┌───────────┐
│ │
│ ██ ██ │
│ ██ ██ │
■■│ ██ ██ │■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
■■│ ██ ██ │■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
│ █ █ │
│ │
└───────────┘
artist ■■ cloinc
release ■■ play ground part 1
year ■■ 2001
genre ■■ electronic
label ■■ sellwell productions
catalogue ■■ sw009
website ■■ www.sellwell.de
date ■■ 21-mar-2003
quality ■■ 192kbps/44,1khz
source ■■ vinyl
■■ tracklist ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
a1 - pixi-lated dancing 4:23
a2 - punch card shuffle.mp3 3:43
b1 - lonely bits.mp3 4:47
b2 - sandcake.mp3 4:44
playtime ■■ 00h 17m 37s
■■ comment ■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■■
the duo cloinc, that is andrΘ estermann and jan bruhnke aka
electric sheep, was formed one year ago at the beginning of the
new millenium. ten years before, neither of the artists would have
dreamt of teaming up with the other.
in those days of smiley shirts and funny disco pills when house
and techno were still in their infancy, jan and andrΘ set out for
their voyage. the predilections of older sisters and gay
hairdressers - depeche mode, human league, kraftwerk, wham, ebm
and acid house - left their imprints on a passion now deeply
rooted in their souls. both started their careers with the typical
roland beat and bass box groove classics, staging illegal techno
parties in humid basements where they squirted their musical acid
and wallowed in the blissful bathtub of analogue bubbles.
cables, sync interfaces, knobs, controls and consoles plus the
general midi become their best friends. the old joysticks and the
5" floppies of the home-computing era soon fall prey to oblivion
in dusty corners of former children┤s rooms which are now
converted into musical headquarters. tender electomagnetic fields
and the diminutive lightshow of led displays on pattern sequencers
become part of their vital functions. they are born to programme -
and they understand, there is no music without the machine.
andrΘ estermann is lucky. thanks to the dutch label "djax up
beats", his first project, "analogical", finds a vinyl glide path
to disco heaven. andrΘ┤s records are on the shelves of jan┤s
friends and the country clubs resound with the clatter of his
electronic delights, but still they haven┤t met.
only when both of them are signed to the label "musik aus strom",
run by michael fakesch and chris de luca of "funkst÷rung"-fame,
they have come full circle and are united under the cloak of
modern electronica. influenced by english labels like skam, warp
and reflex, in germany too a little family of young men full of
creative impulse emerges, willing to break up the same old grooves
of electronica and move on towards idm (intelligent dance music).
jan bruhnke┤s "locust lunch ep" is put forth and andrΘ estermann
sweetens the air with "musik aus strom no. 6".
andrΘ and jan have found a home with "musik aus strom", where they
move in high circles. with artists like freeform, boards of canada
and crunch it┤s a pleasure to rewrite a chapter of musical
history. apart from that, andrΘ starts a project named aemic
(andrΘ estermann - michael fakesch) on the same label, while jan
meets new friends in ulm, where his records come out on bernd
karner┤s label "heimelektro ulm".
the two electrominds meet for the first time in 1998, in an
inferno of cloudburst, mud and deluge called the
sunflower-festival. like atlantis, the central ambient area goes
down in the flood and the crΦme de la crΦme of the german-british
idm-scene goes sos. jega, mike paradinas, autechere and boards of
canada melt into the swamp-thing rushing to rescue its equipment,
and electric sheep drags a less weatherproof andrΘ estermann on
slippery converse chucks out of divers mudholes. after that, they
become electronic blood brothers forever.
in 1999, at the "musik aus strom nacht" during the interference
festival at the berlin love parade, the two electronic handymen
are reunited ten meters from the last relics of the berlin wall.
here they beget baby cloinc. the munich-essen-route between their
hometowns is soon an everyday experience, and before long the
first cloinc ep comes out on the young munich label "sellwell".
andrΘ┤s and jan┤s musical styles blend to a motley lucky bag
filled with complex kaput beats, bucking, prancing and dying like
an animal creation; a tongue-in-cheek break beat rendezvous, weird
structures iced with honey pop-tunes - a keepsake from the olden
times of cosy computer games. cloinc┤s songs don┤t always follow
the rules of musical composition, but nevertheless andrΘ and jan
stick to structure; no nameless tracks are created but stories are
told. vocal scraps and samples loosen up their songs and make way
for imagination. it┤s evident that both artists still belong to
the pre-laptop musicians┤ guild and that they make a point of
celebrating the joy of synth even in today┤s plug-in jungle. on
the other hand, they use latest technology to create their own
plug-ins - to go where no man ever listened before. cloinc┤s first
lp, "lonely bits" is due october 2001 (sellwell productions,
munich).