Cat. No : EAT014 Artist : Knalpot Title : Serious Outtakes Format : EP, Vinyl/CD/Digital Release Date : October 2009
ABOUT THE RELEASE
Knalpot's debut EP is the long awaited studio rendition of the ferocious music Gerri Jäger and Raphael Vanoli have been making for the past two years as Knalpot. 'Serious Outtakes' comes as a selection of six tracks presenting the duo's most acclaimed and celebrated material so far, capturing the sound of a new perspective on anything from jazz to punk and electro to funk. Styles really are not applicable here, Knalpot's attitude and discipline carry anything they create or improvise.
Blazing metal riffs with cowbell, iron chains and more signature percussion by Jäger precede the Casiotones and sound-effects of Vanoli's tools on the opening tracks. The stumbling 'Stolpernova' is addictively cunning and strange. So is 'H.E.L.' (Human Emergency Lander) but here, as well as on 'Indorock', the duo operates in a different, more aggressive style, propelling the stumblin' groove effect in a Knalpot session pur sang, sonically ablaze, alarming, onto something. The tracks AV1 & AV2 are co-written by fellow Amsterdam music-head Aardvarck.
Clearly Knalpot comes armed to the teeth, to blow us away with their intense and concentrated, yet rascal sense of music. Their sound comes as a fresh experience from existing structures, disciplines and, most of all perhaps, common expectations of music. This makes Knalpot's debut a natural addition to the Eat Concrete label.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
On drums, Gerri Jäger, known from extensively touring avant-funk band Brown vs Brown. Jäger extended his instrument with a set of signature percussion and an effect-box for dubs and loops.
Raphael Vanoli is a guitarist working in the fields of jazz, rock, electronics and contemporary classical music. He plays a set-up of analogue effect boxes and loopers, using prepared guitar techniques.
Austrian Gerri and German/French Raphael met in 2006 at the Amsterdam Jazz Conservatory and founded Knalpot two years ago. They have been touring all over Europe. The combination of their high level musicianship, experimental arrangements and set-up makes Knalpot one of the most progressive and interesting 'bands' out there.
NEW ALBUM BY AARDVARCK OUT NOW
AARDVARCK - 'TITI'
Cat. No : EAT-DIG-013 Artist : Aardvarck Title : Titi Format : Album, Digital Release Date : September 2009
Mike Kivits aka Aardvarck swings many ways, but for this album he returns to the root of them all. 'Titi' is only Aardvarck's second full length solo release. As the unofficial follow-up to his much acclaimed album 'Find the Cow', released in 2002 for Delsin Records, 'Titi' continues to reveal the world of music that dominates Aardvarck's mind always.
Detroit techno, acid house, ambient, broken-beat, dubstep and hip hop, Aardvarck's influences are numerous. The material on this album has thick references to 90's acts such as Carl Craig, B12, and Black Dog as well as the broken-beat sound from around the turn of the century.
The music for this project was conceived during the late 90's / early 2000's, a period of major shifts in Aardvarck's personal life. From there, his first full length album 'Find The Cow' was released, confirming his reputation as a producer next to his already blooming dj career. The music for 'Titi' was laid out during this same period and has been a work-in-progress ever since, forming sketches, ideas and spheres rather than songs. 'Titi' stands in sharp contrast to much of Aardvarck's later work; as an album it revokes an overlaying mood, slightly dark, desolate and contemplative.
'Titi' is not a collection of temporary music. It is a capture of music you'd hear inside Varke's head, and much rather a demonstration of Aardvarck's abilities as a musician beyond contemporary movements and styles. With 'Titi', Aardvarck opens up his cabinet of arts and dishes up some pieces to savour. Eat Concrete is proud to welcome Aardvarck back to the label for such an occasion.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Aardvarck (Mike Kivits) has been a rebel and a pioneer in the Dutch music scene for decades. Over the years he built up a solid reputation of uncompromising quality and versatility, both underground and above. He was involved in the early acid house movement of the late 80's and has been in the avant garde of all major dance styles from then onwards. Starting out as a DJ he eventually released his first record in 1993.
Aardvarck has released music for more than twenty labels by now; DJAX, Delsin, Rush Hour, Kindred Spirits, Signum, Bloom, Eat Concrete etc. He founded his own label 'Music for Speakers' in 2000, together with fellow pioneers and audiophiles David Caron, Madcap, Sandor Caron & Sonar Lodge and is also an active member of Rednose Distrikt (together with Steven de Peven).
Eat Concrete Radio | June 2009 Duration: 1:07:00 Mixed by: Pete Concrete
Tracklisting
0. Artist - Tracktitle - Label
1. Architeq - Birds Of Dub - Tirk
2. J Dilla - WorkinonIt- Stones Throw
3. Non / Herrmutt Lobby - Bruised bonus - Catune
4. Bretzel Zoo - The Dunk - Eat Concrete
5. Harmonic 313 - Cyclotron - Warp
6. D-Frost - Clyde Ruff Bounce RMX - unreleased
7. Kenlo Craqnuques - Zoid - Rush Hour
8. Hellfish - Turntable Savage - Deathchant
9. Public Enemy - Hazy Shade Of Criminal - Def Jam Recordings
10. BUG - Freak Freak - Ninja Tune
11. TV on the radio - Satellite - Touch And Go
12. Clark - Roulette Thrift Run - Warp
13. Herrmutt Lobby - Ghost Roller - Confined.be
14. 808 State - Flow Coma (AFX Remix) - Rephlex
15. Clark - Growls Garden - Warp
16. Masters At Work - Justa ‘lil’ Dope- Cutting Records
17. Computer Jay - Distance - Ramp Recordings
18. Architeq - Sleeping Bear Lament (James Pants Remix) - Tirk
19. Nosaj Thing - 1685 - Alpha Pup Records
20. Harmonic 313 - c64 sid - Warp
21. Bullion - Get Familiar - One-Handed Music
22. Take - After Words - Eat Concrete
23. Take - PaperGarden - unreleased
24. Blipvert - untitled - unreleased
25. Take - Bottom of Santa’s Sleigh - Eat Concrete (unreleased)
ENEMY EARTH @ DUBLAB: HABITUAL RITUAL
Our friends at dublab spent some of their quality airtime on Enemy Earth’s ‘Habitual Ritual’ mix, a mix to accompany the Interstellar Commute LP to be released May 14.
Check it out at the dublab website
Eat Concrete is an independent musiclabel founded in 2006 by Pete Concrete. The label has strong roots in the Dutch 'electronics scene' but has quickly developed from a local network into an international platform of like-minded artists.
The label is influenced and inspired by a wide spectrum of musicians, producers and styles. By combining and connecting a great variety of music Eat Concrete creates it's own style and a context for music to thrive in.
After a series of groundbreaking and critically acclaimed projects Eat Concrete has shown itself to be one of the most progressive and original recordlabels in new electronic music; No-nonsense, straight-up and to the point, but also open-minded and free spirited.
REVIEWS
BOOMKAT about 'Herrmutt Lobby - Bassfudge Powerscones'
"..knocking up a neck snapping head nodder with a woozily inebriated swing...Heavy."
CHROMEKIDS about 'Herrmutt Lobby - Bassfudge Powerscones'
"“This EP is a fine collection of pile driving industrial glitch ridden future Hip-hop. Like a music equivalent of Ed 209 from Robocop with a heavy funk injection.”
YESYESYALL about 'Herrmutt Lobby - Bassfudge Powerscones'
“The musical progression is next level. Herrmutt Lobby is year 3000 electric soul music”
SONIC ROUTER about 'Herrmutt Lobby - Bassfudge Powerscones'
"..another essential Eat Concrete plate."
3 BAR FIRE about 'Hearin' Aid presents D-Frost Beats - Data-Bwoy'
"This 12” really is some of the most non functioning music to ever truly work."
BOOMKAT about 'Hearin' Aid presents D-Frost Beats - Data-Bwoy'
"Sounding like the result of far too many hours of thumb numbing SNES and Mega Drive play whilst listening to old Steinski mixes, the result is an absolutely sick silicon burning (s)low ride through solder poppin' hiphop instrumentals."
AUDIVERSITY about 'Take - The Dirty Decibels of Thomas 2000 '
"Fortunately for us, the nine songs that form both sides turned out as strongly as any recent Ninja Tune or Mo' Wax release.(..)
The product is a smart slab of vinyl that might ironically hold some of his finest work.(..)"
TEXTURA about 'Take - The Dirty Decibels of Thomas 2000'
"(..)The ingredients may be familiar but what Take produces with them is tasty indeed, and though the tracks are short (many in the two-minute range) he makes every second count. Though heavily-detailed, his material never breaks down and collapses into noise or excess but always perpetuates a smooth flow that exemplifies his deft touch. "
WARP RECORDS about 'V.A. - Twin Earth Atlantic'
"Excellent double album of forward thinking music from across the world (..) The music on here is great, an indicator of interesting times in electronic music, a post i.d.m take on hip hop and house and techno that lets go of some of the more navel gazing aspects of electronic music production to come up with tracks that work at slower paces, have more melodic instincts, keep warm and fresh but are still pushing the production envelope."
FATCITY RECORDS about 'V.A. - Twin Earth Atlantic'
"(..) there's interesting and beautiful music here that will appeal to hip hop headnodders and daring cutting edge soul purveyors. (..)"
NUFFSTYLEE about 'V.A. - Twin Earth Atlantic'
"‘Twin Earth Atlantic’ is a beautiful compilation of leftfield electronics, abstract beats and experimental hip hop from the Dutch Eat Concrete label, compiled with tracks spewed out of the machines of a handful of underground music’s most creative producers and well known ‘edge’ ambassadors (..) A definite must cop for fans of Plug Research, Dublab and Beat Dimensions (..)"
BOOMKAT about 'V.A. - New Deal'
"(..) for a while electro seemed to get lost in the dark and digital world, wheras 'New Deal' has the kind of vintage squelch that deep down we're ALL after."
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