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Compiled by: Macabug (Till Rohmann and Ronni Shendar) / c.sides festival curators and organizers Mastering: Emanuel Geller at salz-music.com Graphic design: Falko Brocksieper at sub-static.de Photo (p. 29): c.sides Festival 2005 poster on Jerusalem billboard (Ronni Shendar / Ashraf Abu Mukh) Worldwide distribution: a-musik (www.a-musik.com) Additional thanx to: All the labels and artists that contributed to this compilation, and the supporting foundations and institutions. © c.sides 2006 Welcome to the c.sides compilation 2006. The initial idea of releasing this compilation was to provide a sneak preview to the c.sides Festival Jerusalem, taking place 29-31 August 2006, but it quickly became much more than that: a wide and diverse collection exposing part of the flourishing independent electronic music scene in Israel together with many new tracks by some of the leading electronic music producers today. The c.sides Festival for Independent Electronic Music and New Media Arts, an Israeli-German production, is a three day inde- pendent and non-commercial international festival for artists, producers and musicians (and everyone interested in what they do) working in mediums of electronic and digital art who are also interested in creating a platform for exchange, networking and discussion concerning issues of art, social, political and cultural concern. The c.sides Festival's main event is taking place in Jerusalem, a location that raises immediate questions, concerns and com- Following the first c.sides Festival Jerusalem in 2005, we decided plexities. Beyond great music and art, these pertinent issues, to try and grow a bit with our concept, the festival and its capa- together with the historical connection between Europe, cities - and so comes the upcoming festival in Jerusalem as well specifically Germany, and Israel stand at the very core of the as additional activities and events in Europe, various upcoming festival. collaborations, workshops and exchanges all trying to merge innovative music and art with wider perspectives and contexts regarding culture and society. This here is the first release of the project and we hope that there will be many more to come. Inside the booklet you can find out information about each artist including a short bio and a website link, so you can get more of their music, find out about their label or write them what you think. c.sides is meant to act as a platform and network for exchange and support - this is one of our steps for making that possible. Thank you again for all the support of the participating artists and labels, and our dear friends and family that had to suffer from this project for the past two years. ACID PAULI Brand new Console songs, minimal technoid Martin Gretschmann (Weilheim) scraps from his remix works and sequences from www.acidpauli.com over 20 years of his musical production all mend Track Title: »Disco Volante« (CD#1, id#1) together into one great dance track. Martin Gretschmann - known as the head of Console and since 1997 as the significant back- motor of The Notwist as well as 13 and God – is the undercover notebook-live-act Acid Pauli. Mister Gretschmann, already tested this special kind of his musical interpretation in various club contexts, and while it proved to be absolutely recognizable as his very own style filled with this special flavor of comical poignant electro- nica, the blatant difference to a Console band or solo show, is the 100% dance floor compati- bility. This guerilla performance crosses all bor- ders within pop, indie rock and dance, almost shamelessly. Sharif Zawideh AKA Activator is a man of many ACTIVATER shades that you never see, a true lynchpin of Sharif Zawideh (Detroit) the Detroit underground. Sharif was a DJ and www.soft-curls.com party organizer in the legendary 90’s rave scene Track Title: »Where Where« (CD#1, id#2) of Detroit. He queitly kept the Detroit night scene curated numerous legendary nights in dark cor- alive when most others had given up or moved ners of Detroit, from Alexander Robotnick's first out. He has programmed the Underground Stage appearance in the Motor City with surprise DJ of the Detroit Electronic Music Festival (Fuse- set by Carl Craig, Juan Atkins with Perspects of In Festival / Movement Festival) and in 2005 cu- Le Car, Detroit's notorious annual Cannonball rated the new TodaysMusic Stage. Sharif is also event with Electric Skin and the list goes on. an operative for Detroit's most elusive organi- But he doesn't just arrange the best music ‘situ- zation: Underground Resistance. ations’, he also plays at them - from Germany to Poland to Thailand, Japan, Brazil Sharif has From April 2004 to June 2005, Sharif and his performed thorughout Europe, Asia, the Middle Soft Curls crew, directed the program of the East and Americas. Mixed with his own produc- most acclaimed new venue in Detroit. Soft Curls tions, sometimes with vinyl, sometimes digital - he is not afraid of the future or the past. ACUTE Schneider combines his basic musical influences: Undrey Schneider (Tel Aviv) IDM / Brain Dance that distinguish labels like www.ak-duck.com Skam (recording artists include Autechre, Ges- Track Title: »Museum« (CD#1, id#3) com, Boards of Canada), Planet Mu (Mu-ziq, Ve- Undrey Schneider, also known as his stage name netian Snares) and Morr (Christian Klein, Arova- Acute, has been for years one of Israel's most ne) together with compositions and attitudes active electronic music artists. In addition to deriving from the world of classical music cre- numerous performances in Tel Aviv and Jerusa- ating his own distinct individual sounds. lem (each one being utterly different and unique) he has also self-released two albums through his Pleasant Recording label, as well as contribu- ted to various compilations by Ak Duck and the late Jerusalem Fact label. AELTERS In many cases, the music of Aelters cannot be Emeric Aelters (Paris) divided formally into "pieces" or "tracks”. In mo- www.ski-pp.com ments we hear a bit of rhythm as if it came Track Title: »Hempluschool« (CD#1, id#4) straight out of the plastic techno of the late Who knows on which foot to dance to Aelters' Eighties, only then, almost immediately, he music? Frenchman Aelters, ex-member of Dat makes us drown and splinter off into other new Politics, prevails once again. The beats that Ael- whirring sounds. The harsh distortion that stems ters uses to edge his ceaselessly mutating sound from break core is interwoven with wonderfully creations have become slower and heavier. He melodic fragments and guitar melody lines while is still sampling as if there was no tomorrow, sound bites are cheerfully rewound and assigned using whatever he comes across as material: A a new rhythm, only this time backwards. wide range of speaking voices, Gameboys, Beat- Miniatures, sketches, contradictions, gourmet boxes, old synthesizers and noises of all kinds. disco presented at its best side, Aelters may Aelters’ music is dense, concrete, often fun and not tie himself down, but the party still rocks always unpredictable; a quality that seems innate on. in the French and which makes Aelters an abso- lute must. Amnon Wolman is a sound artist and composer AMNON WOLMAN who writes for diversified forces of musicians Amnon Wolman (Tel Aviv) grounded in an essential interest in experimen- www.amnonwolman.org Track Title: »Limited Sight Distance #2« tation and a belief that music as an art form ex- (CD#1, id#5) presses many dissimilar ideas of beauty. His in- terest in technology and in issues of time guided In his performance pieces he emphasizes the him, in recent years, towards electro-acoustic interaction between live performers, the tech- pieces that are based on their own original audio nology, and the composer as a collaboration materials and towards gallery sound installations among equal partners. His catalogue of compo- that places an evolving sound with complemen- sitions includes sound installations, works invol- tary visuals, in a small space where the listener ving computer generated and processed sounds, decides on the length of the interaction. symphonic works, vocal and chamber pieces, and music for film, theater and dance. ANNA Born in the Ukraine, Anna has been living in Anna Haleta (Jerusalem) Jerusalem since 1999. Website: www.pacotek.com Track Title: »Spot« (CD#1, id#6) She has been DJ’ing since 2002, the same year in which she and Tzahi Soussana established ‘Pacotek’, a Jerusalem based (but not limited to) bi-weekly party line that combines both music and visual art elements. The line is running strong today, hosting musical guests from around the world while simultaneously promoting young local DJ’s and music producers in their persistent work. Anna began producing music just last year, and accordingly, a new label will very soon be born - 'Pacotek Records' – a joint initiative of the Pa- cotek duo and the M1 crew (Yiftach Giladi and Rei El Buzz) B. FLEISCHMANN music for various local and international indepen- Bernhard Fleischmann (Vienna) dent productions, is active in various bands and www.bfleischmann.com side projects, such as the long anticipated “duo Track Title: »Broken Monitors« (CD#1, id#7) 505”, named after his most favorite piece of Viennese artist and musician Bernhard Fleisch- equipment (and one of the main instruments of mann’s work is about composition first and fore- his live performance setup), the Roland 505. most, specifically stately electronic tunes flushed with melancholy themes sweetly voiced by piano and vibes. Always a little melancholic and always moving. Fleischmann started his career as an electronic musician in 1997, after long studies of the piano and percussion, and he released his first record "Pop Loops for Breakfast" on Morr Music in 1999, right after the label was established.