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MAGAZINE 023LP
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Started around a decade ago, Overcloseness has been a long time coming. It is Colorist's debut album on paper, but already has a magnum opus feel to it. The beginnings of Colorist lay in the Cologne music community. Being small, it was always influenced by the art and the film scene. (In fact, the label Magazine originates from the same crossing point.) The large cast of guest appearances underlines how much Antonio de Luca and Caroline Kox are in the center of that Cologne community. On Overcloseness intimate pieces for one or two instruments alternate with dense choir anthems ("Embody") and tracks built from ultra intense fabrics that conjure up the mediative hardness of Tool ("Blood Markers"). Driven by the otherworldly voice of Koxi and a larger-than-life bass line by Antonio, the album culminates in the unforgettable "Touch Me." Oscillating between a bad migraine and cathartic hypnosis, Colorist have created a genre defying universe of an album. Also featuring Echo Ho.
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MAGAZINE 022LP
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In late 2021 the JUBG gallery (run by Magazine's Jens-Uwe Beyer alongside Albert Oehlen and Alexander Warhus) showed the German brothers Schaufler. Matthias, a painter, and Aksel, a musician and DJ (Superpitcher), came up with an exhibition soundtrack that was released back then as one half of an ultra rare drawing/vinyl combination only. Subsequently, the music caught Barnt's and Crato's ears. The bittersweet pulsating ode to being an artist, sprawling and boundless, complete with voices from the sky, seemed perfect for our label. Magazine now announces the regular release of Schaufler vs Schaufler Part 1 & 2.
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MAGAZINE 021CD
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Friday Dunard pulls the sawtooth from trance. Now he whistles elegiac prayers to mystical rivers on it. He lets it bubble out of battered cans of Monster Energy. He sings a protestant canon with it. And in the end, it's trance again. Dunard shares the river with Karlsruhe, the harbor with the Cologne label Magazine. There, not far from a SPA, the Gerade EP docked a few years ago. In the summer of 2023, it's "Cast off!" for Rhenus Aeternus -- the first Dunard album on Magazine.
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WAVES 003LP
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Magazine announces the album Waves 3 by Curd Duca, the third and last part of the trilogy Waves: Austrian electronic composer Curd Duca is widely known for his 1990s series of critically acclaimed easy listening 1-5 (Normal) and elevator 1-3 (Mille Plateaux). After a long break from the studio, Duca has issued part 1 of the Waves series in late 2020 on Magazine WAVES 001LP. This was in fact his first album in 20 years. The Waves recordings pick up the thread of his '90s work and open up a new chapter. Again, everything is shifting constantly and all tracks are quite different (soft, rough, melodic, abstract...), but complement each other in a surprisingly coherent way to form an idiosyncratic universe. While other experimental artists can sound as if they're attempting to lift lead weights over their heads, Duca is content flicking feathers into their faces. After his impressive 1990s/00s run on Normal and Mille Plateaux, Curd Duca had disappeared for 20 years before emerging from the aether last year. The albums of the new Waves trilogy represent a flawless examination of sound and texture. The Vienna-based producer still straddles high and low culture, but approaches his sonics with a more historically aware ear. So plain and resonant gong recordings are placed next to pop music loops and DSP-fractured cut-ups, and icy electronic jams nudge up against cassette warped instrumental sketches. Waves 3 is a continuation and culmination of the series. In the final chapter, you're drawn in with church bells on dome, but quickly transported to another era entirely with the crackly bläser and absurd zither, a tongue-in-cheek plunderphonic experiment assembled from zither samples. Duca follows this evocative run of tracks with a machine-gun blast of experimental sound, from the percussive 500 GRM to the ferric ASMR birdsong of "ziegenmelker." This is Duca at his most uncompromising, grabbing central European culture and dragging it through his array of processes. Playing the album from beginning to end opens up a weightless cut-and-paste mixtape, stitched together with expert foresight and a knowing wink to camera. Like the best psychedelic experiences, memories are triggered and turned inside-out, and knowledge is allowed to blossom. Curd Duca has been refining his process for three decades now, and few artists have quite the same ability to challenge, provoke, and inspire.
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Magazine announce the album Waves 2 by Curd Duca, the second part of the trilogy Waves: Austrian electronic composer Curd Duca is widely known for his 1990s series of critically acclaimed easy listening 1-5 (Normal) and elevator 1-3 (Mille Plateaux). After a long break from the studio, Duca has issued part 1 of the Waves series in late 2020 on Magazine (WAVES 001LP). That was in fact his first album in 20 years. The Waves recordings pick up the thread of his '90s work and open up a new chapter. Again, everything changes constantly and all tracks are quite different (soft, rough, melodic, abstract...), but complement each other in a surprisingly coherent way to form a singular universe. Waves 2 takes off into more experimental realms, expanding on Duca's unusual combination of avant-garde aesthetics and organic qualities. Duca navigates through spaces deep and wide, in a flowing succession of soothing and sometimes elusive moments. The music is elegant, light and transparent, occasionally dark and raw, sometimes veering off into microtonal scales.
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Waves 1 is the first release of Curd Duca since the legendary Elevator series (1998-2000). Waves is an album trilogy. Waves 2 and 3 will be released on Magazine in 2021. If you think of Curd Duca's Waves in terms of sound, rather than in terms of form, each track on Waves is actually like the large, illuminated, richly decorated initial letter that introduces the narrative of so many medieval manuscripts. It is as if Duca was collecting extraordinary letters, opening up an alphabet of sounds, and developing a musical phonetics between adjacent terms. From gong to gone; bell to bells minus drone; dome to father. The real beauty of Curd Duca's cycle lies in the fact that it opens up differently from so many perspectives. That you can understand it as a collection of treasures, as a commentary on our acoustic environment, as an attempt to dissect the world and stylize its parts. Much like a printer's typesetting box, Duca proposes an inventory of everything that sounds. Some of the pieces are exaggerations. Some allusions. Others abstractions, parodies, and transgurations. It is often not even clear whether the music is based on a recording or a synthetic sound. Is the nightjar real or is it a synthetic imitation? Did Duca really use brass and zither sounds or simulate them on the computer? The hermaphroditic nature between reality and arti ciality is a central aspect of Duca's sound world. There is only one thing you must not do with this music: trivialize it or underestimate it. With Waves, Duca is exploring the very essence of sound, and its possible meanings and contradictions.
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MAGAZINE 020EP
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A Berlin native who shaped his sense for techno by striving through his hometown and its infamous raves, Alex is now one of the prominent protagonists of that scene -- not only when regularly playing at Berghain. The EP harnesses this experience perfectly, fully preserving the energy of the creation process by recording directly to tape. Brutal yet beautiful techno tracks from a master.
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MAGAZINE 019EP
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The first Yris Den. The first symptom of Yris Den. The first data entry of Yris Den. The first lacquer of Yris Den. The first search for Yris Den. (Paves the way for) the first appearance of Yris Den. Venial elevate your mind, free your auro.
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MAGAZINE 018EP
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Vocal trance? Yes. But probably not as you would imagine. Here is Friday Dunard from Cologne.
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MAGAZINE 017EP
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"The first time I heard of Mattes Schwarz, someone called him 'Stecken-Mattes'. Stecken was a defining, if almost secret, Cologne dance music venue of the 2000s and early 2010s, a minuscule basement without curfew and seemingly any other restrictions . . . While he got heavily involved in Cologne's BMX scene of the '90s, he never really stopped, and during the main years of being known as Stecken-Mattes and playing there each Friday night, he coincidently lived in Magazine Record's home base . . . I Don't Know is Mattes Schwarz's first release." --Hanna Bächer
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MAGAZINE 016LP
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180-gram double-LP version. Gatefold sleeve. Includes download code. The totality of the many in one -- Cologne Tape, an on-and-off gathering of artists from all over the world, counts as its members Ada, Barnt, Jens-Uwe Beyer, Jörg Burger, John Harten, Philipp Janzen (Von Spar), Mario Katz, John Stanier (Battles), and Axel Willner (The Field). These artists live in Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg, and are rarely all in the same place, but whenever they are each of them always has the feeling that something relevant needs to be done. The ensemble's name represents a city and the musical recordings that are made in it. Their first release, Render, marked the start of the Magazine label in 2010 and found its way into DJ sets by famed artists like Dixon -- with music that didn't necessarily have the dancefloor in mind. Since then, small and absolutely sublime pieces of Cologne Tape have appeared in public, including a previously unreleased track that the group incorporated into their mix for Dummy and a contribution to Turner Prize-nominated English artist Phil Collins's 2015 double LP My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught. And now, Cologne Tape return with Welt, bringing the world eight musical arrangements performed and recorded at Dumbo Studios, Cologne. Stanier and Willner refined the unfiltered emotions of these sessions with drums and synths after the fact, before the group arranged the material into a dramatic story arc under the direction of Beyer. The recordings also feature friends of the collective including Mexican artist Rebolledo, guitarist Burkhard Mönnich, and singer Isis Lace, all of whom happened to be close by and joined the band spontaneously during their musical ritual. A freewheeling ceremony of grand piano, synthesizers, vibraphone, organ, drums, guitar, and more, Welt is a work of panoramic music that offers listeners entrance to a world of deeply reflective sounds and rhythms.
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The totality of the many in one -- Cologne Tape, an on-and-off gathering of artists from all over the world, counts as its members Ada, Barnt, Jens-Uwe Beyer, Jörg Burger, John Harten, Philipp Janzen (Von Spar), Mario Katz, John Stanier (Battles), and Axel Willner (The Field). These artists live in Berlin, Cologne, and Hamburg, and are rarely all in the same place, but whenever they are each of them always has the feeling that something relevant needs to be done. The ensemble's name represents a city and the musical recordings that are made in it. Their first release, Render, marked the start of the Magazine label in 2010 and found its way into DJ sets by famed artists like Dixon -- with music that didn't necessarily have the dancefloor in mind. Since then, small and absolutely sublime pieces of Cologne Tape have appeared in public, including a previously unreleased track that the group incorporated into their mix for Dummy and a contribution to Turner Prize-nominated English artist Phil Collins's 2015 double LP My heart's in my hand, and my hand is pierced, and my hand's in the bag, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught, and the bag is shut, and my heart is caught. And now, Cologne Tape return with Welt, bringing the world eight musical arrangements performed and recorded at Dumbo Studios, Cologne. Stanier and Willner refined the unfiltered emotions of these sessions with drums and synths after the fact, before the group arranged the material into a dramatic story arc under the direction of Beyer. The recordings also feature friends of the collective including Mexican artist Rebolledo, guitarist Burkhard Mönnich, and singer Isis Lace, all of whom happened to be close by and joined the band spontaneously during their musical ritual. A freewheeling ceremony of grand piano, synthesizers, vibraphone, organ, drums, guitar, and more, Welt is a work of panoramic music that offers listeners entrance to a world of deeply reflective sounds and rhythms. Jewel-case CD version is presented in a slipcase.
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MAGAZINE 014EP
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Jaures formed in 2014. Jaures's drums are neither techno nor electro but something of their very own, making the duo one of the most interesting young production units in Germany.
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MAGAZINE 015LP
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Close friends and metalheads Phillip Tielsch (Von Spar) and Mario Katz (Cologne Tape) have long been meeting for guitar sessions, trying to "take in the essence of their favorite metal records and digest it in their own sound." Quite ambitious, but without any release plans. Magazine's Jens-Uwe Beyer found out about their project and pushed them to produce an uncompromising condensate of their raw material. Beyer cut here and there, contributed some additional production and also got John Stanier (Battles) in the boat for the drums along with Mario Katz. So Zon became a band and their first album, Palace, is an intense and sharp-edged instrumental metal set. Crato's B-side counterpart, a 27 minute drone ambient interpretation of the Zon material, completes this literally thrilling album. Wrapped up by John Harten's unique artwork series. 45 minute playtime. Features an endless loop on side A and inside out cut on side B-side. 180 gram vinyl comes in heavy stock sleeves.
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Cologne-based Jens-Uwe Beyer follows his acclaimed 2015 album The Emissary (KOMPPA 003CD/LP) with Amor Dark Pink Tencel Satin Suit, featuring collaborations with two of Beyer's former Cologne Tape collaborators. "White oversized flame yarn bolero" features drummer John Stanier (Battles, ex-Helmet), and his contribution is sure to make the goose bumps you'd been feeling explode. Barnt features on "Navy stamp degrade print print oversized viscose huipil," which features truly industrial straight bass drum and snare.
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Two pieces by Naum Gabo (Jonnie Wilkes and James Savage) that the DJs at Magazine play slowed-down in many sets. The speed change from 45 to 33rpm transforms them into new tracks -- pulled from Glasgow to Cologne, placed in a different genre, converted from the intended scheme to a new effect. This practice materializes here, with the slowed-down tracks pressed to play at 45 RPM -- they've now physically become new compositions. They can't be played at the original speed any more; only slower still. Now it's your turn.
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MAGAZINE 131EP
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Pressed on 180-gram vinyl. Two remixes of "Cherry Red" from Barnt's 2014 debut album, Magazine 13. (MAGAZINE 013CD/LP). Tale of Us asked Magazine for the stems of the track, intending to craft a version for their sets, and Recondite happened to pass by the studio while they were working on it; together they deliver a driving and vital interpretation of Barnt's melodic masterpiece. Jens-Uwe Beyer prolongs the already massive breakdown toward the end of the track; his remix has been a highlight of Barnt's DJ sets. Crato's cover art is a bold remix in itself, reworking the original cover.
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MAGAZINE 013LP
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Double LP version, packaged in gatefold sleeve. 180 gram vinyl. Includes CD.
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Barnt: Born in the '70s, kid of the '90s. When his classmates were into grunge, he was exploring techno, when the same classmates discovered techno, he was already taking a closer look into hip-hop (battling in the nationwide DMC and ITF championships), when everyone went to Berlin to celebrate minimal, he was on a trip back in time to inhale early German electronic and rock music -- attracted by the main oppositional poles of this era: accuracy and free rein. Mainly these biographical key points and his (now over two decades spanning) DJ experience are the base for his formula of pathos, calculated dilettantism, and dancefloor functionality that characterize all his productions. Take the infamous "Geffen," or his earlier work with Cologne Tape on the EP Render, the first release on his own conceptual imprint Magazine, which he co-runs with Crato and Jens-Uwe Beyer. Render and his debut solo EP What Is a Number, That a Man May Know It? became instant underground hits in 2010 and the records have been precious collector's items ever since. At that time he was already an established part of the music scene in Cologne, the city where he finished first his Biology and subsequently his Art studies (carving out the two poles "accuracy" and "free rein" in his development again). He still lives in the fruitful atmosphere of Cologne and from here he further evolves his idiosyncratic style, which has already brought him from Robert Johnson to Trouw, from Montreux Jazz Festival to MUTEK Mexico, from Berghain to Burning Man.
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Wendy Gondeln is here to introduce and spread the dance-style called Fracking. Gondeln, also known as the German painter Albert Oehlen and long-time Red Crayola member, recently laid out the aspects of Fracking in his studio in Düsseldorf. He asked Wolfgang Voigt to provide him with two plain Gabber bass drum canvases. Wolfgang couldn't stop Fracking after Wendy's visit, which resulted not only in his first Fracking track, but in his first three, included here in the form of a Fracking triptych. When Magazine (Jens-Uwe Beyer, Crato, Barnt) heard of this new thing called Fracking, they had to start Fracking, too.
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MAGAZINE 009EP
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Believer in the unconventional and an enthusiast of the new, Wassermann is reputed as the original rebel of the zodiac. Wassermann pores deep over what makes the world tick and can be trusted to come up with ideas and hypotheses which seem to be way ahead of his time. This is why he is attracted to the new and different. Things associated with Wassermann: rebellious, distribution, breaking boundaries, all fruit trees, orchids, independence, self-potency, freedom, rhythm, large flying birds. Strengths: electric attitude.
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With Red Book, Cologne-based techno artist Jens-Uwe Beyer (Popnoname) starts the conceptual series "Rainbow Books." The series is named after the books on CD format specifications and will consist of the Red, Yellow, Orange, White, Blue, Beige, Green, Purple, and Scarlet Book. Red Book is a live-mixed, 80-minute pulsating mantra for home and dancefloor meditation; a DJ tool as well as avant-garde liturgy. A club track unleashed from common duration. An instant classic.
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MAGAZINE 006EP
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Is This What They Were Born For? is not the first time the DJ, producer and co-founder of Magazine orchestrates his profound knowledge of true cosmic sound design in the most convincing manner. The sympathetic space traveler can expect a fair amount of big bang here, too, lavishly decorated with zero-gravity synth leads, but sticking to the molecular facts while sporting a near-biblical bass drum. The singularity has never been more seductive than in Barnt's guise.
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Please allow us the pleasure of introducing Axel Willner's Loops Of Your Heart. Hailing from Sweden, the man behind this record alone needs no introduction, as he is already well-known in the electronic music scene for his project The Field. Loops Of Your Heart reflects Axel's experience in Germany, where during his lengthy stays, his mantra-like arpeggiators contributed to the first manifestation of the sound of Cologne Tape, a group that formed while he was staying there. You can also hear this on the much sought-after debut Render, which came out on Magazine in 2010. Only a foreshadowing of what was to about to come, Willner has been living in Berlin and letting his creativity go crazy. With an arsenal of special synthesizers and guitars, he has put together And Never Ending Nights. After touring worldwide with The Field for the last 10 years, this album is like coming home again. You can hear German children speaking outside his studio in Berlin (on the track "Neukölln") and it is not only the track titles which tell of things that have come to an end and or are about to happen. The old German musical tradition of letting yourself go (Holger Czukay, You, Anima, Cluster, you name it) is in the air, and Willner breathes it. His highly personal approach to music and composition leads to nothing less then a matchless album that embodies beginning anew.
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Collaborating since 1999, recently founding the label Magazine and the collective Cologne Tape, this is nevertheless the first time Barnt, Crato and Jens-Uwe Beyer appear together as one formation, simply called Magazine. Living in Cologne for the past decade, with the exception of some years spent in London and Manchester, the group is based on DJ culture and on the German electronic music tradition. This record is pockmarked with overflowing melodies, sometimes well-structured, sometimes wild and wooly. Artwork on high quality heavy stock.
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