Artist : Dr. C. Stein
Title : Selected Works 1983-1988
Genre : Electronic
Year : 2017
Date : 02/2018
Bitrate : 320 kbps
Tracks : 11
Label : Jj Fuhouse
Source : WEB
Length : 36:38 min
Size : 84,0 MB
Tracklist:
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01.Golden Magic 05:54
02.Lekker Rustig 03:08
03.El Syncro 03:29
04.Aase Rasmussen 03:49
05.He Is with Us 02:59
06.Monte Carlo 1970 03:46
07.Mute Hahahahaha 03:07
08.Johnson Wax 03:28
09.Vole 02:44
10.Deutschland Rundfahrt 01:37
11.Petit Synth D'amour 02:37
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36:38 min
Dr. C. Stein is the name Hanjo Erkamp used for his solo work.
Being a big part of the Trumpett tapes-family, he was also a
member of the industrial outfit Doxa Sinistra and a crazy
studio collective called Ende Shneafliet. This band was
responsible for more then 70 tracks of minimal wave madness,
not bad knowing they existed not much longer than two years.
Trumpett tapes was a tape label operating from the island of
Texel and the village of Heiloo in North Holland between 1981
and 1985. They were spewing out releases made by a changing
combination of people, all being part of a circle of five
like-minded souls: Frank Brinkhuis, Edwin Brinkhuis, Jan Popma,
Brian Dommisse and the doctor himself: Hanjo Erkamp. The
Trumpett members operated from their homestudio where they
managed to create a new electronic sound. Being more close to
the North Sea then any dark urban area, their take on the doomy
template of New Wave was rather airy and often cheeky, without
losing the minimal stomping force and brutalist fun found in
home taping. They created tunes that were as strong, if not
better, then the ones made by their better known peers.
From 1997 on, Trumpett tapes became the Trumpett label and
started releasing CD-RÆs filled not only with this old tape-
work but also with selections of well kept nuggets from a
staggering vault of unreleased eighties recordings. With the
new love for early synthesizer music and all things minimal and
wavy, TrumpettÆs fame was getting bigger and labels like Vinyl
on Demand, Enfant Terrible and Treue um Treue began releasing
parts of this treasure on limited vinyl.
Around 1985, Hanjo moved his C. Stein bedroom studio from
Heinloo to Amsterdam and created the Studio Alte Zielstrasse.
ThatÆs where he fine-tuned his satin sound and kept on
producing until 1988. The Doctor was getting it on, big city
style without ever forgetting the bright open space of his
early youth.
Not long after that, this big scientist quietly disappeared in
pinky clouds of mystery. Strangely enough not one of these
songs were released during these times. They were left on the
shelf without a chance to shine in itÆs own time.
The Stein-sound is more on the loungey tip of the electronic
spectrum, without leaving the club or dwelling too long on the
wrong side of pastel-colored kitsch. You can hear the voice of
New Beat whispering in some of these tracks, nicely gripping
the end of the decennium in a gracious manner.
The healing is real. Just get the needle in and give yourself a
shot of this doctors pink plastic medicin.
All tracks written, played and produced by Hanjo Erkamp (Ende
Shneafliet/Doxa Sinistra) at the C. Stein Bedroom Studio,
Heiloo and Studio Alte Zielestrasse, Amsterdam, between 1983
and 1988. Remastered by Ruud Lekx at Rude66. All tracks
copyright control. Artwork by Jj funhouse. Released by Jj
funhouse in 2017 under exclusive license from Trumpett, Den
Burg, Texel, The Netherlands. Additional Trumpett reference
number for this release: TRUM 0958.
http://www.jjfunhouse.com/catalogue/jj014