Lots of interesting information about
Stephan Betke's own label, ~scape.
Based in Berlin Germany, and concentrated
on "modern city dub," ~scape records
is one to look out for!
Pietro.
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~scape002 release info
KIT CLAYTON
nek sanalet
~scape 002 cd/dbl12"
release date: 10/29/99
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Kit Clayton's "nek sanalet" full length on ~scape records
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The second release on ~scape records (Pole's new dub-
devoted label from Berlin). From this month's Wire magazine:
"Clayton's tracks are characterized by a mix of disembodied voices,
digital glitchery and tempestuous electronic squalls running amok over
rocksteady rythms." --Philip Sherburne
Remember Kit Clayton? That mysterious powerbookwizard,
who was behind "nek purpalet" on ~scape records (~scape001)?
The sequel has arrived. "nek sanalet" is his longplay debut on
Stefan Betke´s (Pole) label ~scape. It's even more day-dreamy,
way beyond echo than its predeccesor. Take the 'out of the woods'
Dub approach from the first ep add a little more flavour and you get
"nek sanalet". Straight to the head. These days, dub inna Kit Clayton
style, is the one and only method to crack your skull.
Designed to clear your view. "nek sanalet" is an excellent panorama
in dub. Put on your headphones, set the virtual glasses straight if
you will. Then, Kit Clayton appears as a colorful, hologrammatic
guide. He is thee observer. And "nek sanalet" is his device to open
all borders to dubland. In show view, multi-dimensional dubbing with
the Observer. In the old times folks said "musical shower every hour".
For "nek sanalet" aproximate traveltime is about 45 minutes. During the
roundtrip you will be carried through all the interesting corners and
niches of the electronic danceworld. It's a little more heavy down there
than usual because of ²nek sanalet², the device is wearing a dub filter.
Be glad to have Kit Clayton as a tourguide with you because he mixed
emotion into his subsonic bass.
These 8 tracks are 'all killer no filler'. Perfectly programmed, dark
like a cloud, creepy crawling into every inch of your body. Versatility
shows in the minimal techdub of "nele" and in the almost beatless,
melancholic "inapiseptili". Kit Clayton is calming you down, he lets you
'know' in the very sense of the word, what will happen down there in the
next echo. "nek sanalet" is testament to his musical vision. A highly
thoughtful urban vision.
As with "nek purpalet" (which translates to world of spirits), all the
tracktitles are borrowed from the indiginous language of the Cuna. "nek
sanalet" (world of substance), then is to be regarded as the opposite of
its predecessor. Which means, balance of the forces are at work. Tracks
like "kalu" (=spiritual fortress), "aspoket" (=statue), or "nia-ikala"
(=way of the devil) are manifest to an inner meaning, a hidden reality.
Music is a means to remember the past, to foresee the shape of things to
come, and to understand what is happening at present.
Kit Clayton is living in San Francisco. Besides developing computerbased
software, he is operating various labels (Cytrax, Delay, Mimic and the
Model, Orthlorng Musork). In the past three years, Clayton also released
material on such US labels as Phtalo, Plug Research, Parallel, Organized
Noise, and Drop Beat.
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~scape records: label bio
Since the invention of the echospiral, dub stands for the search for the
impossible, the fictive, the invention of unknown kingdoms of sounds and
sonic worlds of fantasy. As a type of music based on studio techniques,
dub exists more imaginatively than realistically. It buzzes in the heads
of the producers, just like in the echo devices, with a combination of
human spirit and the desperate growl of overloaded pieces of technology.
Dub is about the bass and its unavoidable consequences: the depth of the
bass pushing the entire tonal burden mercilessly to one side. The only
sound which seems to remain is a minimalistic groove, which defines the
rough frame as nothing more than a playground of thoughts, leaving the
listeners to fill the space in their own individual way. It´s due to
this minimalism that dub functions as a musical genre in several
different environments without any problems, including both urban
structures and natural ones.
Let´s talk about the city. Modern urban dub is not so much a progression
of musical history, but rather a transfer of conceptual ideas into
different musical contexts. Dub as a method goes far beyond the
measurable border, it reflects, projects and infiltrates. The digital
tugging, creaking melancholic, pleasantly warm sound of urban dub
retains the slightly uncanny orchestration of our cities. Dub has the
power to create a bearable structure for the anonymous commercial
centers of the inner cities. It can fade out the seizure of the inner
cities by industrial giants and temporarily stop the disappearance of
public spaces.
~scape records is a new label from Berlin, which intends to concentrate
on exactly this modern city dub. Founded and managed by Stefan Betke who
has (under the name Pole) helped to establish and develop this sound
during the last two years like no other with his releases on Kiff SM and
DIN.
~scape records is unequivocally groove-oriented and will be responsible
in the future for the new automatica installation of dub music in the
DJ´s preferred form of 12" vinyl in clubs all over this world. At the
same time ~scape records will take care for the production of
full-length albums,making it possible for the sound to jump from the
DJ´s records case directly into the listeners' sitting rooms.
~scape records defines itself as a platform for those of kindred spirit.
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