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XBITR 001EP
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Rico Puestel steps up his dub game and delicately reinterprets two songs from his forthcoming 2024 singer-songwriter double-album Anthems For A Lost Generation as Rico Friebe, delivering ten deep and immersive minutes of electronic music on each side. While the original songs have never been designed for the dancefloor, both perfectly blend into the dry and groovy environment of Puestel's remakes and won't lose anything from their original message: Struggle, hope, and friendship.
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XBITXS 002EP
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"Stop Violence Against Women" has been the life-long credo from Rico Puestel and Make A Way (For Women) is a stomping protest of 11 minutes and 11 seconds that proclaims the fortitude of women! What Rico himself has to say about it: "With my 2022 Friebe-projects Jenni and Jenni II, I started to make a public appearance on this topic of violence against women musically. Back in childhood days, I already felt an intensely unjust manner and imbalance regarding women in society and an almost predetermined non-equality. The violence always seemed so ever-present, even in the smallest details of behavior and the associated self-understanding of men within their deeper planted attitude towards. I always felt an honorable glory and profound importance in women that seems impeccable and unreachable for men. It's clear that men would just be memories and ghosts without women... Musically speaking, while growing up with Gabba and Trance in the 1990s, I simply feel no charm to nowadays reflection on these times with productions and releases that somehow just sound insincere and scheming. I'm missing the real attitude, feel and groove that doesn't even care if it's techno, house or whatever and I'm also missing some of the stylistic approaches as well as the spirit from the Minimal-era. Based on all those thoughts, Make A Way (For Women) became this clenched fist - raised for good!"
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XBITX 004EP
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Ladies and gentlemen, it's 2023 and Rico Puestel doesn't get techno anymore. What happened? They might have grown apart... So, he just did his thing and after twelve months of not producing anything electronic, he just wallowed in independence of doing what he always loved...
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XBITM 001EP
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$17.50
PREORDER
RELEASE DATE: 8/11/2023
Modern Minimal Sound Research is back! This time with the first volume of the new Tones series on Rico Puestel's Exhibition label, delivering highly maximum pleasure with a puristic and minimal sound design...
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XBITX 003EP
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Rico Puestel is back on Exhibition with a surprise three-track EP from the dub realms! Something not necessarily to expect from him right here, right now... Inspired by the music playing in the record stores on his childhood day visits, Rico zen-likely crafted these special dub tunes that feel like an endless BR Space Night episode from his teenager days...
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XBIT 003LP
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Rico Puestel (Cocoon, Break New Soil) presents an exclusive collection of long-lost techno tracks from his 2002-2004 archives on blue double vinyl, accompanied by a dream painting Rico did in basic school as full color artwork. Seemingly and somehow being ahead of their time, these tracks never made it to an official release although Rico always desired their sheer existence and overall sound, standing out in many different ways... A further exhibition on the run!
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XBITXS 001EP
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There's something in the air! Can you feel the sun and the gentle breeze from the sea? Summer is near and Rico Puestel delivers the tune for those wishful days! The Air, The Sun, The Sea is a highly uplifting and timeless homage to peak summer and festival moments -- an anthem, you might not have known you would need in your life...
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XBITX 002EP
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Following his late 2021 LP Obi Thine Xi (XBIT 001LP), this extensive remix EP leads the last Rico Puestel album into its final conclusion, serving up substantial interpretations by Tom Wax, BOWMN, and two further monikers from Rico Puestel himself. As if this wasn't enough, the highly anticipated, formerly unnamed and allegedly lost track "OTX" is in on it too. On the A-side, Tom Wax delivers his stronghold and contemporary Techno design of "ID" while Rico Puestel hauls out the big analog guns and "classical" approach as Modern Minimals Sound Research on the remix of "Voluptuous Antics Enter The Hemisphere", reinterpreting his own work from another perspective. Side AA brings you BOWMN with his forceful and psychedelic interpretation of "Modest" before Rico Puestel comes in another time as Tetzlaff and turns in the '80s-inspired earworm remix of "Thine". Last but not least, "OTX" happens to be the concluding track of this record that people have been waiting and asking for since 2020 -- finally delivered!
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XBIT 001LP
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With its first track produced in early 2017 (that crowds worldwide were listening to already in 2018), the Obi Thine Xi album by Rico Puestel took up the time of four years to become the wild-at-heart ride at hand. The fantasy concept of Obi Thine Xi (based on an anagram of the label name Exhibition) tells stories from a wonderous kind of holistic place in space with two dualistic layers and velocities of perception present: On the one side of "Space", the main plot is based on the idea of an exhibition-walkthrough, representing the culmination of the Exhibition label itself. Throughout these acts of promenading from exhibit to exhibit, the journey passes different angles of Rico Puestel's musical mindset from the uniquely designed depths of "Obi Xi" or "Ritualist" to the blunt uplifts like "Modest" or "ID" (a cooperation with scene-bedrock Tom Wax), finally peaking with the retro-game styled melodies of "Thine" that close this primal arc. On the other side of "Time", there's a 12"-exclusive mini-album within the album itself that pays tribute to the vinyl record (and all of its fans) with four tracks at the end of each side, telling tales at their own pace and reflecting their perspective on the main course of the album like reflective and feverish dreamscapes from places without any conception of time. The union of both layers merges the dualism of space and time, demonstrating the wayward ideas and musical excesses of Rico Puestel when it comes to his grasp and definition of Techno music and beyond -- you gotta say yes to this excess...
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XBIT 002EP
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With Exhibition's second performance, Rico Puestel presents the new series-within-the-series, Solling, conceptually fulfilling the "triad of A" throughout the canvas of this record: Acid, analogicity, and anachronisms. After recently telling a vast and mesmerizing story on Adana Twins' TAU label, Rico Puestel now immerses into his defining habitat roots and creates the long-planned first soundtrack chapter of Solling: A central German uplands area in Lower Saxony, spreading into the North of Hesse, shaped by mixed forests, its rural imprinting, a widespread range of regionally varying cultural idiosyncrasies and a century-extending history, including the shattering throughout the welters of the Thirty Years' War. Being the first of several planned chapters, pre-production mostly takes place there while the music is traversed by sound recorded in that area, leading to an existence irreversibly connected to its birthplace. The impetuous opener "Tilly", characterizing the essence of Johann T'Serclaes von Tilly who commanded the Catholic League's forces in the Thirty Years' War, overrunning the Solling throughout 1624 and 1625, culminates in one retro-futuristic affair, building into an overwhelming storm of percussion tapestry and intertwining layers of acid. The A2 follow-up "Clava" takes the initial impetus to a superior level, overriding itself with an unpredictable enigma-melody after laying the foundation of a high-density groove architecture -- all of this representing the almost intangible chasms of a unicum street and its geographical expanse, filled with Rico's far-reaching primordial retrospections, seemingly connecting several contingent coordinates of mysterious happenings over two decades while anticipating the future. Ultimately, the AA-flipside delivers the groundbreaking Solling composition "Pro Foreste Sulgo", presenting an ancient-like struggle of dark and light as told by the principles of nature with two melodic themes, circling around themselves, bound to collide and meld like atoms -- all placed within the treetops, shaken by the wind, overlooking a future that might already has been...
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XBIT 001EP
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After his renowned tour de force on Cocoon Recordings, Rico Puestel continues with his dedicated streaks of unique and progressively driven techno on his brand-new imprint Exhibition. "Exhibit 1.1" kicks off proceedings with evolving, melodic structures fused with sweeping synths and effervescent, rolling drums before trance-inducing modulations, thrashing percussion and mesmerizing leads in the distance are expertly deployed in "Exhibit 1.2". Euphoric oscillations, growling mechanics and acid-tinged synthesis continue within "Exhibit 1.3" until "Exhibit 1.4" rounds off proceedings with glistening melodies alleviating the senses and euphonious.
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