HYBRID SERIES 10-Year Anniversary Hybrid-Vinyl Series:
Pye Corner Audio, Leyland Kirby, Excepter, sonic boom, Bill Kouligas, Vindicatrix, Kemiallysät Ystävät, Ensemble Economique, Alien Radio, Black To Comm
25.03.2013 Alexander Rishaug Australian Tour 2013:
19.04. Tin Sheds Gallery, Sydney
20.04. Waiting Room, Brisbane
23.04. Make it Up Club, Bar Open, Melbourne
24.04. Avantwhatever Monthly, The Alderman, Melbourne
28.04. Pretty Gritty, 107 Projects, Sydney
07.03.2013 Black To Comm is touring Switzerland in March:
20.03.2013, Cave12, Genève (w/ Decimus, Rhyton)
21.03.2013, Musikzimmer, Aarau (w/ Sum Of R)
22.03.2013, Le Bourg, Lausanne (w/ Eric Chenaux, Ali_Fib DJ)
23.03.2013, Dampfzentrale, Bern (w/ Herpes Ö DeLuxe DJ Team)
Cover Versions - Record-edition and installation by Andrew Pekler
Duration: 8. - 19.12.2012
Opening on Friday, December 7, 2012 at 8 pm with a live performance by Andrew Pekler
LAURA MARS GRP.
Sorauer Straße 3
10997 Berlin
www.lauramars.de
For ten days, the gallery Laura Mars Grp. is transformed into a record shop, complete with records in browser bins, recommendations on the walls and a record shop clerk to assist customers. This record shop, however, only sells one record: Cover Versions by Andrew Pekler, each copy of which is packaged in its own individual album cover.
Andrew Pekler selected 200 different covers from second-hand records and, using colorful geometric elements to cover over all titles, performer's names, and label logos, removed traces of the covers' original contexts. The sunsets, couples in silhouette, alpine panoramas, roses on pianos, female faces in close-up, and seascapes no longer serve as the packaging for easy listening and exotica. Instead, the romantic, bizarre and intriguingly bland images of the original covers are free to lend their evocative powers to the record of new music they now house. Likewise, the principle of collage is audible in Andrew Pekler's compositions. Here, the electronically transformed fragments of audio extracted from the original records take on a new existence as Cover Versions.
Cover Versions is a coproduction between Andrew Pekler, Laura Mars Grp., Fant™me Verlag and Senufo Editions.
04.12.2012
13.07.2012 Three new releases are out today. They should be available from all the usual distros and shops sometime next week.
05.06.2012 The debut LP by Hamburg synth/guitar/drummachine duo Phantom Horse is already available in the mailorder section. Official release date will be sometime in July (along with new LP's by Tomutonttu and Failing Lights). Check out some sound samples on their Soundcloud and the raw live excerpt below.....
A limited edition poster for the album launch concert (see below) is also available for sale in the mailorder section.
09.05.2012
Live in Hamburg next week.....
07.05.2012 One week only sale (May 07 - 14, 2012):
We're moving most of our stock to a new place soon. So we're giving a 50% discount (!) on all titles in our Mailorder section (including all Dekorder releases) this week!!! You can simply deduct 50% from the listed prices (shipping NOT included though).
We usually only have a few copies of each title in stock so you have to act fast.
Black To Comm, Vindicatrix, Andrew Pekler, Sculpture, Cut Hands, Andy Stott, Cindytalk, Alexander Tucker, VHS Head....
04.02.2012 RIP Mike Kelley.
We had been in contact just recently.....feels very strange, unreal and depressing; hollow. He was an inspiring artist and human being and he will be missed thoroughly. You should check out his musical output of the past years - it's highly original and inimitable and had been clouded by his visual art. Yummy Puffy Mommy Yoni is one of my favourite records ever. He had sent over the Boogie Man CD just a few days before his death and it's a helluva fun. I'm imagining him jamming with a bunch of 6 and 7 year old kids. Chocolate, dolphins.....good times.
16.01.2012 QWARTZ AWARDS:
Iibiis Rooge are nominated for a Qwartz Discovery Award. It's a public voting process and you can vote for them here:
02.08.2011 We have now reduced most of the editions down to 400 copies (sometimes 300) so some of the releases will be selling out faster than usual. We simply can't afford to rent more warehouse space (the appartment is too small) and wait for a year or three for releases to sell out. That means some people will miss on certain LP's when they sell out fast but you can always buy downloads at the usual sources (which will support the musicians and the label) or, I guess, find the music somewhere if you can't afford / don't want to buy it.
That said, I have to emphasize that all our vinyl is (and always has been) mastered & cut at Berlin's Dubplates&Mastering for highest quality.
We are down to the last 10 - 20 copies of the Datashock 2LP and the KFW/Alien Radio split is now sold out.
Same goes for Dekorder 012, 018, 030, 031, 040
Some more tour dates:
Ensemble Economique & High Wolf (1/2 of Iibiis Rooge):
06.08. Sejerø Festival, Denmark
07.08. Malmo, Sweden
11.08. Brighton, The Outer Church
12.08. London, Jonny Mugwump's Exotic Pylon at the Vortex
13.08. Cambridge, Bad-Timing
07.06.2011 Some live dates....
BLACK TO COMM
09/6 DÜSSELDORF Salon des Amateurs
10/6 DÜSSELDORF Kunst im Tunnel, Human Frames Opening
17/6 INNSBRUCK Heart of Noise Festival (w/ FENNESZ, KTL.....)
24/6 SCHIPHORST Avantgarde Festival (w/ FAUST.....)
13.05.2011 A brand new Black To Comm LP titled "Coldplay, Elvis & John Cage" is out today on the En/Of label with a signed print by Mike Kelley. It's almost sold out at the source though. Happy friday the 13th!
12.05.2011 The 2nd edition of the Sculpture Picture-Disc is now sold out and there will be no 3rd pressing. We will be releasing a new Sculpture Picture-Disc LP titled "Toad Blinker" in a few months though. The audio part has been recorded and sounds amazing!
Sculpture will be performing their audiovisual mindfuck live at this year's edition of Mutek Festival in Montreal next month.
02.05.2011
29.04.2011 Austrian national radio station ORF has recently broadcasted extensive one hour features (including german language interviews with the musicians/composers and tons of sound samples) about some recent Dekorder releases. The Hanno Leichtmann broadcast is still archived for a few days:
May 04, Cornwall, UK
May 06, Stoud, UK
May 07, Manchester, UK
May 08, London, UK
May 09, Cambridge, UK
May 14, Saarbrücken, DE (w/ Datashock & Black To Comm)
May 29, Brussels, BE
June 09, Paris, FR
30.03.2011 Black To Comm live at a children's birthday party in Thessaloniki, 12.03.2011:
