[hpcd 081] Various – The Faust Re.Cycled

Various – The Faust Re.Cycled
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd081
Format: 22 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: 27 May 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style:

Earlier this year Ergo Phizmiz released “The Faust Cycle”, a 14+ hours dream fable, told through speech, songs, collage and sound-design. The diversity and oddness of sounds and harmony literally cried for being remixed. So did the snippets & sampels Ergo provided for this remix project.

Tracklisting:

1. Anton - The Faust Re.Cycled (DJ Faustus RMX)
2. Motoko Ishii - The Faust Re.Cycled (Etwas Neu RMX)
3. the1983 - The Faust Re.Cycled (Solitude Weimar RMX)
4. Lezet - The Faust Re.Cycled (Thirst, The Partisan RMX)
5. Seiei Jack - The Faust Re.Cycled (Black Phonica RMX)
6. Monos - The Faust Re.Cycled (Mosaico Deconstruttivista RMX)
7. Satanicpornocultshop - The Faust Re.Cycled (Hiking w/ Mephistopheles RMX)
8. Goines Ma Non Troppo - The Faust Re.Cycled (¿Dónde dejé la agujereadora? RMX
9. Goines Ma Non Troppo - The Faust Re.Cycled (Perspicáz RMX)
10. Simone Ginesi - The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)
11. Traqueurs De Combes - The Faust Re.Cycled (Pater Profondus RMX)
12. Tozz Rox - The Faust Re.Cycled (Onderwaterkabel RMX)
13. The Truth About Frank - The Faust Re.Cycled (The Devils' Bargain RMX)
14. Schiziod Cosmos - The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)
15. Broken Hours - The Faust Re.Cycled (Bolt The Nest RMX)
16. Panda Paranoico - The Faust Re.Cycled (Defender Of The Crown RMX)
17. Vladislav Nogin - The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)
18. Dinty Slop - The Faust Re.Cycled (Walking Fictions RMX)
19. Winterberg - The Faust Re.Cycled (RMX)
20. The Mueslimen - The Faust Re.Cycled (Remembering Gretchen RMX)
21. Hochgobernitz - The Faust Re.Cycled (UnGENIErt RMX)
22. Gurdonark - The Faust Re.Cycled (To See The Doctor RMX)

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[hpcd 079] Nelson – Ostatki

Nelson – Ostatki
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd079
Format: 4 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: Mar 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Industrial

Its looks like complexity of nature is only illusion. Nature is based on countless, very simple rules still overlapping and acting on many levels and scales. Some of them have major (for our senses) effects and another are very subtle but in fact all of them are equally important and all of them still affects each other. Results cumulates on each level so that even small change of conditions in one point of natural process can cause very big change on another point. Our analytic minds are trying to follow this or that path of natural process looking for patterns, symmetries and causal relationships but there are too many of them and they are intertwined. Its confusing us. For this reason we cannot value nature qualitatively, we can do it only aesthetically. This new category brings peace to our minds, exempt of tracking to many paths, processes and dependencies.
Lets try to imitate this process, lets use very simple rules and algorithms and let them affect one another on many levels. Lets generate sound from them in almost random way, without undue aesthetic choices. Its impossible being human, but lets try. Then leave this system of feedbacks to itself, dont try to control it. Then come and look at the effect. Lets marvel like a child taking a leaf to hand, use your sense of grotesque. Its a pop music! Never use your existing associations and references. Its impossible, but lets try.

Tracklisting:

1. beckoda
2. nobalia
3. choer
4. grakomia
5. zblaszel
6. zjazd
7. nalot
8. nicpo

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[hpcd 078] Een Pianist? – Pianoless

Een Pianist? – Pianoless
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd078
Format: 4 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: Mar 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental

I Have Nothing To Say And I Am Saying It.

Tracklisting:
1. Piano Reload Remixed
2. Five
3. For Meditation
4. Forty-one



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(hpcd 077) Hands – Hold Remixed

Hands – Hold Remixed
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd077
Format: 2 x File, MP3, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: 26 Feb 2010
Genre: Electronic, Rock
Style:  Indie Rock

The band Hands from L.A. asked in december if we‘d put out some remixes together with them. Well, they provided some excellent and versatile material. So that made quite different approaches to remixes possible. Have a listen here, we‘ll add a remix everyday. Watch out!

Tracklisting:
1. Hands - Hold - Original
2. Hold - Remix by Bear Rocks Moon
Remix by - Bear Rocks Moon





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(hpcd 072) 2pol – Das Neueste aus New York

2pol – Das Neueste aus New York
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd072
Format: 8 x File, MP3
Country: Germany
Released: Dec 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: IDM, Experimental

Tracklist:
2pol - headphonica
2pol - Nichts
2pol - Day Fresh
2pol - als die Tiere den Jazz verliessen
2pol - lass mich nicht alleine
2pol - Möbelhaus
2pol - neuer James Bond
2pol - Schlumpf


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(hpcd 071) Dave Merson Hess – Music from the film PRESENCE

Dave Merson Hess – Music from the film PRESENCE
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd071
Format: 6 x File, MP3
Country: Germany
Released: 24 Aug 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Soundtrack
PRESENE-MOVIE.COM
Dave Merson Hess
 
“Music from the film PRESENCE” is the score for an independent/cult science fiction film which has premiered in June 2009 at the Seattle True Independent Film Festival (STIFF) in Seattle, Washington, USA. The film is heavily influenced by Jean-Luc Godard’s Alphaville, Werner Herzog’s Wild Blue Yonder, and the films of David Lynch. It was shot in downtown Los Angeles, CA, mostly at night. It uses music heavily, as well as public domain and stock footage from the U.S. National Archives in Washington, D.C. to tell its story.
As a film, PRESENCE is at once visually beautiful yet stark and unsettling, pairing long, elegant shots of downtown Los Angeles with bleak, startling footage of disasters, both real and fictional. When composing for the movie, I knew I had to provide a score that would blend seamlessly with the visual elements of the film to enhance the sense of acute loss and impending dread experienced by the film’s protagonist. The movie is at some moments frightening and horrific yet at others tender and nostalgic, so I worked with director Bryan Kramer to emulate those emotional shifts while creating a score that was consistent as a whole.
For inspiration, I looked to electronic music pioneers Louis and Bebe Barron’s score for the 1956 film Forbidden Planet, which blurs the line between music and sound effects. By composing music that was simultaneously repetitive and unpredictable, I hoped to invoke the familiar yet chaotic sounds of claxons, sirens, and alarms.
I used a variety of instruments, including mellotron, Moog and other analog synthesizers and VST emulations (for example, NineCows Cynthia, which emulates the EMS Synthi A), organ drones, vibraphone, heavily delayed drums, and electric guitar, in an attempt to create a score that is like the film itself, both synthetic and organic, both otherworldly and jarringly real.
OTHER MAJOR INFLUENCES ON THE SCORE: DJ Shadow, Glenn Branca, Sonic Youth, Erik Satie, Ennio Morricone, Goblin
Written, performed & produced by Dave Merson-Hess in a closet in Richmond, Virginia, a bedroom in New York City,
and on a train traveling between the two. Special thanks to Jessica Roberts for arrangement assistance on “Onomatopoeia”
and “Drive”, and for general moral support.
THANK YOU: Jessica Roberts, Justin Taber & Rose O’Leary, Max Stofle Anderson, Jeff Lee, The Dilley Family, Aris Blevins,
Jimmy Fusil, Tim Price, DJ Carl “Ratso” Russo, Tom @ 101 Music in North Beach at the corner of Grant & Green in
San Francisco, CA, John Morgan Mitchell, and three superstar VST Developers: Nikolaj Kyndby Holm @ Ninecows for Cynthia;
Aaron Rutledge @ Tweakbench for Tapeworm; and The Interruptor a.k.a Daniel F. Bosshard for his brilliant delay plugins.

Tracklisting:

1. Onomatopoeia
2. Didn't Used To Be This Way
3. I Like Dogs
4. What Is Its Vessel?
5. Blur And Bleed
6. Haunted Kid
7. Like Dominoes
8. Friends...Home
9. Subway Sleep
10. Fisherman
11. Love Theme Intro
12. Love Theme
13. Static/Headtrip/Tinkly Piano
14. Drive
15. Caught In A Fingerprint
16. PRESENCE Theme
17. Drive Outtake (Bonus Track)

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(hpcd 070) Magic Van - A Vorkinzeebark

Magic Van - A Vorkinzeebark
Label: Headphonica
Catalog#: hpcd070
Format: 6 x File, MP3
Country: Germany
Released: 24 Aug 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Abstract, Experimental, Ambient

Taren McCallan-Moore, a.k.a. MagicVan lives in Hackney, East London, where he practices from his home studio; “I approach my music in pretty much the same way that I approach my visual art…” He says. “…I’ll start with anything, something that I’ve been experimenting with, a dirge, a note, a melody, a sound and it all leads from there. There’s always something to shake off and I work best when stupefied by some painful muse, otherwise I’m really quite an inadequate musician I think. And I know, people have told me, that I can be frustrating to listen to. One friend thinks that my production is painfully unfair; proffering a hand of sweets only to pull away as the gift has been accepted. I’m just afraid of being pigeonholed even to the point of shooting myself in the foot because I’m terrified of my own mediocrity.” The art of Taren McCallan-Moore art can be found at: tarenvegas.blogspot.com

Tracklist:
1 Little New 2:21
2 A Vorkinzeebark 3:33
3 Bloody Builders 1:30
4 I Can Fly (When I Fall) 7:45
5 The Night Of The Hounds 4:22
6 Arranged 2:38



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