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Glitterbug's albums, releases and remixes (on respected labels such as Mule, Nowtown, Ghostly, Ki Records and many more) have long placed him in a musical and artistic category of his own. He is a timeless, skillful and daring producer, immune to hypes and seasonal sub-genre fashions. He has developed his own particular musical language that spans seamlessly between deep techno and abstract intimate compositions, always poignant with score-like textures. His third studio album, Cancerboy, is another milestone conjoining powerful musical expression with heavy content. Cancerboy is an intimate autobiographical journey investigating one of the major experiences that shaped his life, his childhood struggle with cancer. Cancerboy is a personal, private chronicle of battles won and struggles lost, a sound-log suspended in an in-between world. Cancerboy is an album on the edge of consciousness. Faraway reverbs and analog roughness gain presence, and forward strides an unreserved sound; candid, direct and near. It's music that allows itself to be angry and desperate, to battle and depart, to challenge and gall. Yet within all its darkness are driving, hopeful moments that shine bright -- celebrating a deep love of life. "I spent large parts of my childhood in hospitals, voyaging through the strange (and at that time experimental) world of radiation and chemotherapy, suspended in the twilight zone between hope and death, and a medically declared chance of survival close to zero. Those experiences deeply shaped me, and the way I relate to the world, and over the years I felt a growing need to approach this topic through my music. So came about Cancerboy, an album about cancer, bitter struggles, desperation, hope, anger, sickness, and at the same time, a fervent love and deep appreciation of life. Cancerboy is dedicated to my sisters and brothers in this struggle, both alive and dead. It's for all the cancergirls and cancerboys out there." --Glitterbug
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This is the second album by Cologne's multi-dimensional, creatively-active DJ/producer/artist/curator Glitterbug. Privilege is a milestone that continues Glitterbug's line of adventurous sounds and overflowing inspirations, exploring and uncovering the new frontiers of techno. Glitterbug's debut album Supershelter (CSIDES 002CD) made huge waves with music critics, magazines and fans around the globe. His subsequent EP Dim Flares and remixes kept unraveling his musical surprises and an unmatched sound of an epic Glitterbug world. Privilege is an emotional and passionate production, and Glitterbug's sensitivity to sounds keeps unraveling and revealing a unique language that spans between abstract composition, ambient, pop music, and the one ingredient that binds it all: techno. Glitterbug takes the listener on a journey to explore new terrains, inverted and unconditional, drawing the full attention of every nerve and sense. If Supershelter was still searching for a refuge, Privilege goes farther, to explore alternative prospective landscapes and uncharted territories of unearthly lands. This album was produced partly in Glitterbug's Cologne recording studio and partly on the road during his international performance tours in 2009 between the Arctic Circle, southern India, Israel, Europe and China (and everywhere in between). Fragments of field recordings he took in these places appear on many of the tracks -- some are apparent, others very subtle. Despite its epic playtime, Privilege never feels lengthy, perhaps because of its genuine celebration of the sole opportunities of its own existence: Accompanying the CD is a stunning booklet by internationally-acclaimed Israeli visual artist and photographer, Ronni Shendar. Shendar's photos and artwork perfectly mirror the album's foreign terrains of blurring and desolate horizons.
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CSIDES 007LP
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Double vinyl version, featuring an exclusive bonus track. Limited, hand-numbered edition of 500 copies. This is the second album by Cologne's multi-dimensional, creatively-active DJ/producer/artist/curator Glitterbug. Privilege is a milestone that continues Glitterbug's line of adventurous sounds and overflowing inspirations, exploring and uncovering the new frontiers of techno. Glitterbug's debut album Supershelter (CSIDES 002CD) made huge waves with music critics, magazines and fans around the globe. His subsequent EP Dim Flares and remixes kept unraveling his musical surprises and an unmatched sound of an epic Glitterbug world. Privilege is an emotional and passionate production, and Glitterbug's sensitivity to sounds keeps unraveling and revealing a unique language that spans between abstract composition, ambient, pop music, and the one ingredient that binds it all: techno. Glitterbug takes the listener on a journey to explore new terrains, inverted and unconditional, drawing the full attention of every nerve and sense. If Supershelter was still searching for a refuge, Privilege goes farther, to explore alternative prospective landscapes and uncharted territories of unearthly lands. This album was produced partly in Glitterbug's Cologne recording studio and partly on the road during his international performance tours in 2009 between the Arctic Circle, southern India, Israel, Europe and China (and everywhere in between). Fragments of field recordings he took in these places appear on many of the tracks -- some are apparent, others very subtle. Includes a stunning 12-page CD-sized booklet by internationally-acclaimed Israeli visual artist and photographer, Ronni Shendar. Shendar's photos and artwork perfectly mirror the album's foreign terrains of blurring and desolate horizons.
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CSIDES 005EP
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Glitterbug's Dim Flares is a dream-like and intense EP that touches on deep, emotional techno with a utopian 4/4 perspective. "So Much More" releases its melancholic/euphoric mood slowly, turning itself into a hand-raising screamer. "Deadpan" is a dark, score-like ambient miniature, "Daubed Beams" feels like what mid-'90s Detroit techno released on Warp would have sounded like, and "Be Content" is a warm track with a deep drive, warped pads, a dark bass-line, airy percussion and unforgettable arpeggios.
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Supershelter is the long-awaited debut album by Cologne's multi-dimensional, creatively-active DJ/producer/artist/curator Glitterbug (Till Rohmann). A journey of self in distant places, Supershelter is a surprise of many layers combining clever, warm house music, dancefloor rave hits and abstract compositions that come together to create a solid, independent epic piece that will conquer hearts both at home and on the dancefloor. Like everything Glitterbug, Supershelter is a very intimate piece of unique combinations. Classical house and techno sounds meet harps, strings, accordions, sailboats, abstract ambience and deep driving bass -- and these are just a few of the players in his orchestra conducting the timeless, wondrous sounds of a Glitterbug world. Supershelter is a surprising mixture of simultaneously touching, clumsy and elegant dance music, a place and a mood that unconditionally absorbs and gently spits you out. Supershelter is the perfect album to open the winter season -- fresh, surprising music with a deep, old school-ish soul, a journey that snatches you up to sail an unknown sea filled with warm, soothing waves and suspenseful storms of dancefloor rave, surrounded by an incessant longing for a place of safety, a friendly shelter from a ruthless world, a medicine for those moments when it all just stops making sense. Surely, one of the most visual albums this year -- music for films that have yet to be made.
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CSIDES 003EP
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This is part one in two C.Sides 12"s containing excerpts from Glitterbug's debut full-length release Supershelter, as well as a remix by Lawrence.
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CSIDES 004EP
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This is part two in two C.Sides 12"s containing excerpts from Glitterbug's debut full-length release Supershelter, as well as a remix by Barbara Morgenstern.
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