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PGTUNE AR003LP
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Everybody knows the sound of church bells -- the familiar midday clang. Strongly associating this sound with religion, we hardly ever think of it as a long musical tradition. In Philipp Gorbachev's search for new heights, it turned out that the East European Orthodox tradition of bell ringing goes far beyond religious dogma. It's ancient, it's sacred, and it's unchained. It's about liberation, unity of body and soul, and free artistic expression. Church bell ringing has become the core musical practice for the electronic producer and performer in the last few years after a period of excessive club touring around the world. Searching for new ways to challenge and alter his physical and spiritual self, Philipp found his calling ringing bells in Moscow at St. Nicholas Church and Berlin at the Christ Resurrection Cathedral. An experienced raver and drummer himself, Gorbachev couldn't help but build the connection between electronic synthesizers, entrancing techno loops, and the unique sonority and resonance of heavy-weight bronze bells. The result of Philipp's new passion is Kolokol (PGTUNE A003LP). It was first released as an LP on his PG TUNE imprint in 2019 and later evolved into live stage performances, an experimental film, and a full-length documentary exploring the bell ringing tradition in godforsaken monasteries and churches across Russia. With Kolokol, Gorbachev proves that this practice is bound to notions of temple, solitude, spirituality, healing, and awakening which are much stronger than the church itself. "Hope" and "salvation" are the main words for Philipp to describe his path with bell ringing. These are also the words many ravers use when speaking of their life-changing experiences on the dance floor in the temples of powerful sound, hypnotic body movement, and endless purifying vibration. Together with his fellow bell ringers in Russia, Gorbachev took the powerful instrument outside the church to introduce this mind-altering experience in a club and concert setting. The series of remixes by Gorbachev's fellow musicians is another extension of the Kolokol mindset toward the club environment; a call for his friends from the techno world to accept and interpret Philipp's journey of affirmation, focus, and fulfillment. When the time is right again, the remixes of main tracks from Gorbachev's most recent album will fill the sweaty vibrating dance floors where everybody is searching for their own temple, hoping for a purifying catharsis of body and soul. Remixes by Marcel Dettmann, Decka, Barnt, Amanda Mussi, Jens-Uwe Beyer, Bejenec, Inga Mauer, Mashkov, and Ushi333.
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Russian dance avant-gardist Philipp Gorbachev is in self-imposed exile -- from Moscow to Berlin -- due to his political views, and for the purpose of joining Cómeme in 2011. This collective of musicians and artists, operating between Latin America and Europe, is known for a killer instinct in producing forward-thinking dance music beyond any standards of the contemporary music industry. Focusing on serving dance music audiences all around the globe, Philipp Gorbachev composes, produces and performs music in a way that resembles the heritage axe of Russian avant-garde and Moscow's Conceptualist movement, rather than following any current dance music tradition. Based on a unique performing and recording technique -- created and tested together with his buddy Matias Aguayo in The District Union studio in Berlin -- Silver Album is a well-collected music piece consisting of nine live performed arrangements, crafted with insurgent Russian lyrics that are fable-like inventions, fairy tales that deal with spiritual vibes, using the sound of the Russian language in order to form a new alternative music. Musicians like ex-Helmet-and-now-Battles drummer John Stanier, as well as co-producers and mixing engineers like Butthole Surfers guitarist Paul Leary; Mexican Cómeme brother Daniel Maloso; or Non Standard Productions head-honcho and Ostgut Ton artist Tobias Freund, have been welcomed by Philipp Gorbachev to take part in the production of the record. The first single of the album, called "Arrest Me," is a dedication to the imprisoned people around the world, a journey-starter towards freedom of spirit, pioneering in never-before-expressed sounds, timing and space control. If you need an easier punchline: it simply is "The First Russian Dance Album."
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COMEME 019EP
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Philipp Gorbachev definitely is leaving the Delta on this EP to reappear deep down in the District, where he turns all the trash and street sound, the screeching of car-tires, the real lifetime situations into real lifetime techno music that is more rock 'n' roll than any guitar nowadays could be. This is the sound of the angry young man in the digital age. Recorded with Matias Aguayo, Daniel Maloso, Felipe Gutierrez, Alejandro Paz, Ana Helder and Julia "Yula" Kasprzak.
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The Delta is a symbolic and poetic place -- where the flow of the river enters the ocean. The Delta gives the feeling of rhythm. The Delta is the supreme destination. The Delta refers to hanging out in the city streets. Essential in The Delta is the spirit of conscious spontaneity, collaborations with artists, jam sessions, highs and lows, night-time, stories and other basic habits from the primordial age of music. Recorded in Moscow, Nikolina Gora, Russia and in Berlin, Germany.
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