20TH ANNIVERSARY RE-PRESS!

Köhncke rides again with another 12“ having 2 sides that couldn‘t be more different: the A-Side, „Timecode“, is a clock-ticking electronic disco tease promising a joyous release by building up tremendous expectations over its course of 8 minutes – and of course not delivering the final dance floor orgasm since the night has to continue in mutual happiness and expectations on the floor. But well, surely lots of „pre-cum“ spreaded...

The „flip“, „The Answer Is Yes“, displays Köhncke‘s love with The Beatles or Prefab Sprout and the likes, in a masterly programmed digital simulation of the „played“ sound of the likes (Köhncke cannot play any „real instruments“ except for a bit of Barré-Punk-Guitar). It‘s a love metaphor about 2 photons in „entanglement“, which is a proven very psychedelic effect in quantum physics. The photons are „entangled“ and „know“ each other‘s „spin“ in immediacy, thus not bent to the speed of light, even if they are 100000 light years from each other - a theory that even Einstein considered absurd when the pioneers of quantum physics came up with this in the 1930s. So Justus put his fascination with quantum physics into a pop love song metaphor – how much more do you want?

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JUSTUS KÖHNCKE & THE WONDERFUL FREQUENCY BAND - his first major release in five years after SAFE AND SOUND (Kompakt CD 63) - is JUSTUS KÖHNCKE's long-awaited return to the full-length format: neatly coinciding with Kompakt's exuberant 20th anniversary activities. It's with JUSTUS KÖHNCKE & THE WONDERFUL FREQUENCY BAND however, that Kompakt's leading dance music troubadour might just have trumped himself: over the course of 10 lushly twinkling tracks, he plots a perfect party scenario full of bright starbursts and crisp optimism. "Hello, come on in" says a voice at the beginning of opener FLITTER UND TAND ("frippery and kitsch"), and it happens to be accompanied by one of the slickest basslines to ever come out of Justus' studio, making this an offer you simply can't refuse. Once inside, you'll find the party in full swing with the opener's bleepy boogie ingenuity giving way to the sensual thrust of disco bait TELL ME (featuring Whirpool Productions buddy ERIC D. CLARK), the introspective vocal cut DAS SELBSTGESPRÄCH ("the soliloquy") and sparkling house manifesto NEW DIRECTION. Emotional (and numerical) centerpiece is WONDERFUL FREQUENCY BAND, a lovestruck tribute to Burt Bacharach and the golden age of songwriting. This immensely infatuating pop operetta, a collaboration with Mouse On Mars' ANDI TOMA, finds JUSTUS KÖHNCKE's composing prowess peaking yet again, a veritable paradigm shift in the album's dramaturgy that allows for successor IDEE, PROZESS, ERGEBNIS ("idea, process, result") to break into a different gallopp and boost its lyrical dancefloor musings with fusionist techno. A stroke of utter club genius comes in form of uptempo acid ballad LOOP that bolsters its hopelessly romantic vocals with raw Chicago beats and an achingly beautiful melody. Hot on the heels of love, it's another massive showstopper before the album's final triptych is introduced with sonic tromple l'oeil UNAUFMERKSAMKEITSBLINDHEIT ("inattentional blindness"), an uncanny cross-breed from the master of interspecific hybridization. Manic banger NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS - also a region in the human brain that plays an important role in reward, pleasure, addiction and impulsivity - torches the last car of the night, followed by vocoder aria NOW THAT I FOUND YOU, the cover of a cover (the original inspiration being Nashville country star Allison Krauss covering northern soul legends The Foundations) and an appropriately dreamy conclusion to a genre-bending record full of magic and wonder

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JUSTUS KÖHNCKE & THE WONDERFUL FREQUENCY BAND - his first major release in five years after SAFE AND SOUND (Kompakt CD 63) - is JUSTUS KÖHNCKE's long-awaited return to the full-length format: neatly coinciding with Kompakt's exuberant 20th anniversary activities. It's with JUSTUS KÖHNCKE & THE WONDERFUL FREQUENCY BAND however, that Kompakt's leading dance music troubadour might just have trumped himself: over the course of 10 lushly twinkling tracks, he plots a perfect party scenario full of bright starbursts and crisp optimism. "Hello, come on in" says a voice at the beginning of opener FLITTER UND TAND ("frippery and kitsch"), and it happens to be accompanied by one of the slickest basslines to ever come out of Justus' studio, making this an offer you simply can't refuse. Once inside, you'll find the party in full swing with the opener's bleepy boogie ingenuity giving way to the sensual thrust of disco bait TELL ME (featuring Whirpool Productions buddy ERIC D. CLARK), the introspective vocal cut DAS SELBSTGESPRÄCH ("the soliloquy") and sparkling house manifesto NEW DIRECTION. Emotional (and numerical) centerpiece is WONDERFUL FREQUENCY BAND, a lovestruck tribute to Burt Bacharach and the golden age of songwriting. This immensely infatuating pop operetta, a collaboration with Mouse On Mars' ANDI TOMA, finds JUSTUS KÖHNCKE's composing prowess peaking yet again, a veritable paradigm shift in the album's dramaturgy that allows for successor IDEE, PROZESS, ERGEBNIS ("idea, process, result") to break into a different gallopp and boost its lyrical dancefloor musings with fusionist techno. A stroke of utter club genius comes in form of uptempo acid ballad LOOP that bolsters its hopelessly romantic vocals with raw Chicago beats and an achingly beautiful melody. Hot on the heels of love, it's another massive showstopper before the album's final triptych is introduced with sonic tromple l'oeil UNAUFMERKSAMKEITSBLINDHEIT ("inattentional blindness"), an uncanny cross-breed from the master of interspecific hybridization. Manic banger NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS - also a region in the human brain that plays an important role in reward, pleasure, addiction and impulsivity - torches the last car of the night, followed by vocoder aria NOW THAT I FOUND YOU, the cover of a cover (the original inspiration being Nashville country star Allison Krauss covering northern soul legends The Foundations) and an appropriately dreamy conclusion to a genre-bending record full of magic and wonder

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TIMECODE, the mythical dance floor hit, comes with two stunning remixes from Tyree Cooper & Axel Bomann.

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Glasgow, Scotland duo Thomas + James deliver their silky-smooth dub laced sounds for Federsen’s Alt Dub with the four-track ‘Realtime’ EP.

Thomas + James are a Glasgow-based DJ and production duo whose sound reflects a deep immersion in electronic music. Raised in the city’s west end and shaped by early exposure to techno pioneers like Luke Slater, Slam and Jeff Mills alongside the atmospheric legacy of ’90s drum & bass, their productions lean into a dub infused, forward-looking aesthetic.

Drawing equally from house traditions via influences such as St Germainand Laurent Garnier, the pair blur the lines between dub techno, deep house, acid and minimal.

Their new EP onFedersen’s Alt Dub captures that hybrid vision with a maturity that belies their years, being born in 2006,marking them out as a quietly compelling new voice from Glasgow’s next generation.

Leading the release is the original title-track ‘Realtime’, setting the tone with a sturdy yet pared-back rhythm section, oscillating synth flutters, bouncy sub-bass and hazy textures that subtly shift across the arrangement.

Label boss Federsen steps in next with his interpretation, reducing the track to its deepest foundations and recasting it as a delicately drifting soundscape of evolving spatial echoes, weighty low-end pressure and restrained, muted drums.

On the flip, Thomas + James return with ‘Armonia’, an ethereal, dub-leaning deep house cut propelled by billowing pads, delayed vocal chants, fluid dub chords and a heavily swung, minimalist groove.

The EP closes with ‘X-Intense’, further highlighting the duo’s groove-driven signature sound as reverberant, airy stabs weave through breathy vocals and shuffled percussion to bring the release to a hypnotic conclusion.

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Ranking Barnabas or simply Barnabas, is one of the many unsung heroes of Jamaican dub music, which is usually associated with names such as King Tubby, Lee Perry, Scientist, or Prince Jammy. Barnabas was born Stanley Bryan in Kingston in 1960, a few years later he became a regular at the legendary Channel One Studios. In the 1970s, Channel One was the hot spot in Jamaica's studio landscape, offering the best technology and producing reggae at an internationally competitive level. Stanley Bryan was an all-rounder. During the day, he sat at the mixing desk as an engineer and mixed, to name just one, the Eek-a-Mouse classic "Wah Do Dem." If the drummer dropped out during a recording, Barnabas stepped in. And at night, he took the microphone at the Channel One Sound System as Ranking Barnabas and toasted over riddims that he had frequently recorded himself in the studio. It was the heyday of Jamaican dub, and Barnabas was the often uncredited creator of countless dubs for maxi-singles and single B-sides. Although he contributed to countless Dub LPs, only The Cold Crusher was released under his name. Barnabas' only LP was released in a mini edition in the USA, was never repressed, and became a highly priced, sought-after rarity. The Italian label Jamdung, known for its high-quality reissues, has now unearthed The Cold Crusher after 50 years and reissued it with a new artwork that matches the original design. The album has been restored to high quality in Berlin by Dubplates & Mastering and features detailed liner notes by dub specialist Helmut Philipps (Dub – The Sound Of Surprise) and Lee Perry biographer David Katz (People Funny Boy, Solid Foundation). Two renowned reggae authors who have collaborated for the first time on this reissue. Photo on cover by legendary Beth Lesser. Stanley "Barnabas" Bryan did not live to see the release of his album. He passed away while working on the reissue on August 18, 2025, at the age of 65. Thus, the reissue of The Cold Crusher unexpectedly became his musical legacy. The edition is limited and will sell out quickly.

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