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Welcome to Recreational Kraut, the latest release on the recently relaunched Source Records label. This collaboration between Jordan Czamanski (aka Jordan GCZ) and David Moufang (aka Move D) links back to the ambient experimental beginnings of Source Records in the early '90s, as well as to Conjoint, a project exploring the borders of improvised music based on ambient, experimental electronics and jazz featuring Karl Berger, Jamie Hodge, Gunter "ruit" Kraus and David Moufang. Recreational Kraut was recorded live in in three sessions in Jordan's Amsterdam studio in 2018 and 2019. As the title suggests, the album flirts with the term and the "genre" krautrock and it's prolonged, often improvised instrumental passages. The equipment used in the late '60s and early '70s was often rather conventional like electric piano, old synthesizers and electric bass guitar -- all present on the album's opener "Recreation Parts 1-3". The two instruments shaping the album and giving it a coherence, despite the varied styles and tempos are Czamanski's Fender Rhodes and Moufang's lyra-8, an 8-oscillator drone synthesizer which is played manually via touch sensors, giving it a very expressive sometimes violin-like other times outer-worldly, atonal character. Recreational Kraut's 11 tracks span beat-less ambient soundscapes to jazzy psychedelia, as well as hints of house, techno, broken beat and funk. Let yourself submerge in the gravitational fields of Recreational Kraut.
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SOURCE 044CD
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"Not just since the release of With Compliments for Force Inc., is Benjamin Wild one of Germany's favorite electronic music producers. Benjamin can look back on a impressive recording career with releases for Kompakt, Perlon, Force Tracks and Morris/Audio and a total of six collaboration albums for frankfurts Fax Records. His second album project: Wie Es Sein Wollte brings it all to the point. Everything fits perfectly in place and Benjamin shows us with striking clarity why we love and need electronic music. Minimal House, subliminal dub, digital artefacts and warm pulsating chords, merge, creating sublimely funky elegant and grooving tracks. bouncing, sexy, sensual, swinging, soothing... Benjamin Wilds music is filled with warmth and positive energy, reduced to the essence, in this case the blending of musical and rhythmical elements, well balanced arrangements, peace pours from the speakers soaring effortlessly, grooving from the first to the last track. timeless, weightless, extremely funky, relaxed and fluid: '.....genau so wollte es sein' and so it always wanted to be."
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"Adrien Capozzi, aka Adrien 75, comes from Los Angeles. As a member of Unagi Patrol & Microstudio, he had a hand in co-creating most of the Carpet Bomb Releases. In 1999 he released the Adrien 75 EP on Carpet Bomb. He released tracks on Plug Research's Intermision, on Opensource.players (Source Records) and on other compilations. Coastal Acces is Adrien's album debut and it is probably the most chilled out on Source in a while. Mellow, floating, morphing and liquid -- this is the kind of music you make when you bring your laptop to the beach, or possibly just the memories of days spent at the ocean resonating from a harddrive a couple of blocks away -- windows open -- sounds from the street stream in with the breeze and distant roaring of the surf. Acoustic guitar and digital artefacts merge just as naturally as the seemingly opposing concepts of easy beach live and binary program codes. At times calm and beautiful -- sometimes vibrant and rough -- always deep, emotional and atmospherically rich with rather abstract and fragmented references to nature. A comforting aquatic feel underlines all of the the album, floating and light, soaring from the depth and gently sinking back then suddenly: all Funk, elements grooving like light dancing above -- under water looking up. Digital sounds cascading, rolling like lines of waves at the shore -- like a permanent pulsing or breathing refracted with interferences caused by its reflection. Modulated from a permanent energy and formed through disturbances of density."
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"Johan Skugge from Sweden. Another Debut on Source Records. This is some of the finest 21st century processor-funk around. Digital minimal Tracks, shuffling, shifting, grooving. Sounds from a different world. Building, layer by layer, carefully arranged, drawing you into the depths of a software-generated world of sound. But, possibly more important, 'buildings and objects' preserves the warmth and emotional depths of the analog world. Clicks, Cuts, Crackles and digital fragments create irresistible grooves, underlining all of the tracks. Musical and rhythmical elements blend seamlessly in Skugge´s music. Solid grooving four to the floor backed tracks alongside deep experimental pieces. All swinging -- as if the source codes had started a life of their own. Following the album title 'buildings and objects', Johan Skugge´s tracks are buildings of striking clarity, reduced, focused and balanced in their structures, minimal and futuristic in fabric. The buildings outline and external shape are defined by their internal concepts rather than being masked by a facade."
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"Players is the first in a series of 'OpenSource' compilations. Each compilation will focus on a different field of electronic music today. Players is colorful array of easy swinging tracks, funky rhythms, soulful vocals, jazz and electronics from around the world. Compiled by Move D (almost entirely through the web). Don´t expect 'big names' but prepare yourself for some great music like the fantastic smooth opener by Obadia (originally from Paris, now living in Stockholm), the amazing George Clinton style vocal arrangements of Bangtown (Flint, Mi), Ali Omar´s beautiful e-piano soul 'love' (Sidney), the deep flow of sounds and improvisations of Finnlands Krii, the sadness and charm of Thomas Mayer's ballad 'values', Tara Rodgers shuffling grooves and organ escapades (Brooklyn), Exxon Yaz´s cool and lazy hip hop groove (Leipzig) and the deep piano and dubs of Digital Lofi (Dortmund). While each of the 18 tracks has a strong individual identity they are tied together by the common thread of having been tracked down by Move D on MP3 sites up and down the globe. The result is a stunning compilation of outstanding music. We can now lean back and enjoy the result. Homecooking at its very best. Also featured: exclusive new tracks by Transporter (self titled album on Source Records ´99 / 12" on Cheap as 'Reimann' / releases with B-Recordings on Cheap and Payola) and solo tracks by the 'Deep Space Network' -- members and heads of Source Records: David Moufang (Move D) and Jonas Grossmann (Bton)."
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"Eyephone was founded 1994 as a follow-up to the techno-project The Feedback Bleep. Releases, live-performances (a.o. with Atom Heart, Clifford Gilberto) and countless DJ and radio-appearances between 1995 and 1997. Devolution will feature previously unreleased tracks from 96/97. Experimental electronic ambience. Deep inner spaces and outer spheres. Digital details, expanding sounds. Pulsing with rhythms driven by sublime minimal funk floating through abstract soundscapes. Loops in motion, random oscillations interwoven and layered to a seamlessly flowinging unity in permanent transformation. Blending cool minimal funk and digital abstraction."
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