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BB 434CD
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All the herbs have been smoked. Datashock deliver a new album: Geltungsbereich Universum. Their second for Bureau B and the eighth in a career as an internationally active collective of musicians which has spanned two decades (so far). Space is the place, as the moonstruck sparrows sing from the rooftops, or is the Earth the most beautiful place in the universe? Some say yes, others no. Datashock say nothing at all.
"Twenty years and counting, and yet here they are, as shoulder-shruggingly nonchalant as ever, in the environs of pop culture, where (seeing) the wood for the trees means the world. What's going down, what's not? What the heck! Is this still krautrock, is it space rock or experimental music? What's the difference? Does it even matter? What's important is that something is happening. This much we know. And now something else has happened. A new Datashock release: Geltungsbereich Universum. Of course, it couldn't be any other way. Why set themselves limits? That has never been a concern for them. Even if, in all likelihood, they don't make it into space, at least not this year, they have been most places and always stick to their own thing. Which is what, exactly? That's for others to decide. The critique? This is your captain speaking, ... your captain is dead. Use your ears. Listen closely and take your time to discover the musical spheres -- the infinite worlds -- of Datashock. For card-carrying space travelers only!" --Holger Adam
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BB 434LP
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LP version. All the herbs have been smoked. Datashock deliver a new album: Geltungsbereich Universum. Their second for Bureau B and the eighth in a career as an internationally active collective of musicians which has spanned two decades (so far). Space is the place, as the moonstruck sparrows sing from the rooftops, or is the Earth the most beautiful place in the universe? Some say yes, others no. Datashock say nothing at all.
"Twenty years and counting, and yet here they are, as shoulder-shruggingly nonchalant as ever, in the environs of pop culture, where (seeing) the wood for the trees means the world. What's going down, what's not? What the heck! Is this still krautrock, is it space rock or experimental music? What's the difference? Does it even matter? What's important is that something is happening. This much we know. And now something else has happened. A new Datashock release: Geltungsbereich Universum. Of course, it couldn't be any other way. Why set themselves limits? That has never been a concern for them. Even if, in all likelihood, they don't make it into space, at least not this year, they have been most places and always stick to their own thing. Which is what, exactly? That's for others to decide. The critique? This is your captain speaking, ... your captain is dead. Use your ears. Listen closely and take your time to discover the musical spheres -- the infinite worlds -- of Datashock. For card-carrying space travelers only!" --Holger Adam
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Double LP version. Includes two vinyl-only bonus tracks; Includes CD. "... Datashock 2018: Eighty fingers playing, but what are they all up to? Are Datashock in command of their instruments or is it the other way around? What we do know -- this is freely improvised music, complete with rattles, rumbles and whistles. Music as a social happening, both in terms of process and outcome, where individual and collective development can thrive -- an ecstatic experience! . . . Imagine gathering eight people under one roof and ushering them into a recording studio -- everybody's busy nowadays (sometimes in precarious situations, but always doing one thing or another, incessantly), this being the age of late capitalism and all that. Anyway, diaries checked and off we go. Next stop: Oetinger Villa, Darmstadt. Kolter has already swept the place clean, DJ Ulf Eyes has brought beer from the waterfront, MC Cobra is dressed in the latest threads from Berlin, McWerner and Cha Cha have everything they didn't forget to bring from Cologne and up the Rhine and -- natch -- El Haze and Biber Bergi line up alongside LL Cool P from Saarbrücken. Pizza delivery number dialed, bottles opened, lights, camera, action. Machines bleep, a violin cries out, a clarinet howls, guitar and bass weave their way around the drums. The spell lasts for several days, then the magic goes back in the box, the recording is done. Everyone heads back to where capitalist realism awaits in fifty shades of gloom. Alas, it was over so quickly! . . . Groups like Datashock are few and far between, more's the pity -- raise your glasses to friendship! -- groups who, in spite of everything, meet up regularly to record free improvisations and then hit the road to share their experiences with an audience. It's a trust thing. So: bring on the herbs! Not provincial in the slightest -- but they get everywhere, into every last nook and cranny. They may not have any songs to speak of, but they do have their instruments." --Salvador am Ei
Datashock is an artist collective with changing personnel that create psychedelic (krautrock) improvisations. They were founded in Saarlouis in 2003.
"Like a free-folk-informed update on Amon Düül" --The Wire.
"A splendidly righteous motherfucker" --Julian Cope on Pyramiden in Gießen (2011).
"Neo-Hippie-Spook-Folk" --Datashock.
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BB 299CD
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"... Datashock 2018: Eighty fingers playing, but what are they all up to? Are Datashock in command of their instruments or is it the other way around? What we do know -- this is freely improvised music, complete with rattles, rumbles and whistles. Music as a social happening, both in terms of process and outcome, where individual and collective development can thrive -- an ecstatic experience! . . . Imagine gathering eight people under one roof and ushering them into a recording studio -- everybody's busy nowadays (sometimes in precarious situations, but always doing one thing or another, incessantly), this being the age of late capitalism and all that. Anyway, diaries checked and off we go. Next stop: Oetinger Villa, Darmstadt. Kolter has already swept the place clean, DJ Ulf Eyes has brought beer from the waterfront, MC Cobra is dressed in the latest threads from Berlin, McWerner and Cha Cha have everything they didn't forget to bring from Cologne and up the Rhine and -- natch -- El Haze and Biber Bergi line up alongside LL Cool P from Saarbrücken. Pizza delivery number dialed, bottles opened, lights, camera, action. Machines bleep, a violin cries out, a clarinet howls, guitar and bass weave their way around the drums. The spell lasts for several days, then the magic goes back in the box, the recording is done. Everyone heads back to where capitalist realism awaits in fifty shades of gloom. Alas, it was over so quickly! . . . Groups like Datashock are few and far between, more's the pity -- raise your glasses to friendship! -- groups who, in spite of everything, meet up regularly to record free improvisations and then hit the road to share their experiences with an audience. It's a trust thing. So: bring on the herbs! Not provincial in the slightest -- but they get everywhere, into every last nook and cranny. They may not have any songs to speak of, but they do have their instruments." --Salvador am Ei
Datashock is an artist collective with changing personnel that create psychedelic (krautrock) improvisations. They were founded in Saarlouis in 2003.
"Like a free-folk-informed update on Amon Düül" --The Wire.
"A splendidly righteous motherfucker" --Julian Cope on Pyramiden in Gießen (2011).
"Neo-Hippie-Spook-Folk" --Datashock.
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QBICO 074LP
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Ruth-Maria Adam, Pascal Hector, Ronnie Oliveras, Martina Ripplinger, Ulf Schütte, Marcel Türkowsky, Jan Werner. "Last year I was particularly impressed by their first LP as Datashock and Shivers. This is a very promising and young collective from Germany. The music has some affinities with Double Leopards, Family Underground and The SB... deep."
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