Browse by Label: SHITKATAPULT (GERMANY)

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

"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

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:	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