Fr, 14.03.2014, 19:00 Uhr

Raster-Noton. meets Motorschiff Stubnitz

live: Senking (Köln) Outstanding long-player for all fans of darkside post-techno sound design: Raster Noton's bleakest bot Jens Massel aka Senking follows the trajectory of his 'List' and 'Pong' classics into the abyssal depths of 'Capsize Recovery'; a tortuous journey through eight intense, lightless levels of droning bass, buffeting synthlines and coruscating beats emulating the effect of being locked in a Russian submersible/spacecraft 20000 leagues below/above the sea and far from land. The whole album was recorded sans computer, which makes the sense of spatial dynamic even more remarkable, working in a simulated space somewhere between the illusory architextures of Raime & Powell, and the vast electro-acoustic parameters of Emptyset. (Boomkat) https://soundcloud.com/rasternoton/senking-capsize-recovery-tiefenstop live: Grischa Lichtenberger (Berlin) Somewhere around the first ten minutes of the album I do a double take. Wait a second… This is not the Grischa Lichtenberger that I know. These are not the staple Raster-Noton technoid sounds, designed in a pristine German studio, free of organism and dust. This is so much more than I initially expected, and when each of the 21 tracks ends, I quietly curse under my breath for a longer exploration of each theme! After a few rotations of the album, I post the following comment on my social networking outlets – “Move over, Autechre… Grischa Lichtenberger is in the house!” And yes, it causes quite a stir. Defenders of good ol’ Autechre stand up to hold on to the pedestal, refusing for the newcomers to come in! (Headphonecommute) https://soundcloud.com/pdis_inpartmaint/grischa-lichtenberger-and-iv