microsuoni: Opiate

Opiate

	artista : Opiate
	titolo : While You Were Sleeping
	etichetta : April
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. apr059cd
		2002
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"In 1999 Objects For An Ideal Home by Opiate/Thomas Knak was released, and has since been hailed as an essential album by key persons and shops around the world. Thomas' mixture of minor melody, tricky clicky sounds and the organic feeling of everyday life, has simply become a style in the Electronica area. You could listen to While You Were Sleeping as a complete 2nd Opiate album, but it is closer to being an introduction or rough guide to some of the releases Thomas has contributed to between 1999 and 2001... Many of them has been quite limited and most of them only released either on vinyl or CD."

Prezzo : € 9,90 offerta!

	artista : System
	titolo : s/t
	etichetta : ~scape
	formato : CD
	packaging : digipak
	cod. nr. scape13cd
		2002
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"System are three producers from Kopenhagen, Denmark, who not only have been close friends for a long time but can also look back on a very successful joint musical history. They decided to start a new project, dedicated to special musical likings all the three of them share. While their other common project 'Future 3' over the years turned more and more into popmusic, Knak (known as well as Opiate and producer of the important tracks on the recent Björk album Vespertine), Remmer (aka Dub Tractor) and Skaaning (aka Acoustic) realised, besides a big variety of other influences, a common love for Dub and the sonic trademarks of this music: Reverb, Echo & Bass. Dub is a starting point, a always returning reference, the base for System´s very modern, experimental sound, guided by a love for reduced, warmth full of digital static, motivated by an overwhelming interest for new software tools and driven by the gift of using these new technical possibilities in a very subtle way and integrating them into the sonic spectrum. Let's be honest here: Can you think of musical experiments of that kind which actually have such a flow?"

Prezzo : € 9,90 offerta!

	artista : Alva Noto - Opiate
	titolo : Opto Files
	etichetta : Raster-Noton
	formato : CDEP
	packaging : busta antistatica - antistatic sleeve
	cod. nr. r-n040
		2001
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opto file 4 | mp³

static 6
thomas knak aka opiate is one of the most acclaimed artists coming from denmark. in the early beginning of the 90ies he started as a dj, establishing himself as one of the first to bring ambient, electronica and drum`n baas to the clubs. as a keyfigure in electronic music field he has been working on several projects like compiling"boredom is deep and mysterious" series with anders remmer (dub tractor) , his own band future 3 and solo as opiate. since 1999 he is running his own label hobby industries. his debut "objects for an ideal home" has been considered as an electronic landmark. among the people to recognize his talent outside danmark are bjork, bomb the bass, piano magic and carsten nicolai aka noto. thomas has since worked with all of them in different collaborations. tracks from future 3 were remixed by people like coldcut.
his release on raster-noton came into being through e-mail conatct. files had been exchanged and the material had been remixed. so an cd with a lyric elements had been created. digital sounds arise "satisfied" abstract melodies without getting lost in playroom-charm. the mixture between notos mathamatic structures and opiates pop-qualities is well done. the ep spreads out a dark warmth which follows the typical static series sound.

Prezzo : € 12,60