Brendan M. Gillen Remembers Drexciya: A Tribute (Beatportal, 6 January 2012)
Zerkalo: ‘In The Middle’ (2009/2011)
Video by Virginie Von VIrou.
http://www.discogs.com/Zerkalo-Stoi-Storoni-Zerkala-Part-II/release/1932205
Albert Van Abbe: ‘NCS_0009121010’ [Heinrich Mueller Remodel] (2011)
Footage off The Mummy (1932), directed by Karl Freund, starring Boris Karloff.
http://www.discogs.com/Albert-Van-Abbe-No-Comment_0001/release/2600985
Der Zyklus: ‘Quasar’ (2008)
http://www.discogs.com/Der-Zyklus-Cherenkov-Radiation/master/210677
zero” // podcast #041 - DJ Mix: The Exaltics
For many years now The Exaltics have been holding up the flag for underground electro and subaquatic techno bass in the vein of Drexciya and Dopplereffekt.
Undeterred by trends and fashions the production outfit from Eastern Germany has been releasing its music via labels like Transient Force, Z-Bop, and the project’s own Solar One imprint, set up in 2006.
2010 turned out to be a break-trough year for The Exaltics, who signed to The Hague’s legendary Bunker label for a monumental three-part album series.
The recent release of ‘1000 Lights in the Sky Part 1’, ‘Part 2’ and ‘Part 3’ coincides with a renewed interest in electro fuelled by the current wave of UK producers like Instra:mental and dBridge, and lays out The Exaltics’ musical vision in full for the first time.
Dark and sinister and more reduced than ever before, the three volumes summon the spirit of Drexciyan electro by oscillating between clear-cut analogue synth funk and crunched-up 808 and 303 driven acid bass across 25 intricately crafted tracks.Free download via iTunes | RSS | Follow on Soundcloud | Play.FM
Tracklist of podcast #041:
- Carl Craig - Frustration (Planet E)
- AS1 - Ufo Cathering (Solar One Music)
- Adult. - Shake Your Head (Clone)
- Orgue Electronique - Suck Seed (Crème Organization)
- LFO - Shut Down (Warp Records)
- Rude 66 - Minus 8 Remix (Crème Organization)
- Unit Moebius - Input Overkill (Bunker)
- AS1 - Daymares (Solar One Music)
- The Exaltics - The Truth (Solar One Music)
- A Made Up Sound & Heinrich Mueller - Human need (Heinrich Mueller Celestial Sphere Mix) (Kontra-Musik)
- The Exaltics - Death Trap (Bunker)
Heinrich Mueller - Resident Adviser RA.250
There’s a comment on Discogs that describes Drexciya as “America’s answer to Kraftwerk,” which might just be the most succinct way of putting it. Between 1992 and 2002 Heinrich Mueller (who was then referred to by his given name, Gerald Donald) and James Stinson recorded some of the most advanced and influential electro/techno ever to come out of Detroit. And they were certainly the most enigmatic. Even at the point of Stinson’s untimely passing in 2002, next to nothing was known about the group—they seldom spoke to the press, were never photographed and never performed live. Mueller went on to form, or continue with, a number of other projects, exploring a vast range of sonic textures and concepts in doing so. Dopplereffekt, Der Zyklus and Arpanet are just a few of these names, while the most recent of these, Zwischenwelt, are on the cusp of releasing the otherworldly Paranormale Aktivitat long-player.
TRACKLIST:
Voice Of Relativity
Dopplereffekt - Mirror Symmetry
ArD2 - Sabotage
Beta Evers - Confusion
ArD2 - Utopia
Gedankenexperiment - Conclusion
Urban Tribe - Carbon 14
Paka - Solitude:
Dopplereffekt - Myon Neutrino
Dopplereffekt - Sterilization
Der Zyklus - Polar Coordinates
Dopplereffekt - Scientist
Zwischenwelt - Remote Viewer
Dopplereffekt - Plastiphilia
Zwischenwelt - Shadow Being
Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler
Zwischenwelt - Telemetric
Dopplereffekt - Speak And Spell
Dopplereffekt - Satellites
Der Zyklus - Biometric Systems
Urban Tribe - Amygdala
ArD2 - Drug Of A Nation
Zwischenwelt - Premonition
Der Zyklus - Biometric ID
Zwischenwelt - Enigmata
Zwischenwelt - Multiplexsistence
Arpanet - Universe Oscillation
Beta Evers - Only For My Satisfaction
Dopplereffekt - Non Vanishing Harmonic Spinor
Zwischenwelt - Clairvoyant
Neuroleptica - Tardive Dyskinesia
Zwischenwelt - Shadow Being
Dopplereffekt - Anti Neutrino
Zerkalo - I Know More
Arpanet - Grossvater Paradoxen
Dopplereffekt - Z^0 BosonDOWNLOAD HERE | BACKUP DOWNLOAD
(Source: Resident Adviser)
CYNETART FESTIVAL MAGAZIN _ ZERKALO INTERVIEW /translation
Tamash Kestawitz, Victoria Lukas.
TK : What makes you obviously loving the Russian aesthetic of the mid 20th century and the dry analog textures of Heinrich Mueller too, that’s rooted in the beginning of electronic music? Has it something to do with nostalgia?
VL : I am attracted by russian art from the soviet revolution to the end of the sixties, because it’s mostly coming from extreme suffering; and that pain, the lack of freedom, the horror of the soviet daily life, has been powerfully sublimated in many different forms (eg the acmeists, the formalists, the futurists). What interests me is this sublimation.
The meeting with Heinrich Mueller was decisive, together we decided to have a new approach of electronic music, outside of the codes and fashion, which would include scientific contemplation with poetic and sometimes confessional lyrics.
This music is naturally nostalgic because it captures specific moments in time. But it’s not dead moments, they have meanings, they produce emotions, they are “moving”, it’s like cinema. The work of the russian director Andrei Tarkovsky has been very inspiring because among other things he asked metaphysical questions, he was able to accurately recreate memories and visions in his movies, making them permanently alive in time, and this is ultimately what we want to achieve. His aesthetic, is sentimental, it brings out the child in us. He also had a very special and strong connection with nature, which is not perceived as an external object but as an extension of us.
Analogue synthesis, voices and numerical treatment are the fundamental components of our music because they allow us to expand our sound design options.
TK : Why are poeticism, intellectual messages and
literary references often missing in electronic music? Is it based on the mostly hedonistic aspects of club culture in your opinion? Should Zerkalo change this imbalance?
VL : Yes club culture is very entertaining but it does not want to think, the pleasure of the body seems prominent here.
We think that it’s impossible to physically and conceptually dissociate mind and body, one of the objectives is to accommodate both.
TK : The visual components seem to be an important and inherent part of Zerkalo and the very first releases of your music were special video clips at youtube. So do you ever thought about releasing not only on Vinyl but also on DVD to combine audio and visual?
VL : We really like the idea of creating multidimensional spaces and yes among other things, we definitively consider releasing a DVD which would contain various tracks exclusively as video versions.
Return To Bubble Metropolis by VLR
TRACKLIST:
Drexciya - Intro (The Unknown Aquazone)
Drexciya - Davey Jones Locker (VA - True People: The Detroit Techno Album)
Drexciya - Dehydration (The Quest)
Drexciya - Organic Hydropoly Spore (Neptune’s Lair)
Underground Resistance - Electronic Warfare (Drexciya Electric Eel Mix) (Electronic Warfare - The Mixes)
Drexciya - Dead Man’s Reef (The Quest)
Elecktroids - Mystery World (Electroworld)
The Other People Place - Sorrow & A Cup of Joe (Sunday Night At The Laptop Cafe)
Abstract Thought - Solar Pulse (Hypothetical Situations)
Lab Rat XL - Lab Rat 2 (Mice or Cyborg)
Transllusion - Dirty South Strut (L.I.F.E.)
Japanese Telecom - Nipponese Robots (Japanse Telecom)
Arpanet - P2101V (Wireless Internet)
Arpanet - Gravitational Lense (Inertial Frame)
Dopplereffekt - Radiometer (Gesamtkunstwerk)
Glass Domain - Fairy (Glass Domain)
Dopplereffekt - Holomorphic n-0 Form (Calabi Yau Space)
Drexciya - Aqua Worm Hole (Bubble Metropolis)
Drexciya - The Plankton Organization (Harnessed The Storm)
Drexciya - Hydro Cubes (Molecular Enhancement)
Drexciya - Hydro Theory (The Journey Home)
L.A.M. - Death Toll (Balance of Terror)
Drexciya - Nautilus 12 (Deep Sea Dweller)
Drexciya - Bubble Chamber (The Unknown Aquazone)
Drexciya - Bang Bang (The Return of Drexciya)
Clarence G - Clarence G’s Club (Safety Copy 01)
Japanese Telecom - Cigarette Lighter (Virtual Geisha)
Eleckroids - Floatation (Electroworld)
Lab Rat XL - Lab Rat 3 (Mice or Cyborg)
Drexciya - Drexcyen Star Chamber (Grava 4)
Transllusion - Dimensional Glide (The Opening of The Cerebral Gate)
Shifted Phases - Scattering Pulsars (The Cosmic Memoirs…)
Drexciya - Digital Tsunami (Harnessed The Storm)
Drexciya - Intro 2 (The Unknown Aquazone)
Drexciya - Aquatacizem (Interstellar Fugitives)
Drexciya - Aquarazorda (The Unknown Aquazone)
Drexciya - Wavejumper (Aquatic Invasion)
Der Zyklus - Formenverwandler (Der Zyklus II)
Drexciya - Sighting in The Abyss (Aquatic Invasion)
Drexciya - Andean Sand Dunes (Neptune’s Lair)
Drexciya- Song of The Green Whale (Harnessed The Storm)
Drexciya - Draining The Tanks (Neptune’s Lair)
Drexciya - Interstellar Crime Report (Interstellar Fugitives)// all tracks by James Stinson and/or Gerald Donald, and mixed by vlari
