WOLKENVORHANG LIVE ACTS:
2ECOND CLASS CITIZEN (UK)
ANCIENT MITH (US)
ANDY THE DOORBUM (US)
ANGELS DUST (US)
ASBEST THE MOOR KING (UK)
BADNER SCHMÄH (AT)
BIG PAUPER (US)
BLEUBIRD (US)
BLINDSPOT (DE)
BRZOWSKI (US)
BURIERS (UK)
BUSDRIVER (US)
CARS & TRAINS (US)
CAVANAUGH (US)
CESCHI (US)
DAS_SPICE (AT)
DEF 3 (CA)
EPILOG (DE)
EVIL EBENEZER (CA)
FACTOR (CA)
FREDDY KNOP (DE)
GESTE (FR)
INFINITE LIVEZ (UK)
JAMESREINDEER (UK)
JOHN SILVER (AT)
KARL KILIAN (AT)
K-THE-I??? (US)
LE MAGNETOPHONE (DE)
MC HOMELESS (US)
MISANTHROP & AZABEATS (DE)
MOSCH (AT)
MOSHE (US)
OLE ZETT (DE)
OPEN MIKE EAGLE (US)
OPTIMISGFN (US)
P.TAH, MIRAC, TESTA (AT)
PARKWAECHTER HARLEKIN (AT)
POSTRAP ALLSTARS (DE)
SELBSTLAUT (AT)
SERENGETI (US)
SIMS (US)
SKRAPEZ (US)
SOLE & DJ PAIN 1 (US)
SQUALLOSCOPE (AT)
STRAW HAIR (FR)
SWORDPLAY AND PIERRE THE MOTIONLESS (US/FR)
TAKE CARE OF ELECTRIC SHEEP (AT)
TELL (DE)
TENSHUN (US)
THECLOSING (AT)
THE UNUSED WORD (AT)
TSI (AT)
WALTER GROSS (US)
WE ARE DISCO DOOM REVENGE (FR)
YAWL (DE/US)
ZAVOLOKA (UA)
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2ECOND CLASS CITIZEN
(uk / content records / equinox / ninja tune)
2econd Class Citizen’s emergence on the scene created a buzz of anticipation from a diverse collection of music circles. The young man from London, England makes music that he simply calls “wyred folk”: a hybrid of electronically produced folk combined with instrumental Hip Hop. Swinging between melancholy and pure anger, strong guitar riffs mined from old psych rock records and the weeping voices lifted from old folk music, he seems to find his real home in a crate of old and dusty vinyl.
2econd Class Citizen has toured many times in Europe. He uses various music controllers and instruments to recreate his unique sound in a live environment. This time he will bring his guitar, turntables and drum pads taking his show a step further. His new album and EP (featuring Myka 9 and Graciellita among others) are due out in December on Dday One’s The Content Label.
2econdclasscitizen.com
soundcloud.com/2econdclasscitizen
www.facebook.com/2econdclasscitizen
2econdclasscitizen.bandcamp.com
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ANCIENT MITH
(US/Anette Records/Dora Dorovitch)
From France and Germany to the isolated towns on the prairies of Canada, fans have welcomed the cow town city boy living out his dreams through Rap music far from cliché with open arms. Ancient Mith released 7 albums and played hundreds of shows in Europe, Africa, America, and Canada. He is famous for the incontrollable aspect of his performances.
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ANDY THE DOORBUM
(Fake Four Inc. / Alien/Native Movement / US)
Andy the Doorbum is a musician and visual/performance artist currently living and working in Los Angeles, California, USA.
He is known for blending his haunting music, accompanied by powerfully raw live vocals, with lights and costumes to create a live stage show experience that is a visual/theatrical performance that embodies an artistic vision both strange and surreal; somber and uplifting; a journey that takes the viewer through a string of emotions from "very inspiring" to "completely unsettling."
He has been a recording and touring artist since 2005, having released six full length albums, three EPs, and numerous split releases with other artists, as well as contributing to various music compilations and independent film soundtracks/scores. He has also had his artwork and costumes featured in an upcoming independent film release entitled Bring Water (http://www.bringwaterfilm.com) and contributed to several gallery exhibitions featuring his drawings and visual work.
In January 2016 he toured Europe with Ceschi (http://ceschimusic.com) the founder and head of Fake Four Inc. doing a month long stretch of shows. Make sure you won't miss him on his recent two month europe trip!
https://fakefour.bandcamp.com/album/intent
http://www.aliennativemovement.org
https://www.youtube.com/doorbum
https://www.facebook.com/andythedoorbum
https://www.instagram.com/andythedoorbum
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ANGELS DUST
(us / HIT+RUN)
ANGELS DUST is vocalist FLAVIA CIAMPI and producer DAVID LAMPLEY, both originally hailing from San Diego, CA. Their bewitching, hypnotizing yet soulful debut summons the same heaviness and somber darkness of Portishead & Mazzy Star.
Ciampi’s almost-whispered vocals are front and center, anchored by loose swinging beats that are as unnerving as they are catchy. Lampley (also known as Psychopop, one half of San Diego instrumental noise legends SKRAPEZ, as well as a frequent GONJASUFI collaborator) handles the gritty lo-fi production duties.
The mesmerizing and raw 6-song debut EP “Slow Tapes” is scheduled for release on cassette (& digital download) in June 2015, with the limited-edition red-marble 10″ vinyl in August 2015 on HIT+RUN [HNR48].
(Pressetext)
http://www.angelsdust.info/
http://artistecard.com/AngelsDust
https://soundcloud.com/angels_dust
https://thehitandrun.bandcamp.com/album/slow-tapes-hnr48
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ASBEST THE MOOR KING
(uk/Latenite Lounging Records/Synchrovision)
MC/Poet born and raised in Zambia in 1978, moved to England at the age of 12, Asbest The Moor King is part of a generation of 90′s Hip Hop heads. Asbest released his first debut E.P in 2008 on Latenite Lounging Records under the title “Never Had It Right” produced by SumSuch. Asbest met with producer DJ Goo. After collaborating on a number of tracks with producer DJ Goo they released the album “Each Story Tells” in 2011 on Synchrovision Records. Following this Asbest went on to release “When It Makes Sense” in 2012, a project with Brighton beat-maker Legendary TP (Tom Yum).
Asbest is now working on a new album entitled, Realm of Glamour (on the astral plane) to be released in 2015, and taking this opportunity to tour mainland Europe alongside 2econd Class Citizen and jamesreindeer in order to widen his reach and help promote his particular brand of conscious, head-nodding hip hop goodness.
asbestthemoorkingone.bandcamp.com
www.reverbnation.com/asbestthemoorking
www.facebook.com/pages/Asbest-the-moor-king/287549864623240
twitter.com/AsbestTMK
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BIG PAUPER
(US/Circle Into Square)
Big Pauper, the psychedelic hip-hop/electronic/circuit-bent video wizard, with an incredible live music/improvised circuit bent video set. One half of Two Ton Sloth with Brad Hamers (Phlegm). Known for intricate remix/mashup albums of Beck, Radiohead. Has toured extensively in Europe with Brad Hamers.
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BLEUBIRD
(US / Fake Four Inc. / Endemik)
Growing up in a place where nothing “cool” happens unless you make it happen forces you to develop a certain kind of drive. Raised under a NO BULLSHIT immigrant father and hippie mother who allowed their son to freely bump Poison Clan and Circle Jerks at a very early age. With an older brother who taught him to love BASS Music, and a neighbor who taught him to skate, fight, and make bombs, Bleubird raps from an interesting perspective. He caught the tail end of the “Indie Rap” wave and managed to ride it throughout the world until it crash-landed him back home in South Florida where he was happy to embrace his roots and welcome the maddening sun blotto. Mike Patton once called him stupid and one time, in a cab in Zagreb, Kevin Martin told him he cusses WAY TOO FUCKING MUCH. He neither looks nor acts his age, it is impossible to put him in a box or keep him standing still for more than a moment, and his vast catalog of diverse music speaks for itself.
http://bleubird.org
https://bleubird.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/bleubirdy
https://www.youtube.com/bbbbbbbleubird
https://www.facebook.com/bleubird
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BLINDSPOT
(D/Anette Records)
Abstract Hiphop or advanced leftfieldish Powerrap. Whatever you want to write, far from what you think it hast to be. After 3 EPs and 2 LPs, producer Dot and lyricist Mr.Feat released their 3rd LP on Berlin based record Label Anette Records and it marks the official birth of the label with catalogue number #001.
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BRZOWSKI
(Milled Pavement Records / US)
After 14 years of scene-building in New England as an artist and banner-guard for Milled Pavement Records, 9 years of touring throughout 5 countries, over 900 performances, 2 critically acclaimed albums, 4 mixtapes, 5 ep’s, 2 7” singles, countless featured appearances, and performing live with a venerable who’s-who of independent hip-hop, BRZOWSKI is shredding the envelope with all the desperate energy of a man whip-driven by his shadow.
BRZOWSKI’s grueling pace of hard-work and hard-living lends credence the axiom that to achieve any modicum of notoriety, you must suffer for your art.
No Rest For the Wicked.
http://www.milledpavement.com/2015/artist/brzowski/
https://brzowskimusic.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/BRZOWSKImusic
https://twitter.com/BRZOWSKImusic
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BURIERS
(Endemik Music / UK)
Buriers are a London based Anti-Rap Alternative Folk band led by poet and singer James P Honey.
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BUSDRIVER (US)
Possessing a hyper-literate, intellectual style of rapping augmented with dizzying elocution that would tongue-tie even the fiercest auctioneer, Busdriver is eclectic and eccentric enough to cite vocalese jazz singer Jon Hendricks as a primary influence.
https://busdriver-thumbs.bandcamp.com/
https://twitter.com/Busdriverr
https://www.facebook.com/Busdriver-58174070929/
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CARS & TRAINS
(Fake Four Inc. / US)
Portland, Oregon based songwriter/producer Tom Filepp hits the road this fall in support of his most recent release under the Cars & Trains name, the beautiful instrumental record Dust. Filepp brings a completely reworked version of his energetic live set, along with the extremely limited cassette version of Dust and other great things.
He'll also be unveiling several songs from his upcoming record for the electronic sludge-pop project True Deceiver, which won't be out until November 4th on Black Box Tapes. A very limited numbers of tapes for the new True Deceiver record will be available at shows before release, until copies run out.
Cars & Trains:
http://music.carsandtrains.net
https://www.facebook.com/carsandtrains
https://twitter.com/cars_and_trains
True Deceiver:
https://truedeceiver.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/truedeceiver
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CAVANAUGH (OPEN MIKE EAGLE & SERENGETI)
(Mello Music Group / Anticon. / US)
In a new urban development on the far west side of Detroit, Florida, it’s mandated by a 5 to 4 city council vote that a new housing structure be erected that has both luxury condominium units available for private ownership and section 7 housing in the same building. Via separate entrances the Cavanaugh building services two very different populations. And though the lifestyles of the residents vary, each unit relies on the same system of pipes and wiring and are serviced by the same crew. Mike and Dave have a combined 14 years of experience in Cavanaugh maintenance. They usually work drunk, mumbling greetings to the residents, soaking up all the disdain that the higher and lower income inhabitants have for each other. They talk shit to each other all day. Complaining about their home lives, spinning passive aggressive tales where they pretend to be angrier, stronger, more expressive men.
Though Serengeti and Open Mike Eagle have known each other for many years and went to Southern Illinois University together, Cavanaugh is the first group that the two have collaborated on and it’s the first project Mike has produced in its entirety. Time and Materials features P.O.S., Hemlock Ernst, and Busdriver
Album:
https://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/time-materials
Typecast (feat. P.O.S., Hemlock Ernst, & Busdriver):
https://soundcloud.com/mellomusicgroup/cavanaugh-typecast-prod-open-mike-eagle
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CESCHI
(Fake Four Inc. / US)
Ceschi Ramos is a rapper and singer from New Haven, Connecticut who has been hopping genres and spilling guts for the better part of two decades. He has been seen outside venues at 3am in Germany playing an acoustic guitar and singing to people that didn’t want the show to end. He has written poems to fans from behind bars whilst locked up on bogus marijuana charges. He has suffered a spiral fracture of the humerus while arm wrestling a marine in Hawaii. He has recorded with and toured alongside some of independent rap music’s most influential figures, including Sage Francis, Busdriver and Astronautalis. He has been in bands described as hardcore, crunk rap, lo-fi synth pop, Latin progressive and psych-jazz-rap. He has crafted abstracted and personal narratives mining the depths of depression and heights of hope. He has slept on countless floors when hotels weren’t in the touring budget and lost girlfriends and jobs all for the love of creating and performing.
Ceschi was born with four fingers on his right hand, which served as partial inspiration for the name of his DIY record label, Fake Four, Inc. Those who have worked with him describe Ceschi as one of the most artist-friendly labelheads out there, a rare breed who values art over profit almost to a fault. Since 2008, he has curated a roster of wildly original and critically praised talent and put out albums from the likes of Open Mike Eagle, Buck 65, Sister Crayon and Dark Time Sunshine in addition to his solo records The One Man Band Broke Up and Broken Bone Ballads.
An engaging, theatrical live performer, Ceschi Ramos has treated entire venues like a stage, viewing the middle of the audience or an empty barstool as good a place as any to perform a soul-baring folk song or tongue-twisting rap track. Ceschi once described himself in song as “a martyr at most… a failure at least” and said that, “In the eyes of history I’ll be no more than a leaf on a tree.” He knows what it is to suffer for his art and is aware that music exploring the ugliness and sorrow of the human condition will always exist on the fringes of a game dominated by disposable escapism and expensive publicists. Yet he still pours everything he has into his craft, and on any given night you can find him tracking vocals at his cousin’s New Haven studio, warmly greeting fans and friends at a dive bar merch booth or rapping double-time in Japan or Europe for audiences that often don’t speak his language, but are able to see the giant heart at the core of it all.
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DAS_SPICE (A)
Bei “das_Spice” trifft die 1970er analoge Synthesizerlegende KORG MS20 auf einen zeitgenössischen digitalen Jungspund iMac. Über die Platinen und Festplatten hinweg wird wildest soundkopuliert und heraus kommt ein krautrockiger, funkiger, popiger, synthiger, hiphopiger Musikbastard.
https://soundcloud.com/das_spice
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FACTOR
(CA / Fake Four Inc.)
Starting out as a DJ in 1998, Factor has evolved into one of Western Canada’s busiest producers. He is continuously working and touring with high caliber Canadian and American artists including: Awol One, Moka Only, Myka 9, Ceschi, Astronautalis, Sole, Sage Francis, Buck65, Gregory Pepper, Sunspot Jonz, tha liks, Xzibit, Kool Keith, Sadat X, and the Side Road Crew.
https://factorchandelier.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/factorchandelier
https://www.facebook.com/factorchandelier
https://twitter.com/FactorMusic
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FREDDY KNOP
(D/Circle Into Square)
Der umtriebige Berliner Musiker und Musikwissenschaftler Freddy Knop bewegt sich in seinen jüngeren Releases auf Mush Records (Los Angeles) und Circle Into Square (Portland, OR) gern in den Grenzbereichen zwischen Beats und experimenteller Musik. Ein konstantes Thema dabei ist die Arbeit mit glasklaren Field Recordings und Foundsounds, mit klassischen und oft ungewöhnlich bespielten Instrumenten. Die Tendenz zum Verkopften und Konzeptuellen zeigt sich in seinen Solo-Releases ebenso wie in der Musik seines Berliner Trios m()ck, das verfrickelten Post-/Mathrock in loser Orientierung an Bands wie Tortoise, Joan of Arc und Karate spielt. Nachdem Ende seiner Dissertation, in der sich Freddy mit der Ensemblemusik des ungarischen Komponisten Gyoergy Ligeti beschäftigt hat, arbeitet er mittlerweile im eigenen, 2014 gegründeten LISTENERS Mastering Studio in Berlin.
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GESTE
(FR, Equinox records / Fin de siècle)
Geste is an Electronic act from France.
Signed on french label Fin de Siècle as a live electric trio (2011-2014), and also on the german label Equinox Records (2008-2013) as a man-machines solo electronic live act.
Whatever its shape, Geste is here to span the electric and electronic music genres & play hard.
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INFINITE LIVEZ
(big dada / UK)
Infinite Livez is an MC and artist with a wide range of influences from such diverse sources as P-Funk, Sun Ra and Surrealism. His first album “Bush Meat” was released on Big Dada Records in 2004 to immediate critical acclaim in the UK and abroad.
https://infinitelivez.bandcamp.com
http://www.facebook.com/infinite.livez
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JAMESREINDEER
(uk/Mism Records/decorative stamp)
Writer, producer, rapper, visual-artist and film-maker, jamesreindeer is responsible for a vast output of creative enterprises and releases, both collaboratory and solitary for almost ten years. He has subsequently worked with such greats as fbcfabric, Son Lux, 2econd Class Citizen, Egotronic and Frittenbude, and a raft of others, whilst also managing the much-loved underground label decorative stamp, releasing works by artists such as A Band Of Buriers, papervehicle and Murmur Breeze.
Jamesreindeer performed live across North America and Europe and is currently touring in support of his critically acclaimed and award-winning self-produced solo debut release, entitled ‘Six Six Seven’, released via legendary Swiss label Mism Records, and seeing him develop his sound further by included large elements of free-jazz and arabian-influenced rhythms into his already highly-developed, darkly-psychedelic production style.
jamesreindeer.bandcamp.com
jamesreindeer.blogspot.de
soundcloud.com/jamesreindeer
www.facebook.com/jamesreindeermusic
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JOHN SILVER
(radian / snoww crystal / A)
Frozen lake, winter sun. Loss and loneliness. The sound of the northern wind. Scars and bruises. Heart in hope. Blue, red, white. Ambient and drone.
https://soundcloud.com/snowwcrystal
http://snowwcrystal.bandcamp.com
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K-THE-I???
(FAKE FOUR INC. / BIG DADA / MUSH RECORDS / US)
Originally from Cambridge, MA, resident of Los Angeles and currently based in Berlin, all the while a musical nomad of sorts, K-The-I??? has traversed the USA and Europe pushing sonic boundaries with his unique brand of densed-out boom-bap. Armed with a commanding voice and a gritty production aesthetic that recalls Bomb Squad-era Public Enemy and signature Def Jux recordings, he crafts tracks that swell and pulse with an immersive gravity. Whether writing epic love letters or harnessing bugged-out electric currents, K-The-I???’s music has a personality and urgency that demands your attention.
Working with Mush Records, he released "Broken Love Letter" in 2006 before Big Dada released his next record, "Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow," (produced by Thavius Beck) for the world outside the US. Kiki's most recent album, "Synesthesia," for Fake Four Inc, sees him producing instead of MCing.
https://ninjatune.net/artist/k-the-i
fakefour.bandcamp.com/album/synesthesia
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Le Magnetophone
(D/Postrap)
Das Debut „Ne marche plus“ der Antifolkband Le Magnetophone entstand in Wohnzimmerstudio des Frontmanns David auf dem Land im wunderschönen Mandelbachtal. Er und Gitarrist Jonas basteln seit 2011 an der Platte, die sie nun komplett selbst produziert, gemischt und gemastert auf den Markt werfen. Musikalische Maxime war von Anfang an: „Es gibt keine musikalische Maxime.“ Entsprechend abwechslungsreich klingt die Platte und entsprechend wahnwitzig ging die Finanzierung der Selben via Crowdfunding, Wohnzimmerkonzerten und Musikkaugummiautomaten vonstatten.
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MC HOMELESS
(us / milled pavement)
Cleveland’s Scene Magazine named the MC Homeless EP Pink Unicorns one of the best releases of 2005. He would later drop Trapped Under an Ohio Sky, earning him 4 out of 5 stars in Alternative Press, garnering him some international attention which has led to his relentless tour schedule (U.S, Russia, France, Germany, etc) and split 12 inch record with Indonesia’s Homicide on Diseased Records. Homeless is currently writing non-fiction, making electronic punk, noise music and rap.
https://milledpavement.bandcamp.com/album/27-mp035
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MOSCH
(a / Duzz Down San)
Mosch is a music producer and label head of Duzz Down San. In his early years he was part of the Hip Hop crew Beatniks. Later he also discovered his passion for electronic and more experimental stuff, which puts him in-between those sometimes quite contrary worlds. His producer album “Metamorphosis as a Metaphor” was released in February 2013, a rap-EP entitled “Die Vawandlung” and the “the mad ride into calmness”-EP followed and told the next chapters of the story his first album started to reveal.
Come and celebrate his new instrumental-EP “Troposphere” with us. It will drop july 7.
soundcloud.com/mosch
moschstrumental.bandcamp.com
www.duzzdownsan.net/artists/mosch
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MOSHE
(Milled Pavement Records / US)
Moshe unearthed his calling in the early 90s playing underground rap and downtempo within the dank subterranean confines of the remotest dark discos on the dreary Northeastern US seaboard. With record-collector sensibilities, Moshe quickly turned to making his own music and helping others of a similarly challenging sonic bent through his Milled Pavement Records imprint. Moshe’s new vision as a precise purveyor of the putrid: an onslaught of squelched bass, lurid LFOs, distorted drums, crushing drops, and blind-siding transitions between scores of tracks at a stretch. Come ready to be horrifically surprised, sonically subjugated and musically maligned on your local dancefloor. Patrons are encouraged to bring a change of pants; you’ll thank yourself later.
http://www.milledpavement.com/2015/artist/moshe/
https://moshe.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/moshemusic
https://soundcloud.com/moshe-1/
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OLE ZETT
(postrap / D)
Es schwirrt der Geist der Lügenpresse umher. Sogar den Bereich der Musiker und Künstler hat er schon infiltriert. Wieso? Pure Naturwissenschaft. Denn schon rein statistisch gesehen können nicht alle Pressetexte dieser Welt in denen die individuellen Künstler als einzigartig begabt beschrieben werden, recht haben und die Wahrheit sagen. Es gibt aber einen Rapper auf den alle vorstellbaren positiven Attribute des Kunstschaffenden zutreffen: Sein Name ist Ole Zett.
Mit seinen pointiert gesetzten Stakkatoflows, mit Sätzen und Reimen deren Ende erst in der übernächsten Zeile zu finden ist, mal schnell mal langsam vorgetragen, decken seine Raps ein breites Spektrum der Kunst des flowens ab. Seine Texte handeln von dem Geschehen auf dieser Welt, von Frauen, von Wack Mc’s, von der bösen Werbeindustrie, von abwendbarem Pech und lassen sich doch nicht mit einfachen Schlagworten beschreiben.
Er scheut auch vor Genregrenzen nicht zurück. Er rappt auf boom bap, diffusen Klangteppichen aus verstaubten Synthesizern, auf jazzigen Loops, und er hat einzigartig im deutschprachigen Raum, auch über broken beats gerappt. Und nun schickt er sich an über 80s Boogie Funk auf circa 93bpm vom Geschehen in der Welt, von Frauen, von Wack Mc’s, der bösen Werbeindustrie und abwendbaren Pech zu rappen.
Ernsthaft, wenn es auch unglaublich wirkt.
Also wenn der gemeine Musikinteressierte in Zukunft einen Pressetext liest in dem nicht der Name Ole Zett erscheint, lügt der. Bestimmt. Daher, wenn dieser Ole Zett das nächste mal in deiner Stadt ist, komme und staune, denn es wird schlicht und ergreifend „fresh, fresh exciting...“
http://postrap.de/artists/qwer/
https://olezett.bandcamp.com/
https://vimeo.com/118388827
https://soundcloud.com/olezett
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OPEN MIKE EAGLE
(US / Mello Music Group)
As a young adult after graduating with a degree in Psychology, he moved to Los Angeles, joining the Project Blowed collective where he made music and toured with Busdriver, Aceyalone, Abstract Rude, Nocando, and more. He’s also gained notoriety in the world of comedy by being invited by professional funny people (Paul F. Tompkins, Hannibal Buress, Matt Besser/UCB) to perform at their shows. Open Mike Eagle releases rap albums that delight, entertain, and confuse.
mellomusicgroup.bandcamp.com/album/dark-comedy
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OptimisGFN
(us / Gold Holy Water, I had An Accident Records, Midnight Colors)
OptimisGFN aka Twan Beautiful from Cambridge,MA. Been around the scene for over a decade. On various releases (OptimisGFN Sound Paragon EP, Komadose Beta One, Uncommon Records We Are Vol.1, Different Animal Mixtape, Black Heaven King Mixtape) within the last few years. Independent artist also affiliated with legendary Cambridge crew “The Lost Channel”.
https://www.facebook.com/optimisgfn
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P.TAH, MIRAC, TESTA
(a / duzz down san)
P.tah, Mirac und Testa präsentieren live ihre neue EP XANAX, die am 20.2. auf DuzzDownSan erscheint. Innerhalb des letzten Jahres entstanden 5 Songs von P.tah und Mirac, die die gemeinsame Liebe zu Rapshit und Bassmusic widerspiegeln und sich inhaltlich verschiedenen Formen der Angst widmen. Testa, seines Zeichens österreichische Dj-Größe mit eindrucksvollen Produktions-Skills, unterstützt die beiden live und mit vorbildlich gesetzten Effekt- sowie Vocal-Cuts.
Kompakte Raps auf basslastigen Instrumentals, die den mit der “Normal”-EP eingeschlagenen Weg fortsetzt.
Konsequent, kompromisslos, angstbefreiend.
http://ptahmiractesta.bandcamp.com
www.duzzdownsan.net
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PARKWAECHTER HARLEKIN
(Wolkenvorhang / Problembär Records / A)
Parkwaechter Harlekin comes from the small town of Baden near Vienna, where since his childhood he honed his abstract and metaphorical lyrical style and distinct musical production surrounded by vineyards, woods, rich people and suburban boredom. His music is polished sludge and muddy chrome, somewhere between kitschy pop and experimental rap.
He has released two albums „Liebe“ and „Die Unentschlossenheit der Tueren“ in 2010 and 2013 respectively on the Austrian independent Label Problembär Records and a number of free releases and collaborations through out the years.
His new album „Zum Fleiss“ was released on March 10th 2017.
As part of the Wolkenvorhang collective with theclosing since 2013, he had a hand in booking and supporting many of his heroes and inspirations in Vienna including Open Mike Eagle, Serengeti, Busdriver, Bleubird, Cars & Trains among many others.
https://www.facebook.com/parkwaechterharlekin
https://parkwaechterharlekin.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/parkwachter-harlekin
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POSTRAP ALLSTARS
Azabeats & Misanthrop, Ole Zett, Soda, Epilog
(d / postrap)
Man kann das postrap-Kollektiv beim 11. wolkenvorhang endlich wieder live erleben!
azabeats & Misanthrop zelebrieren in ihrer Rapper-und-Producer-Liveshow eigene Songs sowie Neuinterpretationen von Misanthrop-Klassikern. Eine EP und das Folgealbum sind auf dem Weg.
Ole Zett alias Qwer wird Songs vom neuen Album “Push it to the limit” vorstellen, dass vollständig von azabeats produziert wurde und Anfang 2015 über postrap auf Tape erscheinen wird.
Epilogs Musik lebt von Emotionen und baut sich eine eigene Nische irgendwo zwischen Abstract-Hip Hop, Indie, Noise und Elektro.
Soda kann gut und gerne als eines der absoluten Urgesteine der deutschen Alternativ- Rap Szene betrachtet werden und ist sowohl als Produzent, als Rapper, sowie als Dubstep-DJ unterwegs. (Soda musste leider absagen)
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SELBSTLAUT
(a / tontraeger records)
Selbstlaut ist eine Stimme. Eine politische und eine, die man unter Hunderten sofort wiedererkennt. Roh und dramatisch, kraftvoll und herrlich kaputt. Seine Tracks performt Selbstlaut mit der Rage eines verwundeten Tieres, energiegeladen und selbstvergessen. Die englischen Texte sind in Beats gegossene Systemkritik. Sie sezieren Missstände, erforschen menschliche Abgründe, blicken ins Dunkel und setzen all dem trotzig den Glauben an das Gute entgegen. Selbstlauts literarischer Background gibt ihm die nötige sprachliche Brillianz: wie beiläufig streut er augenzwinkernde Verweise auf Shakespeare, Buckowski, Beckett, erzählt narrativ, bindet seine Tracks mit lyrisch geschliffenen Lines. Durchdacht, aber nicht konstruiert; drängend, aber nicht aufdringlich; utopistisch, aber nicht naiv; kritisch, aber nicht belehrend macht Selbstlaut erstklassigen Rap, der auch genreunabhängig einfach verdammt gute Musik ist. Irgendwo zwischen der Tragik von Eyedea und dem Idealismus von Kate Tempest, zwischen Poesie und Punkattitüde. Ein musikalischer Molotowcocktail, eine poetische Brandrede, der Soundtrack für den gesellschaftlichen Neustart.
In Theory you can Hear Me heißt die neue EP. Wer diesen Künstler bereits aus der Kombination Broken Sequence kennt, weiß, dass es sich hierbei keinesfalls um leichtbekömmlichen Pop-Rap handelt. Die Tracks sind kritisch, zornig und lyrisch, die Flows abwechslungsreich und brilliant. Inhaltlich reicht Selbstlauts Spektrum vom politischen Rap über Unterdrückung und Widerstand bis hin zu urbanem Storytelling. Die kraftvollen Beats stammen von Mirac. Die beiden Musiker kennen sich bereits seit 15 Jahren und haben mit In Theory you can Hear Me zum ersten Mal seit 10 Jahren wieder ein längeres Projekt in Angriff genommen. Die Features von Sean Anonymous (Minneapolis) und The Unused Word (Wien) runden das Gesamtbild der EP ab. Und obwohl es sich bei In Theory you can Hear Me lediglich um eine EP handelt, ist sie mit fünf Tracks facettenreicher als manches Album.
https://selbstlaut.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/selbstlautmc
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SERENGETI
(ANTICON / CAVANAUGH / YONI & GETI / US)
Lest you mistake Serengeti for a joke artist, heed the truth that the prolific Chicagoan has written some of the most thoughtful and intricately crafted rhymes in recent memory. From self-deprecating and sorrowful looks at addiction and image transformation to the mind-bending art-is-realer-than-life adventures of Kenny Dennis he's anything but trite or superficial. He’s also collaborated with celebrated underground artists like Open Mike Eagle, Sufjan Stevens, Son Lux, Matthewdavid, and Yoni Wolf of Why? Robert Christgau, the dean of American music critics, has given all but one of his records "A" scores and openly wondered: "Is there anyone else who can do this?”
https://serengeti.bandcamp.com
https://openmikeeagle360.bandcamp.com/album/time-materials
https://graveface.bandcamp.com/album/doctor-my-own-patience
https://www.anticon.com/artist/serengeti
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SIMS
(us / doomtree)
Leben, Verlust, und Tanzen. Sex, Liebe, und fraktale Mathematik. Letzten Winter schrieb Sims More Than Ever in den Nachwehen einer Zeit die ihn persönlich hart auf die Probe stellte: Tod und Krankheit in den engsten Kreisen seiner Familie und seinen Freunden. Er beschloss die einzig akzeptable Antwort auf großen Verlust ist große Freude – dringende, trotzige, kompromisslose Freude. Die 13 Nummern auf More Than Ever laden die Zuhörer dazu ein den Weg dorthin und das Ausleben davon mitzuerleben.
Sims ist in der Stadt Minneapolis aufgewachsen, einem aktiven Teil der äußerst lebhaften und leidenschaftlich eigenständigen Hip-Hop-Szene in Minnesota. In seiner Schulzeit befreundete er eine Gruppe an Menschen, die in weiterer Folge gemeinsam Doomtree gründeten – ein siebenköpfiges Rap-Kollektiv, dass mittlerweile für die spannendsten, unklassifizierbarsten Releases dieser Epoche verantwortlich ist. Im Laufe der letzten 10 Jahre veröffentlichte Sims eine Vielzahl an Projekten, sei dies nun als Solokünstler (Lights Out Paris, Bad Time Zoo, Wild Life EP, Field Notes), oder als Teil des Kollektivs Doomtree (No Kings, All Hands, u.a.). Sein Tourneen führten ihn von Pittsburgh bis nach Prag, und auf Festivals wie das Glastonbury, das Riot Fest, und SXSW. Er hat seinen Ruf wieder und wieder als nachdenklicher Künstler mit einer unaufhaltsamen Liveshow bestätigt. (Jedes Mal wenn er das Publikum dazu auffordert „both hands up – now both feet up“ haben Besucher_Innen auf der ganzen Welt den Boden ächzen gespürt.)
Für die unbeugsame und abenteuerliche Produktion auf More Than Ever zeigen sich Lazerbeak, Paper Tiger und ICETEP verantwortlich, die den Grad zwischen keine Gefangenen zu nehmen und vorsichtiger Zurückhaltung mit Bravur meistern, zerschmetternde Drums und weitläufige Klanglandschaften. Nach langen Tagen und Nächten entstieg Sims seinen Keller im Süden von Minneapolis mit dem Ehrlichsten was er jemals aufgenommen hat – er bietet seinen Ängsten die Stirn, kämpft mit seinen Unsicherheiten, und ladet uns mit More Than Ever mit Swag, Witz und Rap-Skills auf diese Reise ein. Monumentale Ideen werden präzise auf epische Kopfnicker gepackt ohne dabei zu überrumpeln. Mit Songs wie Brutal Dance oder OneHundred präsentiert uns Sims seine ernste Mission, während seine haarscharfen Wortspiele, sein genauer Einblick, und seine blitzartigen Seitenhiebe ihn davon abhalten sich selbst allzu ernst zu nehmen. Das Ergebnis ist eine Achtbahnfahrt von den höchsten Spitzen bis hin zu den tiefsten Tälern, mit all der Liebe und der Hoffnung die dazwischen liegt.
https://twitter.com/SIMSdoomtree
https://www.youtube.com/simsdoomtree
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Skrapez
(us / I had An Accident Records)
Skrapez is without a doubt the most rebellious hip-hop group in San Diego. DIY almost to a fault, the duo doesn’t do the normal things most local acts do, like maintain a Facebook page, record studio albums or curry favor with movers and shakers behind the San Diego Music Awards. Instead, they forge their own, distinctly hellish path, terrorizing unsuspecting audiences with brash soundscapes, clanging breakbeats and vicious turntable scratches.
Formed in the early ’00s, the duo—Jon Calzo, aka Tenshun and David Lampley, aka Psychopop, is essentially the missing link between San Diego’s two noisiest punk and rap movements.
Text by Peter Holslin “San Diego City Beat”
http://artistecard.com/skrapez
https://www.discogs.com/label/71357-Skrapez
https://soundcloud.com/10shun-tenshun
https://soundcloud.com/psychopop-skrapez
http://ihadanaccidentrecords.com/album/witch-craft
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SOLE & DJ PAIN 1 (USA)
2 Jahre nach der Veröffentlichung ihres gefeierten Albums Death Drive, bringen, der Anticon Mitbegründer Sole & der Hip-Hop Platin-Produzent DJ Pain 1, ihr Nachfolger-Album Nihilismo raus. Nihilismo ist ein revolutionäres Hip-Hop-Album, das den Nihilismus des modernen Lebens in Frage stellt, im späten Stadium des Kapitalismus und einer Welt, die keine Zukunft zu haben scheint. Mit Beiträgen von Punk Rock Ikone Chris Hanna von Propagandhi, dem anarchistischen Autor Scott Crow, Decomposure, Ceschi, Jah Boogie, Church Fire und The Delta Mirror verschiebt Nihilismo die Grenzen des Genres.
http://www.soleone.org/
https://sole.bandcamp.com/album/sole-dj-pain-1-nihilismo
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SQUALLOSCOPE
(Seayou Records / Fake Four Inc. / A)
Squalloscope is Anna Kohlweis, who exists as a multimedia artist, illustrator, music producer, composer, songer and singwriter based in Austria. Between 2006 and 2011 she was also known as Paper Bird, a name under which she released three full-length albums. Anna Kohlweis works as a solitary force on songwriting, production, recording, artwork, and music videos and is dedicated to rhymes, multi-layered choirs, field recordings, loops, vaguely sloppy beats, the rage of her thirties, the intensely personal, and quite possibly the slightly wacky.
Squalloscope releases include an album named “Soft Invasions” and two EPs, “Desert” and “Dispenser Box” (Seayou), as well as the self-released EP “Unpleasant Design”. Her fifth full-length album “Exoskeletons For Children” will be released in fall 2017 on Seayou Records and Fake Four Inc.
https://soundcloud.com/squalloscope
https://www.facebook.com/Squalloscope
https://twitter.com/AnnaKohlweis
videos:
https://youtu.be/GvmHXo_zfoU?list=PLnOcCKw3x_cxtCJID580UN_j-ebT7LvOL
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STRAW HAIR (F)
STRAW HAIR is Hip Hop made by a nerd who was cradled in music since day One. Real music. Music that laughts at the face of genres and labels: from Folk to Hardcore Punk through Jazz, everything can be sampled in an MPC. He is now ready to take his music on stage: where his personal brand of Hip Hop is brought to life by sweat and noise.
https://soundcloud.com/dany-von-del-baut
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Swordplay and Pierre the motionless
(USA/FR, Dora Dorovitch Records)
Der aggressive Rap von Swordplay wird kombiniert mit den düsteren Beats von Pierre the Motionless zu einer eigenartigen Kreatur zwischen Jazz, Folk und Underground Hip Hop, die Genregrenzen überschreitet, biegt und bricht.
doradorovitch.bandcamp.com/album/tap-water
Swordplay & Pierre the Motionless: When the Hurricane Comes from Kromatic Media on Vimeo.
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TAKE CARE OF ELECTRIC SHEEP (A)
Der Output von Take Care of Electric Sheep kommt mit einer derartigen Wucht daher, dass im Falle einer Veröffentlichung ein Warnhinweis wie »Parental Advisory – Explicit Beats« wohl unvermeidbar scheint. Die Grundlage dieser elektrifizierenden Dampfwalze bildet akustisches Instrumentarium, durch radikale Bearbeitung mit analogen und digitalen Synths, E-Orgeln und Drumcomputern durch den elektronischen Fleischwolf gedreht und dabei gerne mal in diversen 8 bit und Lo-Fi Sounds aufgeht.
https://soundcloud.com/takecareofelectricsheep
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TELL
(D/Postrap)
Bei Tell, heißt der Le Magnetophone David dann Nimrod und serviert mit Trip “Das jüngste Mikrowellengericht”, so der Titel des gemeinsamen Albums. Alltägliches verschlüsselt in anspruchsvoller Metaphorik und erzählt in schnellen Flows, zeitverzögerte Ohrschnecken für ausdauernde Hörer, die belohnt werden wollen.
tell1.bandcamp.com/album/das-j-ngste-mikrowellengericht
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TENSHUN
(us / skrapez, small but hard)
Tenshun (real name Jon Calzo) is an eclectic turntable/electronic music artist and beat maker from San Diego CA, head of Skrapez label and part of the Creatures and Kilowattz crews. For the past two years, Calzo has been blurring the lines of musical genres with his extensively wide range of influences, mixing his own music with hip-hop, funk, polish jazz and scratch-dub. A very brief list of his influences include David Tudor, John Cage, The Executioners and Qbert.
https://soundcloud.com/10shun-tenshun
http://shootyourfuckingheadoff.tumblr.com/
http://tenshun.webs.com/
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THECLOSING
(Wolkenvorhang / Circle Into Square / A)
theclosing is a Vienna-based music and art duo that consists of Daniela Palma Caetano Auer and Alexander Hengl. Lukas Lehner / TSI was their third member until 2015. They have been working towards the goal of making beguiling and original electronic music by mixing analog and digital sources that evades easy genre classification since 2004.
Their first official EP "the way to M" and their self-titled debut album were released on the American independent labels Circle Into Square and Fake Four Inc. Lately their sound became more influenced by ambient and noise elements, which you can hear on their album “Live at Beatmaker Sessions”.
They have played support shows for artists like Dälek, Zavoloka, Open Mike Eagle and Serengeti and collaborated with K-The-I???, Audio88, Babelfishh, Bleubird or Cars & Trains among others. Ever since 2013 they also organize the concert series Wolkenvorhang in their hometown Vienna, together with rapper and producer Parkwaechter Harlekin.
At their upcoming shows they will present new material from their forthcoming albums.
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THE UNUSED WORD
(A / Duzz Down San)
ist Produzentin, Sängerin und Multi-Instrumentalistin. Wenn Sie mit ihren Fender Rhodes die Bühne betritt zerkocht sie in einem Kessel wummernder Beats Elemente aus Hip- und Trip Hop, Soul und Nu Jazz zur Unendlichkeit, einem dicken Brei ohne Genregrenzen.
Ihre Debut EP ∞ (infinity) erschien im März 2013 auf einem der innovativsten und vermutlich dem produktivsten österreichischen Label der letzten Jahre, Duzz Down San, die Nächste "the THINK EP" steht bereits in den Startlöchern.
http://theunusedword.bandcamp.com/
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TSI
(DUZZ DOWN SAN / A)
TSI ist ein in Wien ansässiger Musiker, Produzent und DJ. Seit 10 Jahren sucht er nach ungewöhnlichen Sounds, Rythmen und Stimmungen in seiner Musik ohne dabei die Basis Hip Hop zu vergessen. TSI steht für rohe, melodische, oft spacige Beats die in andere Welten entführen, zum Träumen anregen sollen und sich im Spannungsfeld zwischen klassischem Boom Bap, Ambient, Electronica und Jazz bewegen. Eine gewisse LOFI - Ästhetitk ist dabei nicht zu überhören und steht dabei im Kontrast zur gängigen Clubmusik. Sein Debut Album "groks & microns" ist 2014 auf dem WIener Label Duzz Down San erschienen, zahlreiche Produktionen für diverse Compilations und auch Rapper wie Mosch, form oder Audio88 sind gefolgt.
https://soundcloud.com/tsibeats
https://www.facebook.com/tsibeats
https://tsibeats.bandcamp.com/
http://duzzdownsan.net/artists/tsi-2/
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WALTER GROSS
(BLACK BOX TAPES / NEW LOS ANGELES / I HAD AN ACCIDENT RECORDS, SMALL BUT HARD / US)
Walter Gross is a force to be reckoned with. He is a filmmaker, visual artist, and beast of beats. In fact, "beats" doesn't do him any justice, Walter writes compositions; gorgeous songs with pop sensibilities, they just happen to sound like they've been dragged to hell and back. In the words of LA Record about his album Gøner (out on New Los Angeles), "This is some nakedly Naked Lunch-ian cut-up post-apocalyptic electronic noisemusik and it's gonna make you nervous – perfect for an album dropping the day before Halloween."
https://waltergross.bandcamp.com/album/vestige
https://newlos.bandcamp.com/album/g-ner-2
https://waltergross.bandcamp.com
https://www.facebook.com/WGREC
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WE ARE DISCO DOOM REVENGE
(FR, Kaometry Records)
Digital, analog und menschlich sind die drei Grundlagen von We Are Disco Doom Revenge, oder wie Bandmitglied Cisco sagen würde „Electro hip-hop shoegaze“.
..und vor kurzem wurde angekündigt, dass James Reindeer (UK, decorative stamp) das Liveset ergänzen wird!
store.kaometry.com/album/connect-the-machine-to-the-lips
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YAWL
(Anette Records / D / US)
Rapper Ancient Mith aus den wilden Weiten der USA und Produzent Dot aus dem schön beschaulichen Augsburg kennen sich schon seit Jahren, entstammen sie doch beide der weltweit recht gut vernetzten Independent Rapszene. So waren sie bereits 2014 mit ihren jeweiligen Soloprojekten auf ausgedehnter Europatour und schmiedeten während dessen bereits erste Pläne für YAWL. Über das Internet intensivierten sie ihre Zusammenarbeit, verbrachten unzählige Stunden im Austausch, feilten gemeinsam an Aufnahmen, Songstrukturen, sendeten Ideen und Entwürfe über den Teich und wieder zurück.
YAWL klingt subtil düster, riecht nach Leidenschaft und Angst und schmeckt bitter-süß.
https://weareyawl.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/yawlofficial
https://twitter.com/weareyawl
https://www.instagram.com/weareyawl/
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ZAVOLOKA
(UA / Kvitnu)
Kateryna Zavoloka, eine Soundkünstlerin aus der Ukraine, produziert experimentelle elektronische Musik, die von einem sehr eigenständigen Stil geprägt ist. Sie kombiniert fragile Elektronik und Field Recordings mit treibenden Rythmen zu starken Songgeflechten, die zwischen Härte und subtiler Schönheit oszillieren.
Ihr erstes Album erschien 2003. Neben Veröffentlichungen auf Zeromoon und dem österreichischen Label Laton, ist ihre musikalische Heimat vor allem auf Kvitnu zu verorten, für das sie zudem als Designerin tätig ist.
Zavoloka arbeitete in Kollaborationen mit Kotra, Seefeel’s Mark Clifford oder Feldermelder. Oft werden ihre Shows mit Livevisuals von Laetitia Morais begleitet. Sie war außerdem an mehreren genreübergreifenden Kunstprojekten beteiligt und spielte als Support für Aphex Twin.
http://zavoloka.com
https://zavoloka.bandcamp.com
https://soundcloud.com/zavoloka
http://kvitnu.com
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