The German artist’s – LA DEMEURE; il y a péril en la demeure LP to be first in a five-part series of releases.
The revered Raster-Noton artist to release a fifth studio album on the experimental German label.
Dasha Rush’s career over the last 10 years has built up steadily and she’s showing no signs of slowing down by delivering a full length album on one of the most discerning experimental music labels in the world. Sleepstep: Sonar Poems or my Sleepless Friends for Raster-Noton is a gargantuan effort spanning 16 tracks that are full of paranoid and claustrophobic, yet undeniably seductive compositions. It’s the first album the Fullpanda boss has put out since I Run Iron I Run Ironic six years ago, and it showcases new dimensions to her continually expanding aesthetic. There is a moodiness and experimental edge that goes far beyond the dancefloor oriented brand of industrial techno Rush has become synonymous with, both under own name and as LADA with partner Lars Hemmerling, and as the album’s title suggest, poetry plays an important role.
After a string of EPs Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender present their project’s debut album.
Raster-Noton will issue Solens Arc by the Berlin-based producer next month.
Is there any more obvious proof of techno’s enduring appeal than the Diamond Version series? A collaboration between Raster Noton founders Carsten Nicolai and Olaf Bender, it transposes their abstractions from the living room to the dance floor, and in so doing opens up a new chapter for techno music. Admittedly, there has been an awful lot of sub-standard abstract and industrial focused garbage released in the past three years, but this criticism could just as easily be levelled at all of techno and house music’s sub-genres. For example, it would not be difficult to find a swathe of poor loop techno or bland minimal house.
Revisiting Aoki Takamasa’s back catalogue leaves you wondering why it’s taken so long for German label Raster-Noton to secure an album from the Japanese producer and keen photographer – he was recently responsible for NHK’s Split 12” on PAN. The two met once back in 2009 with Takamasa’s Rn-Rhythm-Variations EP, a release that saw Takamasa join a burgeoning fleet of Japanese producers to issue music through Raster-Noton; namely Yellow Magic Orchestra legend Ryuichi Sakamoto, minutiae-synthesis doyen Ryoji Ikeda and the pop-meets-warped electronica act Kyoka – whose music the aforementioned Sakamoto described as sounding “like a toy box turned upside-down”.
In March 2011, sound poet Anne-James Chaton released Événements 09 on Raster-Noton. The Frenchman was an unknown quantity within the electronic music community, but releasing an album on Alva Noto’s electro-experimental label opened up his work to an entirely new audience.