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CSIDES 011CD
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Biblo's new album, Absence, is certainly not a matter of lightness. It's a spellbinding, enchanted journey that begins in a rift that opened in Turkey shortly before the Gezi protests evolved, and travels deep to sift the edges of human unrest and personal unfastening. Recorded amidst the political and social turmoil, Absence is, to say it with Biblo's own words, "about the absence of desire, absence of roots, absence of meaning, absence of justice." But even with substantial context aside, Absence is an emotional and deeply-intimate work that offers an unsettling musical experience for the listener. Absence is filled with haunting sound and abyssal beauty, marked with profound sensitivity and hair-raising despair. The album expresses a deeply troubled and hurt relationship with humanity through the artist's unique musical language, utilizing her own voice, sampling, and electronic means with incredible skill. Absence embodies roughly one year, starting early 2013 till early 2014. During this time, Biblo decided to try and live outside of Istanbul and Turkey (and moved to Berlin, Germany), then came back to Istanbul, witnessing the protests evolve, and decided to stay. The album is a personal testimony of being in this non-place, being torn between places that stand for different concepts to lead your life. "I eventually came to grips with the understanding that life is often about tolerating where you are," Biblo summons, "and that we can be meaningful wherever our place is."
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CSIDES 011LP
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LP version. Includes download code.
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CSIDES 009LP
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CSIDES 009CD
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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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CSIDES 008CD
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C.sides asked ten diverse artists and bands to create exclusive new works, sharing one goal: to make a humble contribution toward making this world a better, more just and beautiful place simply by doing what they can do best: make art and create music, and to embark on a mission of re-exploring the notion of meaning and impact in and through music. C.sides provided only general guidelines to participating artists regarding the project's concept and an intended timeframe of 10-15 minutes for each piece, in order to allow the artists to develop an idea beyond the limitations of a "regular track." C.sides also encouraged artists to work with different musical means than they usually would. The compilation consists of studio versions of the works. The opening track features a first-time collaboration between German electronic producer Glitterbug and Israeli-Palestinian Arabic soprano opera singer Enas Massalha. "The Sky Fell Silent" was conceived and recorded during the early days of the "Arab Spring," a time of civil uprising and revolutionary demonstrations that triggered a personal investigation of transition and uncertainty, a free-falling of music and words into an unknown fate or future. Eliad Wagner, an Israeli musician, composer and programmer, takes an Arp 2600 on an arpeggio journey on "Exile," an analog downpour rolling and building playfully in tear-wrenching beauty. Christian Löffler's "Cast" weaves text, animation and sound into a delicate web of scattering emotion. Khan's track is a meditative work that builds over ten minutes and tells the story of the centuries old Turkish-Armenian cymbal makers, Zildjian. Documenting, filming and recording ventilation points, aerating tunnels and air conditioners, Gold Panda created a musical breathing machine, "Air." His elongated, faint exhale is embellished with sonic disturbances of glitches, cracks and clicks filled with the amiable charm of his digital errors. Brand Brauer Frick's track drops precise musical structures, toying with the borders between perfect control and total eruption. John Kameel Farah is a virtuosic keyboardist simultaneously using piano, synthesizer and computer sequencing, merging improvisation, Middle Eastern texture, baroque counterpoint and electro-acoustics. Jasmina Maschina created a participatory approach, providing musicians with four notes; E, G, A & B. The musicians could perform them in any variation, duration and register. Glitterbug's vocal edit of "The Sky Fell Silent" turns Enas Massalha into a self-replicating choir and Efterklang's Casper Clausen joined Mads Brauer and filmmaker Karim Ghahwagi to create a new collaborative audio-visual work.
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CSIDES 007CD
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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 006EP
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Christian Löffler has a magic touch to whatever he does, and played back loud, this seemingly calm EP turns into an unexpected club stormer. "Cord" contains Löffler's deep, round signature sound, with a pumping deep bass, broken analog polyphonic synthesizers, and a pad intertwined with warm hiss. "Glare" is resonant with beautiful chords, melody miniatures, a bouncing bass-drum and gravity-defying percussion. "Raise" is a prime-time rave monster, and "Core" is an ambient miniature that digs deeper into the heart.
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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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CSIDES 002CD
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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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CSIDES 001CD
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"This very first release from literally the hottest festival this summer -- the c.sides Festival Jerusalem -- is a diverse 47 track 4CD compilation presenting audio works and pieces from the unique and less known community of electronic musicians in Israel accompanied by some of the biggest names today in electronic music worldwide, ranging from minimal techno to experimental noise through pop, ambient, modern composition and back. A vast compilation including: 4 hours and 22 minutes of play time, 49 full-length tracks, 31 previously unreleased tracks, 40 labels, 70 artists, plus a 32-page booklet with detailed information on the artists, labels and projects involved. Exclusive tracks by Acid Pauli, Aelters, Falko Brocksieper, Gebrüder Teichmann, Hometrainer, Lawrence, Robert Lippok, Safety Scissors, Sutekh, Vert and many, many more." Other artists include: Activater, Acute, Amnon Wolman, Anna, B. Fleishmann, Barbara Morgenstern, Basic Unit, Basteroid, Bloke, DJ Koze, Frivolous, Gal & Maurin, Gelbart, Glitterbug, Gustav, Ido Govrin, Jeff Samuel, Krikor, Latifa Punk, Lior Ashkenazy, Mathias Schaffhauser, Metope, M.I.A., Mike & Dot, Mule Driver, Nico Teen, Rei El-Buzz, Rhythm King and Her Friends, Rockstar Wannabe, Samon Takahashi, Seventeen Migs of Spring, 6Dozen, Spark 0, Stuchka Vkarmanye, Binya Reches, Yifi, Yotam Avni, Ziggy Kinder.
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