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LP version. The simple fact that there is a new Anstam album will wet the tastebuds of many music-lovers all over the world. Not having released any albums since 2012, Anstam only came to the public eye as the support act for Atoms For Peace and Moderat. Standing on the shore of the big mainstream and all the little mainstreams, Anstam has worked on a more artistic approach -- to sculpture a complex and well-crafted cosmos, full of unique musical logics, physics and atmospheres. Names is the third Anstam album from German artist Lars Stöwe, after the critically-acclaimed Dispel Dances (50 004CD/LP, 2011) and Stones and Woods (50 010CD/LP, 2012) -- and once again, Anstam pushes things forward in his typically idiosyncratic style and operates the full arsenal of relevant modern music into a 10-course meal of delicious brain food.
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MONKEY 050CD
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The simple fact that there is a new Anstam album will wet the tastebuds of many music-lovers all over the world. Not having released any albums since 2012, Anstam only came to the public eye as the support act for Atoms For Peace and Moderat. Standing on the shore of the big mainstream and all the little mainstreams, Anstam has worked on a more artistic approach -- to sculpture a complex and well-crafted cosmos, full of unique musical logics, physics and atmospheres. Names is the third Anstam album from German artist Lars Stöwe, after the critically-acclaimed Dispel Dances (50 004CD/LP, 2011) and Stones and Woods (50 010CD/LP, 2012) -- and once again, Anstam pushes things forward in his typically idiosyncratic style and operates the full arsenal of relevant modern music into a 10-course meal of delicious brain food.
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50WRMX 007EP
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Anstam's brand-new remix single combines reworks of Moderat's second single "Gita" with a remix of his dear friend and Moderat label-mate Siriusmo. An unlikely combination you might say, but wait until you hear how well this all melts together. Anstam's "Dustified Dance Edit" of Moderat's "Gita" shows an unexpected almost pop side of Anstam, while the "Bustified Breaks" edit of Siriusmo's "Stinky Wig" explores four-on-the-floor territory the Anstam way.
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50 018EP
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Following his much-acclaimed debut album Dispel Dances (50 004CD/LP) and his two complementary yet very diverse Radiohead "Separator" remixes, Anstam returns with an EP featuring three tracks. Previously sold via Hardwax Record Store/Berlin (April 2012), here's the chance to get a copy of this 12" in the limited edition series by 50 Weapons.
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50 010LP
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50 010CD
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Stones and Woods is the second album from Lars Stöwe aka Anstam. "I started to miss the feelings I had when I made music as a kind of an isolated self-experiment. So, I decided to get that back and I started with the Anstam debut album Dispel Dances (50 004CD/LP). I started an expedition to search for that euphoric state of mind that I had in 1997 and I was searching for it in Anstam. All the things Anstam could be already flashed up in Dispel Dances but this album was about going inevitably towards the big unknown, with all the good or evil it could bring. Stones and Woods is not about searching anymore, it is about observing. It is about being there. Deep in the heart of Anstam. Standing there and adapting to all the Anstam mannerisms. It is about becoming a part of it. The whole dynamic of Stones and Woods is about self-contained cycles. A day. A year. Who knows? But there is always a beginning and an end. Every one of the nine songs is completely worked out, a solitary significant document. I've structured Stones and Woods like an '80s pop album. Not too many songs -- but every song tells his own story. There are dance songs, sentimental songs, challenging songs, the whole circus. And it's much more fragile than Dispel Dances. That album was full of pride and very adamant in its own rigorousness. I guess Stones and Woods is much more open to the idea of being introverted, emotional and sensitive. That makes Anstam much more complete now and offers more soft spots to connect with. But of course, it is still an experimental album. Like all the other Anstam material, it has a fundamental progressive approach and it definitely gives no easy answers, but it is approachable and it has that kind of elegance that brings life to cold, dead data information and turns it into something self-evident like stones and woods." --Lars Stöwe (aka Anstam)
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50 004CD
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This is the debut album from the two Anstam brothers. Their music has been charted by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, amongst many others. FACT Mag once wrote: "We don't know a lot about Anstam. No one does. That's part of the appeal." What 50 Weapons can reveal is the fact that Anstam used to be a duo of two brothers from Germany. They were responsible for a now-legendary trilogy of 12" releases circa 2007-2009 -- Brom, Aeto and Cree -- that assimilated the hardest, most dystopian flavors of dubstep, grime and junglism into a disciplined, techno-savvy framework that betrays their Berlin provenance. And then -- two long years passed without incident. In 2011, Anstam came back to life. First, with a contribution to a split 10" with Phon.o on the B-side and later, with a new solo 12" named Baldwin/Carmichael. The first 3 new Anstam tracks in a long time caused yet another stir in the electronic music community. A highly-praised, diverse, moody and dark podcast for FACT Mag in May 2011 showed their influences and favorites. Anstam played festivals such as Mutek and Melt, amongst others, and just finished a Radiohead remix of "Separator." 50 Weapons is extremely proud to finally present their debut album Dispel Dances, which is once again a showcase of outstanding talent. Dark, vibrant atmospheres, lurking synths and the most crushingly dynamic, dead-on-it beats you will hear all year.
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50 004LP
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Gatefold LP version. This is the debut album from the two Anstam brothers. Their music has been charted by Radiohead's Thom Yorke, amongst many others. FACT Mag once wrote: "We don't know a lot about Anstam. No one does. That's part of the appeal." What 50 Weapons can reveal is the fact that Anstam used to be a duo of two brothers from Germany. They were responsible for a now-legendary trilogy of 12" releases circa 2007-2009 -- Brom, Aeto and Cree -- that assimilated the hardest, most dystopian flavors of dubstep, grime and junglism into a disciplined, techno-savvy framework that betrays their Berlin provenance. And then -- two long years passed without incident. In 2011, Anstam came back to life. First, with a contribution to a split 10" with Phon.o on the B-side and later, with a new solo 12" named Baldwin/Carmichael. The first 3 new Anstam tracks in a long time caused yet another stir in the electronic music community. A highly-praised, diverse, moody and dark podcast for FACT Mag in May 2011 showed their influences and favorites. Anstam played festivals such as Mutek and Melt, amongst others, and just finished a Radiohead remix of "Separator." 50 Weapons is extremely proud to finally present their debut album Dispel Dances, which is once again a showcase of outstanding talent. Dark, vibrant atmospheres, lurking synths and the most crushingly dynamic, dead-on-it beats you will hear all year.
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