VILLALOG
Villalog’s fourth album “Space Trash” plays with bending and distorting coordinates of space and time.
Whereas their last album, “Cosmic Sister”(2009) was more of a space-disco sci-fi trip, the new album looks pointedly towards the earth. Villalog’s musical starting point is found somewhere between Kraftwerk and Can, Quicksilver Messenger Service and Spacemen3. Founded in 1999 as a duo, Michi Duscher (guitar) and Marc Muncke (electronics) were subsequently joined by drummer Bernhard Fleischmann.
Live performances by Villalog often overflow into controlled drifting. They have the potential to sink into an endless vortex of sounds that weave into and tumble over one another. This improvisational stream that glides out to the outer limits is at the core of “Space Trash”. Faust’s Hans Joachim Irmler was the co-producer of the album.
http://klangbad.de/artists/villalog
https://soundcloud.com/klangbad/sets/villalog-spacetrash/s-PRKAp
RANCUNE
Rancune treads the line between 80s-inspired electronic sounds and new-wave songwriting. Influenced by garage rock, electronic body music and most things in between, these three French guys living in Berlin can’t choose between singing in their mother tongue, English or German. Playing with a computer-less assemblage of analog synthesizers, drum machines, plus an organ and a guitar amp, the three members take turns to sing songs of love, lust, grudge and culinary frustration.
After forming in mid-2014, they started playing live in 2015 and have been recording demos to document their new-found sound. Expect a high-energy live act striving to play spontaneously instead of cruising through programmed backing tracks.
https://soundcloud.com/rancune
amStart / Ran Huber