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Cat-No:HMLLPV003
Release-Date:16.09.2022
Configuration:2LP Excl
Barcode:4251804129312
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Cat-No:HMLLPV003
Release-Date:16.09.2022
Configuration:2LP Excl
Barcode:4251804129312
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2x180g Marbled - Gatefold Vinyl incl. 3x exclusive art prints, sticker and digital download

Genre: Indie Dance, Downtempo, Electronica, Dark Disco

Tracklist 12":

# Artist Title Duration ISRC-Code Video ISRC
A1. Oberst & Buchner Arpology 10:09 ATDY82200001

A2. Oberst & Buchner Freie Sicht feat. Acud 05:46 ATDY82200002 ATDY82200011

B1. Oberst & Buchner Marble Arch 07:13 ATDY82200003

B2. Oberst & Buchner Slot Machine feat. Aydo Abay 06:37 ATDY82200004

C1. Oberst & Buchner Sanguinaria feat. Kalipo 07:31 ATDY82200005

C2. Oberst & Buchner Quicksand feat Mimu 04:47 ATDY82200006

C3 Oberst & Buchner Moving a Mountain 06:54 ATDY82200007

D1. Oberst & Buchner The Unknown feat. Faber 05:36 ATDY82200008

D2. Oberst & Buchner Ancient Watchtower 06:21 ATDY82200009

D3. Oberst & Buchner 3442 ft 06:55 ATDY82200010

ALBUM INFO EN

Clear water hits the surface of a grainy ball. The stream slowly dissolves and flows down the spherical structure until it finally drops on a candle. The flame extinguishes; fragile streaks of smoke ascend until they hit the rough surface of the colossal globe again.
The cover art to Marble Arch, the second long-player of Vienna- and Berlin-based artists Oberst & Buchner, depicts masterly the dramatic juxtapositions the musicians have always been reflecting in their musical outcome.
The massive density of a giant sound wall is contrasted by spacious openness. Fragile sonic details are sparkling out of colossal pitch-black clouds. The songs are filled with gentle warmth and cold roughness, bright digital clarity and deep analogue crackle, ranging in style from pulsating dark-disco over classic pop to experimental ambient.
The duo's two-week artist residency in a 250-year-old house, located in the mystic landscape of the Bavarian woods set this specific mood for the 10-track album which became a mixture of electronic synthesis, organic instrumentals and field recordings. Heavy-weight basslines in combination with bitter-sweet orchestral instrumentation and the minutiae of precise percussion recordings and drum programming are the characteristics that formed the sound of Marble Arch.
Oberst & Buchner's way to deal with tension is in how they compose their song structures as extreme arcs of suspense in a near classical manner. Their intense dynamic arrangements always alternate between rise and explosion or implosion and fall. This way the compositions pick up the motive of creation and destruction throughout the long-player in the same way as the cover-art.
Taken together, all these fragments form the duo`s signature cinematic articulation of dramatic slowed down club music and moments of surprise.

BIO
Oberst & Buchner are two friends and musicians living in Vienna and Berlin. They look back on a mutual musical journey that is as rich in variety as it is more then 15 years long. For one thing, countless high-energy DJ sets in clubs and at festivals all over Europe in recent years have earned them a reputation as a dynamic duo infernale. At the same time, their own productions draw from the full palette of moods and emotions.
Boiled down to the very essence, there's one common denominator running through the duo's musical works: colossally massive elements are masterfully set against a shimmering backdrop of incredibly detailed layers. Each so full of subtle suspense that they feel like the first raindrops before a monstrous thunderstorm. You can literally hear the calm before the storm in every break they build up, then feel the force of the wind in your face when it hits you.
Ranging from pulsating electronica over slow organic sounds derived from both nature and acoustic instruments to deep dance pop ballads, their songs are full of suspense and packed with drama. In their productions, the two friends conjure up soundscapes that are extremely dense and at the same time infinitely open and spacious. Within this framework, they play with stark contrasts of antithetic elements: repetition and improvisation, functionality and emotions, emptiness and overload, clarity and crackling.




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