"ANTHONY ROTHER - MY NAME IS BEUYS VON TELEKRAFT" CD & 12 Inch OUT NOW !!!"
Dave Clarke - "Great Album! On My Charts on position 1!"
Pig & Dan - "Excellent - Fantastic Rotherism"
Gregor Tresher - "Great Album!"
The Hacker - "Great!" Plays it all the time.
Miss Kittin - " Amazing"
Boys Noize - "like everytime fat beats and huge vocal effects like heard before by kraftwerk only!"
Monika Kruse - "Super Album"
Pascal Feos- "Big Support!"
Xenia Beliayeva - "Excellent"
Frank Kusserow - "Great Album - inovative Sound! I play it all the time!"
"My name is Beuys von Telekraft, and I am a scientist, I work in my laboratory night and day, I am Beuys von Telekraft, and I do research in digital sound and rhythm …"
Welcome to my world! Even in the fifth year after the founding of Datapunk, Anthony Rother is still always a guarantee for surprises. Especially when on the new Telekraft label a previously unknown scientist from an orbit close to the Earth provides the debut release; a scientist whose name permits strange associations between mechatronics and the art world, and who also almost uncannily seems to be the spitting image of Anthony Rother, if one is to believe the cover artwork … ;-)))
Joking apart, with his current album, after his acclaimed long players "Popkiller (Datapunk)" and "Super Space Model (Datapunk)", Anthony Rother is concentrating fully upon the digital nature of the sounds, not just in the programmatic statement of "My Name Is Telekraft". "Especially during the past few years, the aesthetic perception of music has been restricted to an extremely reduced and compromised code, between MP3s, mobile ring tones and modern telecommunication. Beuys von Telekraft adopts this development as his own. It was my aim to use the poor quality of compressed sounds, reduced frequency ranges, lowered sampling rates and strictly digital sounds as a self-sufficient stylistic device, and despite this to produce fat-sounding club music that sounds anything but lo-fi." (Rother, 2008)
"In the past I had already used digital sound production in my music on an equal basis with analogue instruments. But at the moment I am restricting myself almost dogmatically to digital sounds, and would like nevertheless to create the maximum in energetic sounds out of this self-chosen reduction."
The fact that the British DJ legend Dave Clarke has already put the opening track of My Name Is Beuys von Telekraft at number one in his current chart shows more than anything else what kind of sonic impact is emanating from Rother's new masterpiece. In terms of content, the lyrics of "My Name Is Telekraft", "Welcome To My Laboratory" and "Girl Construction" - which are delivered in English as well as German - stand in the tradition of the man machine discourse that was already fascinating Rother on his Psi49net albums "Simulationszeitalter", "Little Computer People" and "Hacker" at the beginning of the millennium. New, however, with this reference to the golden age of science fiction, is a certain penchant for humorous overstatement. "After all, I did not want to express any social criticism with My Name Is Beuys von Telekraft." This applies even more to "Liquid System", the modulated synth hookline of which stretches over 16 whole bars, remaining constantly in motion in its unpredictability, and which will thus burn itself inescapably into the collective memory of the dancefloor.
And as if that was not enough, Rother comes up with another top-class musical experiment with the ten tracks of the bonus CD "Geomatrix", "a kind of dark film episode of the sound experiments of Beuys von Telekraft". Completely without beats and yet keeping the aesthetic of energetic noises that is so typical of Rother, he designs a future-orientated form of modern ambient without any cuddly lounge aspects. Focussed and radical at the same time, "Geomatrix" creates a deeply impressive atmospheric vision of the darker side of the urban experience. As "64 Bit Audio" puts it so nicely, "The system translates reality into frequencies."
GROOVE Magazin // Poll 2009
Vote for Anthony Rother as Live-Act / DJ / Producer..!
We’re counting down to 1 November 2009, which is when Anthony Rother..s new website is set to be launched. This website could almost be described as a personal cosmos, a visual auto-biography.
In the last few years this exceptional artist has done more than just set trends in the electronic world of music – through his production he has also made a significant contribution to its development and generation.
His live performances, which can be seen week after week in large cities around the world, feature the same uniqueness as his works and productions, which motivate and invigorate all manner of people from all different countries.
The website not only offers users access to a site, but rather immerses them into a world of multi-media.
Innovative and state-of-the-art control elements (which we otherwise only know from science fiction films) offer unlimited opportunities to explore and discover this world.
The site is designed around a music player, in which you can create your own playlist from the entire selection of tracks, which can be called up anywhere. Anthony too will create his personal favourites here.
A video library features snapshots of past events, thereby stirring up various emotions.
Even for those who aren’t yet familiar with Anthony Rother and his music can look forward to being swept away into an electronic galaxy with great features and exclusive insights.
Take a look for yourselves at
www.anthony-rother.com !
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Anthony Rother Homepage geht an den Start!
Am 1. November 2009 endet der Countdown – und damit beginnt Anthony Rother..s neue Web-Präsenz. Diese könnte man nahezu als eigenen Kosmos bezeichnen, eine visuelle Auto-Biographie.
Der Ausnahme-Künstler hat in der Elektronischen Musikwelt in den letzten Jahren mehr als nur Akzente gesetzt – er hat durch sein Schaffen maßgeblichen Anteil zu ihrer Entwicklung und Entstehung beigetragen.
Seine LIVE-Performances, mit denen er Woche für Woche in den Metropolen unserer Erde unterwegs ist, sind von gleicher Einzigartigkeit geprägt wie seine Werke und Produktionen, die den unterschiedlichsten Menschen aus den verschiedensten Nationen immer wieder aufs Neue Motivation und Kraft geben.
Auf der Website betritt der User nicht einfach eine Seite im Internet – er taucht in eine multimediale Welt ab.
Mit innovativen und neuesten Steuerungselementen (wie man sie sonst nur aus Science Fiction Filmen kennt) bieten sich unbegrenzte Möglichkeiten, diese Welt zu erkunden und zu entdecken.
Als Herzstück ein Music-Player, in dem man aus der gesamten Trackauswahl eine eigene Playlist erstellen und den man von überall aus abrufen kann. Auch Anthony wird hier seine persönlichen Favourites zusammen stellen.
Eine Video Library versorgt uns mit Moment-Aufnahmen vergangener Events und wird sicher so manche Emotion aufleben lassen.
Auch denjenigen, die Anthony Rother und seine Musik noch nicht kennen öffnet sich eine elektronische Galaxie mit tollen Features und exklusiven Einblicken.
Überzeugt euch selbst auf
www.anthony-rother.com !
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