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EARSUG 037EP
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"Extraordinary new 7" from Tarwater, landing out of nowhere on the excellent Earsugar Jukebox imprint, now also situated in the band's hometown of Berlin. 'Tar Babies' plays out the label's charmed mission for finding perfect pop from parallel universes. Here Lippok intones nonchalantly over a definitive, Madchester flavored, disco dub. For our money though, its the awesome 'Strawberry Statement' on the flip which defines this record --modulating out of a Chronomad-esque beats and Raster-ized bass vamp into some gorgeous lilting and lonesome guitar-drenched psychedelics. Heavy indeed!" Pressed on red vinyl.
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EARSUG 036EP
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"Berlin-based The Innits formed around Mek Obaam, their bespectacled, bald, beer-drinking singer/drummer, a former colleague of Barbara Morgenstern and Schneider TM, currently joining The Boggs. Stood centre stage he's flanked by by Dirk Kretz (lead guitar/backing vocals), Vincenzo Perrotta (rhythm guitar) and Jannes Wurps (bass guitar). The noise they make -- The Smiths as if played by The Velvet Underground and produced by The Pastels -- dispenses with all frills in favour of a unique but effortless mixture of confessional late '80s indie, avant-garde noise, C86, rockabilly, punk and, crucially, rock 'n' roll."
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EARSUG 035EP
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"Earsugar Jukebox presents the 'Krautrock-meets '80s-New York no-wave' inspired Nonostar, with a smashing dub remix on the flipside by Bodi Bill, courtesy of Berlin's Sinnbus label. Hypnotic, full of loud silence and whispering a melody in your ear."
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EARSUG 034EP
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"Blessed with the ability to make music which sounds like Sleeparchive or the Sahko crew getting down to some serious dancefloor action, 'The Cha Cha Machine' is slinky without being ephemeral, resembling the kind of prime-cut our rose-tinted disposition would have us believing kept the Detroit dance floors fully stocked back in the day. Casting off the more sluggish aspects of previous releases, the four tracks included here are crystalline in their detail -- with each exhalation and digital rustle mapped in 20/20 vision for your listening pleasure. With highlights including some Carl Craig-esque determination and a killer blossom of surface bass, Add Noise have again delivered the kind of 12" that deserves an audience well beyond the minimal crowd. Subtract silence..."
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EARSUG 029EP
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"Add Noise present their sixth single. 'Loose Wire' is presented in similar but varied palettes -- the top side AC version is marginally heavier on the drums and a deal more emphatic with hi-hats, yet everything is still reduced to a unified, delirious narcotic flow. The groove is beautifully implicit, and this tune is surely set to soundtrack the most contemporary minimal dancefloors, as previous tracks from this hugely talented producer found themselves staples in the boxes of the ubercoolische set worldwide. The ultra fine-tuned DC version retains the chirruping, reduced woodblocks, beating out a mesmeric mantra like so many electronic cicadas oscillating inside the mix. This is a prime example of one of those records which begins to take on whole new proportions when emitted through large club systems, the micro-sounds shift, moving and panning all over the palpable bass-throb. Extra elements arriving in this heady, druggy brew constitute events in their own right, altering consciousness and inducing listeners and dancers alike to a united plane. The absence of obvious bass drum tactics should make this superb twelve manna for the minimal nations as one." --Boomkat
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EARSUG 030EP
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"'Re-Surfaced' is a limited pressing remix of Add Noise's 'Surface Noise' track. This tune was Add Noise's first release for Earsugar Beatbox and was supported by DJs like Loco Dice, Michael Mayer, Carl Craig, Laurent Garnier and sundry hipsters. This remix came out of performing the track live, so Add Noise thought it might be a nice vibe to make the new version available in limited quantities. The vinyl cut was done by Tim Xavier at Manmade Mastering in Brooklyn, Tim also cuts records for Abe Duque Records, Spectral and runs his own Ltd. 400 series label...Add Noise create a modern take on sub bass driven house music with echoes of previous eras in experimental dance music production." One-sided 12".
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EARSUG 026EP
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"Following up their mighty 'Citronella' and 'Surface Noise' 12"s with the recent 'Tropilcalia' comes yet another lesson in loose-limbed, minimal techno. Taking their inspiration from grooves laid down by Carl Craig in the early '90s and those haunted dub mixes that emanated from Lee 'Scratch' Perry's Black Ark in the late '70s -- the duo Add Noise create a modern take on sub bass driven house music with echoes of those bygone eras in experimental dance music production. A perfect 8am, the after party has only just started kind of track, it rolls along with subtle nuances whilst dislocated voices echo in the background, riding in and out on the minimal groove. Another fine example of dancefloor repetition from the secretive Add Noise crew."
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EARSUG 016CD
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"This is Super Reverb's debut album, named after something John Lennon once supposedly said. Comprising Michael Beckett, (aka Schneider TM bedfellow Kpt Michigan) and Jurgen De Blonde (aka Kohn), Super Reverb belie the title of this album with a hodge-podge assortment of basement punk, found sounds, lo-fi jams and psychedelic experimentation that manage to sound like The Fall, The Animal Collective, Canned Heat (no joke), The Beatles, The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Velvet Underground and Spacemen 3 all in the course of a perfect, compact 45 minute lifespan."
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EARSUG 018EP
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"Another beautifully understated jukebox 7" from Earsugar, Team LG create a bontempi and harmonica-driven whirring folksy pop gem on the fabulous A side track 'Big Man,' like a slowed-down and psyched-up variant on Psapp's Fisher Price lullabies. 'Jesus in a Show' on the flipside is more countrified, crackling with warm strings and a trotting glockenspiel that makes for sublime, heady listening. Superb warm-up for the debut Team LG album The Way We Do It on their own newly founded Kennington label."
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EARSUG 015CD
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"A blueprint for perfect pop songwriting, this is a complete joy from start to finish. Mek Obaam is the former drummer for Barbara Morgenstern and a current band cohort of Schneider TM and here has packed as much joyous strumming, goose-bump chord progressions and candy-floss lyrics into a bundle of loveliness as is humanly possible. Boom chacka boom guitars with accordion drones, King Tubby reverb, strung out sounding country tunes, click house, rock-a-billy goes early Who, and none of it too flashy...because the songs stand up for themselves. Listening to this reminds me of the first time I heard 'Pod' from the Breeders, structured with a sort of careless mayfly spirit, belying the classic stature of the songs that follow one another with an unreasonable level of consistency and self awareness."
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EARSUG 022EP
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"Following on from their debut release Surface Noise which kicked off the Earsugar Beatbox 12" series in the Spring of this year, duo Add Noise return with their follow up single 'Citronella,' making this the third release in Earsugar's more club inflected 12" vinyl series. 'Citronella' is prime techno minimalism drawing considerable inspiration from dub, warmer climes and robots. Imagine machine rhythms echoing from a soundsystem in the tropical night. A kind of surreal heat. The elektro dub version 'Jam Econo' on the flipside is our favourite... maximum abstract bounce for your deeper party types. No wonder its already found considerable favour with the likes of Ricardo Villalobos."
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EARSUG 020EP
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"Peeling back the ill-fitting latex mask, Scooby and the Gang were shocked to discover that old Dr. Drek was in fact (drum roll...) Schneider TM. Testing the water with new material off his forthcoming album and packaged in the customary Jukebox 45 styles, the A-side ('More Time') sees Dresselhaus adopting a glorious, less precise sound than we're used to, taking an almost be-bop vocal snatch and marrying it to a slow-build, oscillating analogue melody -- something that manages to imbed itself deep inside your mind the moment you listen to it -- how catchy? On the back 'Rush Moon' is minted from an entirely different linocut, preferring claggy rhythms that could well get you thinking 'Kevin Shields!' depending on your mood. Beautiful music at its most homespun -- nice to see Schneider taking things a notch or two down -- something that bodes very well for next year's album."
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EARSUG 004CD
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Remixes by Schneder TM of: Pulseprogramming, Margo, Lamb, Rechenzentrum, Turtle Bay Country Club, The Faint, Phillip Boa & the Voodooclub, Ruby, Lambchop, Alc Levora, Boss Hog, Turner. "Some of Dirk Dresselhaus' favourite music includes The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Richard D. James, Autechre, Sun Ra, Shuggie Otis and Daniel Johnston. One of his particular favourites is Neil Young's 1982 album Trans, where nearly everything was played through a vocoder. 'It's definitely one of my main influences for doing the Schneider TM stuff. It's a really strange record, really great.' Schneider TM's acclaimed second album Zoomer was recorded in Dirk's Berlin living room studio and released on the City Slang label in September 2002. Since then he has travelled Zoomer around the world with a 3-piece band comprising of longtime friends and collaborators Kpt Michigan and Christian Obermaier. 'The way I do music, for example, it's very much a reflection of life. Basically it's folk music I would say. From the main vibe, telling strange fluid stories about whatever and everything you see, or I see, or we see or whatever, somehow affects the music very much. It's difficult to do political music but music is more often alternative to politics because music connects people so well.' There are many more stories, have a listen."
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