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Artist: Frank Bretschneider & Steve Roden
Title Of Album: Suite Nuit
Year Of Release: 2014
Label: Line / LINE_068
Genre: Abstract, Ambient, Experimental, Glitch
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:52:52
Total Size: 119 mb

Tracklist:
1. part 1 live (22:06)
2. part 2 rehearsal (30:50)

Frank Bretschneider is a musician, composer and video artist in Berlin. His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. Bretschneider’s subtle and detailed music is echoed by his visuals: perfect translated realizations of the qualities found in music within visual phenomena.

Bretschneider (1956) was raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz since 1990), where his aesthetic developed as he listened to pirate radio and smuggled Beastie Boys tapes in the former East Germany. After studying fine arts and inspired by science fiction radio plays and films he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars in 1984, as well as exploring the possibilities of exchange between visual art and music by various means such as film, video and computer graphics.

In 1986, after establishing his cassette label klangFarBe, Bretschneider founded AG Geige, a successful and influential East German underground band. Though limited to the East before the wall came down, they were invited to perform across Germany and internationally after 1989 and released three albums before splitting in 1993.
In 1995, Bretschneider and fellow AG Geige member Olaf Bender founded the Rastermusic record label which eventually merged with Carsten Nicolai’s noton to form raster-noton in 1999.

Steve Roden is a visual and sound artist from Los Angeles, living in Pasadena. His work includes painting, drawing, sculpture, film/video, sound installation, text and performance. Roden’s working process uses various forms of specific notation (words, musical scores, maps, etc.) and translates them through self-invented systems into scores, which then influence the process of painting, drawing, sculpture, and composition. These scores, rigid in terms of their parameters and rules, are also full of holes for intuitive decisions, failures and left turns.

The inspirational source material becomes a kind of formal skeleton that the abstract finished works are built upon. In the visual works, translations of information such as text and maps, become rules and systems for generating visual actions such as color choices, number of elements, amounts of time and form building. In the sound works, singular source materials such as objects, architectural spaces, and field recordings, are abstracted through humble electronic processes to create new audio spaces, or possible landscapes. The sound works present themselves with an aesthetic Roden has described as lower case —sound concerned with subtlety and the quiet activity of listening.

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Label/Catalog#: Line / LINE_SEG03
Release date: 2014
Source: WEB
Format: mp3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 157 MB
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient

Pinkcourtesyphone returns with Description of Problem, its 4th full length and most vital, disconcerting collection to date. If its debut, 2012’s Foley Folly Folio, sounded less like an echo chamber than a shattered hall of mirrors, and this year’s A Ravishment of Mirror captured the weary sighs of washed-up starlets gazing out into the perfumed smog of Los Angeles, Description of Problem is a busier signal indeed.

An unprecedented group of vocal collaborators—including William Basinski’s haunting voicemails, AGF, Evelina Domnitch, and the legendary Cosey Fanni Tutti (Chris & Cosey, Throbbing Gristle, CTI) and Kid Congo Powers (The Gun Club, The Cramps, The Bad Seeds)—join Pinkcourtesyphone’s party line for obsession and revenge musings and ache all down the wires. Sound artist Richard Chartier monitors the call, offering the sounds of chiffon rustling, the buzzing void of messages never received, and the fey wonder of calculated desire and boredom.

These songs are important to us. Please stay on the line…

Tracklist
1. Pinkcourtesyphone – Description of Problem / More Everything (feat. William Basinski) (16:12)
2. Pinkcourtesyphone – Perfunctory Attachments (11:14)
3. Pinkcourtesyphone & AGF – Our Story (6:07)
4. Pinkcourtesyphone & Cosey Fanni Tutti – Boundlessly (for M.Heyer) (18:36)
5. Pinkcourtesyphone & Kid Congo Powers – Iamaphotograph (Darkroomversion) (8:54)
6. Pinkcourtesyphone – I Wish You Goodbye (feat. Evelina Domnitch) (7:40)

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Artist: Nicolas Bernier
Title Of Album: frequencies (a / fragments)
Year Of Release: feb 2014
Label: LINE / LINE064
Genre: Experimental, Electronic, Musique Concrète
Quality: MP3
Bitrate: 320 kbps
Total Time: 00:33:43
Total Size: 75 mb

frequencies is an ongoing process focusing on basic sound generation systems. For this edition, frequencies (a / fragments) the system consists of a series of custom made devices in which computer-controlled solenoids activate a variety of tuning forks. The resulting sound fragments, when articulated in conjunction with synthetic sine waves, create frictions between the acoustic and electronic elements.

The tuning fork, producing a sound closest to a pure sinewave, provides a historical linkage between science (beginning as a 19th Century precision tool), tonal instrumental works, and electronic music in all of its permutations.

Tracklist:
1. Frequencies (A / Fragments) (33:43)

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Label: Line
Catalog#: lineseg002cd
Release date: 07-02-2013
Source: WEB
Format: MP3
Quality: 320 kbps
Size: 132 mb
Genre: Electronic
Style: Ambient, Drone, Experimental

Tracklist:
1. The Human Condition (05:40)
2. Breathing In Lines (11:50)
3. Voice Count (03:30)
4. Kaamos (03:24)
5. Digital Yoik (09:53)
6. Hum Pitch Play (04:26)
7. Feed Back (20:59)

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