From the album “You Make Me Real”. Out on !K7
Clip by Danae Diaz and Patri­cia Luna.

First com­po­si­tion, then techno

From http://www.zeit.de

Groove of the city: the musi­cian Paul Frick, Jan Brauer and Daniel Brandt at the Berlin Memo­r­ial Church

Paul Frick was still in ele­men­tary school when the first Love Parade 1989 on Berlin’s Kur­fürs­ten­damm raged. He lived right around the cor­ner, and expe­ri­enced in the fol­low­ing years, as the fes­ti­val attracted more and more mot­ley clad ravers. Log­i­cally, then, that he now pro­duces its own technology?

Not really, says the 31-year-old musi­cian. “I Love the parade at the time and quite freaky. As hard it was kinda funny, but I have never taken the music seri­ously.” Frick was more inter­ested in “com­pli­cated, hand-made music,” and so began a study in com­po­si­tion with Friedrich Gold­mann at the Uni­ver­sity of the Arts. “I had the first time eight years study­ing com­po­si­tion in order to like techno.”

The techno, the band plays its Brandt Brauer Frick, how­ever, is not a dull ham­mer­ing. In the six months before pub­lished album You Make Me Real , all sounds gen­er­ated by real instru­ments, with­out the aid of com­put­ers or drum machines. And now is the trio to a ten-member ensem­ble has grown even this Thurs­day in Moun­tain Grove for the first time occurs at — with a com­pletely acoustic show.

The other two core mem­bers of the band are Daniel Brandt, 26, and Jan Brewer, 25 They have known each other since mid­dle school in Wies­baden.Under the name of Scott they did from jazz influ­enced techno. Paul Frick, the com­poser who had now also started to write house tracks heard it over the Inter­net, was enthu­si­as­tic and wrote them an email. 2008 started the col­lab­o­ra­tion, and for two weeks Brandt and brew­ers are now liv­ing in Berlin.

Frick: “Even at the begin­ning we thought: let’s try what hap­pens if we Techno, mod­ern clas­si­cal and jazz mix.” Daniel Brandt adds: “It would have also much exper­i­men­tal, or may be strange, but that has not hap­pened in the stu­dio jam­ming caused rel­a­tively intu­itively sound you can hear when you have no idea of ​​mod­ern music..”

It sounds, in fact, par­tic­u­larly in like techno, but the sound is char­ac­ter­ized by unusual sounds. For exam­ple, bass lines, not a Roland 303, but from a tuba come. Also on rhyth­mic level takes longer than usual genre is in this.This sounds like the music as a bridge between min­i­mal techno and min­i­mal music in the style of Steve Reich and Philip Glass .