grace this record, caught in the delicious delusion of elves and fly agaric -- Bianca Strauch's exceptional cover art creates the right setting for Simona Danciu's beautiful woodland image, the winning entry in Shitkatapult's cover art competition. Other artists on this compilation include: Tom Thiel, Felix, Ismael Pinkler, Kero, Ben Lauber, Warren Suicide, Daniel Meteo, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, Krater, DJ Flush, Schieres, Dalglish, Richard Lautenschläger, Anaphie, Shrubbn!!, Fenin, Peter Grummich, and Anders Ilar.

Artist:	VA
Title:	Strike 100
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	3LP
Price:	$26.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 100LP

Triple LP version. The Shitkatapult label celebrates their 100th release with a killer pack of 25 tracks on 2CD/3LP format, featuring an all-star line-up, including many exclusive tracks. Label-owner Marco Haas (aka T.Raumschmiere) ushered Shitkatapult into the world with 1997's Stormbow 10", and then with 1999's Cozmick Suckers Volume Orange compilation, hurling the label into the world with a bang, gritty crackles, expansive sounds, cool experiments and warm, optimistic boldness for the floor, the bedroom and everything in-between. Pan, zoom, cut: over a decade later, and a cool 100 releases down the line, this compilation takes the label back to its dreamy vision, a spiky, feverish, beautiful thicket, and throws together 25 "listening/electronica/ambient" highlights not a million miles away from, say, a Weimarian or Leningrad master class of electronic music. While the majority of the tracks are exclusives for this special occasion (The Orb, T.Raumschmiere, etc.), some were culled from previous records (Soap&Skin, Das Bierbeben, Judith Juillerat) or dug up and licensed from the classics vault for an overall oeuvre of unrivaled proportions. Take Apparat's stunning Johnny Cash remix, for example, or Bus reworked by AG Penthouse or Julia Hummer's heart-wrenching collaboration with Pluramon, "If Time Was On My Side," an apt motto for the assembled artists, dedicated to music despite all odds. But why do it? Because it makes sense, say the wistful woods that grace this record, caught in the delicious delusion of elves and fly agaric -- Bianca Strauch's exceptional cover art creates the right setting for Simona Danciu's beautiful woodland image, the winning entry in Shitkatapult's cover art competition. Other artists on this compilation include: Tom Thiel, Felix, Ismael Pinkler, Kero, Ben Lauber, Warren Suicide, Daniel Meteo, Jan Jelinek, Frank Bretschneider, Krater, DJ Flush, Schieres, Dalglish, Richard Lautenschläger, Anaphie, Shrubbn!!, Fenin, Peter Grummich, and Anders Ilar.

Artist:	CLP (FEAT. KOVAS)
Title:	Homecourt/DIP Shorty EP
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 101EP

Shitkatapult's 101st release honors the ghetto beat -- a wild mixture of rap, hop, booty-bass, favela and techno by CLP (Chris de Luca vs. Phon.o) featuring Kovas. "Homecourt" appears in an exclusive new mix by CLP themselves, who stripped down the vocals into dub areas. Cut-up fragments and steaming beats for all neo-dancefloors. A2 showcases a Euro-dance super-mega remix of "Homecourt" by Housemeister. "Dip Shorty" gets completed by the young Berlin beat juggles of Bugati Force -- clever, kickin' fun.

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Remixes
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 102EP

German techno/punk project Das Bierbeben opens up three tracks from their full-length Das Bierbeben for some special remix treatment. "Behind The Green Door" is remixed by T.Raumschmiere, who makes futuristic club music for the underground and overground. There is an exclusive instrumental and DJ-friendly deep cut of "Nihilit," and a super-deep techno remix by French DJ Chloé. "Wie Ein Vogel" marries political lyrics with techno songwriting and a German post-punk aesthetic. Nevertheless, this is 100% club music -- 9 minutes of dancing and dreaming.

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Das Bierbeben
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 103CD

Berlin and Hamburg-based Das Bierbeben present their third full-length release on the Shitkatapult label, which ends with the second album's (2006's Alles Fällt) first sound: the strike of a gong. Heralding a new hour or age, or maybe even impending doom, the important third album returns to its roots and proudly wears its heart on its sleeve. A simple, self-titled affair, Das Bierbeben marks the culmination of a steady development. Firmly ensconced in the context of pop history, the band churn out a deluge of faithful references, copying and recycling, mixing and reviving, cherishing and celebrating the great protest movements of (German) pop music: '70s protest folk, Ton Steine Scherben, German punk and techno find themselves joined in (un)holy matrimony. Das Bierbeben makes for easier listening than its predecessor, Alles Fällt. There is pop to be heard -- and then some: there are hooklines, choruses, sing-along segments, and heart-wrenching melodies. Spurred on by these traditional structures, Das Bierbeben tackle the German traditional song "Hochzeit" by Franz Josef Degenhardt, for which they pull out all the stops, couching apocalyptic lyrics in lullaby harmonies. A more explicit rendition of this pending apocalypse rears its head on "Nihilit" -- here, a star comes crashing down, days become night, nobody sleeps and the waters rise. Gong! If Mike Oldfield had a hand in Das Bierbeben, he would weigh in with a nod of approval. Recorded, produced and tweaked to perfection in four different studios, the band swapped plug-ins for analog synths and added live drums, guitars, marimbas, flutes, etc. With label boss Marco Haas (aka T.Raumschmiere) at the controls, the band sounds clearer, stronger, and more concise. Produced by Thies Mynther and Jan Müller, engineered by Marco Haas. The band comprises Jan Müller (Tocotronic, Dirty Dishes), Julia Wilton, Rasmus Engler (Herrenmagazin, Dirty Dishes, Gary) and new member Alexander Tsitsigias (Schrottgrenze, Saboteur, Station 17).

Artist:	DAS BIERBEBEN
Title:	Das Bierbeben
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 103LP

LP version. Berlin and Hamburg-based Das Bierbeben present their third full-length release on the Shitkatapult label, which ends with the second album's (2006's Alles Fällt) first sound: the strike of a gong. Heralding a new hour or age, or maybe even impending doom, the important third album returns to its roots and proudly wears its heart on its sleeve. A simple, self-titled affair, Das Bierbeben marks the culmination of a steady development. Firmly ensconced in the context of pop history, the band churn out a deluge of faithful references, copying and recycling, mixing and reviving, cherishing and celebrating the great protest movements of (German) pop music: '70s protest folk, Ton Steine Scherben, German punk and techno find themselves joined in (un)holy matrimony. Das Bierbeben makes for easier listening than its predecessor, Alles Fällt. There is pop to be heard -- and then some: there are hooklines, choruses, sing-along segments, and heart-wrenching melodies. Spurred on by these traditional structures, Das Bierbeben tackle the German traditional song "Hochzeit" by Franz Josef Degenhardt, for which they pull out all the stops, couching apocalyptic lyrics in lullaby harmonies. A more explicit rendition of this pending apocalypse rears its head on "Nihilit" -- here, a star comes crashing down, days become night, nobody sleeps and the waters rise. Gong! If Mike Oldfield had a hand in Das Bierbeben, he would weigh in with a nod of approval. Recorded, produced and tweaked to perfection in four different studios, the band swapped plug-ins for analog synths and added live drums, guitars, marimbas, flutes, etc. With label boss Marco Haas (aka T.Raumschmiere) at the controls, the band sounds clearer, stronger, and more concise. Produced by Thies Mynther and Jan Müller, engineered by Marco Haas. The band comprises Jan Müller (Tocotronic, Dirty Dishes), Julia Wilton, Rasmus Engler (Herrenmagazin, Dirty Dishes, Gary) and new member Alexander Tsitsigias (Schrottgrenze, Saboteur, Station 17).

Artist:	MOTOR
Title:	Death Rave
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 104EP

Notorious techno-rockers Motor return with a cut off their Metal Machine full-length "Death Rave," a ferociously tough, turbo-charged dancefloor destroyer that rocks out with unrestrained raw power. Combining detuned snarling synths with rock-hard beats, "Death Rave" smashes all senses with undisguised glee. "Metal Machine" (itself a dark, ominous, techno killer) is also included, though is not available on the album. Remix duties are handled by electro-tech DJ/producer Jonty Skrufff, who revs up Motor's original for maximum dancefloor-destroying effect.

Artist:	METEO, DANIEL
Title:	In Club Mood (With Abe Duque)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$11.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 106EP

This outstanding record by Berlin's Shitkatapult features the most clubbing hit on Daniel Meteo's house album Working Class, in its original version and also a Chicago/Detroit acid house remix by Abe Duque, who takes "In The Mood" down to the underground with pitched-down vocals, acid chainsaws, Detroit bass drums, strings, keys, etc. Unreleased dance track "Audio Quattro" combines 4-to-the-floor and half-beat to create the future funk of electronic music. Stevie Wonder meets current club music.

Artist:	METEO, DANIEL
Title:	Working Class
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 107CD

This is the second full-length solo album by Berlin's Daniel Meteo. Working Class is a painting, a patina-coated classic, a precious collection of bourgeois oddities that are heavy, deep and dark. Meteo packs his (steamer) trunk with 11 uncanny, old-fashioned tracks, veering between house and electronica. Meteo kicks it all off with a roughly-hewn club beat, then slathers on layer upon layer of DIY piano loops, fluttering melodies, creaking bass lines and constantly-shifting, spellbinding harmonics. Working Class shrugs off its house-y pretensions to reveal its true, underlying nature as a modern soul album. Unshackled from concepts, quotations, and its own history, all the tracks follow their own mood and take a leisurely stroll through the club scene before a quick dip into the abyss. "On The Corner"'s massive, dark walls of chords, the soulful clarions on "Return Of The Pure" or the Moodyman-inspired "Working Class" cherish and celebrate deepness and groove without any overt gestures, tricky beats or rave-centric hi-hats in favor of a more dreamlike and picturesque composition. In a way, the Detroit-esque FM interplay "Signals" and the trad-house homage of "Grace" seem to herald a new chapter or classic B-side. All of a sudden, there is more levity, more treble, more light and clarity, culminating in the gloriously-mumbled vocal track "In The Mood." A huge club hit and eminently listenable, its snappy lyrics stick in your brain long after the last chord has faded. In-your-face beats, off chords, techno bass -- done. A brief respite for weary souls, the remaining three tracks float dreamily through the evening sky: "Schön Feddich" and "Opener" plus the piano exercise "Reclam," with the latter skirting dangerously close to a kitsch-infused piss-take. The album's artwork -- courtesy of Bianca Strauch -- shows a photograph by Daniel's sister Kathrin Peters and depicts the garden of an old bourgeois home. Beautiful classicism, just like this album.

Artist:	NOTIC NASTIC
Title:	It's Dark But It's Okay
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 110CD

Shitkatapult's first album release in 2010 is the exciting debut by New York and Berlin group Notic Nastic. It's Dark But It's Okay tells a story about a girl as she grows up and changes a lot. Not a real coming of age thing, but more a collage of life. The soul of the story is that no one is just one character. We will each be 1,000 different things to 1,000 different people in the world... ID is slippery. The album features a great deal of electronic music, kicking, forward, disturbing, as well as easy, pop music based on fat beats. Right off the bat, the first three songs "Let Go," "Stupid Happy" and "Secret Life" grow an intense mixture of music elements that remind you of some cocktail of Missy Elliot, T.Raumschmiere and the typical Shitkatapult out-of-nowhere style. A perfect picture of a human life that assembles the results of the neverending morphs we all go through. The album also fantasizes about the quiet, inner vision you have of yourself that no other person will ever completely see or understand: "The Secret Life." Notic Nastic draws this riddle in musically-perfect praxis: 13 songs blend fast breaks, variable parts, catchy refrains and disturbing, but always grooving, breaks and bridges. Notic Nastic makes pumping, popped-out, strangely addictive electronic bon-bons where twisted vocals meet freaky beats. Besides this fantastic debut album, Notic Nastic has already drawn great feedback with their live-performances. They wear glowing masks and put out big beats. Their show has a great, energetic output with power, acid and life. No matter how weird or dark things get, there is lots of fun to be had -- so shut up, chill out and shake that ass.

Artist:	BELIAYEVA, XENIA
Title:	Ever Since
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 111EP

Xenia Beliayeva presents the first single from her album Ever Since (STRIKE 113CD). The title track is a raw and clean, pop and mean, track and song. This 12" includes the wonderful original plus a variety of awesome remixes. Xenia's co-producer André Winter adds a special, tripping magic, while Ezequiel Sanchez delivers a cool, basic tech-house remix. Detroit Grand Pubahs' broken club mix sticks to the pop vein of the track and emphasizes the dark side of Xenia's aesthetics.

Artist:	BELIAYEVA, XENIA
Title:	Ever Since
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 113CD

This is the long-awaited debut album from Germany's Xenia Beliayeva. Since her first releases on Anthony Rother's Datapunk label, Xenia Beliayeva developed a certain style that she has now mastered. Her first album on T.Raumschmiere's Shitkatapult sets a landmark in the terrain of today's dance music: cool, dark, electronic. Tracks like "New Day," "Satellite," "Mind Damage" or the title-track "Ever Since" work far beyond the boundaries of club music and reach out to a larger audience. Combined with a futuristic style of love and shadows, Xenia Beliayeva puts this album, produced by mastermind André Winter, in the tradition of dark wave/pop music by the likes of Sisters Of Mercy, Human League, Soft Cell and others. Xenia, born in Moscow, lives in Hamburg nowadays and fits in the actual Shitkatapult roster perfectly alongside a number of electronic music artists that are oriented towards the idea of songwriting -- far more than just making tracks.

Artist:	LE ROCK, SID
Title:	Tout Va Bien
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 115CD

The Franco-Canadian and Berlin-based producer Sheldon Thompson (aka Pan/Tone, Gringo Grinder ) aka Sid LeRock presents his third album Tout Va Bien, with 11 fresh and bright tracks that never stop rocking. All his work can be described as very personal electronic music that keeps on searching for the human touch -- the errors, wrong paths and trials that one can find in all creative works. The computer and electronic instruments are just alternate ways to create sound and rhythm, just as with drums, guitars, and bass. Sid Le Rock makes use of all these mediums and fights to stray away from the machine's calculated ways of the straight track. Human error is vital. Tracks such as "Swollen Member," "Incliner," and "Pow Wow" are examples of great, rocking, funk tunes with the typical Sid tchak (snare/clap/boom!) style, combined with classical, melodic rock riffs and techno bass patterns. And best of all, are the wonderful hidden gems with amazing vocal tracks such as "Still Life" and "Walk Alone" -- classical songs, classical moods, and wonderfully charming singing from a bearded man. After the bankruptcy of Ladomat, Sid LeRock was without a home, so he focused his attention on his other alias, Pan/Tone and his own imprints, Cereal/Killers and Beachcoma. As Pan/Tone, he released with Kompakt, Sender, and Sub-Static and completed some random productions as Sid LeRock with remixes for Depeche Mode, Gui Boratto, Fairmont and Placebo. It took him 4 years to return to a big Sid LeRock album, and it's about time.

Artist:	FENIN
Title:	None Of Them (Robag Wruhme Remixes)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 116EP

"None Of Them" by Lars Fenin is an outstanding track originally from his 2005 album Grounded, and it assembles the best of two music worlds: reggae and techno. The songwriting by Fenin combined with the voice of Gorbi will give you goosebumps. Here now, we have the 12" featuring "None Of Them" in a floor killer remix by Robag Wruhme, featured on Fenin's Mixes & Maxis CD (STRIKE 117CD), and a dub remix version, exclusive to this release, on the flip side.

Artist:	FENIN
Title:	Mixes & Maxis
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 117CD

Some people call it the renaissance of dub techno -- the deep, the twisted and the reverberant are returning to the dancefloor. Lars Fenin, born in Hamburg and living in Berlin, has been known for that kind of sound for more than ten years already, releasing ingenious stuff on Shitkatapult, Hör Zu, Echocord/Colour, Meteosound and his own label called Dock. Mixes & Maxis is a roundhouse kick of his current work: nine magical dub techno tracks, some of which have already been published on 12"s, but are now available on CD for the first time. Besides blueprint tracks like the brilliant "Done" or "Driven," and more current releases like "Romeo Kalimba" (great Echocord split maxi with "Deadbeat") as well as Fenin's dubstep hit "Seems Like," there are quite a few new treasures to be found here. "Adeto," for example, an incredibly deep ambient track, creating a musical ocean of black and dark blue waves. Just like the extremely funky "Division El Norte" and "Sound And Power" featuring renowned vocalist Gorbi, all tracks stand for quality and a certain groove as well as a natural connection between electronic music, techno and dub. The album's magical moment is an old friend in a new suit: "None Of Them," Fenin's evergreen also featuring Gorbi, has been remixed by Robag Wruhme. When he was still a part of Wighnomy Brothers, Robag had played "None Of Them" over and over again and had placed the track at the top of his DJ charts, so of course he was thrilled to remix the track. And what a remix it turned out to be -- a killer on the dancefloor and still a soulful techno track. The album in general is characterized by a certain timelessness, a constancy of music beyond the borders of electronic, dub or techno. It's depth and soul turning sound into music instead of a fleeting moment of hype. It is the renaissance of longevity, of the soul of music, which drives us all.

Artist:	SOUL CENTER
Title:	General Eclectics
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 118CD

With the release of his fourth album, General Eclectics, Thomas Brinkmann breathes new life into his stellar side project Soul Center. Don't be misled by the album's title, though. Taken literally, General Eclectics will lead you astray not once, but twice. While the cover might allude to local noise merchants Einstürzende Neubauten's infamous Haus Der Lüge sleeve and Paolo Uccello's horse's rear, the album's inner sleeve is covered in maps, footballs, cigarette butts, priests, etc., each replete with their own rich history. Take the ashtray, for example: a work of art in itself that is both light-hearted and laden with meaning. It is Brinkmann's sense of appropriation (the eclectic side of things) and his interpretation of art/music/image/sound, that provides the red thread to connect the individual parts -- and concept -- of this album. Unlike Soul Center's previous works, the featured music is almost entirely devoid of samples and returns to a deep melange of techno's richer funk and soul flavors -- from the album's slowed-down opener, "Marmelade," right up to the final hands-in-the-air stomper "Dyr Bul Scyl." For this album, only two tracks include significant vocal usage and this time, the artist underlines the background of the lyrics. Aleksei Kruchenykh and Vladimir Majakovsky are two of the main writers of the Russian futurism of the 1920s. And we all need some more Russian futurism these days.

Artist:	SORRY ENTERTAINERS, THE
Title:	New Age
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 120EP

Lotti and Raz Ohara finally release New Age, the perfect debut from their project The Sorry Entertainers. With Berlin techno mainstream waving in the distance, these three tracks will dunk you into joy while cheerfully pointing in all directions: house, electronic, soul, funk, songwriting, track, downbeat, club. Vocals morph from leading voice to sound effect, violins become a sound design and everything has been touched by an enormous passion for detail. A beautiful puzzle with a million pieces.

Artist:	THIEL, TOM
Title:	Tom Thiel
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 125CD

Tom Thiel seems to be unflappable. On his solo debut album (released quite late in his career), he doesn't make too much of an effort regarding zeitgeist and trends. And why should he? He has been a part of it all since forever, no need to prove anything to anyone. And "Pulse" is the beginning of a great album, located somewhere in the warm regions of the genre. Like a sine wave, the record swerves from house to electronica and even touches the latitudes of pure ambient. Apart from a couple of short pieces, there are nine-minute songs and psychedelic guitar compositions, rummaging around in the depths of music, all the while self-confident and playful. The songs are characterized not only by Tom's special musical handwriting, they also always ring of his previous productions (when he was with Sun Electric or Bus), mirroring those times. The past seems to be just a little while ago as well as now and soon. The alleged contradictions disappear in favor of more important, crucial elements of music, without ever sounding moldy or even out-dated. Wide melody lines, soft, complex beats or direct, simple beats: they speak a timeless language and thus represent the most modern side of electronic music.

Artist:	LE ROCK, SID
Title:	Gentlemen's Intermission
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 126EP

This 12" by Shitkatapult pal Sid Le Rock (aka Pan/Tone) rocks the shit. "Devil's Night" is a serious 8+ minute smooth melodic techno piece from the hands of the Franco-Canadian-Berlin meister. The B-side opens up with a majestic Soul Center remix of "Made For You." Thomas Brinkmann re-arranges the original by adding a straight funkyness with filter warmth, bass drums and extra bass. "Hello Gorgeous" finishes it all off with surprisingly smooth, melancholy indie-rock and deep pop feeling.

Artist:	BOOMBASTIK & EDUARDO DELGADO LOPEZ, MARK
Title:	Adiós Berlin
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 127CD

Beatboxer, lyricist and singer Mark Boombastik finally releases his album Adiós Berlin, produced with Eduardo Delgado Lopez (bass guitar and more). No more pseudonyms, no frills, but intimacy between sense and nonsense: a grand record. Adiós Berlin is champagne and unpaid rent. It is love and hate -- it is a conviction and an absolution of the possibility to be different, to live differently. It is the mainstream suitability of the peculiar, like cooking without a recipe. It is tomato stains in a kitchen, scratches on a record, scars on a shin. It is a swan song and a new beginning. An album like a speech, between a cappella and beatbox, punk and rough cut -- techno and experiments for a special audience. Tracks like "Funkgeraet" and "Arbeit" whir more like they're in love than in danger. "1000" and "Hitze" sound like waking up after a big night and declaring a state of emergency. These guys got to know and love each other while raising their glasses to their common fondnesses for music, records, art, and architecture. Mark Boombastik has worked as a human beatbox and singer with the likes of Angie Reed, Funkstörung, Khan, Fischmob, Patric Catani, Felix Kubin, Max Goldt and many more . Eduardo Delgado Lopez has played with everyone who is anyone, but is especially known for playing bass with the Caspar Brötzmann Massaker. His radical, minimal and sequential playing seems to be made for Mark Boombastik's sharp beat(boxing). Adiós Berlin captures a lunatic zest for life.

Artist:	SORRY ENTERTAINERS, THE
Title:	Local Jet Set
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 129CD

With all those sets, tractors, technicians, software forums, updates and MP3 subscription discussions, we tend to forget about the nucleus of club music: record collectors. What we call techno, house, and so on today, was developed in Detroit and Chicago in an atmosphere of party, of mix tapes and of progressive radio shows. Styles, songs, ideas were mixed up, blended, amalgamated and from lust, new lust arose. DJ Lotti lives right in this atmosphere of record shelves, an endless source of love and inspiration to him. Calling himself The Sorry Entertainers, he plays -- no, he celebrates -- music on the open platforms of Berlin club culture. Soon he found himself in a spiral, a maelstrom of ideas and of trying out. He found some friends to produce his own songs with, which were already clearly defined in his head, which were already playing in his ear. With producers and musicians M. Rux and Raz Ohara, he's now releasing The Sorry Entertainers -- Local Jet Set, an incredibly warm and more than referential album, floating and swinging from actual club hits like "Jeopardize" or "End Of Times" to the deep "Moonshiner," based on the vocals of late blues and country star Roscoe Holcomb (courtesy of Folkways/Smithsonian). In between, there are sounds of Hawaii and Tokyo, from Berlin and India, from the '40s and the future. At no time does this music get stuck in a genre, in a trend, but moves in all directions, in an untroubled and airy fashion. Berlin-based singer Raz Ohara's vocals add another ingredient to the recipe and blends beats and strings, backgrounds and feelings to floating yet touching songs. This might be New Age, as was the title of the pre-released single, but it's the kind of new age that indulges in the old age and kicks, no cross-legged nonsense. Accompanied by a beautiful cover by Carsten Aermes which manages the balancing act between twisted neo-romanticism and Russian/Italian futurism of the '20s. The soul of images, the feeling of sound.

Artist:	SHRUBBN!!
Title:	Echos (Remixed By The Orb)
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	STRIKE 130EP

Marco Haas (T.Raumschmiere) and Ulli Bomans (Schieres) aka Shrubbn!! turns out an exceptionally engrossing aural novel with Echos, a sonic adventure saturated in bass, cheeps and whispers, in chords, gleams and wisps, covering a darker sound. Shrubbn!! also up the ante with an extended outtake. Enjoy a cool 13 minutes of LX Paterson and Thomas Fehlmann ffwd-ing through Shrubbn!!'s entire album, twisting it into a cracker of an Orb remix. Artwork by Transforma.

Artist:	WARREN SUICIDE
Title:	World Warren III
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 132CD

This is the third album from band/collective Warren Suicide, formed by Cherie and Nackt from Berlin. And this album is phantasmagorical, literally -- a declaration of peace, a gentle giant. Because after Hello/Warren Suicide and Requiem For A Missing Link, World Warren III abandons the disruption of genres and binary code, in favor of a third principle: Warren Peace. Duality does not mean conflict, but serves as a source for a new feeling: being able to pick one of the energies permanently alternating between "war and peace." Such is the sound of their music, confidently turning away from the past. WWIII is instead a story of science fiction and lust, an analog vision full of optimism. Songs like "In Love With The Enemy," "Animal Party" or "Moving Close" (with T.Raumschmiere as guest vocalist) whoosh, chirp and rumble with their very own, unheard-of groove. The spirit of a sound is conjured, as plug-in-ready as a book, as a Technicolor film, like a cinematic journey, captivating as anything. This music has carte blanche and chooses freedom: in love and in anarchy. Wanting more -- that's the principle Warren Suicide have been building on right from the start. With World Warren III, the two have carried their "cosmos" ideology to the extremes. Thus reads the list of the Warren cosmonauts: Earl Harvin (Air, Tindersticks), Andrew Unruh (Einstürzende Neubauten) and Ben Lauber (Transporterraum) as drummer, the Berlin/Göteborg String Theory orchestra, Warren tour companions Arne Augustin (Nena), Giovanni Nicoletta (Apparat) on keyboards, T.Raumschmiere as musician/vocalist and many more -- over 50 people. This splendid plethora has been co-organized by Moses Schneider (Tocotronic, Beatsteaks, Dendemann), who also co-produced the album.

Artist:	OVAL
Title:	OvalDNA
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	CD/DVD
Price:	$19.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 134CD

In many ways, O, released on Thrill Jockey after a nine-year break, was a second debut album for Markus Popp aka Oval. A radical break with old concepts and methods, a new beginning. While Popp's artistic approach in the 1990s and early 2000s was more of a structural, theoretical nature, O was just about the music itself. Themes such as the means of production, limitations, dogma and concept took a back seat to a musical sensibility. Instead of writing new software to synthesize and process sounds, for O, Popp dove into the heart of our preset-culture. He acquired a standard PC and only used the pre-installed sounds and plug-ins. With this ready-to-play machine and conventional musical instruments like the guitar and drums, a new chapter in the story of Oval was written. DNA is a mountain of an album: an audio CD with 25 tracks, each about three minutes long. Some are no longer than a minute. Here you'll find a collection of rare Oval pieces and 12 previously-unreleased tracks. DNA is a mixture of music from Markus Popp's various creative phases. It's surprising how old and new meld seamlessly together, and how, for Oval, formalism and musicality have produced similar results. Markus Popp has found an unmistakable musical language and declined it from A to Z. DNA, so to say, is the accompanying dictionary. Originally, this album was supposed to appear before O and conclude the "electronic" phase of Oval. DNA is intoxicating and wonderful. There is the intensive guitar work of the new pieces, an eruptive bundle of sounds, the sparkle and shimmer of high tones. The simultaneousness of countless events, unbelievably dense and at the same time secretly light. Disc 2 of DNA is almost something like an Open Source Manifesto: It contains the SoundBrowser/Sequenzer-Software OvalDNA and more than 2,000 Oval Sounds from various phases of Popp's work as individual AIFF files. The software and sound files are intended for music producers and are available to all without restrictions. Also included is a video documentation of PlayGroundTV/Madrid, the Glass UFO music video by AmberleyProductions/Berlin and 10 bonus tracks for the OvalDNA album as WAV files.

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Artist:	HORZU!
Title:	Herr Pitzelberger gibt sich die Ehre
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 006EP

Artist:	NANOSPEED
Title:	Kopernicus
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 007EP

Artist:	HERR PITZELBERGER
Title:	Drent Auf
Label:	SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	STRIKE 012EP