The track Begruessungsgeld by the popgroup DAS is a collaboration of Gabi Delgado (DAF), Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Automat) & Dirk Dresselhaus (Schneider TM, Angel) for the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.
video clip by Gabi Delgado
Out now: BOOTLEG. THE FIRST RECORD MADE BY BOOTS AND LEGS. Re-Composed by Schneider TM & AUTOMAT.
BOOTLEG is a limited 12″ vinyl with AUTOMAT (Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber, Georg Zeitblom) and SCHNEIDER TM (Dirk Dresselhaus) turning scratched blank vinyls into music. This blank vinyl was taped to the floor during an AUTOMAT concert and the crowd danced on it. Played on turntables you only heard noise. Automat and Schneider TM then used the tracks to compose three unique tracks. BOOTLEG shows that you can turn dance into music and fans into musicians.
Limited 12” vinyl available at: Bureau B
Finally Out: REAL TIME [Reinhold Friedl & Dirk Dresselhaus] on BLUME.
3CD-Box with intense duo-soundworks by Dirk Dresselhaus aka Schneider TM and Reinhold Friedl, minimalistic & overwhelming !
Boomkat Review:
*** Rigid box containing 3 CDs with printed plastic dividers ***
Reinhold Friedl (zeitkratzer Ensemble) and Dirk Dresselhaus (Angel, Schneider TM) smack us sideways with this stunning 3CD boxset for Die Schachtel’s promising new sub-label, Blume. Approaching from divergent angles – Friedl uses entirely acoustic instrumentation, Dresselhaus uses electronics – they shape a mass of impurified prepared piano and sheet metal drones driven thru oscillators, spring reverb, modulators and pitch shifters to breathtaking effect. We’ve become very familiar with Friedl’s amazing solo LP, ‘Inside Piano’ over the last few years, and equally return to Dresselhaus’ Angel albums with Pan Sonic’s Ilpo Väisänen on a regular basis, and can safely say that this surpasses either project in terms of scale, focus and impact. Honestly, if you trust us or your instincts, this is an unmissable set for followers of heavy avant-garde noise composition. Can’t wait to fully immerse in this one…
> Der Nippel Mobilee < is part of Doofe Musik Festival at Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt in Berlin from 8th – 11th of May 2014.
A few years ago I (Michael Beckett, aka kptmichigan) was attempting to strip the paint off of a cheap, cherry red Epiphone SG and annoyed by the slow progress, I decided to see if an angle grinder would speed things up. It did. So much so in fact, that I very quickly had a big dent in the neck of the SG.
This gave birth to the idea that it may be fun to play / destroy a guitar using an angle grinder, so I asked Kassel based film maker Jan Fuchs if he would be up for collaborating. We wanted to keep things as cheap as possible (ie. well under €50) so I built a bariton lap steel guitar out of a woodworm ridden plank and bits and bobs found in the cellar.
The guitar was open tuned and the sound, which afterwards was filtered and processed slightly to bring out the harmonic content, recorded via the pick up only.
The resulting 180 minute film is made up of multiple 12 minute loops which unnoticingly pulsate backwards and forwards, blurring beggining and end and soundtracked by the subdued drone of the angle grinder grinding away at the wood and metal of the lap steel in real time.
