Open Synth – Momentaufnahmen
Label: Modularfield
Catalog#: MDF08
Format: 7 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: 12 Apr 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Minimal, Tech house
Not only live performed, also live improvised is the new modularfield release by the crew of Open Snyth. The Project was founded back in 2009. Born from the wish to present electronic music live, an open stage for live acts was founded in Hannover. An important part of this periodical evening were the joint jam-sessions with the restricion to pure hardware equipment. This was the foundation of the “Open Synth” project. The group consists of 5 musicians, each one having their own musical background, who have been organizing and creating several projects in Hannover (from parties, decoration & visuals to DJing and live-performances). They are: Andi Arbeit, Baumfreund, Matei, Taschenrechnermusikant and Wenzel. Join them on this wonderful piece of live improvised music by the name of “snapshot in time” or as we call it here in germany: Momentaufnahmen .
Cat#: WWPL5
Released: 06 Mar 2010
All tracks written, produced and performed by Oliver Koch
More information and booking via : booking -at- modularfield.net
Original cover footage by Harald Walker & Sebastian Verführt
Puplished by Modularfield: http://modularfield.net
Issue number 5 of the Modularfield “when we play live…” series this time with the Breitbandkater from Cologne City, Germany. And five is also right on cue, there are five word to describe this live set: As deep it can gets! The Breitbandkater presents a unique mixture of his latests house-music tunes combined in one live-set. Cords, layers and grooving bass lines blended together to build a warm atmosphere. This live set is also a sneak preview for the upcoming “The Void EP” including some more deep and also jacking tunes. Also watch out for the new modularfield series”Technology Gap“. Issue Number one with the Breitbandkater and some very unique tunes. You are also invited to check out his already released “More EP” here on Modularfield
Convaire – Hey Say Hey
Label: Modularfield
Catalog#: MDF07
Format: 5 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: 28 Feb 2010
Genre: Electronic, Pop
Style: Indie
All tracks written & performed by Convaire
Convaire is // Jane Slattery // Liz Slattery // Dan Talbot // John Towey
PUBLISHED BY // Modularfield // info@modularfield.net
COVER DESIGN BY // Farbfundament // info@farbfundament.de
Produced by Simon Wegman at Lava Studios
This is the second time after So I´m Jo Modularfield puts the focus on Austrailia and tears down the wall of a limited genre portfolio. Once again electronic music combined with vocals but this time a little bit more different and ruff. Sydney indie pop four piece Convaire are the collaboration of John Towey on guitars, sisters Liz and Jane Slattery on keys and Dan Talbot on bass combine male brashness tempered by the subtleties of youthful femininity. Inspired by the music of Talking Heads, Friendly Fires, Pheonix and other pop friendly artists, Convaire have already graced many of Sydney’s popular venues. The four page booklet for the hey say hey release was designed by Farbfundament.
Welcome to the fourth part of the modularfield “when we play live…” series with Boytalk. The tow fellas are New World and Cheslo. Both have there home base at the Ortoloff record label based in Leipzig, Germany. The duo was founded back in 2008. They present a unique 52 minutes liveset with a wild mixture of electronic music based on house, techno electro and something in between. A combination of groove, at some parts deep and always a guarantee for a fresh time on the dancefloor. If you like the sound you can also check out Cheslos “Disko Melua EP” released on modularfield.
All tracks written, produced and performed by: Markus Gebauer & Friedmann Lichtenthal
more information and booking via : cheslo -at- ronknroll.com
original cover footage by Carl. W. Heindl: http://www.eroder.com
puplished by Modularfield: http://modularfield.net
Welcome to the third part of the modularfield “when we play live…” series with Scott. The duo was founded back in 2006 by Jan Brauer and Daniel Brandt with the aim to play soulful dance music with real instruments. To create the typical Scott sound they use real drums, a Fender Rhodes, some analogue synthesizer and also turn any noise they can find into percussive patterns. The contributed live set was recorded at Undergram at Unit Tokyo – JP.
more inforamtion: http://scotjazz.com // http://doppelschall.com
When Ee Play Live – New Delhi FM
Cat#: WWPL02
Released: 25 Jan 2010
New Delhi FM, founded in Stuttgart in 2001, is a music project by Sandro Boege, who now lives in Cologne.
Sandro’s music was initially best described as IDM, but he never actively or consciously set himself any stylistic limits. His range has meanwhile expanded to include elements of dub techno, IDM and ambient, and sometimes a combination of all three. An important first step towards this fusion was his album “Row By”, released in 2008 through net label “Der kleine grüne Würfel”. While in the shape of CD and net label releases New Delhi FM is music you would mainly listen to at home, Sandro’s live sets focus heavily on adapting his music to a club setting without stripping it of its more ethereal elements. He makes a point of keeping his live sets as spontaneous and improvised as possible. Instead of mainly pre-sequenced tracks they consist of everything from free motifs drawn from a sound pool created specifically for the purpose to tracks that are just similar enough to the original to remain recognisable to the listener. As a live set of this type specifies only a vague order of tracks and is otherwise subject to as few rules and limitations as possible, no set is like the other. This approach requires more work and concentration both in preparation and when performing, but the result feels more exciting and organic for artist and audience alike.
Sandro Boege is currently focusing on completing new solo material, but also collaborates with a Cologne collective in the field of audio/visual art and two bands from Cologne. A new New Delhi FM album is planned for the first half of 2010.
Taschenrechnermusikant - Die Ruhe Vor Dem Strom
Label: Modularfield
Catalog#: MDF06
Format: 3 x File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps
Country: Germany
Released: 19 Jan 2010
Genre: Electronic
Style: Downtempo, Dub Techno
Credits: Artwork By [Design], Photography [Cover Pictures] - Sebastian Verfürth
Written-By, Producer - Alexander Waldmann
Dubby moods, harmonic melody fields embedded in a warm and bright electronic landscape. There’s only a few words to describe it: “The calm before the storm”. The track „Hop“ takes us on a journey to wide yellow oker cornfields where the melodies are floating around like the wind. Sometimes ruff, but always as deep as it gets, maybe like a slow motion ride on a dusty desert highway, that’s the mood of „Pianophil“. And finally he lets the journey end like in the cover at the atlantic ocean coast of france. Leaving us behind with a feeling of cosy happiness, rather than what the technical name of the track „Diaprojektion“ suggests. „Die Ruhe vor dem Strom“ is the third release of „Taschenrechnermusikant“ on modularfield. Feel free to check out the other EP´s called „Von Herzen“ and „Gurkenglas“. You can find them in our DCC Back catalogue on our web side. The cover artwork of this release was designed by our dear friend Sebastian Verfürth, who also took th
Tracklist:
1 Hop 4:00
2 Pianophil 4:27
3 Diaprojektion 5:36
A few days ago a email reached me with a new So I´m Jo tune and i am very glad to share “White Bullets” with you. This new piece of music is more ruff and sound a little bit more grown up than the other So I´m Jo tracks according on Entrevoir (download here for free). The picture above is taken at the last Parklife festival in Sydney Australia. Im looking forward to other new tunes and the final results of the Beat Magazin RMX Contest.
Anno Bergmann – The Free Tenderbytes
Label: Modularfield
Catalog#: MDF05
Format: File, MP3, 320
Country: Germany
Released: 26 Nov 2009
Genre: Electronic
Style: Pop, Disco, Deep House
additional guitar „sunshine“ & „my soul“ by david stieg
Padditional vocals „manga“ by annabelle haas
Mastered by thomas deutsch
After a long summer break we are back on track with our 19th release in label history. This time we have some minimalistic “pop” songs straight out of cologne. Anno Bergmann presents his “Free Tenderbytes”. A release full of harmonies, vocals, guitars and delayed drums filled with harmonies and deep atmosphere. Please follow this link for the free download and preview.
For the near future we are planing to release some fresh stuff from Taschenrechnermusikant and Breitbandkater. So watch out for a hot winter full of urbanelectronicmusic.
greetings from cologne
//Markus
Hardly a fistful of songs // about the things apart // blue scent of a lasting sun // shadow of a foolish heart //
So I´m Jo – Entrevoir Label: Modularfield Catalog#: MDF04 Format: File, MP3, 320 Country: Germany Released: 21 July 2009 Genre: Electronic Style: Disco, Electro, Synth-pop All Tracks Written and Produced by: Glen Cassidy (Vocals & Instruments) & Damon Cameron (Instruments) Cover Design by: Farbfundament
Sydney based electro-disco duo So I’m Jo are Damon Cameron and Glen Cassidy. The sound of this record is a result of many winters and summers trying things, summarised in a productive 2008 with these 6 tunes in particular. They represent adventure and discovery and the beauty of making mistakes.
Influenced as much by the bright fuzz of the disco as it is by the craft of song, Entrevoir is a chance to test, and learn, and then do it again. Using a not so secret recipe of ideas, machines, instruments and error, there is no mystery to this record, just the inspiration from so many different people to be themselves, So I’m Jo.
Tracklisting: 01. Taschenrechnermusikant – Es ist Musik
02. Melmono – Drawning
03. Uwe Hell – The Beautiful Agony
04. Miss Cmy – The Second Base
05. Sophie Tiedtke – Lost Gate
06. Breitbandkater – Plogoff
07. Oeler – Traumtänzer
08. Taschenrechnermusikant – Dubmin
09. Cheslo – Disko Melua
10. Phvsr – Metro
11. qi.mono – Licht in der Ferne
12. Breitbandkater – More
13. So I´m Jo – Static
14. Cie – Land in Sicht
15. Tisserand – Not Attainable
The first Track “Es ist Musik” by Taschenrechnermusikant is taken from our first release back in 2006. It’s all about “Music”. “Drawning” belongs to our first Album release by Melmono . “The Beautiful Agony” is a track never published before from our dear friend Uwe Hell. And yes it is his real name. The following Track “The Second Base” was taken from the first various artist compilation after the renaming from DCC-Records into Modularfield. Wonderful swedish sound by Miss Cmy. “The Lost Gate” is a very Atmospheric Track by Sophie Tiedtke taken from our 10th DCC-Records release. Upcoming is a UNIT I exclusive by Breitbandkater. “Plogoff” takes you to a journey into atmospheric deep house. The “Traumtänzer” is taken from the latest modularfield release by Oeler, who is known for his excellent percussion work as well. “Dubmin” is once again a track by Taschenrechnermusikant, taken from the “Gurkenglas EP”.We are looking forward to his upcoming release [MDF06] later this year. Step on the dancefloor with the next tune from Cheslo! It is taken from his energetic “Disko Melua EP”. Let’s get deep into the underground with Phvsr´s “Metro”! This tune comes from the first Modularfield release and belongs to “The Bassment”. “Licht in der Ferne” by qi.mono is a preview for the “Spätsommer Herbst EP” release, which will be the catalogue number MDF05 and is scheduled for late summer 2009. “More” is taken from the 13th DCC-Release by Breitbandkater and produced to take you back into the days, where house music was a feeling. “Static” is taken from the upcoming [MDF04] release by So I´m Jo from Australia, which is full of great electronic tunes and tasty vocal lines. Cie´s “Land in Sicht”, also taken from the various artist compilation [DCC2MDF] represents tracker music at its best. Last but not least is Tisserands track, “Not Attainable”, featuring great vocal Lines by Uwe Hell and 303 Acid Sound like back in the days. This time the great cover artwork comes from Farbfundament. He did an awesome job with an original footage by Muriel from Spain. He also designed our new and now final logo for Modularfield. We hope you enjoy the music and the new artwork as much as we did. Greetings from cologne Modularfield.
After spending a lot of time in his Studio by working at his skills as Producer and Live Artist now it is the right moment for Oeler to return with a new Distribution on his first Label Modularfield. Whereas his first Album DCC 04 Drum´n´Space had the conception to connect Four to the Floor and Breakbeat fluently as DJ Set he decided in early 2007 to concentrate on pure Four to the Floor Productions and his Techno Live Set. Meanwhile Oeler made a lot of Tracks between Minimal / Techno / Techhouse / House and Tribal and wants to introduce his favourite Songs of 2007 and his first Live Production. The first two Tracks will concentrate on the Dancefloor whereas Track 3 and 4 show a little bit more experimental Influences.
To fully integrate all releases after the name change into modularfield we decided to start a reissue of the old dcc-records back catalogue. The reissue part 1 contains the first 3 releases. For this project we included a new information pdf, re-taged all sound files and give them a embeded cover. The reisue starts with:
Taschenrechnermusikant - Von Herzen EP Uwe Hell - Get Naked EP Uwe Hell - Plattenbau EP
To download and prelistening just hit the picture above. A lightbox window will show up including the download link, a singel description of the releases and a link to the last.fm release-page.
PHVSR - Bassment Label: Modularfield Catalog#: MDF01 Format: File, MP3, EP, 320 kbps Country: Germany Released: 16 Feb 2009 Genre: Electronic Style: Techno, Tech House, Minimal Credits: Arranged By, Mixed By, Mastered By - Milan Scharf Artwork By [Design] - Sebastian Verfuerth Photography - Bastian Radermacher Notes: 44.1 kHz
Tracklisting: 1 Schnittgrößen (7:25) 2 Metro (6:00) Other [Ice Melting Sample] - Andreas_Bick Other [New York Train Sample] - Ben_Owen 3 Percuss (7:44) 4 Juno (6:58) Other [Layout, Several Samples] - Jan-Simon Krueger
This is the first release after DCC-Records has turned into modularfield. Phvsr takes us on a ride into the clubs with his deep and melodic interpretation of techno music. Follow him with this fine piece of electronic music. This release contains four tracks published under creative commons license. Also included is a six page booklet with some special impressions of cologne where this music was produced.
