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ARTiST....: gudrun gut
TiTLE.....: i put a record on
LABEL.....: Monika Enterprise
GENRE.....: indie
SOURCE....: cdda
QUALiTY...: VBR / joint-stereo
SiZE......: 55,6 MB
REL.DATE..: 02-08-2007
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01] move me 03:54
02] rock bottom riser 05:29
03] the land 04:30
04] cry easy 03:46
05] girlboogie 6 02:58
06] blatterwald 04:04
07] last night 03:44
08] sweet 05:13
09] pleasuretrain 06:07
10] the wheel 03:56
11] tip tip 03:18
TOTAL TiME : 46:59 min
Monika Enterprise (MONIKA55CD)
This item will be released on April 2nd, 2007
Gudrun Gut is used to juggling a variety of
projects. Such multi-tasking has to a large extent
become second nature to her. Just how she manages
to coordinate her weekly radio show "Oceanclub
Radio" for the Berlin station Radio Eins, her work
as label manager at Monika Enterprise and
extensive travels as a DJ remains her secret.
Perhaps more so than any other artist, Gudrun Gut
is rooted in the Berlin musical underground. She
is a founding member of the Berlin bands Mania D.,
Malaria! and Matador and long before the wall fell
she was a member of Einsturzende Neubauten. The
Berlin listings magazine Zitty honoured her in a
recent punk retrospective as did the CD/book
project "Verschwende Deine Jugend" (trans. waste
your youth). She has released a pop album "Members
of the Ocean Club", is the musical part of a
spoken word project with Canadian Myra Davies and
is increasingly active in art exhibition projects.
With so many references to her credit, it's a
wonder that "I Put A Record On" is Gudrun's debut
album as a solo artist - previously she has
produced more as a team worker. That the album is
coming out on her own Monika Enterprise rather
than any big label makes it all the better.
"I Put A Record On" takes its time. An atmosphere
is delicately built up which despite the albums
great diversity is never lost. Quite the contrary:
the listener is unconsciously pulled along into
the moods and associations evoked by Gudrun Gut
and the way she plays with different sources.
Gudrun's prefered style is a kind of minimal
techno wih a warm sound and a dark tembre. Titles
such as "Rock Bottom Riser" or "Last Night" are
swinging mid-tempo numbers. "Move Me" is a club
compatible cross between Polka and Tango, while
"The Wheel" is some kind of hip-hop fairy tale.
The whole thing has a hypnotic flexibility and
nonchalance. The tracks are loop orientated and
disarmingly concise, on top of which almost every
track undergoes a continuous, hardly perceptible
mutation - this really shows the artists
cunningness. "I put a record onô pulsates in
imaginary black light. This quiet stillness gives
the album a lascivious quality which is reinforced
by the way Gudrun Gut's voice murmurs in one's
ear. If you've ever heard Oceanclub Radio you will
know about this.
The opener "Move Me" was released as a 7inch on
Earsugar Jukebox and caused quite a stir
everywhere from Pitchfork to Martin Gore.
Rock Bottom Riser - a cover version of a Smog tune
- came about during office hours with monika
associate Uta Heller: a spontaneous sing along in
the monika office, and the recording was finished
off with Matt Elliot singing the male vocal.
Malaria!- and Matador-companion Manon P. Duursma
guests as co-writer of the dub-blues tracks
"Pleasuretrain" and "The Wheel". And the original
version of "Girl Boogie" already appeared as a
contribution to the "Girl Monster" Compilation on
Chicks On Speed Records.
The album was recorded and produced by Gudrun Gut
while her Oceanclub colleague Thomas Fehlmann
mixed some tracks. As a visual bonus, the CD also
contains an edited version of the video "Celleô
taken from the Guatarist installation, which
Gudrun Gut did together with celebrated artist
Pipilotti Rist for the Sonambiente Festival in
Berlin, 2006.
Experienced musician Gudrun Gut allows her new
album to radiate with beautiful melancholy like a
strong perfume. "I put a record on" is an
invitation to let oneself fall backwards into her
warm pulse.
Buy me if you love me :)