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From:
Jeff Davis
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'IDM'
Date:
Sat, 21 Feb 2004 09:58:22 -0500
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[idm] Upcoming Bochum Welt
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Press Releasefyi - 5 new tracks + 3 relatively hard to find. p.s. i DID NOT write this PR verbage (and i don't think GdC did either)...... respect, Jeff Davis fon: 440.878.5795 phlow@earthlink.net fax: 440.878.5928 cel: 216.533.6303 -----Original Message----- From: Gianluigi Di Costanzo Sent: Wednesday, February 18, 2004 10:45 AM To: pHlow@earthlink.net Subject: Press Release Hi Jeff, if you want to spread :) artist: bochum welt title: kissing a robot goodbye label: device electronic entertainment cat no: Irq07cd / Irq07 format: mcd / mlp streetdate: 14th April 2004 Tracklisting : 01. terpsitone 02. mannequin 03. GTE 04. telegame 05. home 06. MVS 07. vectors 08. la nuit (original version) Bochum Welt : Gianlugi Di Costanzo has been a doyen of the left field electronic scene for over ten years now. First appearing on the scene with a flurry of underground twelves, the good offices of Rephlex quickly saw a good thing, latching onto the Bochum Welt phenomenon for four mini albums around this time, while also procuring a full remix set of contemporary maverick Like A Tim. 'Mannequin' here, dates from this classic period, suave neo-italo after party tuneage. Bochum's gone on to contribute the 'Fashion' 3" to Hymen, further work for Rephlex, with a track on the 'Rephlexions' and a host of software werk. Gianlugi's game fixations led him to score 'Pacman Deluxe' back in the day, which was even included on the cd version of his 1997 Rephlex album, as well as contributing sound design for the likes of Sony japan and even Games workshop ! Check the tune 'Telegame' for some flavour of where this music's headed, roughed up bass undertow, ominous padding, topped with a crystalline melodic architecture - killer stuff. Recent commercial collaborations with Thomas Dolby have fostered this sense of a full time technetronic crusader, at once leading edge and at the same time fondly connected to the analog, vintage warmth of classic drum machines, samplers, Oberheims and Moogs. The tune 'Home' here relishes the fireside glow of this nostalgia, but for a sense of this retrofuturism at its apex head to the machine made ambience of 'Terpsitone' and 'La Nuit'..... Bochum Welt was already at the head of the electropop community before the new millenium came through and changed the world. He is now standing at the gates of a new era and has composed the perfect ambient, robotic soundtrack to a world dependant on the love and good will of our new mechanical friends. --