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STATT 005CD
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This is the debut full-length album from Nadine Carina. Born in 1986, Carina grew up in a little village called Maggia, in the Italian part of Switzerland. She always showed a great passion for music; always ready to sing at her village's parties and regularly exploring her father's vinyl collection. She started to play piano at a very young age and was a member of the Philharmonic Band of Ticino, playing clarinet. The guitar came later, when rock bands like The Who and Genesis began to influence her musical background more and more. After moving to Geneva, she attended a music and technologies school (ETM), where she started to write her own songs inspired by songwriters like Shannon Wright, Julie Doiron and Alessi's Ark. Learning music technology, she began to arrange her songs programming with MIDI, using effects pedals and loopers. She made two homemade EPs and her song "Like Her" played on a Swiss-Italian TV channel from a solo performance video in her father's kitchen. In 2010 she decided to move to Liverpool, England, where she took music and sound technology courses at the Liverpool Institute of Performing Arts. Inspired by the Liverpool music scene, Nadine started getting gigs in bars and venues, performing her songs, sometimes solo, sometimes with a band. Her debut LP Magic Box is a collection of songs written over the past 2 years. Lots of "dreamed" material and technological tinkerings show the magic of this work, which hides deep and meaningful messages. Being her first album, it has this kind of proximity with the artist that you can only find on early works. You can almost listen to her taking a deep breath before pressing "record" on her little 4-track. Nadine draws you into 13 quiet, melancholic moments, sometimes minimalistic (alone with her guitar) and sometimes more adventurous (deep programmed arrangements), but always with the aim to keep you in a kind of comfortable woolly bubble. In two words, this album is spontaneous and fragile.
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STATT 022EP
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Zürich's Ephrem Lüchinger (keys) and Manuel Rindlisbacher (bass) are Ephma, and this is their first release. A Walking Letter can sound industrial, have a touch of jazz, be celestial or totally electro, and, at times, groovy enough to dance to. Ethnic instruments are peppered with voices and rhythmic samples of everyday noises. You certainly won't fall asleep on your sofa, on the contrary, some of you clubbers, who think you have heard it all, might even prick up your ears.
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STATT 003CD
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Swiss-Japanese electro-pop duo Tim and Puma Mimi celebrate their fifth anniversary this year, and this is their first-ever full-length album released on CD. Turn The Page is a kaleidoscopic work mixing different styles: here a Super-Mario pico-pico tone, there a wooden flute, a trombone, a traditional Japanese sanshin, sometimes a guitar, even an electrified apple is used to produce a totally unique, Japanese/Swiss pop -- raw like sushi, sweet like chocolate. The CD contains some new and some old songs (not released on CD thus far) and some remixes. Their popular little hit "Aquarium" is also included. Tim and Puma Mimi craft sweet, askew electro-hip-pop jingles akin to artists such as Santigold, Stereo Total, and M.I.A. Limited edition (500 copies), including tabloid paper with Japanese and English lyrics, song stories, and four Tim and Puma Mimi posters designed by Swiss/Japanese designers. Including remixes by Knor, Seelenluft, and Lipstick.
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STATT 021EP
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Martin Akeret is Popshop. The diversified soundworld of Popshop consists of a build-up of tension in an elaborate composition while juggling breaks and straightness. The melodies on Plaisir Noir are abysmal, emotional and dark, never shattering nor gloomy, but mysterious and propellant. Some of them even have a touch of timeless romance and unpredictability -- you never know what will happen in the next four beats.
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STATT 018EP
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Rumpelzirkus is Sascha Winkler's debut album, and this is part one of two vinyl 12" versions. Winkler isn't looking for the smooth, perfect sound -- his tracks have rough edges and funky grooves. Guest musicians include Kate Wax and Guillermo Sohrya on vocals, as well as the "rumpel-orchestra" with Michael Flury and Rockmaster K. "Lose My Chair" is a track influenced by the actual destruction of a chair during production work, the dub-track "Oisi Zuekunft" features Swiss-German vocals, and "Hafenlied" and "Heartbreak Hotel" deliver the finest home-listening music.
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This is Zürich-based Sascha Winkler's (aka Kalabrese) debut full-length release. Eleven songs stumble jollily forward with stimulated jabbering like little mountain torrents which are searching for their bed -- plashing over pebbles, running into small basins, sometimes quiet, sometimes loud. Rumpelzirkus also features contributions from Kate Wax, who has lent her voice to "Not The Same Shoes," Flo Götte, who plays the bass on "Body Tight," and the trombonist Michael Flury as well as Da Mezga and Guillermo Sohrya. Kalabrese has previously released on the Perlon label, and has long since proved his ability to create music that you can't pigeonhole. Classical instruments were used for this album, and skilled percussionist Winkler throws everyday sounds from the kitchen and garden in along with it all. Sounding at times like a spontaneous live session with good buddies, Rumpelzirkus is an absolutely individual album with everything on it, that lacerates the heart or unburdens it -- a collection of potential favorite songs. Philip Sherburne compares this album to Isolée's lauded release, We Are Monster, and asserts that "...even there the two musicians don't really sound that much alike; what they share is a commitment to infusing the house format with all the spongy uncertainties of breath, slipping fingertips and room tone, and to morphing dance music's linear structure into a form just as groovily functional, but with far less predictable follow-through. Isolée was 2005's unlikely crossover hit; I suspect that in this Swiss sleeper genius we may have found this year's."
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STATT 017EP
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"Rumpelzirkus is the debut album of 33 year-old Sacha Winkler from Zürich. On vinyl, the album will be released as two 12"s. This first 12" with 4 tracks already demonstrates the musical bandwidth of Kalabrese's music. The Swiss musician diffuses the boundaries between listening and club music, even enters the pop dimension without being cheap. Thanks to the intimate lyrics and the many live recorded instruments, the music gains a very organic feeling; it flows lively. The four tracks vary in style and pace but still sound coherent; the melodies and sounds lumber straight out of the analog-kitchen. Sasha Winkler isn't looking for the smooth, perfect sound, his tracks with their rough edges and funky grooves prove his ability to make music with joy, alone and with others. As guest musicians Kalabrese has on board: Kate Max and Guillermo Sohyra on vocals, the 'rumpel-orchestra' with Michael Flury and Rockmaster K. Now raise the curtain for the 'Rumpelzirkus.'"
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STATT 016EP
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Remixes by Freaks and Crowdpleaser. "A tasty little candy. Two 'Auf Dem Hof' remixes shorten the time to the release of Kalabrese's debut album. The funky discohouse track has been newly interpreted by the Freaks on the A-side and by Crowdpleaser on the B-side. The men who live underground! Luke Solomon and Justin Harris started the 'Freaks Project' in 1994. Their 'Auf Dem Hof' interpretation comes with the distinct freak grooves and rhythmics around Kalabrese's vocals. A relaxed housemover for the nice moments on the dancefloor. Gregor Schönborn has been producing electronic music under the name Crowdpleaser since 1999. After dissecting the original track on the sample shamble they hold back the kick for minutes before releasing the pressure into a hypnotic minimal house dub."
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"Solo-EP debut on Stattmusik by 34 year old Benjamin Fay from Bern. Besides studying the double bass at school in Bern and learning how to play various instruments on his own, Benjamin Fay always became more interested in elektronic music. After various Netlabel releases, this is his third Stattmusik release ('atr0b' on sämpler vol 2. and 'feuerholz' (stattmusik mp3). Bang goes, well known through various releases on Bruchstücke and Stattmusik, rounds things off nicely with his remix on side b. After three more funk/soul/house oriented releases, 'Pink Silk Panties' goes more into the direction of minimal techno (but without loosing the funk). The title track and remix rock bluntly with freaky sounds and vocals. 'Refusal To Truckle' takes over the more 'Housey' part and 'Brummagem Martinet' tells some dark mystic story?. pink silk panties oh it's, ääh, embarassing, pink panties, stolen from the wife and standing here at the beach. Nobodies here; at the beach. All alone [cut] Refusal to truckle early morning, alone, after the party, somewhere where everything is different. After the after hour; driving home; in the bus. The others go out, getting up, going to brunch. One thinks 'what do i want more' and then the bus stops and one gets out [cut] brummagem martinet loneliness cuts itself through all tracks. Especially in the 'brummagem martinet', which means 'cheap and showy disciplinarian'. This screams for loneliness. Because one is to stupid to just party and not worry. The do-gooder breathing down my neck. How i hate the do-gooder. He's worth nothing. Then at 2'23'' my saviour, the saw hook arrives. She leaves the do-gooder behind."
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STATT 001CD
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"Boomtown-Sounds from Zürich Or: The descendants of Yello are impudent rascals... That Swiss oath comrades crackle now from all pipes. Milkaland strikes back, and even Zürich has developed in the last years a club culture, which is unique in Europe. The double-CD of universal Stattmusik-label from the surrounding field of legendary Substrat-Club covers as overview 22 tracks of 22 different acts from Zürich. With names like Golden Boy and Miss Kittin lighten up two swiss stars the sky, but: other producers needn't hide. The Compilation features tracks from digital Crackle-Dub and Electro-Pop to Trash-Electronica and stomping minimal Tech-House. Sometimes it reminds to the old tradition of zurich 'konkretes' and to the famous Collages of Dadaism! And there's nothing reminding to 'Yello'! Zürich is not only capitol of party, chocolate und junkies, but brilliant melting pot of contemporary electronic music." Artists include: Seelenfinder, Styro2000, Teleform, Intricate, Marcus Maeder, Alura, Are Dee, Bang Goes, Kalabrese, Roger Rotor, Instant, Steinbruchel, Cosili, Schallbetter, Canson.
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