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Artist.....: Extrawelt
Album......: Unknown
Type.......: Album (Retail)
Genre......: Electronic
Style......: Electronic / Techno / Minimal
Label......: Cocoon Recordings
CatalogNr..: CORCD044
Url........: https://www.cocoon.net
Rel.date...: 28.11.2018
Str.date...: 26.10.2018
Source.....: CDDA
Grabber....: EAC 1.0 beta 3
Encoder....: FLAC 1.3.1 -8 -V
Quality....: VBR 854kbps / 44.1kHz / Stereo / Comp. Ratio: 60.5%
Tracks.....: 12
Size.......: 343.41 MB
Length.....: 58:21
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Tracklist
01. We Are The Asteroid! 03:56
02. Fischmarkt On Acid 03:10
03. Auslöser 05:20
04. Ort Und Impuls 04:51
05. Runway Hitchhiker 05:56
06. Die Vorahnung 04:50
07. St. Morley 05:04
08. Under the Fridge 05:00
09. Das Diktat 04:43
10. Streetwise 05:07
11. Die Zitrone Der Schöpfung 05:17
12. Herzstück 05:07
Total Time: 58:21
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Release Notes
Extrawelt need no introduction. They started from Psytrance! The brief below
is from the label's website.
Extrawelt are Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe. Both have been around for
about 40 years, and making music together for half that time. They enjoy
normal things and are ashamed of their carbon footprints due to the large
number of flights they take to bring them to their gigs. Unknown, is the tenth
studio album from the producer team, and the fourth under the name Extrawelt.
Its largely devoted to another side of their creations.
Something's different. Well, Extrawelt releases always have been somehow
different yet, despite becoming instantly absorbed into the familiar Extrawelt
atmosphere when listening, I can't help but notice again: something's very
different. Feet are bouncing, mind is traveling and my fingers speed across
the keyboard like they're on fire. I'm trying to imagine what it would be like
to listen to Unknown with closed eyes in the midst of a throbbing concert
instead of through laptop speakers. Listening to Extrawelt on crappy speakers
is anyway never a good idea, as it really deserves the backing of the loudest
and best possible sound system. With this, I leave the audio confines of my
low-fi laptop world and get in the car. Cranking up the stereo, I cruise
around aimlessly - lost in appreciation of the music from within the bubble of
my metal highway-pod on wheels. I've got the urge to speed up - which is
surprising considering I'm a usually a very sensible driver. The bass and the
beats blow up in my face. Something uncluttered. Something broken. Something
grimy. Something sideways. Something undeniably Extrawelt, yet inherently
different to what we've come to expect from the Hamburg pair. I don't plan on
getting all emotional, but something about this twelve track journey fits
together so superbly it's hard not to be overcome with at least a few shivers
up the spine. With profound bass lines and cutting drums, I keep coming back
to these sounds. Again and again these sounds. On one hand you feel that you
know them, on the other hand you don't know them at all. Is that a synthesiser
or a voice? Is it rotating or just linear reinvented? Whatever the answer, my
mind goes astray. Whether this is exotic or native doesn't matter: all I know
is that it's great. Meanwhile I've reached track seven and now I realise
what's been different all along - it isn't techno! Somehow, they've
accomplished staying true to themselves despite deploying not even one
four-to-the floor-bass drum. Admittedly, you can find a couple of similar
tracks on a few of their previous releases, but here you've got a whole album
full of it. I gotta listen to track seven again. As a music writer I'm asking
myself: what genre of music is this actually? Neo-Electro? Alternative
Electronica? Emo-EDM?? Ah, whatever - these guys don't like to be put into
boxes anyway. It's simply Extrawelt.
As I talk to Arne and Wayan later on, I discover that the tracks on Unknown
began simmering more than ten years ago without any goal or idea regarding if
they'd end up releasing them. Come 2018 though, the time felt right to
dedicate an entire album to this side of their musical spectrum. This also
explains how Unknownappeared so quickly after their most recent LP `Fear Of An
Extra Planet'. As the guys mention "We just felt these tracks a lot when we
made them, and never cared really if anyone would be interested in it".
We're definitely interested!
Yours sincerely, Cocoon
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est. 2001