Roman Bartok, Jurij Gagarin, Karlheinz Bataille, Sun Kinski, Jacques Bunuel, Dr. Kurt Euler, X-Ray Shoes, Nr.6, Johann Sebastian Varése, Julie and Ruth
Influences
Vodka
Sounds Like
Short film by JH Scaff for Felix Kubin's piece at Tanzquartier / Wien Modern, 2007
Live in Metz, Musique Volantes
Animation film by Mariola Brillowska and Felix Kubin, 1999
"I am a child living in the body of Juri Gagarin. He is empty like a corpse. His eyes move slowly like radars. First comes the idea then the technology. Children are angels, sometimes they fall into nothingness. I am Juri's ventriloquist."
Felix Kubin, messenger of exploding lungs, lives and works against gravitation. At the age of 12 he started composing electronic 4-track music which has been put out many years later on various labels such as Dat Politics' SKIPP, A-Musik and Was Soll Das? Schallplatten. His activities comprise futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio plays, performance projects, lectures, workshops and his own record label Gagarin Records. Since 1999 he played on plenty of festivals for electronic music including Sonar, Mutek, Ars Electronica, ISEA and Wien Modern. His artistic output has been published on vinyl, CD and film, in books and magazines (a complete list of his solo releases can be found here). Other groups he was/is involved with include the contemporary ensemble Integrales, the noise project Klangkrieg, the communist singing group Liedertafel Margot Honecker and the tetchy teenage bands Die Egozentrischen 2 and x2.
"If there'd be one man to send to the aliens as an example of the mankind, that'd be Felix Kubin.“ (Aavikko)
General booking by Planet Rock: christoph(a)planetrock-booking.com Booking in the UK by The Julie Tippex Agency: marie(a)julietippex.com
NEW RELEASES
Jan 2008
Music for theatre and radio play Felix Kubin und das Mineralorchester
CD+LP / Dekorder 022
......als quäle sich die Abspielnadel durch die verklebten Rillen einer
Schallplatte, in die unsere Erinnerungen eingraviert sind - WDR 5
A Morricone from another star - DE:BUG
Kubins Stärke ist seine ungenierte "billige Künstlichkeit", der rauhe Charme seines popeligen Mondschein-Pop-Hausbrands. Kaufhauselektronik und Alleinunterhalteridiosynkrasien, die sich nicht an volkstümliche Zombiewünsche verschwenden - BAD ALCHEMY
Bien que composées à des époques différentes on y reconnait à chaque instant la marque de son auteur, son gout pour les petites mélodies sautillantes et les interludes fantaisistes et son habileté à mettre en relief quelques sonorités joliment désuètes - FRANCE MUSIQUE
2007
HOND - House Of National Dog Mariola Brillowska and Felix Kubin
CD (LP soon) / A-Musik A33
++++ order here
...herzerweichende und -versteinernde Charles Burns-Chansons und elektroakustische Maschinencollagen - TERZ
Philosophic, abstruse, colourful, confusing, enlightening, irritating, funny, sexy, dark, over the top, analytic... - WESTZEIT
Chaos, absurdism and humor... - KINDAMUZIK
2007
Detached from all objects Pia Burnette and Felix Kubin
CD+LP / Gagarin Records GR 2019
++++ order here
Electronic chanson or Strompoesie? (...) Felix Kubin knows exactly how to feature Pia Burnette's Social Beat and NY Poetry texts. - OX
As a matter of course, Kubin's multifaceted preferences amalgamate into his characteristic, menacing and playful para-pop universe, while Pia Burnette's singing takes a tough stance towards the weight of a collapsing world - DE:BUG
2007
The Pataphysical Tape Club Split-LP of Felix Kubin and IFCO
Art magazine + LP / BIG MAG No. 2
++++ order here
2007
Axolotl Lullabies Felix Kubin - remixes and comp. tracks 1999-2006
CD (LP in January) / Oral 20 ++++ order here
Handclaps, western guitars, Gameboys, rock songs, Russian robots, worker's marching songs, disco, melancholy and the evocation of a "funereal gondola paradise" - a dreamy piece that Kubin composed together with Asmus Tietchens. - SPEX
UPCOMING RELEASES
Spring 2008
Fernsehpropheten feat. films by Felix Kubin, M Brillowska, Martha Colburn, Grawboeckler a.o.
DVD / Raum fuer Projektion
Wanna kiss a bride before she gets married? Come to this party:
WELCOME TO HOTEL oOoze, formerly a five-star hotel Belvedere, is situated on the beach next to the Dubrovnik Old Town. It does not intend to provide beds, wellness, fitness, and other boring hotel activities. Hotel oOoze will be opened exclusively for you, for art exhibitions, art & music performances, drinking wine, cocktails, Sljivovic and dancing till the early mornings.
Fühlst du dich auch bedroht von Technologie mit hohem Schadens-Potenzial wie zum Beispiel Anlagen der chemischen und nuklearen Industrie oder Labors, die Forschung mit B-Agenzien betreiben, von Tanklastwagen, die hochgehen können oder von Kraftwerken?
Vielen Dank fürs aufnehmen in den Freundeskreis... HOND ist ein ganz tolles Werk, was ich auch neben deinem neuen Album auf Dekorder im Radio spielen werde...
In diesem Sinne: Weitermachen!
Liebe Grüße Thorsten // Audio Architecture // m. m label
Hello Felix, thanx for the add. I love your crazy sounds very much. I saw you live in Pudels Club this weekend. Amazing! I..m absolutely exalted! Greetings from Borgfelde Guido
Felix, this play is not suitable for children. Or adults. Or Stan. Or for listening to on a car journey to Aberdeen. The Eldritch Transmissions: A Study in Radiophrenia
A new radio play by Vernon & Burns commissioned by WORM for Café Sonore, VPRO Radio 6. Saturday, 7th June, 23:00 (UK Time) - 24:00 (European Time)
To listen live click on 'luister nu' when you go to: http://radio6. nl/
From Monday, 9th June the programme should be archived here: http://www. vpro. nl/programma/cafesonore/afleveringen/39631866/
An innovative and surreal Lovecraftian tale which incorporates music, sound effects and field recordings to present a chilling but darkly amusing story of voyeurism and the intimacy of the radio voice.
the honeymoon killers record is great. thanx for the recommendation. next time I come to hamburg we do more vinyl shopping together. (it was lovely to see you again :))
