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OUT: album 'Elevator Music' by Apollo Brown

'Elevator Music' is a deceptively simple, profound experience—a sonic metaphor for life’s blend of elegance and imperfection. It captures the sensation of moving seamlessly through moments of reflection, whether nostalgic or fleeting, underscoring them with a soundtrack that is as poignant as it is unassuming. Each note feels like the slow, deliberate sip of boxed wine from a plastic cup: unpretentious but evocative, an ode to savoring the ordinary.

Much like a solitary train ride through the snow-covered Alps, the album evokes a sense of both movement and introspection, framing life's highs and lows in stark contrast. Its deliberate pacing and atmospheric compositions offer listeners a space to think, remember, or even forget. Yet, what it insists upon most fervently is feeling—viscerally, deeply, unavoidably.

This is music not just to listen to, but to live with. Press play, let the soundtrack blend into your day, and allow 'Elevator Music' to underscore life’s quiet triumphs and bittersweet reveries. It’s not just an album—it’s a reflective companion, perfectly attuned to the rhythm of existence.

This is music to live to.

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Clouds Hill x Freibank Writing Camp

3 days, 12 writer, topliner and producer and a lot of stunning gear: we had a wonderful writing camp with our friends from Clouds Hill! Expact to hear some of the outcome very soon! 

OUT: book 'Eine mögliche Geschichte der deutschen Popmusik' by Luksan Wunder

The multi-award-winning comedy collective Luksan Wunder (German Cabaret Award 2023) have written another new book. ‘Eine mögliche Geschichte der deutschen Popmusik (A Possible History of German Pop Music)’ describes the most important songs and artists of German pop music from 1965 to 2030 - including songs, music videos and lots of pictures. It's possible that Luksan Wunder invented all these artists and made the songs himself...

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new signing: Carina Madsius

Berlin-based songwriter, producer and electronic artist Zylva is a highly respected collaborator and musician who pursued a career as a classical pianist before releasing her own music and working as a songwriter and producer. She has increasingly enjoyed contributing to toplines and instrumentals. As well as being a professionally trained classical and jazz pianist, she plays electric bass and is familiar with analogue synthesizers, always trying to add atmosphere and richness to a track. She has worked with many acclaimed artists and institutions such as Lune, Tom Gregory, Sophia Süßmilch, ZDF (score music), Ralph Heidel (producer of Casper, K.I.Z., Apsilon), S. Fidelity, Zouj, Philo Tsoungui, HKW Berlin and releases her own music on the internally praised left-field labels Squama Recordings and Public Possession. As a live act, she is represented by Karsten Jahnke.

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OUT: album 'It's Hard To Be A Blizzard' by Juli Gilde

The first evening at the fair, the rollercoaster rollercoaster rides between candyfloss and and scary cabinet, flashing towards the starry sky, people shouting, laughing, throwing colourful balls balls at aluminium cans. And in the middle of it all person in her early 20s who is aware of every of this scenery and much more. Who sees and hears and sniffs and has the feeling of wanting to be to want to be everything at the same time. To have to be. Loud and quiet, fragile, exhilarated and full of mental leaps into a distant running into a distant future. ‘it's hard to be a blizzard’ - it's exhausting to be someone someone who has never existed and then to be as well as possible.

That or something like that would probably be the setting and mood of the debut album of indie artist Juli Gilde. The melancholy and dark blue, calm restraint of her first two EPs have disappeared. Instead, this is a roaring indie pop record that is louder, bigger and bolder than anything the Berlin-based artist has released so far. In light green, blue, pink, yellow and snow-white, July's songs are radiant, diverse, chaotic and diverse, chaotic and without a common thread. And yet, despite all the hustle and bustle in a funny way quite wonderful. Just like life in your early 20s. 

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OUT: album 'Texturen I-IX+X+XI (2015-2025)' by Atom™

Atom™'s Texturen series was initiated in 2015, with its first three installments released on the now-defunct No. label until 2017. After a brief hiatus, Texturen IV, V, VI and VII were recorded in 2021, followed by the missing VIII and IX in 2024, completing the initial Ennead. Over the course of its nine years of production, the nine albums not only reflect Atom™'s musical progress but also an evolution in sonic textures—the core element of the series.

In response to technological advancements, the first three albums, previously available only in lower audio quality (Texturen I in 44.1 kHz/24-bit, and Texturen II & III in 88.2 kHz/24-bit), have now been upgraded to match the 96 kHz/32-bit resolution of the later releases.

For the first time in this digital box set, the newly revised, partially enhanced or remastered versions of all nine albums can now be experienced together. To further enrich the collection, two previously unreleased albums, Texturen X and XI, have been added, expanding the series even further.

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Pre-order Dreamfish I on vinyl

Pete Namlook, was one of the most ingenious musical minds that the ambient music world has ever seen and his sonic blueprint is undoubtedly part of the foundation of electronic music that we all stand upon today. He was a prolific pioneer and literally single handedly created and sustained the ambient movement of the 1990's and beyond.

Dreamfish was a brilliant ambient-techno project consisting of Mixmaster Morris and Pete Namlook. Listening “Under Water“, you can hear the music depicting the sea moving above and around you with sea-life rushing by as you are drifting deeper and deeper into a subtle tranquility. Swim with the music, let the deep sea ambient float out of your speakers and enjoy the waves in your room!

Pre-order here!

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Bandcamp about Amiga Hard Core

“For me, working on the Amiga is like coming back to ‘my instrument." says influential German hardcore producer Patric Catani. Read the full feature here. 

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