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Odd Space City

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Released: Jan 1, 2009

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Odd Space City
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Die Punks!
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from pillar to post/odd space
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The band KnowSkools was formed in 2008 in Münster/Germany.

At first there were only long-taking jamsessions. Two times a week everybody was fiddling around with his effectpedals as much as playing his instrument; performing in remembrance of experimental alltime heroes like dj shadow, radiohead, the mars volta, godspeed you! black emperor,
battles or long fin killie...

kind of funky basslines met doubletime-drums and through looping licks there was much time to turn on delay..s speedknobs to create rough and inharmonic soundscapes contrasting wellknown heavy reverbed post-rock guitar sounds...
after a few month drummer Kövi decided to record some of these sessions just to listen to them at home.

A few months later, after having recorded about 10 sessions in their rehearsal room on 8-track, kövi was asked to do a dj-set with his JazzwangZoo bandmate Patrick Brakowsky at the AMP/münster. Just to listen to some of his session recording over a disco pa he extracted one very straight 5 minute piece and after some hours of cutting and mixing the first KnowSkools-song "Odd Space City" (...according to bowie..s "space oddity"; but nobody ever got that...) was born and was played during the dj set at the AMP on november the 6th 2008.

After feeling like having succeeded with "odd space city", kövi started to cut out other passages from their jams, spent another three months in cutting, editing and mixing and finally finished the first KnowSkools ep "1 2 3 ...Stupidity" in march 2009.

The ep contains 6 songs/approx. 30 minutes of knowskools very own style of uptempo-post rock or maybe guitardriven jungle/d..n..b plus two guestappearances by Herr Hund singing on "6AM" and Guitarplayer Guddorfo who added some solo guitar on "6AM" and "Flex Like A Frog".

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Mai 29, 2006

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Die VISIONS schreibt:

...Postrock trifft Drum’n’Bass – gab es das schon mal? Kann das funktionieren?
Zumindest tut es das auf der "1 2 3…Stupidity" EP der Münsteraner Band. Funky bis wilde Gitarrenlinien treffen auf hektische Beats und nahezu psychedelisch Synthies. Eine ausgefallene und erfrischende Stilmixtur wie man sie nicht mal von Battles erwartet hätte.
Die typisch hallenden Postrock-Gitarren verschwinden zum Großteil sogar komplett, stattdessen wird in "6 Am" auch gesungen...

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ROTERAUPE.de schreibt:

..."know skools" erweitern diese liste mal wieder um einen weiteren namen den man sich merken sollte. seit 2008 feilen die herrschaften nun an einer musik, die sie selbst als "uptempo-post rock or maybe guitar-driven jungle/d‘n‘b" bezeichnen. das hatten wir auch noch nicht.

das kommt wohl dabei heraus, wenn man ein paar talentierte musiker mit unterschiedlichen einflüssen in einen proberaum sperrt und den schlüssel wegwirft. sie machen einfach mal - und haben eine menge spaß dabei. wir auch...

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