Horizonte

Klaar are based between London and Melbourne

The Remote EP was recently released and is available for free download

This is Harmitage

in dobio pro topophonics

Mouse on Mars’ 10th studio album PARASTROPHICS has just been released

http://www.monkeytownrecords.com/
http://mouseonmars.com/
http://www.sonig.com/

Motto Disco 04: Nat-Ala-Mat

nat-ala-mat 01

Nathan, Alan and Matilda are based in Berlin.

http://nat-ala-mat.com/

Motto Disco 03: Mouving

The third installment of the Motto Disco series is a mix from Mouving, entitled ‘Merchant Gateways’.

Mouving is a guise of Melbourne based artist, Joshua Petherick who has also contributed to some rather interesting musical projects such as VDO and Paeces.

Mouving . Merchant Gateways

NB: This mix has recently been re-uploaded due to a technical error disrupting it’s playback speed in the original post.

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Mouving
http://soundcloud.com/mouving-mouving
http://soundcloud.com/mouving

Motto Disco 02: Harsh Patel

Harsh Patel is based in LA and he’s next
His new label is http://3dx.la/
One of his previous labels is http://sister.la/

Harsh Patel. Alex D. Super Hooker

When we first moved to Berlin in summer 2008, we imagined many things were ahead of us. Motto Berlin has just turned 3 years and to celebrate this we’ve had a couple of ideas. The first one takes form right here and we’d like to name it Motto Disco. Friends, collaborators and people we admire have been asked to put together mixtapes with the idea that they should be played within the context of Bookstores. Stay tuned in the weeks and months to come as this is the start of a collection of unexpected and versatile encounters. Enjoy!

Motto Disco 01: Kuedo

The first offering from the Motto Disco project comes in the form of a playlist selected by the eminent Kuedo.
Under varying projects, the UK born / Berlin based artist has been an instrumental figure in the evolution of electronic music in the UK and beyond for just under a decade. He most recently released his critically acclaimed debut album ‘Severant’ on the prevalent British label, Planet Mu.

Kuedo has curated this playlist entitled ‘Sinking in the Datatank’ specifically with the act of reading in mind, delving into a hypnotic modern history of avant-garde electronics and rousing soundscapes.

KUEDO – SINKING IN THE DATATANK

http://official.fm/tracks/337465

soundcloud.com/kuedo
kuedo.tumblr.com

‘Severant’ is available at Planet Mu Records

NUDITY & ATROCITY, DAN BODAN’s second full-length album, is a gothic romance. The love he sings of is fraught and intense, trapped on a windswept and desolate plain, dreaming of warmer times. Its songs are lovesick, melancholic, and irresolute.
Their passion does not dissipate. Perhaps, because beyond it there is only the deceptively empty landscape: full of invisible radio waves, flying saucers, and survivalists in hidden cabins. Unlike Virginia, this is a place for lovers. Romance can only grow in the most hostile of environments.

The album’s tracks are built from this environment. As a result, NUDITY & ATROCITY feels thoroughly North American despite having been produced in Berlin. The paranoid reality, which peaks in and out of its tracks, prepares for the end of the world with tin-foil hats, not bomb shelters. Rolling thunder, barking dogs, and the ambient chatter of A.M. radio are layered over the tracks’ melodies, contrasted with the more mundane found audio and distorted to the point of being almost unidentifiable.

This sets a tempo and lends an intonation. DAN BODAN builds walls of sound around his melodies. The walls vary in their clarity and every once in a while become transparent enough to catch a glimpse of the irrational world beyond, where every weather balloon is a Reptilian spacecraft and every reggae song is an excuse to close your eyes and dream of the tropics. The tension between the paranoid environment and the amorous subject is what allows NUDITY & ATROCITY to achieve its considerable sophistication. It draws together its disparate influences as if it were absentmindedly scanning the radio. The tuner passes through the conspiracy theorists and the right-wing demagogues, the Top 40 channels and the greatest hits from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. The listener is only halflistening. His mind is somewhere else. With someone else.

NUDITY & ATROCITY is a limited edition of 250 vinyl records designed by artist SIMON
DENNY.

D 15€

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Roma Publications
presenting
Marc Nagtzaam – Reissue
Aglaia Konrad – Carrara

Talks by Bart Verschaffel, Kris Kimpe & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Music by Marc Nagtzaam & Koenraad Dedobbeleer
Signing on request

www.romapublications.org

W – Artist Songs Volume 2. Art Critics Orchestra.

Das Art Critics Orchestra begreift Musik als dialektischen Prozess. Dieser Begriff, der in so postkommunistischen wie postdemokratischen Zeiten auf dem Abstellgleis des Diskurses zu verrotten droht, beschreibt präzise die Arbeit des fünfköpfigen Ensembles, etwa bei der Konzeption ihrer bisher erschienenen CDs: Den „Artists’ Songs“, 2009, und der ein Jahr später folgenden CD „Das Summen der Teile“. Die Logik dieser Abfolge ist die eines dialektischen Umschlages auf mehreren Ebenen. So finden sich auf „Artists’ Songs“ Stücke, die Künstler/Innen der Band geschrieben haben. Z. B. Annika Stroem und Elke Krystufek, die Band setzte deren, meist mit englischen Texten versehenen Vorlagen dann musikalisch um. „Das Summen der Teile“ dagegen addiert sich aus von ACO selbst geschriebenen Liedern, zudem sind die Texte jetzt durchgängig in Deutsch. Die aktuelle Single „W“ präsentiert wiederum Artist-Songs, diesmal von Tom Wesselmann, Peter Weibel und Lawrence Weiner/Peter Gordon. Schon Dietrich Diedrichsen betonte den „konzeptionellen Charakter“ von Popmusik – ACO nimmt den Mann beim Wort.

D € 15

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Little & Large Editions @ Motto Berlin. 1.12.2011
Art Critics Orchestra live
Start 8pm

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W – artist songs volume 2
performed by the Art Critics Orchestra
Micz Flor (guitar, vocals), Laura Oldenbourg (keys), Judith Raum (vocals, guitar), Andreas Schlaegel (drums, vocals) und Raimar Stange (bass)

Mixing, mastering: Alexander Ott, Paul-Lincke-Studio
Cover artwork © 2011 Silke Wagner
Edition of 500
Published by Little & Large Editions, 2011

http://www.artcriticsorchestra.com/
http://littleandlargeeditions.com/