90% WASSER /// Catalogue

90%WASSER - REGULAR DISCOGRAPHY 2001 – 2005

WCD 001	Column One - 'Electric Pleasure'
WCD 002	V.A. - '90%Wasser Artists Play...'
WCD 003	V.A. - 'Archive I'
WCD 004	Column One - 'Electric Light'
WCD 005	Column One - 'The Audience Is Sleeping'
WCD 006	Column One - 'Dream Time' (normal edition)
WCD 007	Marc Wannabe- 'Things Don't Last Very Long'
WCD 008	Column One - 'Dream Time' (special edition)
WCD 009	Urk Giten/Stea Andreasson/Jürgen Eckloff - 'War Has Come Home'

WCD 00A	V.A. - 'The Spears Muscle'
WCD 00B	Column One - 'Records'

WVINYL001	Fransisco López - 'untitled single piece 5'
WVINYL002	Frieder Butzmann - 'Vertrauensmann des Volkes'
WVINYL003	Jürgen Eckloff - 'Zwei Sinterflaschen in Wechselschaltung'
WVINYL003x	Jürgen Eckloff - 'Sinterflaschen - Box'
WVINYL004	Kein Zweiter - 'Muskeln und Kraft = Überlegenheit'
WVINYL005	Column One - 'Sometimes...'
WVINYL006	Column One / Ditterich von Euler Donnersperg - 'Die Truhe im Fluß'
WVINYL007	Column One - 'La Source De La Citation N´Pas Connue'
WVINYL008	Marc Wannabe - 'Alte Faltige Roboter'
WVINYL009	Hermann Bohlen - 'Sag doch auch mal was! oder Das Luxurieren der Bastarde'
WVINYL010	Column One - 'Preset Training'
WVINYL011	MOWE - 'Humsibum'
WVINYL012	Chen Yi- 'The 1978-1983'

WVIDEO001	Column One - 'Braunserver'

WCD 001
COLUMN ONE
"ELECTRIC PLEASURE"
CD, 32 pages booklet (first edition only)
release-date: November 2001

In Electric Pleasure, the analog-bubbling concepts of the future in the 50's & 60's, equipped with vocoder voices and in a mega-futuristic / surrealistic environment, combine with today's digital, dust-free, and distorted image of the future which does not deviate from scientifically fathomable reality by one macro-millimeter. The scenery is created by a multitude of sound projections & transports the listener directly into the center of the future. ...computer-generated life forms & locations from the past future, meet reanimated electronic sounds & beats, virtual robot talk shows & fictional Sci-Fi orchestras.
note: limited edition "Electric Pleasure" pictureLP by Column One included completely different material

Tracklist:

01. No Limits To The Imagination (MP3)
02. Don't Move The Iron-Feet In Time
03. Die Welt dreht sich im Kreis
04. Electric Bones (excerpt MP3)
05. Electric Voices
06. Nacht aus Stahl
07. Re-Start To Move
08. Im Zentrum der Zeit
09. Voice Test
10. MZ4 / Alpha Ville
11. Die Stimmen des Radios
12. Receiver
13. Die Stimme der Energie / Electric Pleasure P.6

WCD 002
VARIOUS ARTISTS
"90%WASSER ARTISTS PLAY..."
CD
release-date: December 2001

Tracklist:

01. Mimetic Fake vs Column One -- Hasel 43
02. Column One -- Radiowellen (excerpt MP3)
03. Marc Wannabe feat. Jürgen Ploog -- Alte Faltige Roboter (excerpt MP3)
04. Jürgen Ploog/Andrew Loadman -- (Fragment)
05. Scimox -- Re-Gas (MP3)
06. Column One -- White Errors - Language
07. M.O.W.E. -- Vom Leben Ins Tod
08. The Excellent Listener -- Happy Anniversary
09. Rechenzentrum vs Column One -- Art To Dance
10. Andrew Loadman -- Electronic Stores
11. Le Bach - Würfelkanon
12. Jürgen Eckloff -- Die Sonnenleier (excerpt MP3)
13. Francisco López -- Untitled Single Piece 5 pt. 2 (excerpt MP3)
14. Andrew Loadman -- White Rabbit
15. Afanassi Viebeg vs Andrew Loadman -- Schweiz 99
16. Frieder Butzmann/Genesis P-Orridge -- Tales Of Death

WVIDEO 001
COLUMN ONE
”BRAUNSERVER”
VIDEO, VHS, 30min
release-date: December 2001

Braunserver is organised by a dramaturgy which is structured by the single situations used. The film experiments with the scenic patterns of social conditioning and simulated needs. To serve these ends, the method of Granular Synthesis is applied. It enables the fragmentation of a sequence to its smallest parts - the single frame. The resulting frames are reassembled and thus a new alienated clone is created out of the original material. A flood of audio-visual de-fragmentation of various information layers uses as its sources almost exclusively TV commercials.
One can differentiate between two modes of viewing Braunserver :
Mode 1 is a self-reflexive representation of the film medium, focussing on its functional principle of unexhaustive fragmentary and reproductive possibilities. Thus, playing with smallest particles of information become possible constituting various patterns in space and rhythm. Previously unknown levels of meaning can be disclosed, that have been functioning as a surface for the projection of traditional and conventional listening and viewing habits
Mode 2 involves thematizing the social constructs of values, needs, desires and emotional categories.
In this sense publicity can be understood as social studies that offer an interactive platform of socio-cultural communication, where producers and consumers can be seen as identical copies of each other.

(excerpt MPG)

WCD 004
COLUMN ONE
"ELECTRIC LIGHT"
CD, 12 pages booklet
release-date: January 2002
remixes from the column one CD "ELECTRIC PLEASURE"

Tracklist:

01. Column One -- See The Sign
02. Silksaw -- Barbarian´s Voice
03. Frieder Butzmann -- Ep11
04. Marc Wannabe -- Hört auf mit Physik!
05. Column One -- Die Welt sich kraftvoll dreht
06. Column One -- Radiowellen (excerpt MP3)
07. Mimetic Fake -- Electric Voices (mimetic r-mix)
08. Rechenzentrum -- Art To Dance
09. Rechenzentrum -- Art To Dance reverse
10. Column One -- Das Produkt dieser Logik
11. D.v.Euler-Donnersperg -- Das Süffelfläschen des kleinen Fritz
12. CoeUR y NâGL -- L'esprit par le coeur-360°
13. Marc Wannabe -- Entartet
14. Column One -- Summende Nummern
15. Afanassi Viebeg -- Die Welt elektrisch kreist (excerpt MP3)
16. M.O.W.E. -- (Electric Light) ...Will Shining Bright

WVINYL 002
FRIEDER BUTZMANN
"VERTRAUENSMANN DES VOLKES"
1st ed. : LP, limited edition of 330 numbered copies, blue vinyl, insert
release-date: January 2002
2nd ed.: LP, limited edition of 150 numbered copies, white vinyl, insert
release-date: January 2003

featuring: GENESIS P-ORRIDGE (first recording of "Just Drifting"/"Tales of Death"), Axel Hacke (Einstürzende Neubauten), Angelika Maisch, Hideto, Christian Kneisel

Christian Bohn wrote (1982): "ZIVILISATION" is his records centrepiece, a perfect example of his dismantling process (to re-build): a bleak electronic storm blows barely discernibly in the distance, and, to the remorseless swing of hammer on steel, Butzmann sourly declaims against the cheapening and decay of the human spirit. The mood is taken up on the final tracks collaboration with Genesis P-Orridge, who recites in a resigned monotone the self-explanatory "JUST DRIFTING / TALES OF DEATH" – "Every time you feel a little joy / Somebody stamps on it" – to a shrivelling mix of grey atmospherics and a nervous tic... ...and that same mood is more localised on the most cutting song, " SADISMUS UND KONKURRENZ", which pinpoints the source of the spiritual malaise, when Butzmann duets with composer Angelika Maisch (in a fabulously uneven croon) such lines as: "Competition and sadism / That is the german mechanism". Butzmanns points are made with both bitterness and concern, through methods guaranteed to unsettle listeners without alienating to the point of turning off. Although his materials are often nagging noises, occasionally clumsily arranged, the dramas he constructs from them are conventionally approachable, if for no other reason than that they´re fired by his humanist spirit. Don´t hold back.

Tracklist:

01. Geflüster
02. Arbeitslied
03. Die kleinen Tiere (MP3)
04. Ballo Ballo
05. New Life
06. Hibakuschas
07. Verletzter Buddha
08. Sadismus & Konkurrenz
09. Tonights Musik (für K U)
10. Zivilisation
11. CFMC
12. Just Drifting / Tales Of Death

WVINYL 001
FRANSISCO LÒPEZ
"UNTITLED SINGLE PIECE 5"
7inch, limited edition of 500 copies, white vinyl
release date: January 2002

Number 5 in the series & Fransisco López walks the untitled path consistent. All the sonic power & intensity that Mr. López is wellknown for, compressed into 2 intense pieces of sound.

part 2 (excerpt MP3)

WCD 00A
VARIOUS ARTISTS
”THE SPEARS MUSCLE”
2xCD-R, limited edition of 33 copies
release date: March 2002

Britney Spears reworked by: Kein Babel, Marc Wannabe, Scimox, Column One, MOWE, Afanassi Viebeg, Black Jewish Gays, P.H.Error, SWY, Synthia & Marek Wantzeck, Andrew Loadman, Target Marked Research.
Released for the "Asiatischer Muskel" event on 22.03.2002 at Kaffee Burger / Berlin.

further info...

WCD 00B
COLUMN ONE
”RECORDS”
CD-R, limited edition of 20 copies
release date: October 2002

Monotone & technoid release based mainly on vinyl scratches.
Released exclusively for the COLUMN ONE - presence at "Argos Festival" 26.10.2002, Brussels/Belgium.

excerpt 1 (MP3)

excerpt 2 (MP3)

WVINYL 006
COLUMN ONE / DITTERICH VON EULER-DONNERSPERG
"DIE TRUHE IM FLUSS"
LP, limited edition of 500 numbered copies
release date: December 2002

side one:
Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg
1. Das Süffelfläschchen des kleinen Fritz (MP3)
2. Der Trostgnattel des kleinen Fritz
3. Der Gnattelsack des kleinen Fritz
4. Die Bettpfanne des kleinen Fritz
all tracks by Ditterich Von Euler-Donnersperg, under the use of basic compositions by Column One. produced 2002, Hamburg.

side two:
Column one
1-4. Die Truhe im Fluss #1-4 (excerpt MP3)
all tracks by Column One, under the use of basic compositions by György Ligeti & words by Naomi Klein. produced 2001-2002, Berlin.

WCD 005/PLUS 064
COLUMN ONE
"THE AUDIENCE IS SLEEPING..."
Digipack-CD
release date: December 2002 (in collaboration with Moloko Plus)

.the new work by column one follows their critically acclaimed 2001 album electric pleasure. the berlin-based disinformation collective & co-founders of the label platform 90%wasser mix minimal electronic beats with well-balanced micro-compositions, voice-cut-up´s & field recordings. .thus, sampling & fragmentation form the basis of this synthesis, but on second thought it unfolds its primary elements clearly, which are then being reconstructed in the listener´s brain. .tiny little noise-particles plough through the otherwise almost dancefloor-compatible compositions & tear up structures even before they enter the audible spectrum.
.a new space is created in which the white noise of a bad telephone connection mates with the voice of björk & texts of naomi klein vibrate through the airwaves recited by a stephen hawking-ish voice: they prefer coke to tea, nikes to sandals, mtv to cd-players, chicken mcnuggets to rice, macintosh to pc, playstation to message, young girls to china & credit carts to cash (new world teen study.). .rhythms autodisrupt and attack the expectable parameters of the 4/4-beat with their kinetic inaccuracy. .crispy and wide dub spheres start pumping in and this is when the deep berlin style becomes impossible to resist.
the audience is sleeping is the result of various collaborations between column one & other renowned berlin artists.
.the recording features contributions by rechenzentrum (kitty-yo, mille plateaux, shitkatapult, 90%wasser), marc wannabe (90%wasser), public sphere (90%wasser), mimetic (moloko plus, parametric, 90%wasser).

Tracklist:

01. Flohturm (feat. Rechenzentrum)
02. Eine Fensterscheibe wird eingeschlagen
03. Skaerhap (feat. Public Sphere)
04. New World Teen Study
05. Foulé (feat. B.) (excerpt MP3)
06. Molton
07. Playstation To Young Girls
08. ...China (feat. Rechenzentrum)
09. Hout (feat. Marc Wannabe)
10. Wernher´s Download
11. Per
12. Telefon
13. Ich bin nicht da... (feat. Rechenzentrum) (excerpt MP3)

WVINYL 008
MARC WANNABE
"ALTE FALTIGE ROBOTER"
LP
release date: December 2002

"Alte faltige Roboter" (old pleated robots) is a collection of Marek Wantzécks ´01-´02 homerecorded collaboration-works. It features recurrent themes: a figure at a typewriter who may/may not be composing/dreaming the beat; slow cavortings by would-be mythopoetic figures (ie old naked robots); flames; dunes; a woman swinging her skirt; a couple dancing and lots of robed and masked movers.
And with a running time that needs two vinyl sides, it´s just not possible to keep your mind from wandering out to make a baloney sandwich.

Tracklist:

side one:
1. Schön geil (feat. Molly Luft)
2. Innocent But Guilty (vs. Britney Spears)
3. Alte faltige Roboter (feat. Jürgen Ploog) (excerpt MP3)

side two:
4. Ja Ja (excerpt MP3)
5. Muusk-oelh (feat. R.Schalinski & A.Loadmann)
6. It´s Like A Coca-Cola

WVINYL 009
HERMANN BOHLEN
"SAG DOCH AUCH MAL WAS! ODER DAS LUXURIEREN DER BASTARDE"
LP, limited edition of 500 copies
release date: September 2003

Live-Mitschnitte aus den Wohnzimmern der 60er Jahre. Abgestaubt und montiert von Hermann Bohlen

Deutschland, Ende der sechziger Jahre: Der Bohrmaschine dicht auf den Fersen, strebt die Verbreitung des Tonbands ihrem Höhepunkt zu. Für eine gewisse Zeit ist es die beliebteste Technik, die dokumentarische Wut auszutoben und die ersten Worte der lieben Kleinen, ihre putzigen Äußerungen und Konversationen für alle Ewigkeit aufzubewahren. Erstmal müssen sie jedoch zum Sprechen gebracht werden. Da helfen nur Geduld und ständige Aufmunterung, gerade bei so zugeknöpften Entertainern wie Klein-Karen aus Kanada: Sag doch auch mal was! Notfalls kräftig anbrüllen: Nun gib schon mal'n Ton von dir!!! Schließlich fangen sie sogar an zu singen. Oh Baby-Baby Kacke-Kacke! Manchmal hilft aber auch gar nichts, das blöde Kind verweigert die richtige Aussprache des Wortes "Bürgermeisterei": Ach, jetzt biste Dummerchen! Unterdessen bedient sich der Erwachsene selbst der Apparatur. Er spricht sein Tagebuch auf Band. Kurz mußten wir nochmal umkehren, weil wir die Wolldecke vergessen hatten. Mitschnitte interessanter Sendungen über das Luxurieren der Bastarde oder Gefahren des Pettings werden angefertigt, der Stand der eigenen Gesangskunst dokumentiert. Mein Bruder ist nazifiziert, meine Schwester ist nazifiziert, und nun sind wir alle entnazifiziert. Bevor Oma-Hamburg stirbt, hat sie immerhin eine Stimmprobe hinterlassen, so können wir jetzt wenigstens etwas in Erinnerungen schwelgen. Mit den siebziger Jahren schwenkt der Versuch, die Momente des Privaten festzuhalten, um auf Super-8, und die Bänder und Maschinen wandern auf den Dachboden. Via Entrümpelung landen sie so nach und nach auf den Flohmärkten, wo man sie nur noch aufzusammeln braucht. Aus diesem Material wurde ein Stück montiert, in dem sich die ekelhaftesten und schönsten Funde zu einem Sittengemälde jener Zeit fügen. '64-'70 privat. Mit etwas Glück werden Sie sich selbst hören...

excerpt 1 (MP3)

excerpt 2 (MP3)

WVINYL 007
COLUMN ONE
"LA SOURCE DE LA CITATION N’EST PAS CONNUE"
1st ed. : LP, limited edition of 60 copies in individual handmade sleeves
release-date: December 2003
2nd ed.: LP, limited edition of 290 copies in normal sleeve
release-date: December 2003

An voyage through the labyrinthine mind of Column One... ...a surreal, organic sound projection...

”Wahre” Kunst ist unschön! - “Schöne” Kunst ist unwahr!

For the realization of this project column one were:
Andrew Loadman, Jürgen Eckloff, Eyn Lump, Robert Schalinski, Tom Platt

Tracklist:

side one:
1. La Source De La Citation N´Pas Connue (expert MP3)
2. Infiniti Paralleli

side two:
3. Original mit Untertitel (excerpt MP3)

watch some of the handmade sleeves here

WVINYL 003
JÜRGEN ECKLOFF
"ZWEI SINTERLASCHEN IN WECHSELSCHALTUNG"
LP, limited edition of 280 copies
release date: February 2004

A longplayer that features everything that was left. 38 uncut minutes playing, a vast quantity of various bits and different events. "I use sound phenomena as acoustic basis!" explains the author. Furthermore he tells us that "events of highest artistic origin are juxtaposed with sometimes muffled and twisted results of sonorous cuttings." A rather short but quite precise clarification that doesn't need to be commented further. Only the compatibility of this analogue rotating medium should be mentioned. Buying this medium does not interfere with criminal law.
Condition: a bit of knowledge and a playback device.

excerpt one (MP3)

excerpt two (MP3)

WVINYL 010
COLUMN ONE
"PRESET TRAINING"
10inch, limited edition of 500 copies
release date: February 2004

“PRESET TRAINING” is a selection of unreleased tracks originally produced for “THE AUDIENCE IS SLEEPING…CD”
…minimal electronic beats with well-balanced micro-compositions & field recordings. .thus, sampling & fragmentation form the basis of this synthesis, but on second thought it unfolds its primary elements clearly, which are then being reconstructed in the listener´s brain. .tiny little noise-particles plough through the otherwise almost dancefloor-compatible compositions & tear up structures even before they enter the audible spectrum.

Tracklist:

side one:
1. Go Uite Than - Four (MP3)
2. Koulé Estrut
3. Haseled

side two:
4. Die schlafende Haselnuss
5. Beze Lowcz Li (excerpt MP3)
6. Die stille Fotografie

WVINYL 005 / LAUB 008
COLUMN ONE
"SOMETIMES..."
7inch, limited 300 copies, inlay

release date: May 2005

Collaboration between Laub Records & 90%Wasser
Fourth part in the ongoing romantic-series...
A cover-version of German´s heartbraker no.1 Roland Kaiser on side a and three shorter pieces on side b. an organic sidewalk into a red-lighted forest at the end of romantic perseption...

Tracklist:

side one:
1. Manchmal möcht' ich schon mit dir

side two:
2. Der Schrei der Liebenden 1
3. Der Schrei der Liebenden 2
4. Der Schrei der Liebenden 3 (MP3)

WCD 003
VARIOUS ARTISTS
"ARCHIVE I"
book&CD
release date: May 2005

Including a book (100 pages) & CD with unreleased material by
Etant Donnés, Stilluppsteypa, D. v. Euler-Donnersperg, Jürgen Eckloff, Hermann Bohlen, Column One, Mimetic, Stea Andreasson, Dave Phillips, Jürgen Ploog, Frieder Butzmann, ZSG etc.. (compiled by R.Schalinski of Column One)

CD: a claustrophobic travel from Etant Donnés motornoise, Stilluppsteypa's drones, Dave Phillips fieldrecordings ...through the paranoid cut-up's of Stea Andreasson (MOWE) & Jürgen Ploog... (all unreleased material)
the 'Archive' - parts contain material somewhere in and around the Sibirische Zelle/Berlin.

Book: the re-release of the magazine 'Warten I', full colour & b/w, incl. Brion Gysin, W.S.Burroughs, J.Ploog, H.R.Giger, Survival Research Laboratories, Dead Chickens, Kathy Acker etc. etc.

...some pictures from the book...

Tracklist:

01. Archive
02. Archive
03. Stillupsteypa -- 'untitled' (MP3 excerpt)
04. Ditterich von Euler-Donnersperg -- 'Die Mietfussmatte des kleinen Fritz'
05. Juergen Eckloff -- 'Manimal'
06. Archive
07. Hermann Bohlen/Column One -- 'Babab Baabab' (MP3 excerpt)
08. Column One/Mimetic/Phil von -- 'The Dwarf'
09. Etant Donnes -- 'Dog's Attack'
10. Archive
11. Archive
12. Archive
13. Stea Andreasson -- 'Miniatur III' (extract) (MP3 excerpt)
14. Stea Andreasson -- 'Miniatur X' (extract)
15. Dave Phillips/Schimpfluch Commune Int. -- 'Dogs'
16. Juergen Ploog/Column One - 'Tote Zone I'
17. Juergen Ploog/Column One - 'Tote Zone II'
18. Stea Andreasson -- 'Miniatur X' (extract)
19. Sibirische Zelle -- 'Knechte des Tourismus'
20. Frieder Butzmann -- 'Sassa'
21. Father Noack -- 'No TV'
22. Archive
23: Za Ziodma Gora -- 'Odejscie Golema' (Golems Departure)

WVINYL 011
MOWE
"HUMSIBUM"
LP, limited 300 copies [incl.100 copies with handmade covers]

release date: May 2005

The first full length album of MOWE is a 50 minute collage of fieldrecordings, accoustic & electronic instruments combined with different materials of the ether.
For this release mowe were Stea Andreasson & Rotraut Z (Column One, Sibirische Zelle)
(MOWE also apeared on "Electric Light" & "90% Wasser Artists play...")

Rotraut kam den Hang herunter gelaufen. Ihre Glieder waren zweifelsohne voller Gedanken an den Abstieg. Sie hielt eine kleine Tochter in ihren Armen, das Kind sanft gefasst, als wäre es nur in tiefem Schlaf. Für einen kleinen Moment erinnerte der Anblick ihrer Gesichter an die faltigen Hände des Vaters. Hände, mit denen er die Träume der Familie von einem zum anderen zu tragen pflegte, wie es üblich war. Und dann aus dem Haus…Oft waren wir ihm so begegnet, und fast schien es, als käme er uns auch heute entgegen, in der Dämmerung, durch die wir heimwärts schlichen.

90%Wasser veröffentlicht mit 'Humsibum' erstmals eine Vertonung des verträumten Geschehens. Da A.Horstsson, einer der Väter von MOWE, im Verlaufe der Realisierung an seinen Ohren erkrankte (und mittlerweile fast gänzlich gehörlos wirkt), beileibe kein einfaches Unterfangen... Um sein Schauen und Tasten zu erleichtern, erscheint 'Humsibum' als Vinyl-LP.

sample (MP3)

watch some of the handmade sleeves here

WVINYL 003x
JÜRGEN ECKLOFF
"SINTERFLASCHEN - BOX"
LP+7inch+Inlays in handmade box; Ltd. 14 copies

release date: June 2005

The box contains the "Zwei Sinterflaschen in Wechselschaltung" LP & the "Kompositionen ohne Grund" 7inch. Beside two inserts (one text + one
collage by J.Eckloff) and a bit more... Everything in a handmade box - each one is unique. Limited to 14 copies.

WCD 006
COLUMN ONE
"DREAM TIME"
CD with two booklets in a large folder

release date: October 2005

The sun is shining and the sky is bright blue above the laughing children.
Noses with freckles, little princesses and big robbers have gathered for picture. The boys and girls are wearing their underwear in sweet poses and present themselves so nicely before grandmother, mommy and daddy that the old underwear will have to be thrown away. How cute!
"Dream Time", the dreamy title of this advert for children's underwear gives this scene its friendly atmosphere and no cloud is to be seen on the horizon. The little children are so perfectly integrated in the concept of western humans, they seem to understand the game that they are playing in the underwear section of the mailorder catalogue. Not even at second glance he picture is disrupting its perfect surface.

Thus began the collecting, cutting, transforming, reassembling of these materials, that penetrate our everyday life. So many people are involved in its creation, reproduction, cleaning and protection. The materials here collected are (almost) exclusively materials of major media (slogans, pictures, TV-materials), a direct expression and language of our everyday surroundings. Non of the materials come from closed circuits. They were collected while having breakfast, shopping or getting the mail, while driving or during holidays, before falling asleep or during sleep. These materials are a depiction of a concious act and state, not an accident and not an empty form written on a wall.

This project is a mirror and a distorted anthology of the 10 years of
Column One`s existence. The materials are biographic snapshots and
testimonials of the internal struggle with the "mediated", with this hallucination.

Tracklist:

01. The Girl Who Had Everything. part 1
02. Urine (excerpt mp3)
03. Fat Finger
04. Chiho Aoki
05. Babette
06. Janine
07. Frauen ohne Ende
08. The Girl Who Had Everything. part 2
09. Der Jäger (excerpt mp3)
10. Temporary relief is Not enough!
11. Neger
12. The Girl Who Had Everything. part 3 (mp3)
13. Wie kleine Motorflieger sausen 100 Gedanken durch Ivonnes Kopf!

review (english)

WCD 007/PLUS 068
MARC WANNABE
"THINGS DON'T LAST VERY LONG"
digipack-CD

release date: October 2005

After 3 years the third rumbling album by Marc Wannabe finally is released!
A journey through 12 crackling & grooving tracks, based mainly on the sounding sputum of throat & mouth.
60 minutes of straight & oblique rhythms, pulsating basses & energetic transfers.
Old friends showing up, leaving breathes, noises & voices, and also the well known old pleated robots can be found somewhere...
Marek Wantzéck (aka Marc Wannabe) explains the conceptual background of this album:
“How to handle that professional music as we know it?
Well, the construction, you see, really made me start to use situations and transistors radios. And that became an image of the piece what was happening around me. And the title really came after the piece and is like a silent protest. So there was a strong connection there with things don´t last very long.”
That may answering a lot – but not everything. To get the full spectrum of possible answers: Listen to this CD!

Tracklist:

01. rattle the pig
02. rydike (MP3)
03. silek
04. klatt
05. the grey ash of voice
06. kulk_limit
07. white concept
08. der alte (feat. Stea Andreasson) (excerpt MP3)
09. soft & sweet (feat. Column One)
10. professional music today
11. huley
12. gurkensteiger

WCD 008
COLUMN ONE
"DREAM TIME"
special edition; Ltd. 75

release date: October 2005

Contains the normal edition of WCD006, a CD-R with unreleased 'Dream Time' - material & a recycled LP plus several inserts. Comes in LP - sleeve.
Limited to 75 handnumbered copies.

WCD 009
URK GITEN/STEA ANDREASSON/JÜRGEN ECKLOFF
"WAR HAS COME HOME"
book + CD; Ltd. 300

release date: January 2006

On September 11, 2001, an American journalist wrote a letter to his child’s soccer coach who had not cancelled practice that day because he wanted to
offer a bit normality for the children on this day:

“Dear colleague,

I know that you meant well and wanted to show your sympathy. But it could be that this just isn’t possible for a European. There is more at stake here than just mourning for the victims and their families. What happened today has completely shaken our national self understanding.

We Americans find ourselves in a collective stake of shock. Our self understanding as the secure and final bastion of freedom and democracy is gone. The American way of life is now a thing of the past.

Don’t be angry, but in moments such as these one doesn’t play soccer with children, one takes time alone to reflect.”

The German translation of this letter (published in the “Berliner Zeitung” on 9/13/2001) was the basis for a book of collages by Urk Giten.

Jürgen Eckloff and Stea Andreasson collected audio material from the media between 2001 and 2004, which dealt with September 11 and subsequent events that heavily influenced the collective consciousness. The result is a very intensive Audio-Collage that shows the shock, the hysteria and the preparation for (a) new war(s) after September 11.

sample (MP3)

some pictures from the book

WVINYL 012
CHEN YI
"THE 1978-1983"
LP

release date: July 2006

The sound of CHEN YI is rough & brutal... electronic music, soundcollages
that reminds to Throbbing Gristle or (early)SPK aswell as electro-pop-tracks
& songs like early Cabaret Voltaire, Chris & Cosey, Severed Heads...
The Chen Yi Commune was founded in 1978 by about 20 women & men from London. The aim of the commune was to create a closed subsystem, a kind of subsociety and to narrow down its contact to the outside world only on very few specific actions.
The Chen Yi commune never was interested in producing records, some of the members even refused any form of release whatsoever. In 1981 one member released a tape edition called “Hanging³. The title referred to the first 3 english witches who were hanged in Chelmsford, where the commune house was located. This cassette was sent to various record companies. John Peel saw a potential in Chen Yi which led to a recording contract in 1982/83 with CBS. About 7 tracks were produced for the first Chen Yi LP... ...More couldn't be finalised, because CBS suddenly pulled out of the contract. This left unfinished tapes of an LP.
The material on this LP contains completely finished song-material aswell as
rough session-recordings using early electronic studio equipment.

Tracklist:

side one:
1. Stand Up - 1981
2. Hail - 1982 (MP3 excerpt)
3. Comune #17.3.1979
4. Rug - 1982 (MP3 excerpt)
5. War Game - 1983
6. Chensession #6.4.1978
7. Tape - 1979/80
8. Honey Monkey - 1980

side two:
9. Rounder - 1981/82 (MP3 excerpt)
10. Honey Money - 1982 (MP3 excerpt)
11 . The - 1979
12. Chensession #20.5.1979 (MP3)
13. Rape - 1981/82 (MP3 excerpt)
14. Potatoheads #21.3.1980

-> press-release + photos

WVINYL 004
KEIN ZWEITER
"MUSKELN UND KRAFT = ÜBERLEGENHEIT"
LP

release date: July 2006

first album by this berlin-based project. gort klüht & klaus-helene ramp producing a weird mixture out of somehow "old-school" electro, ndw-like minimalism..... and of course lyrics with the sense for the very important...

Tracklist:

side one:
1. Der Nachbar
2. Die Braune
3. 87.000 Kastraten (MP3 excerpt)
4. Sehen ist erleben
5. Arbeit (MP3 excerpt)

side two:
6 . Entpann Dich!
7 . Spann an! (MP3)
8 . Die Gazelle
9 . Jungs aus Zucker (MP3 excerpt)