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To Rococo Rot: Speculation -

I still remember the smell of the old wood panels and the grave atmosphere of the Volksbühne, in central Berlin, that windy winter night in 2004. To Rococo Rot was on stage, three men in a jungle of cables, shiny instruments, buzzing laptops and LED lights; that was just around...

To Rococo Rot - Speculation -

Eight albums into a career that began during (and arguably defined a Mitteleuropa response to) the first flush of 90s US post-rock, the palindromic Berlin-via Düsseldorf trio continue to turn electronically-tinged, instrumental rock music inside out, their enthusiasm for recombining and recontextualising familiar sounds and genre traits seemingly undimmed. As...

Vulvaland - Its difficult to categorize Mouse on Mars into a specific electronica sub-genre. Starting out in 1994 with the release of their debut album, Vulvaland, the German duo has gone on to release nine albums over their twelve year existence. Over the years Mouse on Mars have covered umpteen genres including...

Spider Smile - Tarwater is the musical equivalent of what we visualize modernism to be. They dont overindulge in any of that post-modern crap in all of its frivolity. Instead, they give us clean sounds from electronic instruments with a monotone and dreamy Interpol-esque voice complimenting the song structure. The duo of Bernd Jestram...

Kreidler - Kreidler has one of those sounds that teeters on the edge of being irritatingly experimental, but is pulled back by some solid acoustic instrumentation and a good sense of beat and build. Their debut, Weekend showcases an odd mix of chirps and clicks, along with some more conventional driving...

Fennesz - Black Sea -

Listen between the spaces modern pop composition leaves blank in pursuit of cracking commercial codes and you discover something wondrous, music that shifts subtly on waves of static with no desire to discuss market strategies or licensing opportunities.

Christian Fennesz has long been an experimental musician of note, his previous three...

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