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. Be- yond his releases on Charhizma, Morr and various other labels, Fleischmann is also composing film

It’s perhaps not too fanciful to see “The Grass BARBARA MORGENSTERN Is Always Greener”, Morgenstern’s latest album, Barbara Morgenstern (Berlin) as a 21st-century electronic equivalent of Paul www.barbaramorgenstern.de Simon’s “Homeward Bound” - timeless, universal Track Title: »Polar« (CD#1, id#8) pop music inspired by a very personal yearning - combining her love of Joni Mitchell with the sonic experimentalism of her friends like To Ro- coco Rot, Pole and Thomas Fehlmann. Barbara Morgenstern started in the so-called “Wohnzimmer-Szene”, a collectively organized line in the living room of Joe Tabu in 1996, and from there things developed rapidly. “The grass is always greener” is already her 4th solo album, accompanied by several releases with various bands and experimental projects, such as the “September Collective” or her “Tesri” album with Robert Lippok (of whom you can also find a track on this compilation). BASTEROID Sebastian Riedel (Frankfurt / Austria) www.areal-records.com Track Title: »Vrim« (CD#1, id#9) Basteroid AKA Sebastian Riedel AKA the self- Beyond his music, Basteroid has been involved acclaimed “analogue swine in the Areal stable” in various theater music productions, and he is is now a Frankfurt-based artist, musician, pro- also the responsible culprit for the graphics and ducer and performer. This Austrian, having made exceptional art work of Areal Records. the requisite pilgrimage to Germany, is acclaimed for his commanding, quirky and experimental live performances. His production work incorpo- rates all manners of squelches, rasping bass lines and bleeps integrated in that ongoing mini- malist madness that is so familiar with Areal Records sound.

Yair Etziony (Vermont) and Shlomi Avni (DJ Sola), BASIC UNIT have been in the Israeli electronic scene since Yair Etziony & Shlomi Avni (Tel Aviv) the year 2001 when they started the Micropeople Website: www.false-ind.com collective, and were essentially some of the first Track Title: »Pattern Matcher« (CD#1, id#10) DJ’s to spin minimal and micro house music in Yair Etziony (Vermont) was born 1975 in Petach Israel. In 2005 they decided to join forces and Tiqwa, Israel. He also began DJ’ing during 2001 start producing music together. Basic unit is and since has performed all over Israel as well their new creation fusing influences from Detroit as at NBI (Berlin), and the Boom Festival (Portu- techno, minimal house, and Chicago house. gal). In 2004, under the name Faction, a collabo- Shlomi Avni (DJ Sola) was born in 1974 in Giva- ration with Rani Golan, he released the album ataim, Israel and began DJ’ing in 2001. From “The End of Tel Aviv” with the British label Neo that time until now he has performed at both Ouija. Later they released additional tracks and the main leading venues and underground pro- remixes on further labels including Mille Plate- duction of electronic music in Israel. He had the aux. opportunity to be the resident DJ of the Vox club in Tel Aviv and during 2003 was involved in the artistic and musical management of Hatzofe club. BLOKE Bloke, AKA Yaniv Navot was born in the Israeli Yaniv Navot (Qiryat Motzkin) wilderness near a deserted top secret military www.g6pdrecords.com facility. In August 2002, at the age of 21, Navot Track Title: »Avoiding Death« (CD#1, id#11) had a 12'' EP pressed in Berlin on Digital Kranky and since then has released music on various record labels including a first full length album on ±g6pd Records, compilation releases on Kra- ked A.I., 2PlayerMusic and Estrunax Records. His tracks have been played on Radio 1 (by the late John Peel) and on London's first radio art station, Resonance 104.4FM.

In November 2005, Bloke had released a three- track single on the U.K. based record label Machi- ne Records. “Tears of the Broken Warrior”, his second full length release, will be available la- ter on this year on Machine Records.

Born in 1972 in Marrakesh, Morocco, Stefan DJ KOZE Kozalla AKA DJ Koze lives and works in Hamburg Stefan Kozalla (Hamburg) as a club DJ, musician (International Pony, Adolf www.djkoze.de Noise), a remixer for Chicks On Speed, Bob Sin- Track Title: »My Grandmotha« (CD#1, id#12) clar, Justus Koehncke and more, and is a success- ful producer and Kompakt recording artist. feel which belies the fact that he took home the Runner-Up prize at the DMC DJ Championships DJ Koze quickly worked his way up through the a scant few years ago. German Hip-Hop scene. His band “Fischmob” built up a strong fan base of young left-oriented Koze has always been equally interested in ex- people. With their mixture of straight-up Hip perimenting with other forms of electronic music Hop skills (and none too subtle political content), and a deeper electronic direction. His “Adolf dry humor, crazy spoken samples, prank phone Noise“ project features a far more abstract and calls etc... the band found their own niche in unusual use of samples and grooves while kee- Germany’s ever-growing Hip-Hop scene. ping the listener on his / her toes by incorporating liberal usage of football commentary, television But it’s behind the decks where DJ Koze really show snippets, radio plays, and telephone terror shines. He’s got a light, subtle approach and with drug-delinquents. FALKO BROCKSIEPER Brocksieper had made his first sequencer expe- Falko Brocksieper (Berlin) riences on an Amiga 500 in his younger days. www.sub-static.de In 1999, during his studies at the Academy of Track Title: »Sonic Strahler« (CD#1, id#13) Media Arts Cologne, he decided to focus on mu- Falko Brocksieper runs the labels Sub Static and sic production again, following activities in video Karloff Rekordings, along with M.I.A. What star- art and installation. ted as a platform for own and a few friends' productions first, Sub Static soon gained a solid Falko Brocksieper's first record was released on position within Cologne's Kompakt distribution, Sub Static in 2001, followed by further 12"es and developed to be a well known address for on the label, as well as on Resopal, Treibstoff, driving, minimal techno, with international artists. Dumb Unit and Tongut. In 2003 he finished his In order to provide a separate playground for debut album "Hoax Deluxe", which manifested more experimental and absurd approaches to his style between hypnotic minimalism and buz- techno, a second label was created, Karloff Re- zing, organic analog funk. kordings. Recently, Falko returned with a bunch of remixes, and a new EP on Tuning Spork Records.

FRIVOLOUS old Frivolous engages in a long term love affair Daniel Gardner (Montreal) with the loop and takes his first weekly residency www.frivolouslive.com at a downtown Vancouver after hours. Track Title: »Me And My Social Anxiety« (CD#2, id#1) Today, after a long evolution in his sound, Gard- As a school teacher, it seemed easiest to link ner’s recording alter-ego Frivolous captures a the unconventional behavior of Daniel Gardner romantically influenced montage of the most to a learning disability; proving to be the first in cutting edge production techniques with an old a series of failed attempts to categorize this in- soul mentality. Along side his extremely bizarre definable young artist. Grades were always me- performances, is the incorporation of classic in- diocre at best, until one semester a mysterious struments, homemade inventions and vocals new course emerged into a normally less than into an environment built on experiments with progressive curriculum: Electronic Music Compo- glitchy cut-up funk, musique actuelle and found sition. Suddenly discovered were honor roll gra- sound. des, and a means to merge a captive young mind with over a decade of communist-style classical piano training. In 1996, won over by unified dance floors and the Detroit sound, the 16 year Teder (Hebrew for Frequency) is an Israeli label GAL & MAURIN which started its activity at the beginning of the Gal Tushia & David Ovadia new millennia, and is mainly concerned with (Jerusalem / Tel Aviv) www.tedermusic.com the more obscure sides of electronic music and Track Title: »Bchirot« (CD#2, id#2) media. As their vision and sounds unfolded, the two Teder is the brainchild of David Ovadia AKA deemed it necessary to independently release Maurin, (a musician from Jerusalem), and Gal materials, their own as well as music by similar Tushia (a musician and video artists from Tel artists, and thus Teder label was formed. Aviv). The two met at underground raves and The label began to produce shows and theme started working together due to their shared ar- events in various locations around Israel, from tistic interests - a combination of hidden rhythmic enclosed ‘formal’ places to underground raves elements, sound layers and static hypnotic dro- and happenings where aside from showcasing nes accompanied by video art, through their the label's music, they invited musicians from work with analog equipment emphasizing the different regions of avant-garde electronics – importance of playing music live as a means to sound and visual - in order to make these as a connect art with the listener/viewer. formed experience.

GEBRÜDER TEICHMANN Andi & Hannes Teichmann (Berlin) www.fest-platten.de Track Title: »Morgen« (CD#2, id#3) The DJ-Brothers Andi and Hannes Teichmann, As electronic music producers they founded their originally from Regensburg, Germany, were ex- own record label “Festplatten” and also released posed to music by their father, the jazz saxophon- on internationally acclaimed labels as “Kompakt” ist Ullrich Teichmann, right from the early days. (Cologne) or “L´age d´or” (Hamburg). They quickly At the young age of 12 and 9 they formed their found themselves becoming DJ´s in-demand first band “Totalschaden” (“Write-off”). During and toured Germany and Europe extensively. In their teenage years they matured to be leading 2001 they started a cooperation with the compo- figures in the regional music scene and later ser/zither player Leopold Hurt and joined up became founding members of the band “Beige with fellow musicians and performing artists to GT” which would grow to national and inter- establish the art association called “Graz e.V” national fame after their debut album “Jukebox offering both an inspiring work space and an heroes”. independent room for regular exhibitions, dis- cussions, concerts and other cultural events. Today the brothers live and work in Berlin. GELBART Since releasing his debut album “My Favorite Adi Gelbart (Berlin / Israel) Vacation” in 2001, Adi Gelbart has been one of www.gelbartmusic.com Israel's most prominent electronic musicians. Track Title: »Olpoq« (CD#2, id#4) Employing an extreme DIY approach, Gelbart blends old analog machines, guitars and rewired battery operated instruments to create his weird version of lo-fi electronic music.

Gelbart has released with the late Fact Records and Audio Collage, Ak Duck and the New York based Standard Oil Records.

Gelbart now lives in Berlin, working on his pro- jects as well as managing a country band of four cows known as The Lonesomes.

Till Rohmann, AKA Glitterbug, is a DJ, producer, GLITTERBUG artist, curator and of many additional unstipula- Till Rohmann (Cologne / Jerusalem) ted professions. Being an odd bird since birth, www.glitterbug.net Glitterbug creates his own unique mishmash of Track Title: »Was Nun?« (CD#2, id#5) sounds stemming from the unique sound of Co- Glitterbug has spent much of his time in the logne’s experimental techno scene mixed with past years in Jerusalem where together with the racket and hum of his surrounding world his partner-in-crime Ronni ‘Macaroni’ Shendar, made of pink sparkling clouds and deteriorating they have initiated, produced and curated this social order. His music could be best described new festival / platform / label (…) c.sides, to- as “oh my! That’s so sad, beautiful and groovy gether with a lot of support and love from their – but what genre would you call it?” Never fol- surrounding. lowing known paths or sounds, one has to be curious to understand what a Glitterbug is all about, and the more patience and time you have, the more surprises that pop out. GUSTAV Born and raised in Graz, and living in Vienna Eva Jantschitsch (Vienna) since 1997, Gustav is a one woman band who gustav.cuntstunt.net writes her music and songs on the laptop, plays Track Title: »Genua« (CD#2, id#6) along on all kinds of instruments and sings with the sort of inimitable power you cannot muster up any resistance to. Edgy, abrasive, a bit care- less, a bit rough at the edges, but with a fragile heart , a questing soul and a keen spirit that's forged, Blake-like, in some fiercely passionate blast-furnace of indignant wrath - bring on that chariot of fire, indeed! Her debut album “Rettet Die Wale“, (”Save the Whales”), is a mixture of serious political facts, a witty self-humored attitude and heart breaking poetic elements. Gustav's tunes are sung in numerous languages, sometimes English, some- times French, sometimes German but their appeal is completely and utterly universal.

HOMETRAINER Hometrainer can do minimal as well as he does Michael Schwaiger (Weilheim) not hesitate to spread grease. He is not Berlinish, www.myspace.com/hometrainer not Cologne stylish, he is just a Bavarian, and Track Title: »Plug&Pray« (CD#2, id#7) those few coming from that conservative territory Hometrainer finally grabs for the stars again. are mainly just knowers. His style is something After almost three years he mostly spent with comparable with an Electro-Techno-Hardcore- Console/For God Consoul productions and tours, Naive Mongrel Bitch, and his newest output he needs to get it out now. looks a bit back to the roots he comes from: Hometrainer alias Michael Schwaiger has been Weilheim is the name of the sleepy Bavarian producing since 1998 (three 12“ releases, about city that has spat out this certain melancholic 20 remixes for the likes such as Console, Tiga, urban sound made known by likes such as The Luke Slater, Pitchtuner). He has become part of Notwist, Console and Lali Puna. the circus in 2000, and has been booked as a DJ permanently in clubs throughout Europe. Be- fore he came to electronic music he used to be a bass player in a Hardcore/Metal band whilst he urgently spent his spare time on 8bit C64 tunes for distraction. A sound artist and musician, Ido Govrin plays IDO GOVRIN (meets THE SOJOURNERS) and programs acoustic and digital instruments Ido Govrin (Tel Aviv) to produce and investigate sound art. The es- www.interval-recordings.com Track Title: »Vin-Dit« sence of his performance is to produce drones (CD#2, id#8) and harmonies which are perceived as almost static, yet have a slowly evolving sonic spectrum, a reaction to and a result of a current space.

Ido Govrin is releasing music on several recording labels both in Israel and the EU and creating original music for films and inter-media instal- lations. Running the Israeli record label Interval Recordings as well as the studio for digital art named Duprass.

This track was performed by Ido Govrin, Yonatan Riklis, Uri Seelig, Rotem Sivan, Danny Sorek.

JEFF SAMUEL attempting to make techno using only a compu- Jeff Samuel Stern (Seattle) ter. Nevertheless, by 1998 he had started to www.jeffsamuel.com create his own completed tracks using an early Track Title: »Middlepoint« (CD#2, id#9) version of Fruityloops (now FL Studio). Jeff Samuel’s foray into electronic music began in 1995 when he first witnessed a DJ set by De- Jeff pushed into the new millennium continuing troit’s Claude Young in Columbus, Ohio. He was his DJ career, releasing more music and comple- then introduced to that city’s Ele_mental collec- ting his college degree in Audio Production si- tive, an inspiring core of artists which included multaneously. He left Ohio for the port city of Ohio artists Titonton Duvante, the Archetype Seattle, where he pursued a career as a Sound and Todd Sines among others. Through their Designer in the videogame industry. concept-oriented events, he became enthralled and began to DJ in 1996. Soon after, he pur- Today, Jeff Samuel is a sought-after remixer chased his first synth and drum machine. with a heavy DJ and production schedule who still finds the time to make SFX for videogames. While attending college in 1997, Jeff began ex- His records are played by a diverse range of the ploring the possibilities of software-based music world’s leading DJ’s. production and encountered much scrutiny for KRIKOR Since 1997, he has been remixing much of the Krikor Kouchain (Paris) electronic scene, such as Ark, Octet, Cosmo www.krikor.fr Vitelli, Benjamin Diamond and Freestyle man Track Title: »The Demerol Edit« (CD#2, id#10) and has appeared on various compilations It was in 1995, during his sound engineering (Katapult Various, Luciano mix CD, Expieri- studies, that Krikor met his first Sampling mentations, Lacoste Minimal Set...). In 2001 he Machine. Born in Valence, where he started remixed Serge Gainsbourg’s “Love on the beat”. producing tracks with Frederic Galliano (which His latest EP has been released on the French first gave birth to the Nangadef Maafric remix), Label Karat (Ark, Shalark, Cabanne, Chloe...), Krikor’s firsts loves were funk music and the his Versus project with Ark is scheduled to come bass. He spent one year at the Bass Institute of by the end of the year, as well as a new EP that’s Technology in Los Angeles where he developed in progress. Beyond his club oriented production, his knowledge of the groove. Krikor began Electro-acoustic classes with Octa- vio Lopez. Today Krikor has his own label, Root Down, together with Sandrine Arnone. He collaborates with different project as well as other labels (Karat, Dialect, TigerSushi, Diamondtraxx...).

Starting as a companion DJ for Miklataklitim (a LATIFA PUNK small Jerusalemite collective), Adina Adler, Adina Adler (Jerusalem) known as Latifa Punk, has debuted her 2xCD www.miklataklitim.com "Broken Breathes" in early 2006. Her music can Track Title: »Afternoon« (CD#2, id#11) be described as a collage of various influences, from oriental and Arabic sounds to hip hop and techno beats, dipped in ambiance sound and a soundtrack feel using break, noise, found sound, spoken words, oriental and other influential sounds to create her own unique voice.

This specific track is part of the soundtrack for the movie "Yisraeliut Beprat". LAWRENCE Friedrich Ploch, Sandra Thomsen and Peter M. Peter Kersten (Hamburg) Kersten himself and you can find the link. www.dial-records.com His debut album on Dial/Ladomat (2002) and Track Title: »Neither« (CD#2, id#12) the 12inches for Kompakt, Ladomat and Dial Peter M. Kersten AKA Lawrence / Sten launched seem like a deep journey between deepness the Dial label in 2000 together with his flat mate and melancholy, sometimes a spark of humor or and DJ friend Carsten Jost. To release their own a drift into darkness marks its way. But Peter stuff and the music of techno visionaires such Kersten's music has also been created in a very as Pantha du Prince, Pawel (AKA Turner), Efdemin intuitive way - never conceptual, influenced by and many others, the Dial crew found a distri- an endless universe of music from Detroitish bution and friendship with Cologne’s Kompakt techno, deep house music to singer songwriters universe. and E-music.

The music of Lawrence has often been described as something visual, imaginary, like a trans- figured painting of all tones of grey, showing disturbing plants growing into any directions. But just have a look at the cover artworks of

LIOR ASHKENAZY Lior Ashkenazy (Jerusalem) www.miklataklitim.com Track Title: »Fireleap« (CD#3, id#1)

Lior Ashkenazy. Musician. Jeruslamite. Portrait by Eva Kovalenko. M.I.A. Falko Brocksieper. M.I.A.'s early records on Sub Michaela Grobelny (Berlin) Static are characterized by a deep darkness, and www.sub-static.de that melodic subtleness that's still to be found Track Title: »Morning Frost« (CD#3, id#2) in her more recent works. Soon other labels rai- M.I.A., who left her old homebase Cologne in sed their attention for that mystic female techno mid-2004 to resettle in Berlin, is neither to be producer, and more releases followed on Traum confused with the most recent Grime hype from Schallplatten and Trapez, showing M.I.A.'s efforts the UK, nor the popular German rock band. to achieve more compatibility for the dance floor without dropping her sensibility for drawing In the mid-90's M.I.A. first takes her place behind wide circles of tension and great atmosphere. the turntables. She got to minimal techno and the likes in Cologne quite quickly, and developed a great reputation for her emotional, spunky DJ sets inside the local underground within just a few years. At that time, M.I.A.'s passion for ma- king her own productions started to grow, leading to the founding of her label Sub Static in the year 2000, which she is running together with

Mathias Schaffhäuser has been roaming the MATHIAS SCHAFFHÄUSER techno and house scene since 1994 and has re- Mathias Schaffhäuser (Cologne) leased tracks on Definitive Records (house sub- www.ware-net.de label of Plus-8), Blaou Sounds, Force Inc., Multi- Track: »Dear Elliot« (in memory of Elliot Smith) (CD#3, id#3) color and Frisbee Tracks. In 1997 he started his own record label ’Ware’, which as of February duced remixes for Goldfrapp, Steve Bug, Misc., 2006, has already 61 12inch releases. Frankie, J.C.A., Luomo, Sieg über die Sonne, Raz Ohara, Faust and more. He released his latest album “Coincidance” in April 2005. The title track was remixed by this Schaffhäuser’s motto at the turntables is: Purism season’s high flier Trentemöller and by Dapayk. sucks and stereotypes are for squares. The qua- December 2005 saw his 12inch "Lost Vox" with lity of the music is what’s important, not sheer a remix by Pan-Pot, and February 2006 the next functionality and a perfect mix. In other words, remix 12inch called "More Alternatives" with a at times his sets tend to be quite varied – from mix by Audio Werner. Ware-style music to thumping techno, anything goes. DJ-ing as a tightrope walk between smiling His current releases are two remixes for Renato service and a smooth claim to art. Figoli and Stefan Tretau. Mathias has also pro- METOPE Michael Schwanen (Berlin) www.areal-records.com Track Title: »M1D1« (CD#3, id#4) Metope’s tracks sometimes seem as if they lon- trating situation came to an end. Metope played ged to turn their digital being into real flesh. a few beautiful, yet slightly melancholic chords, Unable to achieve this, they try to imagine what recorded them and nearly went crazy when he it would be like, by using bit reduction processes realised what had happened: “my love feels to simulate half forgotten thoughts. After years digital” he said to himself. “my digital feels of calculations and communications with the love“ appeared on the screen… spirit of a long forgotten master called “Sid”, they were still dissatisfied and they still didn’t Metope is also releasing with Sender Records, know what being human feels like…they had and his remixes can be found on the finest elec- not even the faintest idea. But one day this frus- tronic music labels around.

MIKE & DOT Hawtin, and his sounds as a DJ and producer is Dotan Bibi & Mickey Sharon (Jerusalem) very influenced by minimal techno in general. www.sub-static.de Track Title: »Second Lesson« (CD#3, id#5) Mickey Sharon AKA Mike was born in Jerusalem Mike & Dot performed live for the first time ever in 1985. "It all started when I first heard house in August 2005, at the first c.sides Festival. This music. When I was 10 years old my older brother young duo are giving their best through the mini- was the first one who introduced me to the mal techno scene to bring something a bit diffe- house sound and since then I have started to rent, new and exciting to the world of electronic develop my passion for music.“ music. They have already released two EP’s with Sub Static Records and more releases will fol- In the last few years Mike & Dot have started low very soon. to work together on minimal techno sounds and producing tracks together sharing similar con- Dotan Bibi AKA Dot, was born and raised in Je- cepts and ideas regarding music and musical rusalem. 8 years ago he discovered the 'virus' expression. called electronic music, and ever since then he has been in love with it. His main influences are Craig Richards, Ricardo Villalobos and Richie Barbara Morgenstern and Robert Lippok's beau- MORGENSTERN & LIPPOK tiful Tesri project has its roots in a 2001 commis- Barbara Morgenstern, Robert Lippok (Berlin) sion for Domino's Series 500 imprint, where www.monika-enterprise.de Track Title: »Wake Me for Meals« they soundtracked the moods of each of the (CD#3, id#6) seasons across twenty-one near perfect minutes. On Tesri, which is an Arab-rooted Turkish word meaning to accelerate, the music feels partly coloured by their separate visits to Istanbul. This music is exotic and rich, devoid of expected kit- schiness, and full of seasonal detail which runs from remote sunsets, insect hum and dust, to a crisp, wintry stillness by the end of the album. Their joint work has a certain sound we associate with these musicians, both in their own solo work or in group projects, but Tesri is its own dot on the map, its own light lighting up, and it not only complements these other musics, it's its own magical listen.

MULE DRIVER Today Mule Driver is part of two performing col- Harel Schreiber (Jerusalem) lectives – the Models together with his label www.ak-duck.com partner Itamar Weiner AKA Spark O – a duo Track Title: »Spiderweb Girl« (CD#3, id#7) that performed in Israel and abroad using analo- Mule Driver’s first album ‘Microscopic Moves’ gue equipment and combine between improvi- came out in 2003 and was entirely dedicated to sation and prepared materials. the naive electronic sounds of the 60’s and early 70’s. During the same year he produced together Schreiber is also the bass player for Mujahideen, with Spark O the debut EP of Rockstar Wannabe. together with Uri Cristal AKA Subsoniq and Alon Mule Driver has remixed tracks of Zadik Zecharia, Ovnat. the Poster Boys, Polish Butterfly, Roi 'Chicky’ Arad and more. He has produced a track for the rapper Sagol 59, together with Spark O, and has released with Ak Duck and Something on the Road. NICO TEEN Zohar Shafir (Jerusalem) www.ak-duck.com Track Title: »True Desire« (CD#3, id#8) Zohar Shafir AKA Nico Teen is a very close as- Shafir’s personal musical story is much different sociate of the label Ak Duck and through the in its sound and ambiance than the numerous years has integrated within the label by contri- projects she has contributed to. Her debut album buting and taking part in numerous albums and “Workshop” that came out this year, is a lo-fi projects through her vocals that appear on many pop production unrestricted of any and all con- of the releases, musical input in others and sig- ventions. The tracks on the album range from nificant contributions to Ak Duck’s compilation. strips of instrumental noise to sweet homely pop (just like this very track). Shafir produces music from that most intimate and intuitive place by using her voice, rickety synthesizers and im- provised musical instruments.

Born and raised in Jerusalem, 30 years old El REI EL BUZZ Buzz is a minimal, techno & house DJ / producer Rei Elbaz (Tel Aviv) / party promoter from Tel Aviv, Israel. Since www.m1-techno.com 1997, he has been promoting large scale techno Track Title: »Aim« (CD#3, id#9) raves in Israel such as the legendary "100 meters He has been DJing since the millennium 2000 beneath the ground", founder and resident DJ and producing music for the past 5 years. of the M1 techno parties in Tel Aviv hosting El Buzz lived for about 2 years in Berlin and per- guest DJ’s from around the globe. formed there in several main venues such as the Tresor, S036 and more. He is currently co- running minimal party line in Tel Aviv under the name ‘Exercise’ and forming the Pacotek Records label together with the Pacotek duo. RHYTHM KING AND HER FRIENDS and Her Friends take a stand against conventio- Pauline Boudry, Linda Wölfel (Berlin) nal gender roles and parody the usual cliches: www.rhythm-king-and-her-friends.net "What can I wear today? Choose my pants or Track Title: »One Two« (CD#3, id#10) shall I use my dress – everything looks queer Queer electronica, marvelous pop melodies with today – I know I need some vacation from my corners and edges, combine sampled rhythms boyish closet ..." The trio plays with samples and a playful use of different instruments and and digital equipment with as much ease as singing (in several languages, English, French with guitars or megaphones. "The lithe, angular and Bulgarian). Rhythm King and Her Friends songs and megaphone-filtered polemics of the have something else in their mind. Instruments Berlin-based trio of politically-charged young such as samplers, drum computers, guitar, bass women carry on where the DFA remix of Le and xylophone are used, in order to make music, Tigre's "Decepta-con" left off." (Wire) Their debut embodied in the field of queer and gender poli- album came out in April 2004 on Kitty-Yo follo- tics. wing the release of a remix EP featuring remixes Since the band's formation three years ago, the by Robots in Disguise, Ladytron and Stuart Price. furore of their subversive mix of feminist mani- Now the Rhythm Kings are back in the studio festo with electronic sounds and beats erases to record their second album, again to be re- any doubts. Loud and provocative, Rhythm King leased on Kitty-Yo.

ROBERT LIPPOK and therefore with the opening of a fictitious Robert Lippok (Berlin) memory. Analogue field recordings, digital re- www.robertlippok.de mains and cultural fragments are condensed in- Track Title: »Smart Dust« (CD#3, id#11) to an acoustic space. Robert Lippok is the founder of the legendary experimental electronics band To Rocco Rot, a Robert Lippok is currently on a full lenght album sought after producer, remixer and artist. Lippok for Raster Noton. was born in 1966 in East Berlin, studied stage design at Kunsthochschule Weissensee, and This track, taken from ’Robot’ (Western Vinyl), currently lives and work as a musician, visual was recorded by Bernd Jestram at Studio Bleibeil artist and stage designer in Berlin. Berlin in 2006.

Since years Robert Lippok, with his band To Ro- coco Rot and the collaboration with Barbara Morgenstern, has been exploring the "back streets" of pop and club music. As a solo artist, music stands in connection with making things like space and perception accessible to yourself - ROCKSTAR WANNABE Ella Gilboa (Jerusalem) www.myspace.com/rockstarwannabe Track Title: »Burn« (CD#3, id#12) Rockstar Wannabe is Ella Gilboa, a Jerusalem Today Rockstar Wannabe is working on releasing based musician and artist. Her debut song was her full album as well as working and performing released on Fact Records in 2002 and was fol- together with Nico Teen (Zohar Shafir) on their lowed by an EP released with Ak-Duck Records smashing duo live act under the name – K.G. during 2003. Produced by the Models, this elec- Babes. tro-pop 4 track release - “Slay Play” was an out- spoken tribute to the TV series – Buffy the Vam- pire Slayer. The EP was released in limited ad- dition of 150 copies with Gilboa’s cardboard art cover.

SAFETY SCISSORS detritus, but MPC also treasured the errors and Matthew Patterson Curry (San Francisco) mishaps in his everyday life. www.proptronix.com The release of “Parts Water“ in 2001 led to Track: »Breastbone (intstrumental c.sides edit)« worldwide touring and numerous remixes. In (CD#4, id#1) Berlin he founded the Proptronix label, and fol- A picture of his girlfriend adorned with gag-sto- lowing the release of “My Robot Friend“ and re glasses brandishing children's scissors - this the “Pigeon Funk“ project, he distanced himself token of good luck followed Mr. Matthew Patter- from his "dub house techno drivel" and solidified son Curry everywhere when he began DJing. a trademark sound dubbed by XLR8R as "dork- Cutting his teeth as a weekly resident of San core". Francisco's Static club - surrounded by the likes His return to San Francisco in 2003 allowed him of Kit Clayton, Sutekh, Twerk, Kid 606, and Mat- to finish his second full-length album “Tainted mos - who provided him with musical support Lunch“. and inspiration for first forays into production. Currently MPC is furthering his knowledge of Safety Scissors’ first records were lumped as tap dancing and also has a cat named Napkin "SF Laptop Techno", at least by German patrons. who plays fetch. Recently he started a monthly Like most artists in the "clicks and cuts" scene, event in sleepy San Francisco called EGGS trying his music embellished recording errors and digital to make people stay up late. SAMON TAKAHASHI violin, toys, homemade instruments, tapes, turn- Samon Takahashi (Paris) tables, voices, various percussions, electronics. www.golmusic.com The music, acoustic oriented but highly electric, Track Title: »I Love America« (CD#4, id#2) is entirely improvised and has the flavour of Samon Takahashi is a musician and visual artist mid-summer countryside violent immobility. Hard from France. Working in inter-disciplinary fields to define, the closest classifications would be of art using mixed media to installations, sound, "corporate mambo", "psychedelic disco", "electro- radio, plastic to digital art. He is a member of acoustic flask" and "tropical experimentalism". the GOL ensemble, founded in 1988 in Paris, France, by Jean-Marcel Busson, Frederic Rebo- This track, ‘I Love America’, Takahashi recorded tier, Xavier Roux and himslef. After numerous in 2004 in Los Angeles during an art residence concerts and an LP issued in 1993 (Gol 01) the there. The photo is taken from his work “Starship band dismantled for a long break of nearly 10 Purgatory” presented at the 18th Street Art years. Center, Los Angeles.

In 2002, the band reformed for occasional recor- ding sessions and seldom live apparitions. GOL plays more or less flutes, horns, guitars,

Formed in 1999 in Tel Aviv, the music of Seven- SEVENTEEN MIGS OF SPRING teen Migs of Spring is a mixture of different, Natalia Gurfinkel AKA Gurfa, often conflicting, cultural, philosophic and musi- Konstantin Gervis AKA K-76, cal influences. It is hard to categorize and label Lev Boomshtein AKA B-74 (Tel Aviv) www.zvukoprocessor.com since it always varies from release to release, Track Title: »Shesh Teisha Avor« (CD#4, id#3) thus, it is always evolving. (feat. Vadim Gusis AKA Chaos as Shelter) Seventeen Migs of Spring are Gurfa in real time voice manipulation, sampling and processing; K-76: modular, FM, granular and analog synthe- sizers, amplified objects, mechanic music devi- ces, and computers; B-74: unique circuit bent device -"Scream Box", bowed metal objects, junk samplers and sample players, prepared toy devices, amplified music boxes and computer. "Shesh Teisha Avor" is a result of collaboration with Chaos as Shelter (Vadim Gusis), a very well known Israeli composer working in the field of dark ambient and experimental music. 6DOZEN Musician and sound artist. Davidovsky was born Daniel Davidovsky (Tel Aviv) in Argentina in1965 and in 1989 moved to Israel. www.6dozen.net He currently lives and works in Tel Aviv. Track Title: »Your Eyes Are Moving Fast Pt.2« (CD#4, id#4) His current works are concerned with different combinations of electro - acoustic assembles; where acoustic instruments meet computers and real time sound processing in sight of new approaches to sound and music improvisation.

SPARK O Itmar Weiner (Jerusalem) www.ak-duck.com Track Title: »Sequence 2« (CD#4, id#5) Spark O / Itamar Weiner started producing music In 2003 Spark O released his debut EP "Redis- in 2001. Together with Harel Schreiber and Ariel covers", containing 2 cover versions for local Tagar they initiated Ak Duck Records in the year mythological bands: the Jinjiot and the Top Hat 2002 in order to release and promote electronic Carriers. His debut album was released in 2004 music made by local musicians. featuring collaborations with vocalist Nico Teen and pop icon Roi “Chicky” Arad. His latest release is the split EP with his label mate Mule Driver as part of the ongoing and critically acclaimed 3inch series ‘Ducks Don't Swim in Swamps’. STUCHKA VKARMANYE 6 years after that, including brief periods in Eu- Eliad Wagner (Jerusalem) rope, 3 published albums, his own record label www.g6pdrecords.com and almost one full bachelor degree in physics, Track Title: »Manon« (CD#4, id#6) it still takes him a few days to set up a drum Eliad Wagner had his first kiss when he was 12 track. years old. A few months later his computer broke down for the first time in his life. When he was Eliad Wagner creates electronic music as “Stuch- 16 years old, he received 4 pairs of socks as a ka Vkarmanye” and also as “Fava Beats” (toget- birthday gift from an aunt. He was angry. At the her with Bloke) and has released albums on la- end of his high school years, he was taking some bels such as Metropolis Rec.(US), and Digital time to put into a short and rather dubious mili- Kranky (DE). He is a co-founder of the label tary carrier. 2 years into that he was accidentally ±g6pd Records and in that way he tries to pro- introduced to the magnificent world of sound mote, what is considered by him, some very fine synthesis. music. Fascinated with old synthesis techniques and the application of those on modern compo- sing and editing, Wagner creates electronic mu- sic of a broken and surprising nature, which you might like as well.

Since 1997, San Francisco-based Sutekh has SUTEKH released consistently inconsistent electronic Seth Horvitz (San Francisco) music on labels such as Soul Jazz , Force Inc./ www.context.fm Mille Plateaux, Orthlorng Musork, and his own Track Title: »Incest (c.sides edit)« (CD#4, id#7) Context (and countless more). Manipulating and abusing computers, samplers, synthesizers, va- rious acoustic instruments, and found sounds, he has created everything from deep, minimal house and techno to dense, dissonant noise co- llage. His music has been so inconsistent over the years, that the music press even invented new names of new movements in electronic music only for him, while he just continued to make music. Besides his music career Sutekh is also an acclaimed Scrabble master, room mate of Mr. Matthew P. Curry for almost a decade (well, some ons and offs…), a DJ, ex-punk and many many things more. URI KATZENSTEIN & BINYA RECHES Binya Reches was born in Jerusalem in 1976. (Tel Aviv) A Musician, producer and sound artist, he as Track Title: »In the Garden« (CD#4, id#8) released several albums under various names Uri Katzenstein was born in 1951 in Tel-Aviv. and titles ("Die-welt", "Taapet"). Reches writes His work divides itself into several arenas such music and designs soundtracks for films, per- as film, music and sculpture as well as real- formances and video-art. He has exhibited his time based practice. A former member of "Skin- works in Israel and Europe. o-Daayba", "Panta Rai", "Yom Gagatzi" music performance groups. In the past 20 years he has For the past 6 years Reches and Katzenstein exhibited his works throughout the world. have been collaborating with various different projects that have included performance, video and sound installations. These works include "Home" - Venice Biannale; "Ritual Reality" - Chel- sea Museum, New York; "Hope Machines" - Is- tanbul Biannale; "Surname" - KNS Gallery, Berlin; Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel-Aviv.

VERT His first full-length release was "The Köln Kon- Adam Butler (London / Cologne) zert", a live recording (in Cologne, naturally), in www.v-e-r-t.com which Vert deconstructed Keith Jarrett's classic Track Title: »This One!« (CD#4, id#9) recording, stealing musical nuggets and produ- Since his first release, the "Broken Breakbeat cing a classic in its own right. It was named by Bebop" 12inch in 1996, Vert (Adam Butler, b. The Wire magazine as one of the albums of the 1972, UK) has been slyly subverting ideas of year. Since then, he has released 2 more albums genre, gracefully combining pop and experiment, on Sonig, "Nine Types of Ambiguity" and "Small innocence and rigour, humour and beauty, digital Pieces Loosely Joined", as well as other material and actual, often all in the space of one bar. He under his real name. combines elements from a wide variety of musi- cal styles, from jazz and ragtime to hip hop, elec- He is recently finishing his new album “Some tronica, contemporary classical, by taking musical Beans and an Octopus”, to be released on Sonig ideas and methods and combining them into a this early fall, and this track is the first sneak unique musical language played on piano (which preview to appear in public. he started learning at the age of 6), junk percus- sion, and digital processing. Half of the M1 Techno crew, together with Rei YIFI Elbaz, Giladi has been DJing and producing Yiftach Giladi (Tel Aviv) techno and minimal electronic music for the past www.m1-techno.com Track Title: »Omat« (CD#4, id#10) five years. Giladi has been organizing techno events in Tel Aviv, Berlin and Jerusalem since 1997. He has released a number of his DJ sets and original track compilations under the M1 label and is currently working on a new live act as well as a series of 12inch releases under a new label, coming oh so very soon…

YOTAM AVNI Yotam Avni was born in Kiryat Ono, Israel on Yotam Avni (Qiryat Ono) the last day of the year 1987. Since then he www.lostchildrenonline.com spent most of his time downloading as many Track Title: »Oak Spring« (CD#4, id#11) mp3's as he possibly could in all electronic (and acoustic) musical genres. He began to make his own sounds back in 2003 and is still getting worst at it until today. His unusual ambient sounds are known for their monotonic melan- cholic structure based on sampling other pieces of sounds and giving them a true twist – in other words: Avni produces a soundtrack for the joy of misery. In 2005 Avni realized that he and his young friends are making great music that should be out in the open air and consequently decided to open and launch "Lost Children". ZIGGY KINDER Siegfried Kinder (Cologne) www.myspace.com/ziggykinder Track Title: »Paarartistik« (CD#4, id#12) Ziggy Kinder lives in Cologne since 2002 and Ziggy Kinder’s live performances are dance in- makes music in the musical surroundings of jecting experiences in which the public is enchan- some of the Kompakt labels. He already released ted in constant anticipation between playful and three EP’s, and his album “Akrobatik“ came out intoxicating funkyness. Anyone can say that, for this May. Kinder’s debut is a super individual sure! This has been methodologically proven at draft in the field of minimal techno full of unusual many gigs with abundant witnesses, among melodies, drama and complexity. others in Deep Club (Berlin), Woanders (Munich) or Studio 672 (Cologne). His grooves and his head-strong arrangements always shine fully. Equipped with a laptop and a few controllers Kinder heads on with the motto "less is more, and there is also more bass!"

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