From Digital Sent Mon, May 12th 2003, 17:17
From Digital Sent Mon, May 12th 2003, 17:17
>=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D Original Message From Barbara Preisinger <xx@xxxxx-xxxxx.xx> =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D scapenewsscapenewsscapenewsscapenewsscapenewsscapenewsscapenews SCAPE @ SONAR FESTIVAL, BARCELONA --------------------------- POLE - live june 12th, 7.30 p.m. Sonar Hall (mute presents) DEADBEAT - live june 14th, 9.15 p.m Sonar Dome (mutek presents) scape-night @ moog club ----------------- bus (scape, berlin) - live daniel meteo (meteosound, berlin) - dj kenneth christiansen (loud music, copenhagen) - dj barbara preisinger (scape, berlin) - dj june 14th 2003 moog club, arc del teatre 4, barcelona 08003 start. 12 p.m. OTHER DATES: ---------- may 28th montreal - mutek festival - live: deadbeat, pole june 20th marseille - avant mutek @ cabaret al=E9atoire - live: deadbeat (friche belle de mai 41, r. jobin) june 21st zagreb - kset club - live: pole, dj: barbara preisinger jan jelinek on tour may 30th london - dovebridge studios, 46 kingsland road, london , e2 may 31st birmingham - the theatre space, custard factory (& visuals by karl kliem) june 14th duedingen - tonverein bad bonn june 28th london - plastic people pole on tour may 17th paris - nouveau casino (with fat jon) may 19th amsterdam - steim haus may 25th detroit - detroit music festival may 27th chicago - empty bottle may 28th montreal - mutek festival (+deadbeat) june 12th barcelona - sonar festival (with fat jon, visuals by visomat inc) june 20th brussels - ab club june 21st zagreb - scat club july 12th berlin - "shitparade" @ maria am ufer july 19th frigo (spain) - groove festival (with fat jon) july 25th japan naeba fuji rock festival (with fat jon) watch out pole on mute records: pole "45/45" (12inch /maxi cd) - out now! pole "90/90" (12inch / maxi cd) - june 16th pole "pole" (CD/do12") - july 7th www.mute.de - www.mute.com www.pole-music.com will be relaunched soon! ---------------- UPCOMING RELEASE: ---------------- Artist: v.a. Title: staedtizism 4 Label: scape cat#: sc17cd/sc17 do12" indigo cat#: 2639-2/-6 Format: digipack cd / do12" release date: july 7th 2003 An experiment. Open a randomly chosen electronic music magazine, go to the review section and start counting how often writers refer to something as being funky. We stop after having found it 294 times and wonder. "Funk" has become one of the most common metaphors in electronic music, being used to describe more or less anything. Take a dry minimal house track, for instance, in which the funk slowly evolves out of reduced multi-layered beats. Here, funk is used to label this strangely flowing groove, driven by a hard-to-describe-swing. As soon as laptop-rockers record their coding errors ... it is funky. And finally, Funk is one of the most important sound references in electronic music, which sometimes translates as sample library, too. Be it the specific sound of a handclap, found on a long-forgotten Mowtown recording, one of those irresistable Fender Rhodes-licks, played by an unknown but sunglasses-equipped keyboard impresario, or the guitar riff which finally finishes off the track itself. Perhaps being the most important metaphor for a good groove, the term "Funk" has definitely entered itself into universal language more recently. Wherever there is electronic music, there is funk. Let alone Soul. Funk & Soul - the definitive musical mothership of what surrounds us today within the diverse genres of electronic music - is the obvious theme for the fourth and final part of ~scape's "Staedtizism" series of compilations. After Dub, Jazz (parts 1 and 2) and HipHop ("Instrumentals" - part 3), the musicians appearing on part 4 dig deeper and deeper in search of the missing link to their own musical history, tracing the reconstructed origin of dance music. Sonic research in the middle of the big bang. Of course, everybody involved chooses a different method, operating within either their own current Status-Quo, consciously integrating their idea of funk, or deliberatley not fastening their seat belts to step out into the unknown world of Funk. Your audience, Cappablack! These two young gentlemen from Japan combine their HipHop with a barely existing chord on the keyboard, a little bit of Freestyle and suddenly the gates throw themselves wide open. What a perfect opening track. Meanwhile, Safety Scissors is more interested in stacks of synths in old, long forgotten clubs, bringing back the intensity of a good Moog-melody with his singing. Andrew Peckler isolates sonic slides and projects them with a supercool, modern device. Jan Jelinek sings his song right in the middle of an early morning Wah-Wah-jam while Dan Bell pushes an angular, stoical groove through a techno-ish stringmachine and unveils the old, forgotten connection between Funk and Kraftwerk. Akfuen blurs traces, allowing evidence to vanish into the unknown with a laptop full of ideas and sounds from back then, finally breaking free, shuffling of course. Thomas Fehlmann, via autopliot, inserts his special blend of noisy dub into the funk (or is it vice versa?), Deadbeat abstratcs his search of funk and delivers an obscure straight stomper, while Tadd Mullinix, when thinking of Funk and Soul, imagines a slow-motion view in the heaven of legends, who still carry on playing the Rhodes somewhere up there. (Thaddeus Herrmann) Tracklisting: 1. cappablack "harder to unravel" 2. safety scissors "amnesia, i need you to remind me" 3. andrew pekler "timmy t" 4. jan jelinek "fatback=B4s wicky wacky" 5. daniel bell "star child" 6. akufen theo=B4s theory (to theo parrish) 7. thomas fehlmann "andrea is delighted" 8. deadbeat "fun...k?" 9. tadd mullinix "fascinated" -------------------------------- scape gmbh dunckerstr. 7 10437 berlin Tel: +49-30-44055389 +49-30-44054106 Fax: +49-30-44054107 e-mail: xxxx@xxxxx-xxxxx.xx e-mail promotion: xx@xxxxx-xxxxx.xx www.scape-music.de --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: xxx-xxxxxxxxxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx For additional commands, e-mail: xxx-xxxx@xxxxxxxxx.xxx