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SENDER 087EP
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Nausicaä, the female hero, fights for survival through ecological disaster. The Japanese manga-art movie inspired Benno Blome on his new release for Sender. "Nausicaä" opens with an instrumental amplitude that creates a soulful width. Swinging bass weaves a well-constructed atmosphere. Circulating, flexible sequences combined with sensible vocals taken from A Guy Called Gerald create an impulsive, drifting sound aesthetic. "Calamaris Street" travels with greater acceleration, spinning strings of sound and voice into a hypnotic bustle.
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SENDER 079EP
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"Sender once again draws its circle wider, welcoming two artists making their first appearances on the label. Argentina's Barem and Berlin's Matt John each tackle tracks by Benno Blome, putting their own unmistakable stamps on Benno's dark, slightly sinister brand of techno. Having moved to Berlin recently, Barem (Mauricio Barenbuem) has risen fast since he began releasing on the Unfoundsound netlabel in 2005, developing a slinky, percussive style on releases for labels like Foundsound and Minus. On his remix of Benno's 'Rumburak,' he goes deeper than usual, twisting the original into a weirdly funky low-end monster, as gnarled as the branches of a haunted tree. The LA singer Big Bully is the star of the show: what were merely whispers in Benno's track have become a full-fledged assault of soulful growls and croons. A huge, heaving bass line pushes the track forward as the soundfield fills with dry, staccato drums and dubbed-out drones. Talk about a powerful slab of funk. Benno, Barem and Bully, we like the way you move. On the flip, Matt John takes on Benno's 'Sarahtov Airlines.' Remaining faithful to the contours of the original, Matt keeps the track's signature bleeps, folding them into a long, spiraling groove. Clanging cymbals and crisp handclaps reference an old-school vibe, but everything else comes straight out of Matt's alternate universe: swirling voices, weird whoops and squeals, warped percussion."
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SENDER 075EP
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"Sometimes, the two sides of a single feel almost destined to be together, bound as if by some kind of magnetic pull. That's the case with this masterful new record from Sender founder Benno Blome, marking his fourth solo release for the label after recent collaborations with Jens Bond and Baby Ford. (He's assisted by the vocal talents of Los Angeles' Big Bully, a familiar presence from recordings by Jay Haze, Mikael Stavöstrand and Samim.) It's not so much a question of opposites attracting: with both cuts here suffused in shadow, you could hardly say that this is all about the interplay of light and dark. But the way that A-side and B-side play off each other, this is one of those perfect packages, a match made in club heaven. 'Rumburak' is full to bursting with ideas, but it never loses a laser-guided sense of focus. It opens simply enough with a skuzzy low-end rumble and lots of dainty bleeps and pings, paving the way for sheets of white noise and Big Bully's dark, seductive spoken-word vocals. As the groove builds steam, sci-fi squiggles and a breathy R&B purr tug in opposite directions, stretching the track tight across the vast expanse between man and machine and leaving listeners dangling deliriously in the lurch. All that in under eight minutes -- and then, with a swift decrescendo and a few last, plaintive beeps, it's gone."
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SENDER 070CD
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"Not many labels established in the '90s have managed to achieve a consistent advancement without alienating from their roots. Even fewer labels have created a true brand thanks to their very own aesthetic of sound and artwork that are loved and respected by DJs and producers around the globe. Sender Records is one of these labels. Being brought on the air by Benno Blome in Cologne in 1999, it has 69 catalog numbers so far, presenting old school legends like A Guy Called Gerald and Baby Ford, rave pros like Misc. and Jake Fairley and young, talented artists like Bloody Mary and Andre Crom. Thanks to hits like Bond & Blome's 'Tentacular,' the past year has been a very good one for the Berlin-based imprint, so that there is always a place for Sender Records in the charts and cases of countless DJs, also, hardly one issue of Groove magazine can make it without a Sender release in its top 50 charts. So it is time for a topical work feature around the label! Wearing the fitting title From Antenna to Antenna 1, it contains a 17-track CD mixed and compiled by label-head Benno Blome with a best-of from recent releases that have been released only on vinyl previously. Additionally, it brings four previously unreleased tracks. The mix starts with elegant spheric sounds and deep grooves and slowly escalates with Misc.'s 'Tanz der Polymere' in the Hemmann and Kaden remix, before And Again aka Someone Else has his turn with his unmistakable beats, followed by the frisky sequences of Bond & Blome's 'Tentacular,' fierce synthie excesses by Error Error, skew hooks on 'Corbera,' the bass orgy 'Boita Musiq' and loads more Sender highlights. The end is built on the timeless layers of Baby Ford's 'Messenger Vox' and 'Radaar Menue' by WeltZwei. With From Antenna to Antenna 1 Benno Blome presents the status quo of the label and its full bandwidth in a narrative way." Artist list: Bloody Mary, Yapacc, Misc., And Again, Bond & Blome, Error Error, Phage, Benno Blome, Andre Crom, Frank Martiniq, Franklin De Costa, Baby Ford & Benno Blome, Vincent Radar & Weltzwei.
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ERAMINA 001EP
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"'Peace and happiness' is written on the big flickering neon sign that is blinking at you at the entrance of planet Eramina. As you are still muzzy from Captain Planet's flight style, big mats of honey carry you over a sea of chinking lights. You are holding your remote control tightly in your hand and swing through the emotion program. Everybody is naked as you are still wrapped in your curiosity. But fingernails lacquered in vivid colours are clattering over your brain pan and cheeky hands are twitching at your garment. Unflinchingly, you follow the stream of electrons whooshing over your skin and open up your ear widely towards the unknown. You can hear moments scrambling themselves, they briefly introduce themselves and gather to a jittery heap, then they bid adieu to each other. You have to find the atomium. You don't have to be afraid of blue women."
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SENDER 065EP
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"After collaborations with A Guy Called Gerald and Baby Ford label mastermind and chef de cuisine Benno Blome sets not only a mark with a voguish pasta hairstyle, but also with three tracks that call up everything that gives the needed force to contemporary minimal entertainment: buzzing and bouncing basses, lively bleeping sequences, a touch of abyss deepness, a harmonious sound-design and a perfectly portioned slice of humor for a little beam of joy on your face when you are on the dancefloor. And so a bouncing, twinkle-toed wink sneaks into the 'Braitbendnoodel' tracks, gives us funky flipping percussions and flies from one wacky vocal sample to another until the floor is burning. We are sending intensely again, in fact in 'Braitbendformat.'"
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SENDER 053EP
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"'Transmitter/Blau' is a lascivious and personal invitation to Benno Blome's seductive world. The record sparks with an electrical charge. Blome plays with high and low frequencies in a way that is direct and decisive -- permeating the night and transmitting until morning. Sound and light hypnotizes and glides gleaming through the city. 'Transmitter/Blau' projects a virtual and flowing dynamic onto a grey November and constructs a tightly woven and irreversible moment in time. 'Rouge Fatal', the second track, loosens this moment: it approaches sensually, stimulates and breathes nervously. The track gains a further pleasant sensuality through the voice from K.Lakizz, which are finely honed by effects."
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SENDER 025EP
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"The city is full of flashy satellites, circling each other, full of loops that mark the city. In the line of sight, on parallel orbits, dark and pulsing. Benno Blome, the Sender mastermind, wrote a custom made hymn for the 'Satellite City'. Classic Sender-sound: minimal, milling, unobtrusively undercooled but always with this urge of euphoria. On the B-side loops in their purest form. Techno essence. Thirteen battle weapons de luxe. Deploy your antennas and freak."
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