IN PROGRESS
THIS FRIDAY:
NEW POPNONAME LIVE SET WITH ISIS Z.
Magazine (CRATO, BARNT & JENS-UWE BEYER) on POP AMBIENT 2012
Tracklisting:
01/A1 Mohn – Manifesto
02/A2 Superpitcher – Jackson
03/A3 Morek – Pan
04/A4 Magazine – The Visitor’s Bureau (Magazine Edit)
05/B2 Triola – Richmodis
06/B1 Wolfgang Voigt – Rückverzauberung 5
07/B3 bvdub – Your Loyalty Lies Long Forgotten
08/A5 Marsen Jules – Swans Reflecting Elephants
09/B4 Simon Scott – For Martha
10/B5 Loops Of Your Heart – Riding The Bikes
POP AMBIENT 2012 begins in an unusually new but nevertheless somehow familiar fashion. MOHN with MANIFESTO is the opening act. A manifest of slowness. A slowness that Jörg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt have taken up as new mission. MOHN is their new ambient-grunge-downbeat project, scheduled to depart on its official musical journey to Middle Earth early 2012. What follows is equally surprising: the old KOMPAKT swashbuckler SUPERPITCHER is taking part for the very first time. His piece JACKSON is borne by a slightly uncanny, spherical voice floating above a jazzy pop accord coolness and faintly 70ies sequencer aesthetics.
It is followed by a familiar face from past times who is making an anonymous return on KOMPAKT under his new pseudonym MOREK. PAN is a textbook example of a classical piece of pop ambient music. Timeless elegance. MAGAZINE, the “krauty“ electronic guerrilla from Cologne-Deutz, has tailored the piece THE VISITORS BUREAU we all know from Magazine 4 into a measure-made ambient frock. Then comes Jörg “TRIOLA“ Burger with a solo appearance. His multifaceted, intricately woven Arabian Nights-style sounds, with effectively placed harmonic shifts reminiscent of Pink Floyd in the best of their phases, indicate why the piece RICHMODIS was named after an old Cologne saga.
Enter the Pope of Ambient: WOLFGANG VOIGT masterfully continues his impressive creative ambient frenzy in RÜCKVERZAUBERUNG 5, not by stagnating on the usual planes but by further developing his new concept into a novel direction of abstract jazz. BVDUB is taking part for the third time – for a good reason. The Dutchman, who lives in China, leaves nothing to be desired with his sensitive musical signature, over and over again. Likewise, MARSEN JULES constantly refines his bizarre, flickering sound constructions and even adds percussion drums that are atypical for ambient. SIMON SCOTT is a newcomer to POP AMBIENT but certainly no unknown face. The Englishman already impressed the scene a while ago on the Miasmah label.
His contribution “ For Martha“ is a particularly good piece of classical pop ambient music that fits into this year’s compilation like an homage. A relaxing final appearance is provided by a good friend of the house: Axel“The Field“Willner alias LOOPS OF YOUR HEART charms us with a light-footed, pleasantly filled guitar loop tempting us to press the Start button at the end of the CD/record.
CHRISTMAS PRESENT: THE POPNONAME CLASSICS
HAPPY NEW YEAR!
Magazine on CLFT
Magazine. »
On aime à rappeler ici les villes d’où nous provient la musique, non pas que la géopolitique musicale nous préoccupe, mais parce qu’il est toujours bon de se souvenir qu’avant d’atterrir sur beatport ou soundcloud, la musique dépend d’abord de sa banlieue, dont elle n’est au final que l’écho ou le prolongement.
Il fallait au moins le collectif de Magazine pour embrasser tout l’héritage musical de Cologne, dont beaucoup trouvent encore à exhumer les perles égarées du post-punk comme des premiers tâtonnements du minimalisme électronique. Désireux d’entamer une nouvelle épopée musicale, le label monté par Barnt, Crato et J-Ü. Beyer saisit et s’affranchit d’une culture locale soit-disant insurmontable, pour tracer une ligne très contemporaine, oscillant habilement entre krautrock, études techno abstraites et expérimentations rythmiques maîtrisées.
En multipliant les collaborations -que l’on sent bouillonnantes- entre artistes eux-mêmes largement portés sur la recherche musicale, le label parvient à tirer un produit atypique, délicat et expressionniste, que chaque musicien contribue à épanouir. Le super-ensemble Cologne Tape catalyse les concepts « métapop » de J.Burger, l’ambiant aérienne d’A.Willner (The Field) et des rythmiques variées, agrémentées d’un travail sonore mêlant acoustique et électronique léchée. Les musiciens se baladent dans leurs productions comme dans le label: Barnt assure la sortie #2 et nous surprend avec trois titres entre techno angoissante et exploration sous-marine. Beyer s’essaye lui à l’occasion d’une association avec le groupe de percussionnistes Drums Off Chaos, dont on avait perdu la trace. L’ensemble se prête à un exercice de composition spontanée innovant, qui n’en finit plus d’attiser notre curiosité.
L’identité de Magazine, pas même fendillée par la pléthore des artistes s’y rattachant, tient dans la fraîcheur et l’inventivité. L’univers graphique du label en atteste : collages industriels, canevas alambiqués, défilés d’hommes, d’objets, du présent et du passé, prodigieuse somme d’inventions étrangement attractives, prennent leur sens dans leur juxtaposition et servent au mieux leur travaux musicaux, dont voici un rapide aperçu.
LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: POPNONAME LIVE MIX!
Popnoname – Exclusive Live Mix – September 2011 by Kompakt
on Kompakt.fm
If you visit Cologne there is a very probable chance you will hear or meet Jens-Uwe Beyer aka POPNONAME. The past year for him have been immense – from spearheading the COLOGNE TAPE collective which includes members JÖRG BURGER (aka THE MODERNIST), ADA, PHILIPP JANZEN (of VON SPAR), CRATO and BARNT and his 2011 collaboration with DRUMS OFF CHAOS (aka JAKI LIEBEZEIT of CAN). Both projects found releases on the critically acclaimed new imprint MAGAZINE he also co-runs. That said, Beyer’s enthusiastic demeanor and creative vigor has easily marked him as a key figure in Cologne’s re-blossoming music community. Internationally, Beyer is likely known best due to his long-standing contributions on KOMPAKT’s POP AMBIENT series, but his forays into dance music have placed him as potentially one of the most overlooked talents of the last decade. Take his releases on ITALIC, FIRM and KOMPAKT speak volumes – RESIDENT ADVISOR went as far as to proclaim his last full length “Surrounded by Weather” as being that it “isn’t the final defining statement in emotive vocal house, but it comes damn close.” Take a listen for yourself as we are offering this exclusive live mix featuring some stellar gems from his catalogue and also a brand new, unreleased remix for the PRO-TEZ imprint. Buy Popnoname’s releases at Kompakt.FM!
POPNONAME REMIX FOR PRO-TEZ
SONG BY POMPEYA
REMIX BY POPNONAME
MIXED BY SCSY 9
Popnoname in Moscow
09.09.2011
http://www.colorsbar.org/
POPNONAME IN GEORGIA
Line – Up
14/08 – ANDREI OID // Latvia-Riga (DJ SET + LIVE) Fullpanda,
Lo Recordings, Traum.
//KOMPAKT TEAM
15.08 – PAN/TONE //Canada (DJ SET + LIVE)
16.08 – POPNONAME Germany (LIVE)
17.08 – MATIAS AGUAYO// Chile (DJ SET+ LIVE)
//OMEGA OZ
18.08- Metope //Germany (DJ SET+ LIVE)
//Georgian Team
14.08 – JORJICK (DJ SET)
15.08 – TOMMA (DJ SET)
16.08 – NIKAKOI / Nika Machaidze (DJ SET) TOMMA (DJ SET)
17.08 – TBA/Natalie Beridze (DJ SET)
18.08 – BERO ( DJ SET)
NEW MAGAZINE RELEASE
MAGAZINE – CONCERTS, FESTIVALS, SHOWS AND OTHER SPECIAL EVENTS
The next debut on MAGAZINE:
Collaborating in art, music and science since 1999, recently founding the label MAGAZINE
and the collective Cologne Tape, this is nevertheless the first time Barnt, Crato and Jens-
Uwe Beyer aka POPNONAME appear together as one formation, simply called MAGAZINE.
If you combine their recent releases – Barnts stunning debut EP “What Is A Number, That
A Man May Know It?”, Crato’s acclaimed and mysterious “30.6.1881″, J-U Beyer’s
incredible sound work on his highly respected last album (with Jaki Liebezeit’s Drums Off
Chaos) and add the Cologne Tape recordings you can get an idea of the formation’s
cosmos — but you are not quite there…
Living in Cologne the past decade with exceptions of some years spent in London and
Manchester, the group is based on DJ-culture as much as on the german electronic music
tradition as you will hear: The whole record is pockmarked with overflowing melodies —
sometimes well structured, sometimes wild and wooly. Sum up Hieroglyphic Being-like
arpeggios and transparent, highly original computer rhythms or strange eight-oh-eightlive
drumming and choir-or-not-like sounds and you get these strange dance floor
moments again – Impossible to make out whether the peculiarity of this EP’s sound is all
intentional or accidental.
The artwork continues the conceptual MAGAZINE series on high quality, heavy stock
– something to hold in your hands!
Watch out for MAGAZINE 4 LIMITED:
A very limited edition of 44 records comes with a stamped and numbered individual print
(series of 44 b/w prints, 29×29cm)!
POPNONAME IN KOPENHAGEN
Cologne-based Popnoname has played practically everywhere in the world and yet he still maintains to be somewhat a secret.
He has worked with prominent artists like The Field, Ada and The Modernist among others, and is a Popnoname has been released on labels like Italic and Kompakt and we’re convinced that his synth-pop will be a refreshing addition to the Trailerpark line-up.