Browse by Label: SUB STATIC (GERMANY)

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Gleis Zwei
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 007EP

"Now that her debut 12" 'Schlußlicht' (sus_04) has already enchanted this world's minimalists, Sub Static chief Michaela Grobelny is back with this appropriate follow-up called 'Gleis Zwei'. Keenly calm, but always daring to take a risk M.I.A. hereby intensifies her interpretation of minimal house. However, the title track (A1) proves that her versatility also includes some of the heavier tones. 4 tracks that dig their well-deserved space in this genre, between the polished everyday sound of now.

Artist:	BREITBARTH, RENE
Title:	Aquaplaning
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 009EP

"With his five releases on Cologne's tradition label Treibstoff, René Breitbarth managed to surprise his faithful fan municipality again and again, and has distinguished himself during the last three years as a versatile man of many talents and possessed experimentation friend. Now with Aquaplaning Sub Static presents a fresh 2-tracker which proves that René Breitbarth finds foothold also on the dancefloor. The title track (A1) lets us sense the last sunbeams one more time, before gradually more and more unexpected sounds and sequences start drizzling on the listener like a warm summer rain. On the contrary 'Früh aufsteh'n' (B1) appears like a teaching hour how one beats an ultra-dry, funky minimal-house slammer on the DAT with just the simplest and coolest means. With "Aquaplaning" René Breitbarth drives wide, minimalistic curves, which he works out with a lot of love to the detail, however without going into a skid on half distance."

Artist:	DB
Title:	Donaupark
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 015EP

"The first release of the Daniel Bemberger from Vienna, usually he spends the dear long day on fragmenting samples from the most uncommon origins, in order to finally rearrange them to a housy groove afterwards. Despite all this joy of experimentation, Daniel Bemberger manages to include a big portion of musicality to his tracks. Scratchy sounds and synthetic clicks are joined by noisy jazz fragments, easy chords, and in the track 'Boulevard' even some kind of 2-bitsaxophone!

Artist:	BROCKSIEPER, FALKO
Title:	Out Of Ehrenfeld
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 017EP

"Just about a year ago Falko Brocksieper released his debut 12" 'Laguna Seca' (sus 02), which left lasting impression by its unencumbered combination of functional minimal sound and subtle-warm atmosphere. On side A Falko provides a driving techno track, which convinces by its reduced & elementary character, and with slight allusions to electro and analog techno it will surely bring a breeze of fresh air to any dance floor. In contrary, side B could maybe be called l25bpm-ambient. The bass drum almost gets over-radiated by atmospheric string- & pad-formations, which are broken up again and again by percussive fragments and rhythmic shifts, keeping the tension upright over the whole length."

Artist:	BREITBARTH, RENÉ
Title:	Coruscant
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 019EP

"René Breitbarth belongs to Cologne's pioneers of House, well known through numerous releases on Treibstoff, and also his last year's 12" 'Aquaplaning' on Sub Static,which became popular by its fresh combination of atmospheric pads and knocking beats. Now René returns just in time for the hot summer days with a new 4-track EP, which makes it really difficult to decide, which one of these pieces might spread the most sunny euphoria. Putting decent, straight-forward drive next to dreamy, chilly moods makes 'Coruscant' a definite must-buy for DJ's and anybody else celebrating the open air season. René Breitbarth is the man who knows about working the traditions of house music into a current & functional shape like nobody else. All four tracks on this e.p. are convincing with an irresistible house groove, competent percussion work and incredibly brilliant, fat production -- probably the roundest output so far by this ever surprising Cologne artist."

Artist:	UNAI
Title:	Loving That Lost Feeling
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 021EP

"After taking a little break, the Swede Erik Möller aka Unai is finally back on Sub Static, where he already released the sold-out 'Sessions Around Midnight E.P.' about a year ago. Although Unai was unfortunately put into that fatal dub-house drawer far too often, he remained true to his musical expression, which has always been an own special style anyhow. Because of that, the title of this current record 'Loving That Lost Feeling' almost gets a slight politic touch. The housy title track grooves along in quite a classic and continuous way, using just a few elements. However, the detailed brilliance in sound of chords, bass and drums is so highly perfected, that no further sonic fireworks are necessary to unfold the emotional depth and melancholy of the song. A piece of art! The B-Side presents itself more playful and experimental. 'Soulbandit' (B1) is a scratchy minimal track combining hard experimental sounds and melodic, dreamy pads, in a way that lets you imagine Unai as an old Autechre-fan."

Artist:	VA
Title:	On And On
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SUS 022CD

"The music on Sub Static is between Minimal Techno and Abstract House with an intelligent dancefloor approach and very charming! On And On is the first Sub Static label compilation and features Electronica tracks by Unai, dB and Dazed, kicking tech house by Michael Langlois, Mark Thibideau and Falko Brocksieper, melodic House by M.I.A. and Rene Breitbarth and an example of dark Techno by the Coordinates. The duo Repair features female vocalist Dawn Lewis on a very atmospheric track and Lump from Finland presents a warm and grooving CD-bonus track. All tracks are 100% new and exclusive on this compilation. For everyone into Kompakt, Traum and Shitkatapult this label is a definite must."

Artist:	BROCKSIEPER, FALKO
Title:	Drive True E.P.
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 023EP

"Known through numerous releases on Sub Static, Treibstoff, Dumb Unit, and lately on the swiss imprint Tongut, Falko Brocksieper presents his new 'Drive True E.P.', which proofs his stylistic reliability for the ever popular field between techno and house. The three current tracks impress by their explicit floor- & DJ-compatibility, without dropping into that boring tool character. The A-side ('Sexy') is juggling with versatile, subtle insinuations in all stylistic directions, and interweaves its moody house groove with a touch of disco, funk and acid. The title track 'Drive True' (B1) runs with a good portion of true drive, combined with a sticky bassline and shimmering high frequencies. A track that keeps its own flavor in spite of its specifically classic elements. With 'The Bubblefields' (B2) it finally gets more technoid, especially the bass section speaks in very plain terms. The piece comes up more and more with a slightly psychedelic touch and plays with explicit old school influences. In this case Falko doesn't even recoil from handclap patterns. The 'Drive True EP' is a definite must-buy for all DJ's who want functionality and individual sound at once."

Artist:	DECOSTA, DEAN
Title:	Opaque
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 024EP

"After releases on Mosaic, Lo-Fi Stereo and Stir15; and several remixes and contributions for Background, Swayzak, Plug Research and Immigrant, California's Dean Decosta finally shows up with a fresh solo 12' on Sub Static. The two tracks 'Opaque' and 'Transition' are impressively representing what Dean stands for amongst this world's minimal-heads. Along the basic melodic theme he bends wide bows of catchy dance grooves and brilliant, detailed textures, supported by a monstrous sub bass that provides this organic warmth and depth to the tracks. On this 12" Dean Decosta knows how to hit the right mixture of loungy mood and bass-marked club sound, making this record an universal and dutiful repertoire for all kinds minimal DJs."

Artist:	THIBIDEAU, MARK
Title:	Last Night
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 025EP

"Canadian producer Mark Thibideau, known through his last year's EP B-Films, and also as one half of Repair, brings us his new record Last Night, which must be seen as the perfect barometer of mood for the hard, long winter season. Four tracks narrating of cold, darkness and hope - mysteriously covered in the timeless, vivid sound design of Mark Thibideau. The tracks 'Last Night', 'Install' and 'Silent Waiting' simply have this rumbling deepness that is currently being searched in vain, and 'Distance Between' adds a truly heartrending ambient ballad on top of this, which is once again featuring singer Dawn Lewis."

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Irgendwas Ist Immer
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 026EP

"The last highly esteemed Traum and Sub Static releases of Cologne's M.I.A. are again lying over half a year back now -- that's ages if you like music that has more to tell you than you'd first expect; that always has new secrets to reveal. It's the many details, which M.I.A. however doesn't get lost in, rather she manages to create an own sort of microcosm with every single track. But more than ever she is also paying tribute to the needs of the dancefloor, and thus the Sub Static chief delivers what we all basically want, doesn't she? Artistic techno with a remarkably own flavor, which however doesn't shirk from the needed punch which you can rely on if things come to the worst."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Odd Pieces #01
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 029EP

"Odd Pieces #01 is the prelude to a new series of 12"s, which will from now on enrich the Sub Static catalogue at regular intervals. The goal is to compile single, also unusual tracks by known or new Sub Static acts to a 12" which is unique and ingenious in content. To the current issue one, Coordinates (aka Matt Thibideau) and Pan/Tone are contributing two Canadian-winter-story-like tracks, whose almost wasteful use of odd sounds are once again providing deep atmospheric moments. Taking part as well are our street-Mozart Dazed, and Cologne's house king René Breitbarth -- this time surprising with a hybrid-techno-rocker, being almost impossible to classify. So the motto is: 'More A-sides for the money -- and when you find the hymn you may keep it."

Artist:	BROCKSIEPER, FALKO
Title:	Hoax Deluxe
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SUS 030CD

"A good two years after the first 12" release 'Laguna Seca,' Cologne's Sub Static chief Falko Brocksieper is now presenting his album debut. The music of Falko Brocksieper always shows the effort for filling the frequently gaping gap between non-functional minimalism and awfully overdone retro clash. Hoax Deluxe hits this nail squarely on the head, and presents itself as a club oriented non-concept-album for spinning and having a good time. The influences for this descend from Falko's 10-years perceptual journey from Trance, Acid, via Detroit- and Midwest-sound, Minimalism from Cologne and elsewhere, and finally to the contemporary Techno of now -- whatever this might be."

Artist:	BROCKSIEPER, FALKO
Title:	Hoax Deluxe
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SUS 030LP

Double LP version. "The music of Falko Brocksieper always shows the effort for filling the frequently gaping gap between non-functional minimalism and awfully overdone retro clash. Hoax Deluxe hits this nail squarely on the head, and presents itself as a club oriented non-concept-album for spinning and having a good time. The influences for this descend from Falko's 10-years perceptual journey from Trance, Acid, via Detroit- and Midwest-sound, minimalism from Cologne and elsewhere."

Artist:	TAHO
Title:	Digital Matter
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 031EP

"In 1993, at the age of 17, Taho already played his first live acts at various raves around Paris. Immediately he attracted the attention of Laurent Garnier, and soon this led to two 12" releases on his label F-Communication -- Vertige EP and Elle EP. After that, Taho disappeared for quite a while. Along with some artist friends he founded the audiovisual label Lumina, which is mainly present on the www. Now Sub Static brings him back to vinyl with this 12" Digital Matter, which actually lies astonishingly close to his early releases, regarding style and attitude. Right after the first seconds it's clear that Taho lost his heart in Detroit, thus the tracks are just sparkling of melodic escapades and the right portion of lovely kitsch. However, the track 'Matter; turns out to be quite a sturdy floor-smasher with an incomparable atmosphere -- captain future goes disco?! The B-side, 'Butterfly', is rather a springtime ode, with blissful peaks of melody and continuously condensing harmonies. But finally Taho's own description of his pieces should be worth a quote: 'the song 'Matter' tells the story of matter creation in the universe, somewhere lost in deep space. And 'Butterfly' is a story in a luminous world where spring is eternal'."

Artist:	COORDINATES
Title:	Tuning Fields
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 032EP

"After his last year's EP Magnetics, and a contribution to Odd Pieces #1, Matt Thibideau aka Coordinates is now back with two of his neat, heavy Tech House tracks. Tuning Fields gives three cheers for the ever essential spirit of an 'at-least-10-minutes-techno-epos', creating a remarkably dense and working combination of industrial- and dub-influences, of minimal bleeps and big reverbs, before the track finally turns to an almost poppy teamwork of driving bassline and Pet-Shop-Boys-strings. The B-side 'Autobus' is a just as kicking, however more easy swinging house track, which shows the industrial roots of Matt Thibideau as well, but somehow finding its own way to a deep, summerly mellowness."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Odd Pieces #02
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 033EP

"The second 4-tracker is now ready, with contributions of Goldfish & der Dulz, Todd Bodine, Apoll and Falko Brocksieper. All the Playhouse fans have certainly taken Goldfish & der Dulz to their hearts since a while, after they have released two great EP's there. Their new track 'Below' now finally delivers more of their deep & always still functional minimalism. Apoll's 'G-Look' certainly counts to the most smashing works of the swiss Tongut-labelmaker so far, who eventually exchanged his soft, harmonic attitude for some dry rocking bass & percussion. On the other hand, Berlin's Tresor-resident Todd Bodine hits the downtempo-brakes, surprising with a rumbling groove and dark sound textures. And finally Falko Brocksieper breaks his silence, half a year after the release of his debut album, with 'Tomato Gong' more than ever moving towards bleephouse with an authentic old school touch."

Artist:	PAN/TONE
Title:	Green Bottles & Teen Models
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 034EP

"Pan/Tone, the artist we have all grown to know as the dirty Frenchman from Toronto 'rockno city' was finally sober enough to complete an intoxicating double shooter of prime time enjoyment, after having gained some artsy intelligence credibility on labels like Revolver & Background before. The a-side, 'Chug!', will make any barfly abandon their cozy bar position only to be drawn to the dancefloors double fisted. The b-side, 'Ms. Congeniality', plays up to all the pretty little babes still around for last call. This 2 tracker EP is filled with sensual melodies and luring basslines that promises to be as good as the last drop."

Artist:	SPRING, JOHN
Title:	dispo dancer
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 035EP

"With his debut EP dispo dancer, Johannes Mai (aka. John Spring) brings a strong breeze from the German east coast. The man from Rostock rigs up his funky-fresh beat constructions with loads of strange sounds and buzzy noises, until he finally makes the whole thing be broad dancefloor mover by those surprisingly hitting hooklines. The high production level and a risk-taking attitude make John Spring be any DJs best friend, un-intentionally narrowing the gap between giant Disco dance halls and odd cellar-parties."

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Schwarzweib
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	2LP
Price:	$20.00
Catalog #:	SUS 036LP

"More than well-known as a specialist for soulful melodic euphoria through her various releases on Sub Static, Traum and Trapez, she also opened mouths and doors with her sensitively rocking remixes for The Modernist, Contriva, Jake Fairley and many more. But now she presents her inward skunk with all its darkness, scooping so much precisely kicking monster beats into juicy rumbling tracks and making even that little raver in the ear happily Hum the acid basslines. The vocals come from the heart, sure, but the beats come from an area that has usually been reserved to the testosterone-owners so far."

Artist:	ESTORNEL/TUTERA
Title:	Tema C
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 037EP

"Eric Estornel from Texas, better known as Maetrik, prepares once more to take control over the ready-to-dance floors, this time along with his Chilenian mate Miguel Tutera. Under the name Estornel/Tutera, the duo provides three brilliant & functional club tracks, all of them spreading this rich atmosphere, melancholic and propulsive at once. The title track 'Tema C' kicks hypnotically with a straight arrangement and crackling pads, letting the spark jump over by the upcoming vocal phrases at the latest. On the b-side, apocalyptic harmonies are drifting over a squeakily electro beat in 'Textures', and 'One day' finally sets us free for the weekend with rumbling chords and lashing percussions."

Artist:	PAN/TONE
Title:	Unsubscribe EP
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 038EP

"The crisp lumberjack is back, and he has carved something special: two wood gnomes, pounding and snorting everyone out of their way who didn't down his whiskey in good time. Thus Pan/Tone links to his previous killer EP on Sub Static Green Bottles & Teen Models, now having rasped even more rigorous shapes out of his favorite matter, techno, in countless, lonesome, and sudatory hours. Euphory is permitted, but still staying strict in its styling; a merciless groove, dug in the forest ground with both legs. This is more than digital voodoo or a sound juggler's affair. This is still real handwork, and there are rumours about big, rusty machines in half-mouldered iron huts, located high up in the mountains, a restricted area, surrounded by huge fences and no one being sick enough of life to make just one step beyond. This man is not from Europe, and against the common opinion he's not from Canada either. He is the true Roswell alien, and he's on the run."

Artist:	ANEURYSM, BRIAN
Title:	Succubus
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 039EP

"'The Antichrist is doing house music now, as his economic situation is probably to be rated just as miserably. Thus he has to recruit his disciples in new ways.' Thought Brian Aneurysm presumably, looking at himself in the bathroom mirror one day while being surprised by feeling two little horns on his forehead. That's why the beats on his new EP Succubus are rattling even more split-tongued, more grumbling is the voice, and flackering chords are announcing imminence. After his venomously brilliant double EP Amplified (sub static #28), the Texan has now bred his sharp-edged techno funk wrecks to a nasty kind of death metal-bebop, which doesn't even have to be played backwards to spread its seductive poison. And finally the horned entertainer burps satisfiedly after his feast, when the lost and tormented souls are dancing around his hoofs, steadily wincing to his electro-infernalis."

Artist:	SPRING, JOHN
Title:	Waterproof
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 040EP

"Who sneaks through post urban terrains at this late hour? It's John Spring, carrying this brand new Sub Static EP under his arm, always in quest of the next groovy data crash, or just a hideout for the starving artist's body. Cause who ever gnaws at his sounds so uncompromisingly, that it would drive any accountant's hard-breathing breastbone down into his jittery knees, can't be a wealthy man. Meanwhile the former 'Dispo Dancer' (sub static #35) has broken the bank, however without robbing it first, which absolutely would have made sense, as the very-clever-electronics are now finally bleeding him white. Maybe his own fault, as not any perfect stranger can do these machine-made knucklebone karate beats without swallowing some acid rain. It's just lunaticly sexy, this high frequent flesh-wound funk straight outta sample hell, so friendly fanatic and irresistibly undue. This man is truly brushing his suede boots against the grain before jumping into the cold water, cause waterproof does not come from waterloo -- and megalomania is associated with others."

Artist:	JONSON, MATHEW
Title:	Behind the Mirror/Folding Space
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 041EP

"The sleeper has waken. Mathew Jonson, our interstellar expert for subconscious techno, has by order of Sub Static launched his stainless battle sequencers again, following the declared aim to save the universe once more of the post-cosmic hordes of fish-eyed Euro trashers and their spineless life guards, the much-feared Neuromorphers. Jonson's hypnotic studies for well-tempered synthesizer on itiswhatitis and Perlon still remain in our minds, but no mortal soul would ever have expected to witness The Canadian star navigator with this sophisticated pugnaciousness. This time he has a whole army of brand new nanofunk-bots at his command, to scatter the enemy brigades most effectively. But his famous and fearsome arpeggio blaster still remains the weapon of first choice: many an alien should prepare for a juicy kick in the buttock, when the razor-sharp processed euphoric cascades cut themselves through any shield in over-lightspeed that even some captain future would be frightened to death."

Artist:	REPAIR
Title:	Forgive & Forget
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 042EP

"The much-conjured album by the Canadian industrial housers from Repair is nearly finished after two years of double-precision screwing in the studio. And as a proof, their homebase Sub Static now puts a 12" on the shelves, which waves with some utmost promising teasers, and additionally puts in a deep & driving remix by Richard Davis as the icing on the cake. Having come to maturity in cool, shady cellars, these neuromantic tracks have obtained a level of melancholic deepness, that assorts youthful, unstressed synth pop references to a substantial, perfectly tasting menu. Breezing and breathing as freely as it does, this is the only valid pop sound for the cosy afterhour in your head. Musique d' Ameublement to let yourself fall and be sure of a soft landing."

Artist:	VA
Title:	Odd Pieces #3
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 044EP

"The poetry of this lovely hungover feeling, captured in the first ray of light that paves its way through the deeply outraged windows of any industrial rave of your confidence. This is how it feels when Sub Static compiles a luxurious 4-tracker with top-class producers John Spring, René Breitbarth, Metope, and introducing, Golden Red, in order to pay homage to the never slumberous noise on the highest possible level. Techno has learned its lesson, and has somehow overcome the painful confinement of reactionary redneck rock -- and now emerying back since 6:45. It makes me fuzzy and warm inside, when uplifting sub-frequencies take me apart and the claps celebrate the cerebral cortex. Rattling for a better world, or money back, no big deal. Anyhow, finally you have some snotty tracks again, which we all badly need to remember again what this collective ecstasy thing and stuff is all about. It's almost decadent not to charge you higher for this. Cologners in exile -- that's how we are."

Artist:	GOLDEN RED
Title:	Falling Sickness
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 045EP

"As fate has ordained, the latest signing on Sub Static since the move from Cologne to Berlin is a Cologner. Golden Red he calls himself and we're overly proud to have him with us. His contribution to our recent Odd Pieces #3 compilation already showed his natural addiction to fill the floors, but now he not only crowns that by one, no, by two: two incredibly tight bone shakers, narrating of deeply sensed timing, rich percussion and boisterous euphoria -- stories that we like to hear. Music for neck breakers and ear rufflers, as solid as playful, classically present but still far out in space -- made for immediate approval, definitely."

Artist:	KOOKY SCIENTIST, THE
Title:	Mosquito Bytes
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 046EP

"As basic as it is: a legend returns. The reference list of Boston's Fred Giannelli is long and hardly comprehensible. In the late 80's he was part of the acid house supergroup Psychic TV, but soon focused on his own techno projects in the following years, such as Spawn (on Probe), The Kooky Scientist (on Plus 8), and countless alter egos on his label Telepathic Records. Since some years, this unassuming member of the old North-American techno circle had disappeared, but now he has abjured his inner emigration and actuated his equipment cellars, to save this old hussy 'techno' with two hypnotic masterbuilders, not more, not less. 'Cause techno is endangered, and this not even because the music might have gotten into the crossfire of crossing-over bachelor boys. Rather it's been ignorance, non-involvement and existential shortage that referentially overloaded the beat, letting it burn out in an emotional wasteland. So it's time to tighten the flow and get loose on the knobs. Airy mosquito-whirrs, concentrated bleeps and punctually placed groove instances lead the way, without ever letting happen a moment of introspective garrulity. A silent rebellion, which never intended to be beautiful, just different. The only existing blueprint of the future, as it is."

Artist:	MINELLI, SHYZA
Title:	Nasty
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 047EP

"Shyza Minelli is a newfound female producer from Thailand, today living in Milano, who just recently fried this totally burnt electro roast in the tuningspork stove, that still no dancefloor has fully recovered from. Now on 'Nasty,' the oldschool flavour and tenderly stumbling failure diagnostics are once again making an extremely effective couple in a tailor-made minimal corset, while the perfectly curved vocals of borrowed Senor-Coconut-vocalist Argenis Brito provide a joyful reunion with the paranoia of a busy party night. As a sweet icing on the perky screwed beat we offer two ergonomically shaped remixes by Donnacha Costello and M.I.A., which should finally boil all attendant synapses to a happily flouncing mash."

Artist:	SPRING, JOHN
Title:	Snapshot
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 048EP

"He's got the need for speed, but never flew out of the bend: John Spring, our virtuoso of sloping positions, is taking his game to new heights of funky digital distortion and consequently presents a real highlight on Sub Static, whose bass-heavy stunner will blow away kids and heads alike. Those, who like their anaemic chartbreakers well done, will be warned, because this obsessively processed monster of a track causes bloody mayhem on every floor imaginable. Always living in the fast lane and never looking back, that's why we love John, our true star in the ring. So watch out for the real thing coming soon to a club near you."

Artist:	BOLCHER
Title:	Arden EP
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 049EP

"Free entrance at Frankenstein's laboratory, but not for everyone. The sensitive ones better stay away: Bolcher are two newcomers from Hamburg and they dare to rattle'n'roll like no one else. They laugh at all those fainthearted sissies standing around and waiting for some consonance to shine through, while this primetime-stomper filters its way to breakbeat-blackout, backed up by two hell-of-a-B-side-masterpieces, creating noisy mayhem and funky disaster. Everywhere they speak up. Bolcher don't give a damn about anaemic genrefication or lifeless nerdism, cause they wanna show off for real. This is music like some nasty car accident you always wanted to gaze at on TV, but never had the chance to."

Artist:	GOLDEN RED
Title:	Hotel Mandatory
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 050EP

"Sub Static turns 50 -- and Cologne's Golden Red delivers the right soundtrack for the anniversary in a decorative gold label sleeve: Two tracks of cautious efficiency which represent the essence of the Sub Static sound in a surprisingly simple but accurate way. He's a man of many faces: Golden Red, always nice and suave, but never to be underestimated. He knows every trick of the trade and while he's talking to you with the most civilized of manners he will already have another one of those tracks up his sleeve, flattering in the beginning, but always showing off in the end. This music invades you and never lets you go until you dance. The hi-hats drive the sounds like a bunch of drunken cowboys their herd, but there's always a stampede lurking around the corner, which won't be easy to control. By the way the title of the record leads back to the fact that these tracks were made while living in a hotel room for months, after a very bad pipe burst in the apartment. So let's hope for the next pipe to be rotten soon."

Artist:	BREITBARTH, RENE
Title:	Twister
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 051EP

"The king is dead, long live the king: after several reincarnations as the deeper star of house, René Breitbarth now takes the final step towards more offensive trackbashing, but never forgets the melodic brilliance he is so well known for. This time, he really kicks ass and manipulates the cerebral cortex of anyone listening, arpeggiating a classic-sounding euphoric masterpiece, flanked by a uniquely beautiful B-side, which raises the question for the real hit on this record. But size doesn't matter, just play both sides. That's why we propose you buy two copies to enjoy the full panorama of Breitbarth's trademark-sound. You can't find more subtle heavy-metal in the clubs. And do not forget the vodka on ice, for the time being."

Artist:	MIKE & DOT
Title:	Eiderdown EP
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 052EP

"The next generation of minimal-infected technoheads is starting off and two of those hyper-talented newcomers are already signed up by Sub Static: Aged 19 and 20, Mike & Dot hail from Jerusalem, Israel and they deliver the proof that sonic bits and bytes are also shifted and chopped up offside the main capitals of the techno community. Emotionally driven synth figurines and precisely dissected vocal snippets are stuck onto a nicely rumbling beat-framework, making the mob go mad, and the PA happy. These three tracks of short-circuited sound design and timeless funkiness cherish the promise that it's more than an illusion: world peace is just a heartbeat away."

Artist:	DJ SLIP
Title:	Every Time It Takes a While
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 053EP

"After the glorious comeback of The Kooky Scientist about a year ago, Troy Geary aka DJ Slip is now Sub Static's second reincarnation of a classic US-techno-producer. In the mid-90's DJ Slip from Minneapolis was one of the most important advocates of the Mid-West-Sound, releasing tons of records on labels like Parotic, Analog Records, Drop Bass Network, Missile, Music Man, Kanzleramt and his own imprint Creation Rebel. In 1997 DJ Slip's The Fall Of Jupiter was the first release on Parotic Music from Madison. The contained 'Every Time It Takes Awhile' was an instant underground hit and became a faithful mate in many DJs' record cases for years, as the track was dark, analog and experimental, but at the same time extremely funky and oddly functional -- a typical DJ Slip track! Sub Static thought it's about time to refurbish 'Every Time It Takes Awhile,' including a hot brand new remix by Falko Brocksieper, who slows it down a little bit, but only to raise the punch and catchiness for what the track is still about 9 years after its first release -- the great fun of techno!"

Artist:	LANSLEY & BROCKSIEPER
Title:	Cunning Stunts EP
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 054EP

"It's always nice to see two old buddies throw their hardly earned techno competences into one pan, to resurrect that archaic production form of collective music making. Techno virtuoso Falko Brocksieper and newcomer Marc Lansley, better known as one of Cologne's leading party animals behind the decks, backtracked in Sub Static's Berlin studio, and mostly surrounded by third class neo-gothic-combos and scruffy death metal chansonniers. The great team spirit helped to transform these energies into a pawky assortment of old school beats, inciting organic sequences, and bizarre sound effects. Along with the next joint and the outer-space screen saver, done is the hit for the day after tomorrow. And after all, also great for the dancefloor."

Artist:	MINELLI, SHYZA
Title:	To All the Boys I've Loved Before
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 055EP

"So beautiful, so relaxed, so groovy. Never before a jazzy guitar like the one on 'Gravity Master' has been heard on a Sub Static record. But beware of the first impressions, because there are strange things happening underneath the surface, just as it was to be expected from someone like Shyza Minelli. Slanted vocals lose themselves in a deep and menacing forest like a babe in the woods, made up of psychotic beats and scabrous basslines, and also here someone's finally gonna be burning in the oven for sure. Also 'Shyza All Night Long' and 'Rippin Pop' live of their enigmatic consensus, however becoming a blueprint for all who love their dancefloor sweeping in some parallel universe and don't give a damn about standard dancing lessons -- as the weekend is simply too short to get bored."

Artist:	MIKE & DOT
Title:	Lego EP
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 056EP

"Mike & Dot, already well-known for their luscious debut on Sub Static #52, now burrow themselves even deeper into technoid funk and succeed to uncover the tight floor pleasers once more. Each bar of the Lego EP is causing content headbanging at the Sub Static headquarters, underlining the idea of boosting new and undiscovered talent -- and they've got loads of that, those two junior techno heads from Jerusalem: In their extensive fundus, deep dripping tribalisms and DBX-like bleeps & clonks stand next to postminimal 12-tone-madness and rapid glitch anthems, for the invincible optimists of a wild tap-dancing crowd. Almost boldly sophisticated, they distort their references and dash around the beats, however always leaving enough space to read between the lines. An unpretentious firework of good taste in four acts."

Artist:	M.I.A.
Title:	Safe Night
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 057EP

"After two years of release-abstinence, Sub Static boss M.I.A. is finally back with a 12" foretaste of her 2nd album. Considering the many reactions and feedbacks to these completely new live pieces, the A-side track 'Safe Night,' and the B2-goodie 'Leaving Behind' were picked as two of the very special moments of the current set, being obligatory to be brought to the studio and to vinyl at last. 'Safe Night' is one of those epic M.I.A.-masterpieces, enchanting you right from the word go, and in this sense linking to the style that made M.I.A. popular, basically since she first released records on labels like Traum, Trapez, and of course, Sub Static. Big emotions, riddled with subtle vocal dabs within a straightforward drive, while still keeping the vibe down-to-earth and drawing on moderate means -- a unique quality that has adhered to her since day one."

Artist:	SPRING, JOHN
Title:	Superman Days
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SUS 058CD

"The tentacles are stretched out, the poison fangs are sharpened, bank- and web-accounts are blocked, but the yuppie is still there, and makes himself more comfortable than ever. Luckily we are well prepared, luckily we have one like him: John Spring, the Don Quichotte from the German east coast, the bassdrum in flesh and blood, the man of greatest humor between two bars since Ringelnatz. And being a true techno troublemaker, he knows his enemies and the spirit of the times, and he knows about people still thinking to be Clark Kent, trying to combine moral doctrine with an ugly tie. But all of this is now null and void -- let's tap-dance on the ruins of the pale majority! John's countless dances on the dispo parquet predestine him for this job, cause nobody else knows better how to extract the dark vibes of electrified feelings as much. Demoniac, bizarre, funky, his music rumbles through the terror of everyday life, washes techno inside-out, and hangs it out to dry in front of the community center. The immediate effect on brain and bone is guaranteed, the body may sweat again, somewhere in between joyful bawling and evil hissing, rumbling and shunkling in 4/4."

Artist:	SHONKY
Title:	Follow the Clones
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 059EP

"The French once again: hardly the fact that they have appeared on the minimal map and have erased out any recollection of the Filterhouseterror from in those days, now they begin the storm of the Bastille. Zillions of young talents seem to slosh in the shelves, however, one has set down itself on the quiet already from the leadership field: Shonky. As a coproducer of Jennifer Cardini, he could already rest on some laurels, but he still has his own plans. Sub Static presents two properly psychedelic minimum racketeers as they could hardly fall out more individualistically. Correctly fitted with spring beats delivered the through ball for precisely placed schizo chords and who is still responsible there, has missed the takeoff. Hypnotically, the sounds mill themselves by the bodies and hatch behind the diaphragm, only to press ahead at the right moment like Alien out of Ripley."

Artist:	DJ EMERSON
Title:	Deep Freakin'
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 060EP

"A long-term runner of the honest techno and the real Berlin Underground on a new routing at Sub Static: DJ Emerson, the formerly everlasting 'district talent,' has matured into a serious player of the international minimal league and presents himself as a subtle thinker with strong sprinter's calves: there one can send his sounds also on the long distance without slacking on their event impact rate. 'Ring My Bell' enthusiasts with a dynamic-functional arrangement, keenly turns the innovation screw and knows his dancer's crowd exactly. Also 'The Touch' tap-dances wholehearted and freshly over the parquet -- like already the A-side -- attaches the blade, indeed two feet deeper: Deepness as a measure of excessive partying is more than only a nice habit, but a sign of the correct heart education. More drive than Daddel is the motto of the spicy bopping 12", which is still rounded off, by one, how should we say it, brilliant remix by Sweet'N'Candy. The way he rocks it down percussively seems as created for a fertile conversation to the basic material whose quality can be not excelled indeed, but intelligently commented on. Before now the bespectacled 'around stayers' pull out their notepads, we rather give further to the party. Hello rave, do they hear us? Oh yes, the connection stands."

Artist:	BROCKSIEPER/M.I.A., FALKO
Title:	Slap/Happy
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 061EP

"Actually, a tragic fact that the two label owners of Sub Static never enriched their own catalog with a cooperation, but then again, there was no time, passion, and maybe also the right tracks hadn't come yet. Now we found them, the ideal components, and thus this split EP succeeds to involve both sides of the same medallion in an extremely animated conversation, which also the party benefits from. A real Brocksieper starts off the record, with that slinky, permanent groove which everyone likes to ride on, as it's making you look well on the floors which signify the world. Then the flipside laxly continues where just hopped, speak: a little bell rings, the beats pose, the shiny side always in the floodlight. However, the mood changes -- functionality mutates to emotiveness, the music floats differently. This can only be M.I.A., who still disassembles sounds with never known precision, gets ideas in order, simply generates funk."

Artist:	BROCKSIEPER, FALKO
Title:	Esque
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 062EP

"Sub Static label boss Falko Brocksieper follows suit and warms up for the next album, however, as a finger exercise first, there is this small, fine EP with three elegantly knitted smashers for the DJ world. As usual, this man simply shakes the funk out of the sleeves, so he can afford to pass big music already for the aperitif, which is always best for the meal, right? 'Esque' builds up the break culture quite high, without falling, as the pleasantly massaging bass foundation stands firmly against wind and tide. This is the club counterpart to the lightning rod, bundling the crowd's attention perfectly and focusing it to one point, between a glass of vodka (located at the DJ booth) and the horizon (in the head, man, in the head!). A track like this has already shattered glass just by the pure will to party, after what we've heard."

Artist:	MIA
Title:	Bittersüss Remixes
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 063EP

Remixes by Shonky, Drama Society, Falko Brocksieper. "Three high carat remixes for the album Bittersüss by Mia, three different attempts: on his remix for 'Swoon,' Shonky devotes himself once more to the nocturnal cruise missiles, just weakly gleaming on the radar at first, however already equipped with that pleasantly rolling bass which leads the pilot to the depth of the submarine immediately. Infrared sounds sweeping over the beats, bleeps condensing indiscernibly, and suddenly the vocals of the original are raining down and confuse the senses in an unforgettably hypnotic way. Drama Society rolls up the same track from the front, saddles the horse precisely and skilled to turn into a quick gallop which gets the originally melancholic, floating sounds to jump over the inhibition threshold. In the end, neither less effective nor purpose-oriented, then the label partner himself: Falko Brocksieper chose 'Can't Find You' as an original, whose unbelievable vocals and melody puzzles have only been waiting to get a solid foundation for the club. Music which can, and will speak for itself, as soon as the needle will touch the vinyl to lead this EP's deep-frozen techno its way to the legs."

Artist:	PAN/TONE
Title:	Dr. Pyckle And Mr. Pryde
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 064EP

"Cologne's Canadian Pan/Tone could already bless Sub Static with two true hit EPs in 2004, which are still found in the well-assorted DJ bags, of course covered with the obligatory patina of whiskey and Jaegermeister. After several side-projects as 'Sid LeRock' and 'Gringo Grinder,' Pan/Tone is now back with Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde -- a title that already anticipates the duality of this EP! 'The Tear Jerker' is one of these elegiac anthems, building up more and more despite all aloofness, in a way you never want to end. Great break, great feelings -- all inclusive! On the flipside 'Indian Giver' resurrects the memories of the good old School Of Cologne -- back then, when minimal was still pristine, and the groove as the fundamental element was still worth something. As a bonus there's a remix by Kimberly & Clark, accentuating the track with some bleepy bliss, and loads of 808."

Artist:	MIA
Title:	Bittersüß
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.00
Catalog #:	SUS 065CD

"The mistress of melancholic driving club techno returns: Mia has gone to exam and has extended her knowledge of alchemy fundamentally. After the first big throw 'Schwarzweiss' -- which has reamed out lots of clueless DJs with its sharp edges -- now follows a far more mature album which compiles tracks just as thrilling, to an extremely danceable trip through the abysses of human sensitivities. Like a water lilly, the music of Bittersüß ('bittersweet') glides along at the water surface, maybe virgin in its impression, but the roots reach down deeply into the darkness. Where the water ghosts live, ready to pull every curious observer into their empire, who bends over the wet mirror too carelessly. They're nymphs, once died of a broken heart, now wandering through the nightly realm forever. Their element is the silent high -- warm, lasting, dangerous. Never fully definite, but always vibrating of tension, this is how the journey through the woods is framed, when Sub Static's label boss lets rain voices of sulfur onto heart melting melodies, pushed by the marching beats of a deus ex machina, who can turn rocks into humans, just by his sheer view. It's the soundtrack of the last steps just before the fog clears up, and opens the view on waving bodies, captured in the calm before the storm, before the eruption, before the bass drum. It's the soundtrack of the space between the extremes, fave music from the second half of this strangely amorph decade. It is music, smouldering like the smoke from a fog machine, slowly wrapping you into a finely woven silk cloth to take you on a safe journey. It is music for the crowd in your heart."

Artist:	JOHN SPRING
Title:	Ready To Broadcast
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 066EP

"After his several hit EPs and last year's debut album Superman Days on Sub Static, John Spring is back with his next strike Ready To Broadcast. And yet again there are masterly produced dancefloor tracks, which might connect more than ever to his 2003 bomb 'Dispo Dancer,' in terms of that special nonchalance and lightfootedness. 'Lava Lava' is a tiddly house track with material, lace-making beats, cartoonish DJ Sneak reminiscences and a swinging kind of bassline we all badly needed again. On the B-side, John Spring takes it to the darker side on 'Ready To Broadcast,' brewing a trust-giving late night techno track of rough highs, weird bell sounds and vocals shrouded in mystery. On the bonus piece 'A Tribute,' John finally works up the strong influence of Thomas Bangalter on his most beautiful times in youth -- definitely a relentless, wild track for special moments. Ready To Broadcast -- three timeless feats with boompty boom!"

Artist:	MIA
Title:	Bittersüss Remixes Vol. 2
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 067EP

"..and because it was so beautiful and so hotly favored, Sub Static ramps up for the second part of remixes for Mia's album, certainly not available on CD. Some real tasty cuts are gathered here, starting with the epic remix of BPitch's Kiki who draws a giant bow from the dancefloor. Detroit-flavored monotony including fine organ garnishes as a provision on the way to the late, but well-earned break. Then the delightfully rattling interpretation by Fumakilla's 'Autotune,' who enriches the spooky 'Wild Ponys' by the significant synth stabs and doesn't have a handbreadth of space for needless ballast. And finally, the lost track 'Cold City' -- owing to the great demand, and after all..."

Artist:	GOMEZ, RAFAEL
Title:	Resurrect
Label:	SUB STATIC (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	SUS 003EP