Artist: Farben
Album: Starbox
Release: 2002
Label: Klang
Tracklist:
1. Live At The Tahoe, 1973
2. At The Golden Circle Stockholm Vol. 1, 1965
3. Live At The Roxy, 1984
4. Raw Macro
5. Suntouch [Edit]
6. Loop. Exposure
7. Bayreuth
8. Silikon
9. Beautone
10. T.Microsystems
11. FF
12. Love Oh Love
13. Love To Love You Baby
14. As Long As There's Love Around
15. So Much Love
Starbox is the most thorough and definitive release by Farben, one of the many aliases of Microhouse god Jan Jelinek. Collected here are numerous 12" singles (Featuring The Dramatics, Raw Macro, Silikon, and Farben Says: Don't Fight Phrases) all released on Klang Records. Apparently, each release's cover star was a different member of the leftist Red Army Faction. A brief sidebar: for some reason this radical group is gaining a lot of attention as of recently, especially in privileged anarchist circles, both through literature and film. Not only do I find it weird, but holy shit does Der Baader Meinhof Komplex look fucking cheap, sensationalized, and just plain terrible. If interested in the subject, one should seek out the Margarethe Von Trotta films Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975). Both are some of the best work by one of the New German Cinema's best directors!
Ahem, back to Farben. These four 12"s are some of the best electronic shit I've ever heard. Combining elements of house, dub, ambient, and glitch, Farben crafts breezy, yet textured songs that rely less on abrasive clicks and cuts, and more of the smokeweedeveryday feel of dub. Easily some of the most accessible work in this field, it's also just some of the best. Being a very large compilation, the highlights are numerous. My personal favorites are the disco-string laden "Beautone," "Live At The Roxy, 1984," and "Farben Says: Love Oh Love." Really though, since this is a collection of classic singles, every song is a home run.
Another essential release from the late 90s-early 2000s electronic scene. Get into it.
Download Here
-Adam
Album: Starbox
Release: 2002
Label: Klang
Tracklist:
1. Live At The Tahoe, 1973
2. At The Golden Circle Stockholm Vol. 1, 1965
3. Live At The Roxy, 1984
4. Raw Macro
5. Suntouch [Edit]
6. Loop. Exposure
7. Bayreuth
8. Silikon
9. Beautone
10. T.Microsystems
11. FF
12. Love Oh Love
13. Love To Love You Baby
14. As Long As There's Love Around
15. So Much Love
Starbox is the most thorough and definitive release by Farben, one of the many aliases of Microhouse god Jan Jelinek. Collected here are numerous 12" singles (Featuring The Dramatics, Raw Macro, Silikon, and Farben Says: Don't Fight Phrases) all released on Klang Records. Apparently, each release's cover star was a different member of the leftist Red Army Faction. A brief sidebar: for some reason this radical group is gaining a lot of attention as of recently, especially in privileged anarchist circles, both through literature and film. Not only do I find it weird, but holy shit does Der Baader Meinhof Komplex look fucking cheap, sensationalized, and just plain terrible. If interested in the subject, one should seek out the Margarethe Von Trotta films Die Bleierne Zeit (1981) and The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975). Both are some of the best work by one of the New German Cinema's best directors!
Ahem, back to Farben. These four 12"s are some of the best electronic shit I've ever heard. Combining elements of house, dub, ambient, and glitch, Farben crafts breezy, yet textured songs that rely less on abrasive clicks and cuts, and more of the smokeweedeveryday feel of dub. Easily some of the most accessible work in this field, it's also just some of the best. Being a very large compilation, the highlights are numerous. My personal favorites are the disco-string laden "Beautone," "Live At The Roxy, 1984," and "Farben Says: Love Oh Love." Really though, since this is a collection of classic singles, every song is a home run.
Another essential release from the late 90s-early 2000s electronic scene. Get into it.
Download Here
-Adam
7 comments:
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RAF, is that for real? The ratio or marxist to non-marxist content on this blog is really improving. P.S. you owe me the two albums we discussed previously discussed.
Baader-Meinhoff deserves attention Adam. In this era of ever, laterally progressive capitalism and accelerated process of production and consumption, sometimes criminal political violence has a great mystique. But I still haven't answered the question of who is an who is not a legitimate target...ahem.
Two German folks are crashing at my place and they say the new film has no real historical context and is just a bunch of big explosions and sexy folk. Not sure that's the type of attention deserved.
-Adam
15th track is coming up as corrupted according to WinRAR. Just a heads up!
FIXED.
Thanks for telling me.
Awsomest! Thanks!
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