Weird that they didn’t issue this with the killer flip. In my opinion that’s the better tune. Not too hard to source on original 12 inch.
Big dump of edits from the Universal Cave crew!
Beautiful new album of ambientish guitar from David Cane-Hardy on Chris Coco’s label, sublime stuff…
Love the bio
While he worked as a sound editor for DEFA (Deutsche Film-Aktiengesellschaft), Martin Zeichnete spent eleven years leading a secret, parallel life writing electronic music to train and inspire East Germany’s athletic elite.
Alongside project Kosmischer Läufer, Martin used unsupervised late night studio sessions to record his own, more personal work. Side one of this record contains a selection of these tracks.
‘Galaxis’ (1978) was originally written for Zeichnete’s short lived teenage band Die Weißen Tauben. Formed in Dresden in 1969 they disbanded soon after as they could not obtain a performance permission. Years later the somewhat contentious lyrics were replaced with this new synth arrangement to create a censor-evading instrumental.
The bucolic ‘Die weiße Rose’ (1977) was intended for the Jahre der Ruhigen Sonne project and is dedicated to the artist’s mother.
The brooding, mysterious ‘Finsternis’ (1979) evokes Martin’s childhood memory of a trip with his grandfather to Bulgaria where they observed the February 1961 solar eclipse. The music captures the unnerving atmosphere he felt as darkness fell, followed by the uncanny, dreamlike vision he experienced of strange objects falling to Earth as the light returned.
Back then, in the studio, every effort was made not to waste precious tape. Any reel with a couple of minutes left at the end would be used to record sound collages, test new instruments, or for sonic experimentation. The aptly titled ‘Staub’ (1974) is one of these ‘end songs’.
Side two contains the eleven-minute epic ‘Flug 164’ (1977). This mechanical motorik marvel sees Zeichnete back at the day job with one of his finest, most mesmerising running accompaniment tracks.
Zeit zum Laufen!
More dubby weirdness from Tutu Ta. Love it.
Nice. Loving his stuff.
New album from Mark Barrott;
'This is a story. A story of life and ultimately death. A story of two lives coming together through a chance meeting on an aeroplane and spending the next 20+ years together via the craziness of Berlin in the late 90’s to Northern Italy, South America and finally the tranquillity of rural ibiza.
The story of how life can change and be snatched away in the blink of an eye. But this is not a sad story, it’s a story of joy, love, grief and gratitude for what was. It is also my most ambitious album to date, conceived in the weeks after Sara’s death, as I worked with orchestras and choirs across Europe, trying to find the right sonic language to portray the Tsunami of emotions that were running through my body, mind and soul…’
NYP edit action from the don Tech Support.
The version of Tainted Love is
This is excellent @howler
Thanks @Guy - excited to finally have it out in the wild!
I second that, absolutely love this @howler
Very kind. Thank you
The Haddaway one is great
10 Years Of Rocksteady Disco Vol. 1 - lovely comp from Detroits best kept secret…
A beaut from Eli Escobar
Wicked tune @howler had no idea you made music. More please!
Thanks mate. Working on a few more bits!