The Budapest producer brings some “punch-drunk ambient techno” to Lee Gamble’s label with the incoming ZZM EP.
Stream the Budapest artist’s remix on his compatriot from the forthcoming Appendix 12″ for Shabu Recordings.
The Hungarian producer’s new single for Proto Sites gets the visual treatment.
Preview the upcoming split release 12″ featuring the collective talents of Basic House, Route 8, S. Olbricht and Patricia & Lumigraph’s Black Mold project.
If you take a peep at Hungarian producer Stephan Olbricht’s discography, it reveals a sizable body of work issued forth since 2010, and yet this appearance on the ever-strengthening Lobster Theremin represents the first excursion he has had on vinyl (at least under this moniker). Instead the man from Budapest has been more concerned with cassette-based releases, including a decent salvo of LPs, for the likes of Opal Tapes and his own Farbwechsel, but it was the collaborative release with Norwell for Cleaning Tapes that flew him onto the radar of this particular reviewer. There’s no escaping the fact that Olbricht’s sound is a snug fit on spools of tape, with all the dusty trappings you would expect of a contemporary lo-fi producer, but with this latest release there is a sense that some consideration has been made to nudge at least some of the music towards a more public, shared experience away from the private trappings of his usual format.
The Farbwechsel co-founder will release the Emtee cassette through the Turin-via-Berlin label next month.
The Hungarian artist provides a taste of the next compelling release from videogamemusic.
In this month’s Scratching The Surface column, Scott Wilson explores the producers orbiting around Budapest’s Farbwechsel label, whose focus on Hungarian artists is incubating some interesting music.
In 2014 we’re not short of tape labels and lo-fi sonics. The likes of Opal Tapes and Astro:Dynamics have, over the past few years, represented the high water mark for leftfield experiments in the grottiest by-products of electronic music production, albeit with a healthy side line in more grounded fare. While there will always be a certain degree of fatigue and disenchantment that goes with the less inspired parts of such surges in musical practices, the trends also yield more than their fair share of gems that will outlast the buzz. Cleaning Tapes as a label has on the whole been a good example of this, while individually Hungarian artists Norwell and Stephan Olbricht have carved out their own corner of the playing field. With their forces combined, Untitled has wound up as a particularly captivating exercise in dusty atmospherics and harried rhythms.
Stream The Cyclist’s remix from S. Olbricht and Norwell’s upcoming tape for the London label.