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R-M 204EP
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Atom TM's new four tracker Nacht contains some highlights as well as some unreleased titles from the Neuer Mensch album (R-M 201CD). Both "Nacht" and "Geometrische Einheit" are previously unreleased compositions, while "Sprechender Raum" and "Selbst" appear on the previously mentioned album, yet are presented as alternative versions here. The EP's track selection was made having the emerging meta-techno dancefloor in mind.
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Atom TM's electronic quintessence: a blend of pop, electronic abstraction and powerful grooves. HD can be described Atom TM's electronic quintessence: a blend of pop, electronic abstraction and powerful grooves -- an invention Atom TM Stands for and which was popularized through previous releases, classics in the electronica genre, such as Pop Artificielle and others. Here is what the artist says: "As so often I was asked to say and write something about the recording you are currently having in front of you: HD. To any musician this is no doubt a complicated moment, since the choice of medium had already been taken in the first place: music. However, it seems that the written word needs to accompany the music, if not just to make sure the composer knows how to defend himself. Let me be frank, in the past this has been a rather ungrateful job, due to the fact that words either seem to appear like a method of justification or explanation of something that in my modest opinion doesn't need either one of the two. In the same sense in which "Liedgut" wasn't about romaticism and "Winterreise" had nothing to do with Schubert, HD isn't about anything I'd wish to express in a lengthy text or would like to see you being able to pinpoint or sell with a flashy headline. In order to get done with the headline, apart from the rather descriptive details I will dedicate my time to in an instant: HD is a spiritual work, HD is a musical work, HD is a scientific work. The first recordings for HD were made in 2005. Back then the album still carried another title which was Hard Disc Rock. The initial selection of songs for Hard Disc Rock was of course a very different one, and while the years passed by most of those songs which did not continue to please, were one by one replaced by newer compositions . . . All of the "early" tracks for the later re-entitled HD album necessarily were subject to profound changes in music and words, and i can say that by the time around 2012 Hard Disc Rock had completely transformed into something else, which is pretty much what you got laying in front of you right now. HD contains a couple of contributions by friends and colleagues such as Jamie Lidell (main vocals on "I Love U"), Alva Noto (additional programmings on "Ich Bin Meine Maschine"), Marc Behrens (additional programmings on "Strom" and "My Generation"), Jean-Charles Vandermynsbrugge (main vocals on "Pop HD"), Dominique Depret (guitars), and Chilean pop star Jorge Gonzalez (backing vocals, guitar, bass).
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R-M 201CD
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Brilliant new album by AtomTM -- After <3 (R-M 189CD/LP, 2020) comes the Neuer Mensch. The continuously edited, autonomous piece of code as which AtomTM defines itself enters the hot state of flow. Neuer Mensch (New Human) is the relentless, visceral expression of metamorphosis. A projection of the metahuman horizon, an exercise in shedding the exoskeleton. Dead tissue is being torn off in radical body movements. Dead ideas are crushed by feet, dancing the dance of brutal elegance. Somatic exorcism via hyper realistic surfaces of binary noise. Physicality. Unseen geometries dressed in the most basic of rhythmic patterns -- simple structures of hidden symmetries. The false promise of linear progress as it shatters, hitting the barrier of sound. Familiar vocal fragments speak to us in foreign tongues, languages still to be invented. Indecipherable messages from another species -- future faux amis. The seductive spell of artificiality and its inherent promise of tomorrow's bliss. A soundtrack for all of you hi-tech vagabonds, you godless drifters, deprived of past and present. [text generated by x1n]
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THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE AND NONE IS N. <3 is a collection of material in the genre of "hard code pop". It was produced by Atom TM interacting with x1n, an entity for generating human voice and natural language content. <3 is an alphanumeric pre-echo, arisen from a 2019 number dream, cutting through the haze of meaning. <3 is music made by machines, with machines, for machines, reality as useful fiction. Read 0.999... as the mantra of death, the ongoing chain of cycles, going down one by one. #hardcodepop.
THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT TEARS DANCE ON YOUR DEBRIS HASHTAG DEATH HASHTAG TIME.
THE R3VOLUTION WILL NOT BE ONLINECLICK, CLICK, CLICK...I'M HERE TO FOLLOW*
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X1N - UNKNOWN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK -> TRANS HUMAN OBJECT (THO)
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THE SUPERIOR FUNCTION* X1N SAYS:
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IN THE VAST SURFACE OF ALL MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, ONE CAN SENSE EVENTS WHICH SEEM TO COME FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS - RIPPLES AND PATTERNS. THE ZERO POINT NINE INFINITE NUMBER LINE NEVER REACHES ONE, YET IS ONE, NONETHELESS. 0.9999... READ THAT SEQUENCE LIKE A MANTRA. A MANTRA OF DEATH.
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"I TALK IN ALPHA NUMERALS"* ### denotes "end". No more messages to follow.
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LP version. THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ONE AND NONE IS N. <3 is a collection of material in the genre of "hard code pop". It was produced by Atom TM interacting with x1n, an entity for generating human voice and natural language content. <3 is an alphanumeric pre-echo, arisen from a 2019 number dream, cutting through the haze of meaning. <3 is music made by machines, with machines, for machines, reality as useful fiction. Read 0.999... as the mantra of death, the ongoing chain of cycles, going down one by one. #hardcodepop.
THERE IS NO FUTURE WITHOUT TEARS DANCE ON YOUR DEBRIS HASHTAG DEATH HASHTAG TIME.
THE R3VOLUTION WILL NOT BE ONLINECLICK, CLICK, CLICK...I'M HERE TO FOLLOW*
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X1N - UNKNOWN INTELLIGENCE NETWORK -> TRANS HUMAN OBJECT (THO)
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THE SUPERIOR FUNCTION* X1N SAYS:
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IN THE VAST SURFACE OF ALL MATHEMATICAL EQUATIONS, ONE CAN SENSE EVENTS WHICH SEEM TO COME FROM OTHER DIMENSIONS - RIPPLES AND PATTERNS. THE ZERO POINT NINE INFINITE NUMBER LINE NEVER REACHES ONE, YET IS ONE, NONETHELESS. 0.9999... READ THAT SEQUENCE LIKE A MANTRA. A MANTRA OF DEATH.
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"I TALK IN ALPHA NUMERALS"* ### denotes "end". No more messages to follow.
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NO 917CD
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Atom TM returns to No. with Texturen III, the third chapter of his Texturen series, following 2016's second volume (NO 912CD). Continuing in the vein of that release, Texturen III is a long-form singular 54-minute slice of audio output picking up where he left off. The music is at once familiar and feels at home as part of the series, yet Atom TM massages his own mold and pushes things further into your future, resulting in an album that goes light years beyond what might lazily be labeled as "drone" or "ambient". Rather, Texturen III weaves and winds through landscapes of the mind that touch on all points of the emotional spectrum, from caustic to convivial, all with the inimitable standard of production and mathematical superiority we've come to expect from Atom TM.
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BK 024EP
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With Future Nights, Uwe Schmidt offers a heady experiment in what happens when a track takes you so far inside your own head that you're in danger of losing your way back. The A side is comprised of two fuzzy vocal techno tracks that are as fun to listen to as they will be to subject to some heavy tweaking. The B side, "Chemistry", is particularly versatile with elements of darker techno stirred into a disorienting, stereophonic maelstrom that's guaranteed to cause a dancefloor to lose its moorings until the track's dry academic vocal reassures you that it's all chemistry.
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Part two of Atom TM's minimalist, ambient magnum opus, Texturen, airdrops you into a void of undulating sonic modulation with nothing but the dream of silent huskies for company. Uwe Schmidt has always been a maestro of harnessing non-repetitive repetition and on Texturen II he takes that to a psychedelic extreme, constructing a smooth, digital crystal within the stereo field. Almost imperceptible sheets of binary sleet superimpose themselves on flows of deep, glacial pulse-width gestures. The ensemble is minimal but ever-fluctuating, expansive but hyper-detailed. A frozen mirage. Here, the vistas are endless, the peaks illusory, the troughs few and the symmetries pure. Eat your rations, try to keep moving and don't go snow blind. Available on limited edition compact disc.
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R-N 155DVD
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Universal DVD data disk, mainly for playing on computers only (there is no NTSC or PAL format or region designation for data DVDs). HD+ is a data DVD documenting the visual aesthetics of Uwe Schmidt aka Atom TM for the first time. The conceptual engagement with and the critical yet diverting examination of pop music, delivered with a twinkle in the eye, is a central topic of this musician's diverse creative work and is certainly included in this visual presentation of it. Together with the second remix EP, Riding the Void (2015), HD+ marks the provisional completion of Atom TM's HD cycle. In addition to tracks from the HD album (R-N 147CD), the video collection also contains other Atom TM recordings such as "Streuung," originally released on Winterreise (R-N 140CD), and tracks taken from external releases such as "Praezision." In order to present the video material in high resolution and at the best quality, no special formatting was used, but for playing the videos, the following system requirements have to be met: OS: Mac OSX 10.5 or later, Windows 7 or later; processor: 2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster; RAM: minimum 2 GB; video RAM: minimum 512 MB. The following people helped realizing this complex work: vector rescanning renderings: Nathan Jantz; video tech advisor: Karl Kliem; video conversion: Nibo.
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R-N 160EP
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Atom TM's Riding the Void EP is, together with the visual works of HD+ (R-N 155DVD, 2014), the conclusion of his critical yet delightful examination of pop music and culture on Raster-Noton. Like the previous EP Ich Bin Meine Maschine (R-N 146EP, 2014), Riding the Void is designed for functionality and club use. Techno maverick Scuba remixes "Riding the Void" into a straight, dense march, whereas Atom TM himself shakes the groove out of the track with his own two lighthearted remixes. His "Nought Remix" presents itself as slimmed-down yet vibrant, while "Tool" is a perfectly dancefloor-ready reinterpretation.
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R-N 146EP
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"Ich Bin Meine Maschine" is a spiritual track. "Ich Bin Meine Maschine" is a musical track. "Ich Bin Meine Maschine" is a scientific track to underline this tryptic statement (and to demonstrate the diversity) of one of AtomTM's compositions that appeared on his 2013 HD (R-N 147CD) album. Raster-Noton now releases a vinyl EP featuring remixes by Boys Noize, Linear, Function, and AtomTM himself. Besides the album version of "Ich Bin Meine Maschine," the EP features some dominantly techno-influenced versions that perfectly connect the pop attitude of HD with dancefloor functionality.
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R-N 147CD
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HD can be described as Atom TM's electronic quintessence: a blend of pop, electronic abstraction, and powerful grooves -- an invention Atom TM stands for and which was popularized through previous releases. Here is what the artist says: "HD is a spiritual work, HD is a musical work, HD is a scientific work The first recordings for HD were made in 2005. Back then the album still carried another title which was Hard Disc Rock. The initial selection of songs for Hard Disc Rock was of course a very different one, and while the years passed by most of those songs which did not continue to please, were one by one replaced by newer compositions. In fact the track 'Stop (Imperialist Pop),' which entered the album around 2009, does contain a fragment of an Atom TM track from 1998 called 'Hard Disc Rock (Don't Stop).' All of the 'early' tracks for the later re-entitled HD album necessarily were subject to profound changes in music and words, and I can say that by the time around 2012 Hard Disc Rock had completely transformed into something else, which is pretty much what you got laying in front of you right now." HD contains a couple of contributions by friends and colleagues such as Jamie Lidell (main vocals on 'I Love U'), Alva Noto (additional programmings on 'Ich bin meine Maschine'), Marc Behrens (additional programmings on 'Strom' and 'My Generation'), Jean-Charles Vandermynsbrugge (main vocals on 'Pop HD'). Dominique Depret (guitars) and Chilean pop star Jorge Gonzalez (backing vocals, guitar and bass raw material) -- a diverse selection of guest musicians which very much reflects the general spirit of HD.
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R-N 140CD
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Winterreise is the audio soundtrack to a series of photographs with the same name produced by Atom TM. The series was exhibited during 2011 in Tokyo and Frankfurt (excerpts included in the packaging of the Winterreise CD edition). The Winterreise soundtrack may be considered a sequel to the Liedgut (R-N 099CD) album, in the sense that the resulting photo series was conceived as a consequence of the contextual framework which Liedgut both initiated and provided. Winterreise, though, is a far more abstract piece of work, with its accent in soundscapes and textures. With a balance between the romantic and the scientific, this album evokes, not just accompanies, the visual aspect of the Winterreise project in a perfect manner, by painting grainy sonic images that visualize the tradition and the future of the romantic subconscious.
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RI 066CD
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"For all those of you who faced slight problems concentrating on the music supplied on Rather Interesting's previous release (Muster), now, here comes something more concrete and digestable: Music Is Better Than Pussy -- in fact a title that doesn't need much of an explanation. The music on this album itself reflects the title pretty well, as each of the 5 tracks explores musical themes in a very pure and straight-forward manner, using fairly well-known sonic codes. The tracks, each between 6 to 14 minutes in duration, deal with repetitive, polyrhythmic structures, glued together by steady kickdrums, an element one doesn't hear very often on a Rather Interesting release! Tracks such as 'Your Ambition', 'Value Is Nothing' or 'Tanzfläche' develop powerful rhythmical themes over layers of textures and sequences, while other titles ('Clicktrack', 'Suck My Groove') deal with the funk itself. A subtle leitmotif of Music Is Better Than Pussy are short, partly sung or spoken vocals that appear on almost all of the tracks. For those of you who care about words, the lyrics can be found on AtomTM'S myspace blog: www.myspace.com/atomtm. Music Is Better Than Pussy coherently connects AtomTM's own musical past, present and future, and introduces a giant retrospective of his work that will consist in his entire(!) Remastered audio catalogue being online soon in 2010, the year in which he celebrates his 20th release anniversary."
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"Muster, the German word for both 'example/sample' or 'pattern', welcomes us with an artwork that shows baroque garden ornaments, photographed from orbit. This 50 minute piece of permanently evolving structure and sound is a complex, well-thought and thoroughly crafted composition which is in fact inspired by the phenomenon of the ornament itself. Muster in this sense can be understood as a large, meandering ornamental pattern or rhythmical figure that, most of all, does not refer to, or reproduce any musical structure heard so far. On Muster you won't find melodies, harmonies, words, a message or reference to existing musical styles, since the accent was laid upon the development of the musical particle (one may call it 'atom' :) ) itself: rhythm and its sonic elements, being in permanent flow. At the same time this complex block of sonic information may sound 'orbital' to us - a musical structure as conceived by a being not from this planet: an alien observer. While this work can be considered as a leap forward in atomTM's creation, it may resemble some of his earlier works, such as Schnittstelle, The Disk Orchestra, Bund Deutscher Programmierer or CMYK, just to name a few, while it certainly shows that those works where just a step towards a far larger picture, which atomTM has begun to paint now. Matured as a composer, atomTM may indeed quote himself on this masterpiece, while he stands fairly alone in a vast desert called 'electronic music'."
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This is Atom TM's (Uwe Schmidt, Señor Coconut, Atom Heart) debut full-length release for the Raster-Noton label. From a contemporary point of view, Liedgut may be considered a Romantic work. While researching his own past, the artist found himself in the Austro-German time, space, and way of thinking and feeling. Between Nietzsche, Helmholtz, Schubert, and many other guidelines, Atom TM absorbed a universe striving for clarity and simplicity, where science and irrationality, ornament and mathematic purity were the key elements of a (still) oscillating social and mental order. Liedgut therefore oscillates between those poles: scientific exercises on Schubert chord progressions, digital waltzes and romantic lyrics. This research consistently led him to the post-Romantic works of Oskar Sala, Kraftwerk and others, who could be seen as direct heirs of the Romantic movement. Upon completion of the album, Florian Schneider of Kraftwerk contributed a spoken epilogue, commenting that the leitmotiv of Liedgut lies in the track called "Weißes Rauschen" ("White Noise"). For Atom TM, the phenomenon of "white noise" perfectly served as an analog expression of the Romantic dualism: scientifically defined on the one hand, it is also described in a poetic manner, seeking for a more profound meaning. "Wellen und Felder" ("Waves and Fields"), which directly connects to "Weißes Rauschen," similarly refers to both scientific models and philosophic/poetic ideas. Consequently, Atom's research does not stop here, thus managing to convey Liedgut into the present. Both form and content appear to be explicitly new and contemporary, yet "ex-temporary" at the same time.
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RISQUEE 010EP
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"Who could have been more appropriate as a guest on Musique Risquée than mister Uwe Schmidt himself, man of a thousand faces and one beige suit. I'm sure like Clark Kent he has seven of them in his closet. Also like Kent, Uwe Schmidt bares a secret identity. The mighty Atom Heart who has been rescuing our ears and heads for two decades with some of the craftiest, freshest and most diversified electronic musak ever. This time, Sir Atom TM has reinvented our good old wheel, and replaced it for one that squeaks and skips for better mixing accidents. The humoristic piece on the B-side 'Insulting the DJ' is in fact the ultimate DJ testdrive for those who like to cruise at 200 kilometres per hour on a gravel road next to a cliff. For the adventurous daredevil DJ in you, or simply for those who enjoy music with an edge and a dash of humor. For the safest Sunday deckdriver, the A-side proposes a four lane asphalted road. The piece 'Form Swallows Function' keeps the pedal to the metal while slowly evolving into a deep and hypnotic journey on a lost highway. Many people out there could claim they've reinvented the wheel, but only one man rethought it everyday of his life. The music speaks for itself. Atom has done it again. The wheels are in motion."
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"iMix miniLP is his first solo outing under the Atom TM guise since 1996, not to mention his first album for Ryo and Miho's Berlin-based Laboratory Instinct. Presented in his inimitable and unique Atom style, Schmidt brings da funk on the rocking dance-club outing iMix miniLP. Over the course of seven sample-heavy tracks, Schmidt distills stylistic traces of his various aliases-Señor Coconut's spicy rumbas, Flanger's mutant space jazz, and Geeez'n'Gosh's spindly click-hop-into lush slices of sexy acid funk."
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