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DTPLTD 101EP
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Brand-new double A-sided Anthony Rother 12" on Datapunk.
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DTPLTD 013EP
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Two tracks from Anthony Rother's Popkiller 2 album. "Mother" has an audibly compressed sound, using the unmistakable sounds of his singing voice once again, giving the Rother-style a brand new facet. "Cinema" is an abstract, minimalist party track: as funky and rocking as it is elegant, held up by a video-game tune and reaching its climax with a filter reverb.
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DTP 036CD
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Frankfurt-based producer Anthony Rother presents Popkiller II, the follow-up to 2004's Popkiller. After freeing himself from his last remaining existing constraints, Rother re-designed his website and turned Datapunk into an exclusive outlet for his own material. Where the musical journey will go in the future is revealed by "Big Boys," a track in a rocky electro style that has already united the pop world with the club world in an innovative way with the Popkiller sound of 2004. And yet somehow, Rother manages to not only tie in the ten songs with the Popkiller spirit, but to also breathe new life into his aesthetic. The first song "Night" is already a link and constitutes the counterpoint to Popkiller's predecessor "Day," at the same time. Similarly, instrumentals such as "Cinema," "Skyline" and "Gates" reflect Rother's musical range from sci-fi to abstract techno in an exceptionally diverse way. However, what makes Popkiller 2 distinctive on the underground music scene are its vocal-centric themes such as "Rotation," "Mother" (as a follow-up to the Popkiller hit "Father") or the dramatic "Grab Your Life." Practically vocoded unfiltered, Rother goes all out with his vocals once again and convinces with melodic tracks full of emotion, raw beauty and irrepressible energy. Completely self-determined and artistically concentrated once again, with Popkiller 2 we are the ear-witnesses to an Anthony Rother who once again produces music that is fully free.
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DTPLTD 011EP
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The new 12" single from Datapunk mastermind, Anthony Rother.
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DTP 035EP
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Since 1990, the Detroit Underground Resistance collective around "Mad Mike" Banks has been a profound sociological network in sound. Remixes by the group are rare, and here they take on Anthony Rother's 2005 single When The Sun Goes Down. On the "Ain't No Sunshine" remix, the bass drum comes in after more than two minutes, contrasting dramatically with the "Flash Light Remix," whose psychoactively wandering chord hook will astonish both Detroit traditionalists and contemporary sound researchers.
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DTP 033EP
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Igor Tchkotoua and Dan Duncan aka Pig&Dan are amongst the most influential protagonists of Balearic techno music. With their debut for Datapunk, both prove their good nose for powerful yet harmonic techno. "Dream Of Bells" is situated in the golden center between modern Chicago sound, percussive acid and psychoactively blurred digital cembalo. The powerful subwoofer orgy of "Subculture" also vibrates with restless modulations and metallic percussions through an acid bath, without 303 clichés. Something for your mind.
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DTP 034CD
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This is part three of the Datapunk label's We Are Punks, CD compilation series, curated by Anthony Rother and including 4 previously-unreleased tracks. Almost a year has now gone by since the highly-acclaimed second edition of the Datapunk CD anthology -- high time, therefore, that the label states the position of its sound once more in the year 2008. We Are Punks 3 starts with something of a sensation: The remix of the 2005 Rother single "When The Sun Goes Down" is by none other than the Underground Resistance collective, which is headed up by "Mad Mike" Banks. The first tones that mark the cautious start to the remix, which is only available on this CD, and in which the bass drum only kicks in after two minutes, demonstrates that something interesting is going on at Datapunk right now. Also, in the trusted hands of main mix-man DJ Matthias Gustke, aka Ziel 100, an almost 80-minute long psychoactive cocktail has been created which impresses not least because the world of sounds continually avoids any clear classification of style. Unusually low key at the start, Bremen Herzblut and Spiel-Zeug-Schallplatten record producer Stephan Bodzin, and Patrick Zigon, known for his remixes for Cocoon, Treibstoff and Great Stuff, formulate a modern understanding of deep and harmonic techno which works really well, whether played in the nightclub setting or elsewhere. Later on, however, the energy levels increase considerably, and those who don't dance themselves into a sweat with the acoustic loss of control by Sven Väth and Anthony Rother ("S'Kränkt'), Hell + Rother's cryonic "Bodyfarm" inferno, the 2008 acid by Pig & Dan ("Dream Of Bells") or the tribal percussive dub-tech inferno of "Temperature" by Marcus Schmal aka Broombeck (previously known through his ambient project Guardner), surely aren't into techno. Other artists include: Loco Dice, Telekraft and Frank Kusserow.
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DTP 034EP
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Datapunk celebrates another year of great releases with their third installment in their We Are Punks mix compilation series. This 12" features four previously-unreleased tracks by Patrick Zigon, Broombeck, Frank Kusserow and Anthony Rother as remixed by Tony Rohr.
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