Jens-Uwe Beyer lives in Cologne, he founded the band 'Cologne Tape' the label 'Magazine' and you know him under his moniker 'Popnoname'. Most recently he remixed the Eurythmics and Brian Eno & Cluster for the Conny Plank Tribute Compilation on Grönland. He is a frequent guest of Kompakt's Pop Ambient series and just released probably the longest maxi in the world - the almost eighty minute (!) ambient piece "Red Book" on Magazine. His third album 50 ° is an elegant, accommodating, direct hi-fi pop album which fears neither death nor pathos. It was produced in the 'oneartist' studio together with Bertil Mark. The journey takes us from Pop (Happens at Night and the first single Change) through ambient soundscapes (Timenation), to early 90s shoegaze moments (Meteor and Passing by) but at its core always remains the techno ideal, without promising club functionality. For the release of 50 ° Beyer specially founded the new label PNN with Kompakt's Gesine Schönrock. Accompanying the album, PNN publishes 4 music videos - an app for the i-pad and the fashion piece "Popnoshirt" you can find them at Popnoshop.com or Kompakt.fm. Bodo, who features on the cover of the album, used to live from the bottle recycling system in Germany but is now running a trust based shop near the PNN offices. Jens-Uwe Beyer performs as both a solo act and setting permitted, with Beritl Mark on drums and the enigmatic Isis Lace on vocals. Tour dates to follow soon. More

Bertil Mark says it all: Too Distant How much do we miss the happiness on the dance floor !? This "Anything goes" - the digressing to be closer to yourself - detached from the external circumstances that concern us in everyday life. This just being happy not listening to the music but to listen to yourself with the music: That's what Bertil Mark creates. Too Distant is the desire to be close and yet shows us: we are alone together. PNN has decided at a time when a lot is breaking down - others are waiting for the crisis to end - to continue where it was lost some time ago - especially in this uncertain time to start again with the simple claim: "What does the world cost? - lets go!" Even when there are no raves, parties or festivals - listen to the music and live the dream. You are not alone! Bertil Mark is no stranger to Germany's music scene - not least as a producer of Popnoname, Urlaub in Polen, Von Spar or German pop greats like Clueso or Thomas D - on whose former horse farm "M.A.R.S." he resides and has built an unlikely music studio. As a show & light designer he works with The Notwist, FM Einheit, Jan Delay, Lindemann etc together, to name just a few stars of German pop culture. But Bertil is also what is called an apparition. When he walks through the streets, people stop and watch him. Not just because of his great looks - no - there is something about him that makes him unique. What many know about themselves, but very few manage to live out. And yes - Parago Seiler put it this way: "[...] he is always one step ahead of himself, uncompromising in artistic matters and probably what you would call a real artist [...]" On Too Distant, the debut on PNN, he does what he promises. Two incredible tracks that make you dance and dream with remixes by Popnoname and Julian Stetter, who will then release his first full-length album on PNN. All of this digitally and on vinyl - at a time when there is no such thing as giving up. We want the world, and we want it now More

Julian Stetter might be best known as ‘one half of the electronic pop duo VIMES’, but he is no stranger to the Cologne club scene. His debut EP ‘Insides’ stems from a long history of djing and organising underground parties across the city. A resident DJ and collaborator at Cologne’s famed JackWho club, it was these surroundings that drove Stetter to dive deep into producing. His first solo project is now set to be released on the label PNN. It features three tracks plus a remix by Beyou. Stetter’s sound is polished and the precise production of each three tracks make this EP feel far from debut. ‘Emily’, the main track of the single, draws you in on shimmering waves that rise and break into a deeper and spacier sound. Warm beats are interjected with random snippets of whale song. Listening to Emily feels like receiving a welcome hug at an after party. More

Matt Karmil is a British musician currently residing in Sweden. “++++” is his third album, following 2014's PNN debut ”- - - -” and IDLE033, released on Bristol label Idle Hands earlier this year. His output also includes a variety of singles for labels such as New York's Beats In Space Recordings and Stockholm's Studio Barnhus. On this new album, Karmil can be heard exploring the concepts of impossible objects, reflection, symmetry, infinity - perspective, truncated and stellated polyhedra - hyperbolic geometry, tessellations and lost love. While making the music that constitutes “++++” he interacted with mathematicians George Pólya, Roger Penrose and Harold Coxeter as well as the crystallographer Friedrich Haag, and also conducted his own research into tessellation. The result is “++++”, Karmil's most clever, strange, emotional and fun work yet, a testament to his breadth and depth as a musician. Did we forget to mention that he's an awesome party dj? More

matt karmil ---- to whom we appeal ? how do we learn through experience ? what differentiates us from other animals ? who is confronted by freedom ? who is comforted by opportunity ? who was the pioneer ? who transcends verbal communication ? a point of view of an avant-garde reality - a transitory party. The world is not round - it is a disc. After years of working in various, shall we say, departments of music, Matt Karmil was almost forced into releasing his own first 12" - a chance meeting with Ada after an invitation to play with Cologne Tape led to the release of irr 15 - the reverse peephole ep. With support from Barnt, Dj Koze, Axel Boman and Michael Mayer amoungst many others, things really couldn't have got off to a more surprising start - 'I've never sent a demo to anyone, and really thought that people wouldn't be so interested in the music I just made to entertain myself, but I'm starting to realise that the more I make music based on that premise, the more other people seem to enjoy it'. The somewhat nomadic Matt Karmil has been producing and dj'ing under many aliases and in many forms for years, but has now found a flow and sound that until recently eluded him. Releases on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space, an e.p, the mysterious HAF001 and now the debut album appearing on cologne's own PNN, are sure to make 2014 a busy one for Matt Karmil. More

matt karmil ---- to whom we appeal ? how do we learn through experience ? what differentiates us from other animals ? who is confronted by freedom ? who is comforted by opportunity ? who was the pioneer ? who transcends verbal communication ? a point of view of an avant-garde reality - a transitory party. The world is not round - it is a disc. After years of working in various, shall we say, departments of music, Matt Karmil was almost forced into releasing his own first 12" - a chance meeting with Ada after an invitation to play with Cologne Tape led to the release of irr 15 - the reverse peephole ep. With support from Barnt, Dj Koze, Axel Boman and Michael Mayer amoungst many others, things really couldn't have got off to a more surprising start - 'I've never sent a demo to anyone, and really thought that people wouldn't be so interested in the music I just made to entertain myself, but I'm starting to realise that the more I make music based on that premise, the more other people seem to enjoy it'. The somewhat nomadic Matt Karmil has been producing and dj'ing under many aliases and in many forms for years, but has now found a flow and sound that until recently eluded him. Releases on Tim Sweeney's Beats In Space, an e.p, the mysterious HAF001 and now the debut album appearing on cologne's own PNN, are sure to make 2014 a busy one for Matt Karmil. More