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MUSICK 024EP
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Ulli Bomans aka Schieres (one-half of Shrubbn!!) handles dark techno tracks from deep-down easily. His razorblade instrumental and vocal rave beats combine function and destruction. Opener "Edge" could be named "Razor," too, featuring sharp kicks, dirty synth lines and 1/16 hi-hats. "8 Ohm" is dark downtempo techno taken from the Blade Runner soundtrack. "15 Razor Blades" is classic techno with a simple and thrilling keyboard hook which escorts and pushes beats and bass lines. Final mixing by Marco Haas.
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MUSICK 023EP
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UK/Barcelona producer Dave Tarrida strikes back on Shitkatapult's club label imprint. Hot Leather Seats is a dark race-car of a record, featuring great New York/Brooklyn producer Big Bully on vocals. Gentle arrangements focus on the necessary: techno beats, synth hooks, dark ambience. "Rydim" and "Out Of Control" follow the aggressive aesthetics of the title track while "The Great Wave" is a cut-up vocal track on a broken beat. A thrillingly modern release.
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MUSICK 022EP
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Mike Fuzz presents Check Your Head: rave culture from the future that combines German technique and the soulful touch of Detroit. "Check This Out" is a heart attack-inducing rave signal -- a true piece of freak music. "Terminate The Terminator" is dark no-future rave reminiscent of Cristian Vogel or Dave Tarrida. "It's Kicking" appears in a DJ Flush edit with irresistible patterns and a vocal by Suzy Love that leads into a great peak-beat.
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MUSICK 021EP
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Presenting Rumpelritter -- an epic techno 12" by Schieres and T.Raumschmiere aka Shrubbn!! "Basstoelpel" presents a straight 4-to-the-floor beat with a great hook melody line, "Thema 2.0" features rough rave and "Ebenholz" is made of pure sound progression and no plug-ins. Techno punk vibes merge with crystal clear techno beats.
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MUSICK 020EP
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This 12" by Dave Tarrida and Mike Fuzz continues Musick's success. "Augenblau" is an unconventional techno track mixing decades: while the vocal lines deliver an '80s feeling, the track itself shows no-future techno skills. A funky dark club hit for the undertaker. "Give Me Some" -- a track for people who do not sleep, with live hardcore bass lines by Mike Fuzz who also spoke/sang all lyrics on both of these tracks. Speed bass techno with vocals!
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MUSICK 015EP
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Håkan Lidbo strikes back on Musick! The Swede has hit us with tons of releases, tracks, labels, dates, ideas, pictures, skills, titles, themes, etc., and his tracks are always worth checking out. After Call for Islam, the present 12" showcases two more excellent floor tracks taken from his full length Dunka Dunka. Fulfilling all needs/wants and have-tos in the techno business is not Mr. Lidbo's game -- he is into the music business to have fun and to rock the floor. You can taste this on every single bar, click and clash of his music.
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MUSICK 019EP
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Shrubbn!! was founded by Marco Haas aka T.Raumschmiere and Ulli Bomans aka Schieres in 1995, and after myriad other projects, they're back! The aim of Shrubbn!! was to make dirty, filthy but swinging noize improvisations while tripping, but both tracks on this record are expertly whittled, sprawling statements. Instead of delicate reverb and carefully balanced minimal sound packets, Shrubbn!! give us music of one mind -- rough exterior, tough core.
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MUSICK 018CD
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This is the first full-length release for Oliver Greschke alias Magnum 38 -- Germany's smartest weapon. After the release of his hit single Disco Toni (co-produced by T. Raumschmiere and remixed by Motor) Old Europe Strikes Back is an invitation to everybody to take part in the pleasure and pain of Magnum 38's everyday life: weird electronics, glam-pop, dancefloor hysteria, pathetic moments and a high risk of self-destruction all combine to create some graceful electronic noir -- crumbled, smashed and all mixed up again. Based upon his powerful gnarzy breakbeats and the weird noises that typically vitalize his productions, Magnum 38 reveals some new and unexpected sides of himself: spheric soundscapes, hysteric disco-rave sounds and poppy smash hits. Old Europe Strikes Back is not a concept album, but the result of Greschke's investigation in energies and subcultures all around the globe. Magnum 38, who has been part of the Shitkatapult label family right from the beginning, sucks up these energies like a black hole, searching for inspiration, selecting them, cutting them into small pieces and recompiling them into his very own vision of electronic music.
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MUSICK 017EP
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Oliver Greschke crafts breakbeat solo productions under the alias Magnum 38, and now he writes a musical portrait of a dirty, sexy lost super-hero named Disco Toni. This is a techno/electro explosion that will burn everything and everybody wherever it is played. With its gnarzy breakbeats and its deepness, it's rave and pop at the same time, but most of all it's a monster, monster, monster. Novamute superstars Motor deliver an ass-kicking 4-to-the-floor remix.
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MUSICK 016CD
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Sweden's foremost producer Håkan Lidbo is a legend in '90s tech-house, and has released nearly countless dance/pop records in his almost 15-year-long career. Virtually everything that Lidbo touches becomes a new invention in quirky electro production, welding together minimal, Latin, soul, disco, click-house and more to baffle even the most well-seasoned techno-phile. Dunka Dunka, according to Lidbo, is "an expression old people use to describe modern music." What this means for the actual content of the record is unclear, but as is evidenced with the three previously 12"-only tracks "Half Man Half Lobster," "Speedway" and "Call For Islam," Dunka Dunka should be chock-full of dark disco-techno, bit-crushed minimal melodies, and well-distorted vocal lines. It's not the usual minimal mainstream output, but some sort of variation on futuristic splatter, still holding onto a solid remnant of classic disco. Whatever your mood, Lidbo demands that you dance from side-to-side under a deep purple strobe-light, keeping in mind that these tracks were made under the influence of self-administered electric shock treatment, cocaine, happy-pills, and ginseng juice.
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MUSICK 014EP
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After his magnificent Mudtsmut EP, Jerry Abstract, the digital stepper from Seattle, returns with Luvbytes: space rock techno at its best. These four tracks showcase Jerry's main talents: combining distorted funk riffs with digital glitch. Jerry does not need to fit in between the newest soft-rock minimal or romantic afterhours music: "Enevim," "Varsaw," "Slannt" and especially "Luvbytes" make us remember a freedom of peak and love in digital music.
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MUSICK 013EP
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Sweden's Håkan Lidbo presents a preview of his forthcoming album with this 12", Call For Islam. Lidbo's music is perfect disco-techno without the false romance, straight from the bottom to the top. "Call for Islam" opens with Arabic-ish distorted vocal lines, dark disco bass lines, highly bit-crushed minimal melody, 4 to the floor beats... and then the wonderful hi-hat starts: chickchickchickchick. "Half Man Half Lobster" dances from side to side, even more disco than techno. An old school sawtooth line clears the set. Finally "Speedway" is good old school with a forbidden master gate snare. Deep purple stroboscope light shit, heroin Iran, swinger club Kreuzberg, and more synths from Istanbul... 4 to the floor and more!
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