BIZZ CIRCUITS plays INTIFADA OFFSPRING CD + DVD  EUR 15
With BIZZ CIRCUITS play INTIFADA OFFSPRING Frankfurt-based sound artist Sebastian Meissner (Autopoieses, Klimek, Random_Inc) picks up the yarn of his previous Jerusalem-releases (Random Inc "Walking in Jerusalem" and "Jerusalem: Tales outside the framework of orthodoxy"), released on Mille Plateaux and Ritornell. The new album has been expanded into a digital gallery platform which combines three supplementary components: a DVD, a CD and a vinyl version.
The CD documents Meissner's collage-like live performances in different venues (for example Transmediale Berlin, OK-Zentrum Linz, Kulturhuset Stockholm, Krowoderska52 Krakow) and presents acoustic works of Israeli Electronica and Spoken Word artists as well as peace activists. Besides Meissner's own documentary and video material, the DVD offers contributions by Israeli artists, such as the video-based works of Grunwald, Weichselbaum, Finkelstein, Ziolkowsky, which document and simultaneously artistically transform the building of the "security/segregation wall" as well as the confrontations between Palestinian villagers and radical Israeli settlers.
With BIZZ CIRCUITS play INTIFADA OFFSPRING Meissner establishes himself as a composer, producer, filmmaker, and curator of a dense, highly complex and multilayered work of art, which is still very accessible. This release is not only the documentation of the works of a very creative network of artists, which moves between "the art of escapism" and peace activism, it is also the representation of an alternative Israel.
Something you cannot hear or see, but which is still present on play INTIFADA OFFSPRING is the level of organization that lies behind it. To connect all the artists who are featured on this release and to create a platform for their collective activity and creativity is - due to the current situation in Israel - a highly ambitious task. This concept will be tested in the second part of this release where Meissner will approach the conflict from the Palestinian perspective (BIZZ CIRCUITS play INTIFADA OFFSPRING Volume 2).
INTIFADA OFFSPRING plays is a performance platform that moves between concert, spoken-word performance, readings, panels, screenings and real-time-media-processing, and that offers Israeli artists the opportunity to present their work outside of Israel for the first time.

David Howell, The Wire: "A staggering album of cavernous, ever shifting electronics. Wanton Phenomena is another stunning advance for US electronica."

ALEC EMPIRE: LES ETOILES DES FILLES MORTES CD  EUR 15
Rob Young, The Wire:"Alec Empire´s latest sees him dropping the sledgehammer in favour of the solo Moog. Like a fiendish homage to Sun Ra´s synthesized Gordian knots, Empire twiddles away on a fizzing keyboard according to a logic and harmonic system that appears to have been conceived under a different gravitational field from this planet´s. Absolut verrückt!"

GAS: KÖNIGSFORST CD  EUR 25
Wolfgang Voigt med visjonær visjon om å bringe den tyske urskog inn på diskoteket. Fortsatt dreier det seg om endeløse, drømmende flater av filtrert symfoni i langsom bevegelse frem og tilbake over stabile hjerteslag av teknoid bass og minimal basstromme. Tarjei Vesaas ville nok ha danset til denne. Årets skogstur!
David Howell, The Wire:"Simultaneously spooked and enchanting, Königsforst provides a rich, visceral audio experience that is as awesome as the vast, ancient forests it evokes."

STEPHAN MATHIEU: FREQUENCY LIB CD  EUR 15
Most of Mathieu's work, as it turns out, shares this predilection toward haze and hiss, and frequencyLib is no different. The songs are minimal in effort, if not sound: an unresolving loop or two of some acoustic-sounding source is set into play and then manipulated ever so slightly, as though warped by heat and distressed with fine-grained sandpaper. A thin film of dust seems to cover Mathieu's deceptively simple melodic fragments, lending them the same kind of digital trompe l'oeuil quality that characterizes Pole's earlier recordings: although the hiss is a digital byproduct, it sounds analogue, recalling the whisper of aged vinyl or the static of shortwave. Indeed, in triggering these associations, Mathieu's use of effects comes to seem almost like a kind of artificial nostalgia, or to put it another way, it treats nostalgia as just another readymade. If you're not careful, frequencyLib can slip past you almost unnoticed: the 26 songs, mostly a minute or two long, slip subtly in and out of each other's skins, morphing and mirroring. frequencyLib presents a model of distracted listening, but this can't be accidental: with its almost-recognizable snippets and barely-noticed shifts, it plays out like the perpetual soundtrack in our peripheral hearing, alluring and always just out of reach. [Philip Sherburne @ The Wire 2001.09]

AKIRA RABELAIS: ELONGATED PENTAGONAL PYRAMID CD  EUR 25
Will Montgomery, The Wire:"LA based software composer Rabelais´ album is music made on the hardisk of an Apple Mac. What´s most rewarding is the way Rabelais translates his interest in dream and fantasy into byte-crunching digital sound. He is attracted to fleshing out soundtracks of the imagination rather than creating pseudo-filmscapes. The tracks are mainly sets of laminated drones which interlock and drop in and out. Very occasionally a piano sample or a stray voice will float out of the bitstream, but otherwise the sound is full of digital rasp. Fascinating -and exciting too that such powerful soundtools should be so easily available."

RANDOM INC: WALKING IN JERUSALEM CD  EUR 15
www.boomkat.com:  A game of two halves, excuse for the football analogy. This continuation of Autopoeises member Random_Inc's exploration of the sounds that flow through Jerusalem and the influences the sights and sounds have on the many collaborators that this new project invites aboard. On the CD a more reflective beatless tact is taken with exclusive collaborations with the amazing Electric Birds, Ran_Slavin, Rip Off Artist, Sony Mao, Bizz Circuits and Ultra-Red. The more rhythmically focussed vinyl edition features exclusives by Random_Inc with - Andreas Tilliander, Mikael Stavoestrand, Anton 'SCSI 9' Qubikov (bo!, wicked track), Greenhouse FX, Pisgat Zeev and Open Source. Artists featured on both formats are Dub Taylor, Tim Hecker while the CD has additional pieces from Random_Inc made from found sound and subtle digital processing plus quicktime videos and lush photography. A fascinating project delivered with great power and understanding. Highly recommended.

Staalplaat: "Random Industries' (aka Random Inc.) second offering for the German electro-acoustic/IDM label Ritornell may be titled in witty reference to Aphex Twin's Selected Ambient Works, but the humor stops there on this heady sound art excursion. The album scrolls through a series of abstracted motifs where sonic decay and disruptive fractured digital texture hold paramount importance over any graspable form, leaving only the thin surface of digital detritus to ponder. The thin and clinical sounds work on the threshold of audibility, and while the cloud of mutated samples fold into one evolving drone, Selected Random Works doesn't do much to evolve beyond the post-Oval glitch sound."

TERRE THAEMLITZ: MEANS FROM AN END CD 

Still Life  høres ut som et collage av sporadiske, elektriske brytere over fragmenter av komedie, stillferdig elektronikk og dvelende piano. Tittelsporet, Means From An End,  fortsetter i samme behagelige stillferdighet, men rammes nå inn av ekstremt høye og lave frekvenser. Noe for ørelegen? Kompatibel med Brian Eno, Ryoji Ikeda og Phonophani.

VARIOUS: ELECTRIC LADYLAND III CD   EUR 15
Rob Young, The Wire:"Mille Plateaux´s Electric Ladyland series refuses to explain itself easily, and that´s maybe why these spacey psychedelic Hip Hop selections have passed so many people by. Bloated rather than blunted, these tracks agitate Trip Hop´s lazy complacency by applying white-heat hysteria. You´re left with one of the most (in)coherent collections you´re likely to hear all year."
Med bidrag fra: Techno Animal, Alec Empire, DJ Spooky, 4E, Spectre, Andre Gurov Units, Kerosene, Si Begg og Biochip C.

VARIOUS: IN MEMORIAN GILLES DELEUZE 2XCD  EUR 25
Tilbake på lager. Biophon klipper fra katalog nr. 14: "Samle-CD fra Mille Plateaux dedikert til den franske filosofen Gilles Deleuze. Meget smakfull innpakning med div. filosofisk-klanglige artikler og elektronisk dekonstruksjon fra bl.a.: Zoviet-France, Alec Empire, Christian Vogel, Atom Heart, Gas, Chris & Cosey, Trans Am, Rome, Jim O´Rourke, Oval, Mouse on Mars, Scanner og DJ Spooky."

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