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PLANAM 006LP
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2009 release. Klaus Röder is a guitar virtuoso and electronic music artist who studied with Kelemen and joined Kraftwerk for their famous Autobahn LP. He often works with very small sound particles, whose sound comes from different sources, like tearing paper, the voice, a musical instrument, synthesizer or computer sounds. Sound structures are built by joining together those sound particles and, by mixing those structures, Röder forms chords. Then the process of crystallization begins. Usually crystallization means that small parts are deposited around a germ and form a growing crystal. The shape of the complete crystal is a consequence of outer influences. A series of sound crystals form, then the complete musical composition. Side 1 presents two electronic music works: "10: 11: 12" (1980) for self-built Impulse Generator is an obscure, very minimal and abstract pulsating piece, while "Kristallisation 4" (1991) for Computer Sounds and Yamaha DX 802 might be considered one of the peaks of Klaus Röder's Kristallisation series. Side 2 introduces us to a different formal result of Röder's crystallization process: the short "Hänschen Blues" (1993) for children singing and crying and the Yamaha TX 802 controlled by self-made programs for Atari TT is both a playful and sinister electronic assemblage anticipating the peak of this record. "Potpourri" (1985) is a collage of short sound particles from German pop hits of the 1970s and 1980s. From a sound-collage perspective (from Battiato's "Ethika Fon Ethica" to Bladder Flask's first LP, from NWW's most surrealistic works to John Oswald's classic plunderphonics), "Potpourri" might be closer to the brut masterpiece "InOut" by Anton Bruhin, only constructed in a more advanced and scientific way. Includes a series of inserts with the diagrams and schedules of the four compositions presented on this LP.
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PLANAM 012LP
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Limited 2022 restock. Planam proudly presents the second LP production by Klaus Röder featuring two more pieces from the electronic Kristallisationen series -- "Kristallisation 5" (1993) for microphone recordings of children's chimes (played by children), Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer and EMS Synthi A analog synthesizer, "Kristallisation 7" (1997) for microphone recordings and computer sounds, as well as "Frozen Sounds" (2002) for electric guitar sounds and computer sounds and the more concrete "Life-Music 1" (1999) for microphone recordings in the zoo of Wuppertal, computer sounds and Yamaha TX 802 digital synthesizer. Klaus Röder is the archetype of the challenging challenger -- the perfect outsider. Nothing bad about it -- true geniuses often are hiding behind their uncompromising ethic. "Ethic in the attic" would define the home-studio work of this ex-Kraftwerk banned banned banned auf Die Autobahn. The independent, time-stretching composer Klaus Röder is by necessity an inventor. Systems, machines, treatments, everything is (hand)made to provoke, to induce a musical result not only technically superb but loaded with the author's intimacy: humor, sound elements of a private life, a kid giggling... indeed, a highly emotional and poetic approach. Klaus Röder mixes and plays with outside influences -- cut-up, musique concrète, psychedelia, plunderphonics, pop, even blues -- in order to create a patchwork-like but coherent corpus over nearly 40 years of compositional activity. His music blends the warmth of strings and of humanity with the icy matter of electrical components and seems to have just one borderline: that of our ears. Features a full-color sleeve.
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