"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. His activities comprise futurist pop, electroacoustic and chamber orchestra music, radio plays, lectures, workshops and his label Gagarin Records. He has been involved with the noise project Klangkrieg, the communist singing group Liedertafel Margot Honecker and the tetchy teenage bands Die Egozentrischen 2 and x2. Recently, he works a lot with the ensemble Integrales.
A complete list of his solo releases can be found here.
Booking by Planet Rock: christoph(a)planetrock-booking.de Booking in the UK by The Julie Tippex Agency: marie(a)julietippex.com
NEW RELEASES
Dez 2008
Die Inhaberin des Chlorophyllmandats überwacht den Ausgleich von Licht und Schatten Felix Kubin
Audio Cassette release, lim. edition / ALKU 73
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Minimal analog electronic loops, sequences and out-of-synch rhythms
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 / A-Musik A33
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...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
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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
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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
November 2009
Fernsehpropheten feat. films by Felix Kubin, M Brillowska, Martha Colburn, Grawboeckler a.o.
DVD / Raum fuer Projektion
hallo herr kubin, du hast ja gar keine shows in berlin geplant, die gagarin records jubiläumsnacht ist aber schon so lange her, über ein jahr, das hat mir schon spaß gemacht, da... hm, ich hoffe, ich muss nicht vier jahre auf die nächste warten. :) wenn du lust hast, ist hier ein schönes album von mir, ganz gratis... (mit bild wäre es ansehnlicher, aber dann nur der link: http://www.truecall.de/software007.php) die schönsten grüße aus der hauptstadt! auf bald, *anne
Thank you very much for happening(passing) to visit this myspace and good luck and excellent music I it expect to listen to other one you see here in mexico
My friend visited your gig in Holland and said you were horrble?! WOW, how's that possible? what happened? in Estonia you rocked years ago. Big lovin, QueeNNaive
tnx for the add. i'm enjoying ur tunes very much and just found out u worked together with People Like Us!!! Vicky is one of my favourites too, actually listening to "Live '99" at the moment, so it was nice to c u made 'Molaradio'. downloaded it but haven't heard yet. i bet it's a great track. i'll let u know what i think of it after a few listens,
