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BINE 037CD
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Live, love, laugh. Pain, shame, guilt. Grief, consolation, action. Hope, healing, helplessness. Loneliness, egoism, disappointment. Transit-less, we experience a harmonious combination of all these and many more emotions that mesmerize us hypnotically. Here you are confronted with the truth. Uniquely smartly packaged, we may have to end up with the fact that what we can feel from one minute to the next is, indeed, irritable and engaging, but it is exactly this property that makes us human. The ten very different titles devoted to different languages and proverbs take the listener on a journey throughout the emotional worlds of human existence. Or can the interpreted be psychologized at this point, and should the journey be spoken of throughout his sentiment? Mario Hammer's music is a time of reflection and pondering. He calls it life experience. The listener may be part of this realization and perhaps will be aware of how often they can find themselves in the tracks. It is both the creativity, as well as the enormous sensitivity to sounds and sound colors, that make up this album. For fourteen months, Mario Hammer, in collaboration with Josef Steinbüchel, developed an emotion and sound carousel that not only touches the senses, but also stimulates the listener to think. Already the debut album L'esprit de L'escalier (TRAUM 036CD, 2015) was a complete success and gave the listeners a wonderful differentness. Mario Hammer and the Lonely Robot release their new album Je L'ai Câlissée Là is released on BineMusic. Includes a remix by Hannes Bieger.
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BINE 036CD
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As If, aka Kenneth Werner, presents Presence on BineMusic. As If on the album: "This album has come a long way as its tracks have been a part of me for many years. When I started to give them attention I could turn them into what they are now. Fragments and pieces of the tracks began to take shape as I decided to give them space and let them grow. The process has been challenging and at times difficult but the tracks insisted on being present."
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BINE 034CD
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Max Würden invites you to Transit, an intense ambient trip through lush sonic fields and dark sound tunnels, following his 2015 appearance on Kompakt's Pop Ambient 2016 (KOMP 128CD/KOM 345LP). Atmospheric field recordings invite their listeners to stay a while -- right before the dub beats reliably push the tempo. So get in, take a seat, and let yourself go. Your journey begins here.
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BINE 033CD
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After his 2012 debut 1549 (BINE 026CD) and his 2013 second album, with Alvina Red, Seasons - Les quatre saisons (BINE 029CD), Lars Leonhard returns to BineMusic with Passenger At Night. A journey through deep ambient soundscapes, with the finest extraordinary dubchords characteristic of Leonhard's work. Eleven touching tracks influenced by dub-techno, deep house, ambient. Subliquid basslines meet modern synth-sounds with lovingly designed rhythms. Includes a remix by Martin Nonstatic.
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BINE 032CD
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It was early 2013 when inner landscapes finally got audible. Martin van Rossum aka Martin Nonstatic moved to Cologne while Jens from Essen sent a pleasant release offer. Several EPs, remix and packaging projects got finished and the favorite synthesizer was back on duty again, leading to the first track "Inner Landscapes," which in turn also provided the album's title. Martin took 14 months scrutinizing his workflow involving both software and hardware to invent fresh track concepts for his album. Constantly inspired by the Rhenish environment with all of its movements and encounters, the album concentrated on those "inner landscapes." Playful and liberated, he combined field recordings with soundscapes, voices and nature sounds into deep sequence paths. Wave noises and Indonesian voices trickle onto the album's opening track "Behind the Window" and the dub-oriented "Gilli Nangu," while a fine dusty crackle meets deep dub chords and sonic ideas salvaged from earlier live sessions and synthesizer recordings throughout the album, supported by electro-ambient and minimal beat structures and alternating rhythmic patterns, clearly showcasing Martin's extensive experience of both analyzing and producing ambient and dub techno sounds. Embedded between its otherworldly opening and a dreamy outro are 11 aural landscapes forming a 74-minute tour-de-force, and after its long production phase, the emotional waveforms and clear ideas of Martin Nonstatic's Inner Landscapes have finally found their place and are ready to be heard on the outside.
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BINE 031CD
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Over the last 20 years, Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) has traversed the experimental terrain between sound, space, image, and form, connecting a bewilderingly diverse array of genres -- a partial list would include sound design, film scores, computer music, avant-garde, contemporary composition, large-scale multimedia performances, product design, architecture, fashion design, rock music, and jazz. With a catalog busy with commissions, soundtracks, and studio releases, it's extremely rare to find an official live recording, so Electronic Garden stands out by measure of this. Recorded outdoors in the small open air amphitheater in the big garden of Dresden in Germany, the set is comprised of variations on tunes as well as a significant portion of largely improvised unreleased material, performed exclusively here and never again. Opening with the epic, rhythmic "Muster" that soars with a radiant splendor, moving through the flickering, nervy, melancholic pulses of "Backwood," the organic warmth and harmonies of "The Nature of Being," and closing with the atmospheric "Singing Through Qualia," Electronic Garden captures Scanner in full live mode. Explosive, corrosive, and emotive, this release celebrates the creativity of one of the UK's most intriguing composers, hiding just beneath the surface of popular culture.
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BINE 030CD
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Little is known about the shy musician Elliot Denmark who is behind the project Severence, other than the fact that he grew up in East London before moving to Murcia, Spain 12 years ago. Except for a few sampler contributions (including "Dark Heat [Moss Mix]" on Bine's already legendary 2010 compilation) his musical output was limited to DJ mixes he shared on his web site. Now the long-awaited album arrives and surprises with dark ambient sounds. Cloudy layers of blurred sound snippets tower up in long rooms while the underlying rhythm is created not by a beat but the slow rolling of soundwaves. Severence tweaked his sounds and samples until they meshed smoothly, and even dub elements are sensitively integrated while avoiding every kind of cliché. Hidden Ceilings invites us to an exploration of seldomly-accessed soundscapes that want to be carefully discovered and wandered through, not as an easy Sunday afternoon trip but an exciting "journey into sound." And just like the great Morton Feldman, Severence considers that sometimes the sounds that are left unplayed are just as important. Calm, even silence is a significant element of this record. A silence full of tension.
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BINE 029CD
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It's been 287 years since Antonio Vivaldi wrote his popular masterpiece "The Four Seasons." Following in these musical footsteps, Lars Leonhard now takes on the idea of molding the distinct characteristics of Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter into 12 pieces of electronic music. After the previous, purely instrumental releases by the Düsseldorf artist -- the remix EP No Comment (2012) and his debut album 1549 (2011) -- his new 12-track album Seasons - Les quatre saison features singer Alvina Red lending her voice to the first of each four seasons' three tracks in pure French -- a language whose natural melody is tailor-made for Leonhard's synthetic yet warming sounds. Living in Stockholm, Alvina Red is no newcomer either, gaining her first professional experience at the age of ten as a background singer for Agnetha Fältskog: the blonde Abba singer was looking for beautiful children's voices for her song "Take Good Care of Your Children" (the B-side of her hit single "The Heat Is On"). Following further engagements in professional choirs and as a singer, songwriter and keyboard player for several band projects, Alvina and Lars Leonhard get together on this joint release. With all tracks written in their respective season to add authenticity, production of Seasons - Les quatre saison took almost exactly one year. Leonhard starts the awakening of nature in Spring with the sleepy minimalistic "Le Printemps," a digital spring of tiny and frail sound-flowers on whose meadow Alvina's voice flies like a soft breeze. Following its soft doze are spheric ambient landscapes, deep house rhythms and dubby chords like on the feather-light "L'éte," and by "Dancing in the Noonday Sun" the dancefloor is open -- Leonhard's signature grooving dub-techno flows like a tequila sunrise at the Café del Mar. Just as the seasons' influence on our lives gets more or less intense, songs like the cryptic then rhythmic "Colors of Autumn" enter the listener's soul both wittingly or unwittingly before unfolding their energy. And once Winter's last frozen sound dies away with "Frozen Landscape," you can look forward to the next seasonal cycle.
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BINE 028CD
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Many years have passed since Fingers In The Noise has decided to spend every last ounce of energy painting with melodies. Since 2011, he is living proof that harmonies, space and rhythm go hand-in-hand when it comes to creating exquisite music. No matter what your mood is, this diverse album will offer a track to go along with it. It is strongly recommended that you let each tune unfold itself, since every passing detail leaves a mark for the next one to follow, creating a silk-like path for the overall message to walk on, straight into your soul. You might find yourself listening to this album four times in a row, without sensing the time passing by. Embrace the mature and elegant sensation this album brings. One can almost touch the texture of every sound, due to the great care and attention to detail put into every tune.
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BINE 027EP
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Lars Leonhard releases No Comment, a six-track 12" EP including bonus remixes by renowned label colleagues. The dynamically-dense title track features pumping beats layered with soft pads and has been further edited by the artist into two additional versions. "No Comment - Before Sunset" is Leonhard's decelerated take and the outer space sound of "No Comment - Anywhere" invites the listener to drift into another world. His chilled versions are followed by dancefloor remixes from Thomas Touzimsky, Sven Schienhammer and Scanner.
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BINE 026CD
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This is Lars Leonhard's full-length debut album 1549. Its name derives from U.S. Airways Flight 1549 which was ditched in the Hudson River after a bird strike about three minutes into the flight in January 2009. The overall theme runs like a common thread through the album, with Leonard mostly working with warm, deep pads and minimal sound effects. And as nature sets the agenda, hammering basses are obviously absent from this release.
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BINE 022CD
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Named after a condensed, rainfall-including weather situation, Sven Schienhammer develops a directorial melange of dub influences, chord arrangements, minimalism and field recordings over the course of 11 tracks. Both individualistic and drawer-defying, Schienhammer arranges compressing instrumental compositions without any copycat allures whose sensitively spreading emotionality draws from the analog production methods. Its emphasis on warm and cold chords in particular in combination with playful fields of white noise files shifts the album near Wolfgang Voigt's minimal Gas imprint as well as the early pre-'90s home-listening era in both dramaturgy and sound. On Altostratus Translucidus, Sven Schienhammer puts across technical skills in combining the diffused intensity of minimal club aesthetic with powerful chords whose unpretentious minimalism modulates the first half of the album, making it easily recognizable. The album's final quarter is heavily devoted to resonating dub and abstract trip-hop interconnections between the pads which reflect Schienhammer's influences in aesthetic modesty. Thus all the tracks form a closed system which portray the essential quintessence of the album's meteorological title: volume - concentration - discharge. The associated focusing of auditive expression manages the balancing act between new age chill-out and half clock-steered club feeling. Altostratus Translucidus draws its energy from the unparalleled presentation of not being pigeonholed in a single genre while musically reflecting current events. Often labelled the heir of Basic Channel , the artist softens the basic attitude of his musical lead and wipes out his traces in the raw and analog grain of his music through meditatively-unfolding rhythms.
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BINE 024EP
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A\B\C\D forms sounds into structures, turns loops into rhythms; starting from recordings of acoustic objects, Steinbrüchel segmented and wove them into new textures. Every sound becomes a string -- some stronger, some weaker, interlacing with each other and turning themselves into new structures. Once more, Steinbrüchel uses atmospheric and melodic sounds built upon micro-loops, layered and arranged to create a repeating structure. The overlay of all these loops is held together by clicking particles which lead through the compositions like a seam.
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BINE 025EP
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The heat of summer in an urban canyon's night of fresh air. In Berlin. Or Manchester. Maybe in Budapest, even. It is warm, but not that close and hot anymore. A soft wind blows through the leaves and ripples the surface of the small puddles the rain left on the streets. With three reworkings of one of their tracks from the album 13, Marconi Union conjures such an atmosphere on this 12", inviting you to (day-)dream or bob across the dancefloor.
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BINE 023LP
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Vinyl release. Like all its previous releases, BineMusic's first compilation is more about quality than quantity, so it had to be released on double vinyl. At the end of the day, new and upcoming artists like Severence should be accommodated just as much as those the label has fostered for years. Düsseldorf artist Lars Leonhard, who's already well-known among fellow techno freaks, makes his debut for Bine and starts off with the Twin Peaks-ish and lovely grooving "Citylights," while Thomas Touzimsky pleases with a chirring beat on "Insect." A remarkably straight Scanner track showcases the better side of trance, followed by the minimal house sounds of Tol. Move D's live recording back from the '90s paves the way for a warm, guitar chord-driven ambient piece by New Zealand's Ben Swire. Along with Move D, Benjamin Brunn is one of the label's cornerstones and finds his place among Taylor Deupree aka Ando and Marconi Union. What unifies all of these artists is the idea of combining abstract, emotional thoughts, which also reveals itself in the formidable, cosmic artwork.
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BINE 021EP
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The tracks bought together on this release feature many of the live jams and improvisations Bedouin Ascent and Move D immersed themselves in over short summer nights almost 15 years ago. The sessions remain as they were laid down in 1995 -- no post-production, overdubs or re-editing; just the simple interplay of TR808, TR909, MS-20, Pro-One, Frontline X2, Yamaha TX802, etc. These tracks were as much a blueprint of the future as they captured the sensibilities of an era.
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This is UK-based Marconi Union's first release for the Binemusic label. Since 2003, Marconi Union have recorded albums for a number of different labels and created pieces for art installations, film and TV in Europe and America. In 2008, Marconi Union established their own label, Mu- Transmissions. Marconi Union's music is an evocative combination of electronica and ambience. Often incorporating organic sounds from field recordings, acoustic instruments and guitars, they create a distinctive sound-world where beautiful melodies are offset by darker undercurrents. In a genre of music that is frequently accused of being clinical and dispassionate, their music is unanimously recognized as having a deep, emotional resonance. On Tokyo, the band wanted to produce an album that had a hi-tech ambience in order to conjure up images of the Tokyo of films, books and TV. This record isn't about creating "authentic" Japanese music, or faithfully documenting the actual city (which neither of the members have visited). Rather, it is an attempt to capture a sense of the imagined and often-iconized version of Tokyo.
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This is the second full-length release for UK-based Robin Rimbaud aka Scanner on BineMusic. In his most intimate and forceful recording in years, Scanner maneuvers across fresh terrain that embraces the traditional -- guitar, vocals and string arrangements, and the more eclectic -- hundreds of found voices, radar transmissions and environmental recordings. Opening the album with "Sans Soleil" featuring Michael Gira (Swans, Angels Of Light) on guitar, Scanner sings for the first time on his album, his voice hovering through a barren landscape of fragile loops and harmonies. Crisp, distressed melodies with crushingly fat beats unite on "Pietas Ilulia" to map a cinematic landscape populated by N.E.R.D by way of Robert Fripp and John Barry. "Anna Livia Plurabelle" paints an achingly melancholic picture through which celebrated Mumbai-born soprano Patricia Rozario soars and flies with a radiant timbre. Having effectively been the muse for British composer John Taverner for some years, Rozario brings a dexterity and humane conviction to this electronic soundscape. The ghostly presence of William Burroughs and philosopher Bertrand Russell weave their way through some of the pieces, opening into the dark heart of "Yellow Plains Under White Hot Blue Sky," an epic, almost menacing work, with corrosive voices, noises and abstract shapes over a primordial electronic beat, that continues to build and ignite with bowed strings into a picturesque, precise explosion. "The Last European" casts phonetic Croatian and Korean into a rhythmic bed of pulses and instrumental melodies, tripping through itchy rhythms that entangle themselves upon one another, while "A Clearing Between Earth And Air" closes the album with a highly organic and textured mix of voices, drifting harmonies and Krautrock pulses, breeding a drifting melancholy from the union of voice and electronic and acoustic instrumentation. By far his most mature and personally sombre album, Rockets... is in equal parts sumptuous and achingly beautiful, sentimental and exploratory. Jean Baudrillard once depicted paradise as mournful, a fitting location for this ravishing soundtrack.
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"Following the success of Teenage Wochen in 2006, Scanner follows up his slippery electro trip with Moskau Disko, the warped daughter of a night spent in a digital orgy of Wagnerian creative excess on German label Binemusic, home to modest musical surprises. Terrorized vocals open the acid slip-disc party atmosphere, Kraftwerk seduce the Aphex Twin in the kitchen, and James Holden takes photographs of Paris Hilton washing up the beats, and publishes them on Myspace. This bewitchingly groove-laden Russian discothèque is contrasted by the slow motion elegance of 'Russe Traum,' as the stockings are tidied away, the curtains drawn and the lights softly dimmed. Scanner -- British sound artist, Robin Rimbaud -- explores an eclectic mix of activities that place him at the crossroads of academic and digital pop culture. Since 1991, he has been intensely active in sound art, producing concerts, compositions, installations and recordings, the albums Mass Observation (1994), Delivery (1997), and The Garden Is Full of Metal (1998) are hailed by critics as innovative and inspirational works of contemporary electronic music."
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"Debut album on Binemusic. All the tracks were written during 2003 and 2004 being heavily influenced by his life in Chemnitz, Dresden and Taiwan while not abandoning his melancholic house style which has already became a trademark on his former releases. The track names were chosen after they were finished, reflecting important and prominent details from the different, yet still similar living areas Germany and Taiwan. König und Drache (king and dragon) substitutionally fight for Germany and Taiwan against each other -- or stand together side by side. In this case they combine their power, of which the results can be heard on the finished tracks. Since 1999 Benjamin Brunn released his music on labels like Mole, USM, out to lunch and the Mathias Schaffhäuser label Ware."
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"Èonta aka Andreas Golinksi (Basel/Essen) and Spiro Kapravelos (Bochum/Athens) start in 2004 their music project Eonta with their debut album Verletzbarboth of them are active in many facettes of contemporary digital media: video and sound installations, 'future planning' and 3D-environments, web- and screendesign. In their musicmaking they don't follow a masterplan: ideas and moods are translated into sound. Typical song structures are seldom used, their tracks remind of short films as compact pieces of storytelling. Èonta's music is a projection of their inner world. Direct and raw snapshots of : a quiet day in the park, nature, lines from books once read, late-night emotional brainstorming, movies, one would wish to live in, the beauty of the far east but also noise and the fun in being loud, entangled in an endless loop and sometimes touching silence."
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"Catalogue number 003 is delivered from Obrigheim, a small village in Rhineland-Palatinate. Thomas Touzimsky, co-founder of Binemusic, releases his EP Fold right on Christmas time. Ever since listening to it, electronic music both fascinated and influenced him. The minimalistic yet entertaining sound of the legendary C64 lead him to the infamous Amiga, allowing him to create is first own tracks. Throughout the years, the ongoing change in music hard- and software helped Thomas evolving his music to today's experimental electronic sounds. Thomas himself finds his biggest contemporary influences in the ambient and independent words of various artists including Aphex Twin, The Shamen, Future Sound Of London and the Metamatics. Fold plays four multifarious tracks, harmonically aligned to form a 20 minute journey through sound."
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"Included are 11 tracks that will touch the core of you. Tol.Shang is a perfect mixture of dub, reggae and acid jazz components. After his debut album Tol.Trap together with Frank Bretschneider and several CD productions and live gigs with produkt(Bretschneider, Bender, Seidel) Tol is back and better than ever. '... with the new album Tol.Shang I tied in with my last tracks from Tol.Trap. Also the everlasting love to dub, electro and ambient can be found again in the new tracks. Furthermore my impressions and the sounds of my trips to China & Shanghai influenced some of the compositions. All in all I see most tracks as movie sequences, which rather match to the weather in Germany... all compositions were composed and recorded on a Mac and as software I used Cubase and Reason. The major instruments were the clavia nord rack and some software sampler/synthesizer. so far and enjoy'."
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