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FEINES 021LP
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You learned that there are genres. Everything separated into categories with their own canon and rules: Major, minor, 4/4, 6/8, highs, lows, high head, butt end. Techno here, disco there. You learned that art and music are two different things. Visually auditory, audio-visual, optically acoustic, not to mention the surface feel. Listen to me, look at me, touch me. But everything in that order please! You have learned that understanding takes you further. Night/life, rhythm/dancing, substance/excess, water/holding out, sleep/rest, headache/not good. But what would it be if all of that wasn't just right? If all of our knowledge is based on the mistake of having to put everything in relation? To classify it, to make it responsive. What do we do with something that doesn't follow the rules of this logic? That is not based on 0 and 1 and therefore not bound to our binary systems? Is this all at once? After all, what if the whole thing has no limits? Jens-Uwe Beyer recently released the Yellow Book with Albert Oehlen on Gagosian and on his own label Magazine (2019). He also runs PNN and Schalen. His fourth album Horizons as Popnoname is the very first long player to be released on Cologne-based label Feines Tier.
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PNN 003CD
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Jens-Uwe Beyer lives in Cologne -- he founded the band Cologne Tape, the label Magazine and you know him under his moniker Popnoname. Most recently, he remixed the Eurythmics and Brian Eno & Cluster for the Conny Plank tribute compilation on Grönland. He is a frequent guest on Kompakt's Pop Ambient series and just released probably the longest album in the world -- the almost 80-minute ambient piece Red Book on Magazine. His third album 50° is an elegant, accommodating, direct hi-fi pop album which fears neither death nor pathos. It was produced in the Oneartist studio together with Bertil Mark. The journey takes us from pop ("Happens at Night" and the first single "Change") through ambient soundscapes ("Timenation"), to early '90s shoegaze moments ("Meteor" and "Passing By"), but at its core always remains the techno ideal, without promising club functionality. For the release of 50° Beyer specially founded the new label PNN with Kompakt's Gesine Schönrock. Accompanying the album, PNN presents four music videos, an app for the iPad and the fashion piece "Popnoshirt," and you can find them at Popnoshop.com or Kompakt.fm. Bodo, who features on the cover of the album, used to live from the bottle recycling system in Germany but is now running a trust-based shop near the PNN offices. Jens-Uwe Beyer performs as both a solo act and with Beritl Mark on drums and the enigmatic Isis Lacé on vocals.
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PNN 001EP
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Popnoname's "Change" is the perfect pop-song to sing along to and soundtrack a change in you. David Hasert creates pop for the dancefloor, and his remix is like a dreamliner in the Balearic sea. Hasert curates the NICE parties in Cologne and runs the label, Like. Matt Karmil's remix is sensitive and cool, capturing the essence of the track while leaving out all pop themes. The solitary beat splattered with white noise creates an eternal space to drift away to in the club.
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KOM POP016EP
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Following a string of contributions for Kompakt's Pop Ambient series, Jens-Uwe Beyer aka Popnoname joins the Kompakt Pop stable with a remarkable tune. "Hello Gorgeous" combines the classic Kompakt sound with the Pet Shop Boys, sounding like it was produced where rave and indie meet on the dancefloor, harmoniously carried by Beyer's powerful vocals. Popnoname provides an upbeat "Le Klub" remix, tightening the techno up a notch or 5, and Terranova's remix turns it into a cracking jack-house number.
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POP 002EP
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"Brut! Records baby sister label, POP!, sees its second release with Popnoname's Spaces. An eclectic line-up -- including Joerg Burger, Freund der Familie and Paid for Fame -- remix the original three times over, offering varied perspectives of the same brave track. Revving its engine, 'Spaces' drives you to experience things: it invites you to crack yourself open so that some new future might pour through that voluntary rift. Bold and beautiful and formless, it emerges: a baby nebula, cradled in the spiral arms of a distant galaxy, patiently building mass as it clumps gas and dust together." On clear vinyl.
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ITALIC 081EP
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"The first remix 12" single from Popnoname's new album Surrounded By Weather, featuring mixes by The Field, Tennishero and Picious. The 'Touch' remix by Stockholm's Aksel Willner aka The Field takes you on an intense, atmospheric journey to a Balearic planet in a far-off solar system. This is a journey headed directly into the light -- this remix will make waves. Also from Sweden are the duo Tennishero from Goetheburg. To the 'Touch,' original they add hot old-school drums and even hotter smooth chords which work with the dreamy guitar to create astonishing effects, making the track into an exciting house edit in slow motion disco. Game, set and match to Tennishero. Chris Demertzis aka Picious is a DJ and producer from Greece. He runs the 'Liebe Club' in Thessaloniki and welcomes such illustrious guests as Prins Thomas, The Modernist, Kevin Saunderson and Michael Mayer. His remix of 'Storm' comes on housey with a mellow dub influence and has all the elegance of an ancient Greek marble statue on the dancefloor of the 'Continental Baths.' Stormy weather indeed."
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ITALIC 080CD
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"Within the electronic music scene, Jens-Uwe Beyer's new album Surrounded By Weather is considered a flamboyant sound experience. It is an impressive combination of traditional instruments, song structures and Techno tools. Reference points may be located between House-not-House, Avant-Pop and a new feeling for Krautrock or Glam Pop - once created by La Düsseldorf - with tendency toward experimental, rather improvised compositions on the one side, and extended, instrumental and monotonous dance-floor tracks on the other side. A very personal touch is added by using his own, pure and non-processed voice or vocals thus creating, supporting, accompanying and representing the different moods of the album. Jens-Uwe Beyer started working on this new album immediately after his debut album White Album in 2007. First, he created rough demo versions which he later refined and elaborated in the legendary former EMI studio in Cologne. The album starts with the track '2012' and wonderful vocal harmonies à la Beach Boys or Rufus Wainwright - and later turns into a deep dancefloor track with a cosy house beat and deep, disharmonic strings. The track 'Touch' is the first single release taken from the album (incl. remixes made by The Field and Tennishero) and represents probably the most intense tendency toward pop music with its soft guitar sounds, a laid-back beat and a vocal hook line. The kick drum sound of 'ID Card' refers to almost 10 years of Cologne Techno history. Its 4-to-the-floor rhythm structure is delicately embraced by an airy pop arrangement and vocals. The movement starts like an ambient track, spiced here and there with guitar sounds and bass sequences until the beat slowly starts to support the track's dramaturgy. The radical 'Crack' is one of the core parts of the album with its monotonous stroboscope-like sounds and hard, ecstatic dancefloor compatibility. 'Perspective' in contrast belongs to the more Krautrock-ish, improvised tracks and reminds of a morning walk through the wet, German forest. 'The Smallest Part' offers elegiac and transcendental moments: Everything the eye cannot see and the ear cannot hear can be found in this track. 'Love' is soft and easy, personal and lofty. The album ends with 'Storm' and its open identity. Maybe Surrounded By Weather is the perfect combination of 70s Kraut- Glam and 90s Techno feeling and will make both shining bright again! Yet in a NEW way!"
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ITALIC 068LP
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ITALIC 064EP
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"Since the premiere at Paris-based nightclub Le Pulp, Popnoname always starts his live set with 'No Doubt,' the A-side song on his new 12" EP London, Paris, New York. 'No Doubt' (A1) starts rather laid back. A cozy house beat and awesome harmonies are gradually intensifying until the middle section of the track. Then, with a two-third beats pad, the song turns into a primetime rush in technicolor. 'Pearl' (B1) is also coolly produced: with a solid bass drum and live recordings of his bass guitar, this is the ultimate soundtrack for pop campaigns such as 'Save The Bass Drum' and 'We Are From Cologne, And We Love It.' But whenever you close your eyes at the club, you might as well imagine dancing in the deep forest -- or in the great outdoors. 'Jasminstrauch' (B2) is a soft, slow, sweet-smelling song. 110 BPM and that's it. All three tracks on this EP are as different as the six cities featured on the cover. A perfect match, to die for."
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ITALIC 062EP
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"This lovely gent from Cologne returns to Italic -- we all know and love his Firm releases not to mention his Pop Ambient contributions. With Credits, Popnoname takes the classic approach to Cologne techno, embracing the aspects of pop and techno wholeheartedly with 'Romance' and 'Addicted To Night' -- both tracks hold together well with their excellent melodies mingling with punch-drunk bass. 'Pointe' leans this EP to the old ambient ways with a blissful pop serenity."
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FIRM 018EP
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"Five years ago Firm artist Popnoname moved from the pretty German island Fehmarn to Cologne to make his music thing. He has produced music for several films and theater plays and comes out with his charmy but also sometimes rough rocking electronic beats on Firm for the second time. His always changing live-show with computer, guitar and microphone he already did in clubs across Europe is a big enrichment for the line-up of Firm. In January 2006, he founded the band Popnoname."
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ITALIC 056EP
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"The house that Jack Kerouac built! Popnoname is the project of 27-year-old Jens-Uwe Beyer from Cologne. Known for his earlier releases on Kompakt and Firm, he is now celebrating his debut on Italic with a techno 12" maxi release. Popnoname's productions vary between traditional Cologne techno ('On the Run'), Border Community ('On the Run'), Sound Signature aesthetics in style of Howard Thomas or Isolee ('Ferry Sponge') and the Cologne definition of singer/songwriter techno referring to The Bionaut ('Wonder You'). Popnoname is part of a group of young techno producers and DJs that can be considered as Cologne's 'beat generation' of techno music. Apart from Popnoname, there is also Skua Lovelle, Ansorge and the photo/art magazine 'Public Folder' edited by John Harten. What they all have in common is their interest in literature, photography, art, theatre and music resulting in a redefinition of Cologne techno in a broader sense. Highly recommended for all fans of lush, ravishingly beautiful techno."
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