Tracklist CD: 1. Axios, 2. Helicon, 3. Yantra, 4. Scylax, 5. Drilon, 6. Magoras, 7. Tyros, 8. Struma, 9.
Arda, 10. Hebros, 11. Ropotamo, 12. Scamander

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Layered asymmetry: With Alluvium, Stefan Goldmann explores new structural paths for machine
rhythm in irregular metres. Throughout the album, different non-binary patterns run simultaneously,
interlocking into twelve offerings of jagged polyrhythmic magic. Such a framework may juxtapose 11
on one axis, against 7 on another and 5 on a third – building stunningly iridescent edifices of
multidimensional time.
This is the third album in a series of "first principles" research of metric asymmetry. Veiki (2019) laid
the foundation for "real broken beat". Then, Vector Rituals (2022) explored the bending of grids in
order to yield idiosyncratic forms of organising time. Alluvium takes these two approaches and
expands them beyond their initial reach: Irregular patterns moving along parallel timelines within one
unifying grid.

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Tracklist CD - Mix CD:

01. Acustica (Part 1)
02. Acustica (Part 2)
03. Acustica (Part 3)
04. Acustica (Part 4)
05. Acustica (Part 5)
06. Acustica (Part 6)
07. Acustica (Part 7)
08. Acustica (Part 8)
09. Acustica (Part 9)
10. Acustica (Part 10)
11. Acustica (Part 11)
12. Acustica (Part 12)
13. Acustica (Part 13)
14. Acustica (Part 14)
15. Acustica (Part 15)
16. Acustica (Part 16)
17. Acustica (Part 17)
18. Acustica (Part 18)
19. Acustica (Part 19)
20. Acustica (Part 20)
21. Acustica (Part 21)
22. Acustica (Part 22)
23. Acustica (Part 23)
24. Acustica (Part 14)


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Acustica: For this acoustic sources-only mix, Stefan Goldmann cut up a vast library of recorded
interpretations of 20th century avant-garde compositions. Layered segments of individual instrumental
and chamber performances form emergent orchestral opulence – just to spill over into actual
orchestral segments. Goldmann has tackled acoustic archives before with his edit of multiple
recordings of Igor Stravinsky's 'Le Sacre du Printemps'. However, this mix traverses the disparities
and convergences of seven decades of score-based music with impressively results. A meta-level
polystylistic work that explores vast potentials of integration, interaction and interference. An antidote
to the prevailing practice of sounding compositions in scattered, sterile isolation. Here, opposing
concepts of music are channeled into one continuous flow, with a coherent DJ performance as the
vehicle.

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Track list CD:
1. Stay, 2. Of Silence, 3. Memoir, 4. Solemn, 5. Don't Go Away So Easily, 6. Temporary, 7. Show Me,
8. Everyday, 9. Afterdance, 10. Home, 11. Taking My Breath, 12. I'll Hold You

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Less is more – the motto applies to Luxembourg's most intriguing newcomer Arthur Clees, whose
approach is minimalist, rich, hypnotic. Clees is a young prodigy drummer / percussionist / vocalist with
a multitude of performances and sessions under his belt. The 21-year-old musician manages to inspire
very different people with his tracks. No Wonder: There's both depth and a tremendous upward pull at
the same time.
In his debut album, "Stay, Temporary Home" influences from techno to electronica to the avant-garde
are paired with a distinctive feeling for melodies and a signature treatment of percussion. Soul and
R&B songs often appear as sonically distant yet emotionally close mirages. In addition, slightly altered
vocals, hearty yet reductionist beats and a detuned piano reminiscent of your favourite aunt's Sunday
cookies come in – a mixture that an incredible number of people can agree on at the moment.


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Track list CD: 1. Jagged, 2. Chalk, 3. Overlaps, 4. Freeze, 5. Serpentines, 6. Isotopes, 7. Brash, 8.
Pending, 9. Absence, 10. Diffraction, 11. Particular Interest, 12. Speculation

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Insight Piano: Within just a few years Tom Schneider moved the scope of the sampler as an
instrument into entirely unexpected zones of expression. On keyboards with pioneering cut-up pop
band KUF he developed a key-triggered vocal style that features no singers on stage. With trio Loom
& Thread he devised a new wave of digital improv where the sampler amplified the piano and
engaged the acoustic musicians in some sort of multidimensional musical chess.
'Isotopes' is Schneider's first solo album and witnesses him being an astonishingly sensitive and
imaginative pianist. The album's material was developed and recorded in an intimate session at Bauer
Studios of Ludwigsburg – a site laden with the history of some of the most significant recordings of
contemporary jazz. Yet things don't stop at bringing just another piano solo effort.
Schneider's approaches to the instrument, which range from tender hesitance to eruptive, clustered
attacks, merely set the starting point. These utterances are sampled and mirrored back, ultimately
rendering a unified performance which combines the depth of intricately executed composition with the
urgent immediacy of free improvisation.
Over the past decade we have witnessed a resurgence of apparently opposed trends: repetitive,
minimalistic sensitivity and dashing, complex virtuosity. The linear thinking that defines these
approaches as polar opposites turns out to be entirely useless when facing 'Isotopes.' Both, the
uninhibited speed of granular clouds of tones and the dense texture of multiple layered phrases fired
off all at once, require a complete reconceptualisation of the meaning of complexity in music. Yet
Schneider offers less of a tongue in cheek critique of the pretense usually inherent in virtuosic display
– instead, the playing field is being thoroughly leveled: Now, and really for the first time, a singular
tone potentially carries exactly as much weight as the peaks of physiological sophistication.
This is not at all what the axe-wielding avant-gardes of the past were after. What we are witnessing
here is a thorough de-ideologisation of the instrument: Neither traditions need to be shattered nor
innovation kept at the gates. In a world of zero-sum thinking (‘if you get to eat I must go hungry’), here
we find an integrative approach that shows that we can indeed lift up without simultaneously pulling
down.

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Tracklist CD: 1. Island Grammar, 2. Copy & Praise, 3. Entropie, 4. O**ne*, 5. New&&&, 6. Thistles, 7.
Fureur et Capitel, 8. P#, 9. M(((, 10. Causal Ambiguity, 11. Structure et Repetition

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Loom & Thread appear to present a take on this most classical of springboards of improvised music:
the piano trio. Indeed, Daniel Klein on drums and Tobias Fröhlich on double bass forge that highly
engaging, interlocking framework, set in complex juxtaposition to what emanates from the corner of
Tom Schneider on keys. This would be a superbly satisfying triangle of planar relational wonder on its
own. Imaginative re-adaptation of unexpected shifts, re-grouped into coherent streams of musical
thought. Superb clarity despite the pressurised density of form, the emergence of intricate order from
spontaneous play.
And yet this would be an utterly incomplete description. Because a dozen directions and dimensions
and interdependent layers open like trap doors all around, shattering any first impression of a familiar
context within just a few seconds of listening. What appears to be piano improvisation in the post-bop
tradition soon exhibits abrupt disruptions, impossible shifts, improbable repetitions, movements in
frequency and dynamics beyond the physical capabilities of a fixed-pitch instrument deemed so
familiar.
How so? Tom Schneider samples his own playing and continuously feeds it back into the ongoing
collective stream of the trio. Assigning starting points to the sampled phrases, these are then treated
as independent musical events just like the individual tones they contain: a second order of access is
created. Signifier and signified in the hands of the same musician, thus driving a two-pronged plane of
immanence.
This meta-improvisation is thrown at the other two players who now find themselves embroiled in
some kind of three dimensional chess game: fending off simulacra and responding to both,
idiosyncratic primary phrases of tones and a vibrant multitude of sampled variants. Reflexivity: the
piano/sampler continuum with its multi-layered access points to improvisational mapping is then
attacking and soothing and further teasing the appropriately angular rhythm section. A wondrous
dissolution of the divide between experiencing now and accessing memory.

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GIACINTO SCELSI • STEFAN GOLDMANN • JEREMIAS SCHWARZER:
“SFERA”

Tracklist CD:
1. Instauratio, 2. Maknongan, 3. Cepstrum, 4.-6. Tre Pezzi (I-III), 7. Sfera, 8. Ave Maria,
9. Alleluja,10. Baïr, 11. Anaphora, 12. Mantram

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Giacinto Scelsi (1905-1988) was an Italian composer and rather unusual pioneer of electronic music.
His works are neither based on traditional techniques nor do they resemble concepts of the 'new
music' avant-garde. He recorded improvisations on the ondiola (an early electronic instrument) to
magnetic tape, often in multiple layers. These recordings were then transcribed into scores by his
assistants – constituting the first attempt at sounding electronic music through acoustic instruments
and their players instead of loudspeakers.
SFERA is a dialogue between Jeremias Schwarzer's performances of some of Scelsi's most focused
and striking pieces for solo instruments and new electronic works by Stefan Goldmann. The two
groups of works exhibit polar opposition and unusual metaphorical proximity at the same time.
Goldmann's multi-faceted music exhibits shape-shifting capabilities as liquid as Scelsi's pieces for
ensembles or orchestra (such as Anahit or Uaxuctum). However, they make full use of the morphing
capabilities of contemporary synthesis, constructing multidimensional movements across a vast
parametric space.
Jeremias Schwarzer adapted most of Scelsi's works in this album for different kinds of recorder for the
first time. They form a baseline for Stefan Goldmann's overflowing electronics, which seem to grow out
of and fold back into it as if breathing. Thus a conceptual full circle is formed whose two tangents are
mirroring each other.

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Track list CD:
1. Onset Trajectory, 2. Flood, 3. Merge, 4. Blind Deconvolution, 5. Neodym, 6. The Hearth, 7. Fission, 8. Caesium-133, 9. Surface Boundary, 10. Viscosity, 11. Builders, 12. Polymer, 13. Shift Invariant

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In February 2020, the Philharmonie Berlin opened its gates for the first time in its history for a fully
blown electronic music program. Strom Festival continued for two days across three of the Berlin
landmark's jagged spaces. Stefan Goldmann had been invited to serve as the festival's artist-curator
and also performed its inaugural concert in the building's pentagonal Grand Hall. As much as this
event was without precedent for one of the world's leading classical music institutions, it is also an
uncannily typical match for Goldmann's rather unusual career path.
Though nominally techno, his music is distinguished by an ever-imaginative take on the form. From
exploring asymmetric rhythms to designing novel tuning systems to re-imagining the technological
base of electronic music – few have looked further beyond the genre's functional foundations.
Respectively, his music keeps appearing in contexts far removed from techno's club institutions –
featuring work with ensembles, dance companies, film makers and his own opera, as well as sitespecific performances at venues such as Kyoto's Honen-In Temple and LA's LACMA museum.
'Live At Philharmonie Berlin' is closely tailored to the Grand Hall, featuring a wealth of material
specifically developed to engage its architecture and acoustics. Apart from being a document that
brilliantly captures the Philharmonie's aural footprint with clear-cut synthetic probes, it also comes
close to being a retrospective of Goldmann's most striking formal ideas. Harking back to his early use
of wavetable synthesis for highly liquid units of pitch, timbre and dynamics, his recent
recontextualisations of industrial preset sounds and gradual shades of distortion fuse to shape the
soundscape of the one hour performance. These sounds then swirl through shifting microtonal grids
and freewheeling polyrhythms, solidifying into alien melodies, spiky transients and blocks of coloured
noise.


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Highly original remakes of tracks by A-list artists such as KiNK, Peter Kruder (of Kruder & Dorfmeister), Patrick Cowley & Stefan Goldmann.

Tracklist CD:

1. An Ardent Heart (Stefan Goldmann)
2. Arcade (Santiago Salazar)
3. Furniture (Raudive)
4. Soon (Patrick Cowley & Jorge Socarras)
5. Feral (Raudive)
6. Memory Fails Me (Patrick Cowley)
7. Vodolaz (KiNK)
8. Law Of Return (Peter Kruder)
9. Stammophorm (Anno Stamm)
10. Darksun (rRoxymore)
11. Hollow Sound (Stefan Goldmann)

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Electronic / acoustic wonder band KUF deliver a special surprise for their third album: eleven sizzling hot takes on tracks drawn from the Macro label's stellar catalog, as originally crafted by some of today's most respected artists in electronic music. KiNK, Patrick Cowley, Peter Kruder (of K&D), Stefan Goldmann, rRoxymore and more get the treatment. With a nod to the label's previous highly original compilations and mixes from the Macrospective and Vinylism series, Re:Re:Re captures more new ground.

KUF's previous albums presented an astonishing inversion of the typical extended electronic set up, in that they paired a plethora of disembodied, sampled voices with acoustic real time interaction on bass, drums and keys. Re:Re:Re shifts the focus of sampling altogether to scanning entire tracks and compositions which are then reimagined with the band's singular approach. Neither just remixes, nor faithful reproductions, KUF engage in careful sound archaeology. From re-programming key sounds to holistic granular deconstructions, the originals's sound palettes are reproduced to serve as a springboard towards entirely new instalments. The resulting tracks range from intimate ballads to full power dance floor movers, spanning a highly engaging arc of sheer listening pleasure.


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Tracklist:
1. Planinar, 2. Sofra, 3. Vilayet, 4. Etropolis, 5. Katran, 6. Teghlicci, 7. Makara, 8. Kapan, 9. Teslá


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Stefan Goldmann's 'Veiki' is a bold foray onto new rhythmic ground for machine-based dance music. While Veiki's sounds appear firmly grounded in contemporary techno, its pulse is neither based on the 4/4 tradition nor on the breakbeat continuum. The metres employed here are distinctly asymmetric – i.e. they never add up to binary entities, but are odd-numbered instead. With patterns of 7, 9 or 11, they offer possibilities for dislocating the center of gravity not available to standard rhythmic fare. Thus this may represent one of the few systematic efforts to move slamming machine techno onto an alternative rhythmic foundation: Real broken beat.

Asymmetric / irregular metres are part of the ancient music tradition of the Eastern Mediterranean as well as of South Eastern Europe. The patterns employed here are also present in the traditional music of Bulgaria with which Stefan Goldmann grew up. Citing no other aspects and using no 'ethnic' samples, these tracks lead a way to resolving the problem of how to bring the tools and traits of cutting edge electronic music to alternative traditions of music, or vice versa. Structure over surface.

Of course irregular metres have been visited for structural exploration for Western musicians of different backgrounds, such as Don Ellis, Steve Coleman or Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit who have all developed highly distinguished and idiosyncratic approaches in relation to these. Thus a reduction of the phenomenon to its core and emergence as a clear-cut and reproducible form appeared imminent for at least two decades. The inexplicable surprise though is that despite the ongoing rhythmic differentiation of breakbeat and techno this obvious step seems to have never been taken decisively. Now here it is.

Vital Sales Points:
- Live premiere from Buenos Aires streamed by MUTEK (full professional video online)
- Recent DJ set at Boiler Room
- Extensive Global Promo by Modern Matters / Macro.
- Upcoming event Feb 2020: Stefan Goldmann curates “Strom Festival” for Philharmonie Berlin, (world-leading classical music institution) featuring Nina Kraviz, KiNK, Robert Henke, Ryoji Ikeda etc.


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