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PNN 020EP
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PNN turns five! They celebrate their birthday with the 20th PNN release, publishing their most original artist, Hendrik Meyer aka Myr.. Apparently Innocent is a four-track EP beginning with "That's Right, Pop", which revels in Kölscher Euphoria. "Beach Bag" is reminiscent of Matt Karmil's sound cosmos, stumbling charmingly to endlessness. The third track "She Hums" is a Myr. classic for the dancefloor and finally "One-Eyed Reilly" revitalizes the shuffle and leads Myr. to new glamor.
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PNN 018EP
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Julian Stetter may be best known as half of the electronic pop duo Vimes, but he is no stranger to the Cologne club scene. His debut EP, Insides, is rooted in a long history of DJing and organizing underground parties across the city. As a resident DJ and collaborator at Cologne's famed JackWho club, Stetter dove deep into producing, and now presents three polished, precise tracks plus a remix by Beyou. "Emily" opens with shimmering waves that rise and break into a deeper and spacier sound, before warm beats appear along with random snippets of whale song.
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PNN 014LP
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Double LP version. Includes CD. Sweden-based British musician Matt Karmil presents his third album, ++++, following his 2014 full-length debut, - - - - (PNN 007CD/LP), and IDLE033, released on Bristol label Idle Hands in 2016. His output also includes a variety of singles for labels such as New York's Beats In Space Records and Stockholm's Studio Barnhus. On ++++, Karmil can be heard exploring the concepts of impossible objects, reflection, symmetry, infinite perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, tessellations, and lost love. While making the music that constitutes ++++ he interacted with mathematicians George Pólya (1887-1985), Roger Penrose, and Harold Coxeter, as well as the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and also conducted his own research into tessellation. The result is ++++, Karmil's most clever, strange, emotional, and fun work yet, a testament to his breadth and depth as a musician. Did we forget to mention that he's an awesome party DJ?
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PNN 014CD
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Sweden-based British musician Matt Karmil presents his third album, ++++, following his 2014 full-length debut, - - - - (PNN 007CD/LP), and IDLE033, released on Bristol label Idle Hands in 2016. His output also includes a variety of singles for labels such as New York's Beats In Space Records and Stockholm's Studio Barnhus. On ++++, Karmil can be heard exploring the concepts of impossible objects, reflection, symmetry, infinite perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra, hyperbolic geometry, tessellations, and lost love. While making the music that constitutes ++++ he interacted with mathematicians George Pólya (1887-1985), Roger Penrose, and Harold Coxeter, as well as the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and also conducted his own research into tessellation. The result is ++++, Karmil's most clever, strange, emotional, and fun work yet, a testament to his breadth and depth as a musician. Did we forget to mention that he's an awesome party DJ?
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PNN 013LP
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Double LP version. Includes CD.
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PNN 013CD
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The PNN label's most enigmatic artist, myr., presents his full-length debut, Diamondbacks Make Wonderful Pets. The album's nine tracks represent an exciting evolution in myr.'s trajectory as an artist, following his 2015 debut EP, Nobody Knows Avalon (PNN 010EP). myr. seems to have dug deep and discovered another level to his sound. Each of the tracks on the record is confidently offbeat and precisely composed. "A Little-Bitty Bowl (with B.Hotton)" mixes thunder sound-effects with glitchy synth bleeps, layering them above darker tones that build to a perfect storm in the middle. myr.'s ability to carry off strange hybrids is what makes his music unique. From the ghostly warbles of "I Think I Hear Them Coming" to the sunnier sounds of "Eleanor," myr.'s disregard for the norm has led to an exceptional album that surprises at every turn.
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PNN 012EP
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OID is the solo project of Russian producer Andrei Antonets. Born in Riga, Latvia, Antonets has lived in Berlin, and, at the time of this release, is based in Moscow, where he is inspired by the city's rapidly changing scene. "Bright Side of Life" evokes a sense of potential; it is upbeat without being commercial. The track's singular sound has prompted The Field, Popnoname & J.P Janzen (Von Spar), and Mujuice to produce remixes, included here alongside the original. Each artist delivers a unique take on this uncommon yet catchy tune.
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PNN 010EP
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Though some might view myr.'s deliberate anonymity as nothing more than a publicity stunt, there is surely something refreshing about myr.'s decision to step back at a time when the cults of DJ and celebrity are often intertwined. An underlying warmth and grittiness distinguish this music from the near-perfect production of popular techno. The minimal beats of "Nobody Knows" and "Avalon" create a sense of anticipation, leaving the listener with itchy feet and a hankering for more. "Homii" delivers a change in tempo: the monotone beats make way for some slowed-down, trippy vocals, opening the listener up to myr.'s versatility.
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PNN 007LP
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Double LP version. Includes a CD copy of the album. Matt Karmil -- to whom do we appeal? How do we learn through experience? What differentiates us from other animals? Who is confronted by freedom? Who is comforted by opportunity? Who was the pioneer? Who transcends verbal communication? A point of view of an avant-garde reality -- a transitory party. The world is not round, it is a disc. After years of working in various, shall we say, departments of music, Matt Karmil was almost forced into releasing his own first 12" -- a chance meeting with Ada after an invitation to play with Cologne Tape led to the release of the Reverse Peephole EP. With support from Barnt, DJ Koze, Axel Boman and Michael Mayer, amongst many others, things really couldn't have got off to a more surprising start. The somewhat nomadic Matt Karmil has been producing and DJing under many aliases and in many forms for years, but has now found a flow and sound that until now has recently eluded him. Releases on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space, an EP, the mysterious HAF001 and now the debut album appearing on Cologne's own PNN, are sure to make 2014 a busy one for Matt Karmil.
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PNN 007CD
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Matt Karmil -- to whom do we appeal? How do we learn through experience? What differentiates us from other animals? Who is confronted by freedom? Who is comforted by opportunity? Who was the pioneer? Who transcends verbal communication? A point of view of an avant-garde reality -- a transitory party. The world is not round, it is a disc. After years of working in various, shall we say, departments of music, Matt Karmil was almost forced into releasing his own first 12" -- a chance meeting with Ada after an invitation to play with Cologne Tape led to the release of the Reverse Peephole EP. With support from Barnt, DJ Koze, Axel Boman and Michael Mayer, amongst many others, things really couldn't have got off to a more surprising start. The somewhat nomadic Matt Karmil has been producing and DJing under many aliases and in many forms for years, but has now found a flow and sound that until now has recently eluded him. Releases on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space, an EP, the mysterious HAF001 and now the debut album appearing on Cologne's own PNN, are sure to make 2014 a busy one for Matt Karmil.
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PNN 006EP
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A new era is when a significant event or a discovery or invention changes the circumstances of many or even all people sustainably. It basically involves a positive or neutral evaluation of this age. Thus, the first public steam railway built by George Stephenson in 1825 marked the beginning of a new era of mobility. Also the theses of Martin Luther at Wittenberg initiated the era of the Reformation. Not to forget the fall of the Iron Curtain, the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the resulting German reunification. After Reverse Peephole and remixes for Popnoname, Matt Karmil comes up with a new 12", A Lot to Share.
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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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