oh. - the unknown stuntman

a1 colt
a2 jodie
b1 festhalten – mathias schaffhäuser rmx
b2 howie

oh.:
flo froetscher – bass, synths
mat kundmüller – sampler, synths
phil stumpf – bass, synths, lignotron
ron schneider aka raumagent alpha – mpc, synths, fx
frank taschner – drums

good news everyone! our favourite rockers from oh. have left the major label virgin to finally jump on the festplatten boat. with good reason … they´re bringing with them one of the fattest and most elaborated festplatten records to date. musically the electronic band oh. have developed towards a consequently new direction: straighter than ever, 4 to the floor, paired with the organic band sound and a whole lotta funk…welcome to the club! a big welcome comes from mathias schaffhaeuser, with his collossal stumpin´ n chirpin´ remix. a track all ravers have long been waiting for. the five lads around raumagent alpha and phil stumpf feel a lot more comfortable around the dancefloor anyway - after a long way from seven years on rock´n´roll stages!

markus müller - quattro stagione

a1 nachts um 3
a2 abends um 8

b1 mittags um 12
b2 morgens um 7

frankfurt resident markus müller made his first time appearance on our wir.zwei compilation (back then with the pseudonym markus jackson).
for his debut maxi quattro stagione he now prefers to appear under his real name. there are 4 pieces which bring together the festplatten typical preferences in a charming way; in other words, the funk-metal of minimalhouse.
the 4 tiles accompany us through the night: at 8pm we snuggle into the night, at 3am we get down to business, at 7am we want to proof it one more time and at 12 noon we happily groove into the new day. the two night owls provide an almost modernist-style-like ground for excessiveness and all the way turned up saws. the two paradise birds distinguish themselves by his playful grooves and lovely melodies.

leo cubanero - bug fix ep

a1 xtra
b1 oregon
b2 grabb

the debüt from our berlin newcomer leo cubanero. he´s takes functionallity and totally weirdness togehter in one stride. we had to dither between his daily growing flood of new tracks. in the end we took three… so here he comes with one big rave-monster and two lovely and groovy minimal-house tracks.

gebr. teichmann - brothers in arms

a1 hannes teichmann - landluft
a2 hannes teichmann - stadtluft

b1 andi teichmann - alles auf rot
b2 andi teichmann - 1, 2, 303

hannes sends out two uncompromised tracks via land- and stadtluft to hit the groove: landluft is a heavy marching monstrosity with jeleous-making brokensounds. these enbed themselves in a rhythm that has found its own way: to shuffle or not seems to be the question here.
hannes has more or less inhaled the stadtluft after a loveparade party night in berlin¹s panoramabar: this totally rattled raver pummles into someplace with a freshly-had promo-shaker and a wind buoy-like bass that could stand for any autumn storm. and because hannes is a nice guy everything still sounds lovely and charming.
andi teichmann

the beat rolls straight and the hooks keep on ravin´ till the doctor comes! two tracks that try to overarch one another with their crazy functionality. by crazy we mean for sure well thought out.
alles auf rot squirrels happily over diverse tacts. it moves with crisp sounds and a fat bass´straight ahead on a sawing rave horn for which no system is too large.
on 1, 2, 303 andi touches our ears easily and fluffy with his very personal transpose-madness. this one, camouflaged as an off-bassline, offers a good foundation for cramming, trumpeting and the final pop-acid explosion.
hannes teichmann

raumagent alpha - plugger ep

a1 plugger zwei
b1 plugger vier
b2 plugger zwei (live)

after his wonderful debut luna rocker (fest 007), the agent brings us a wrathful ravemonster… based on the plugger 1, from our wir:zwei compilation, he srewed us three beatyful songs. one live-take and a studio-version from the plugger 2 and the plugger 4 - an unbelievable groover which hates the winter and looks forward to spring. the agent stays undercover, but we are very excited for his album, which is expectet in march.

sami koivikko - satamakatu

a1 pinni
a2 obela

b1 ponnea
b2 bukke

after some great releases on shitkatapult, here is the first festplatte of sami koivikko from finnland. 4 tracks, which bring funkiness and harmonies together in a fantastic way. sami loves to make music to dance in the club, as well as listening at home. his personal favorit on this record is bukke, because of the typical finnish melancholy - we love the hole record!
satamakatu, the ep-titel is the name of the street, where sami lived and produced all the tracks.

andi teichmann - wir gehen nicht nachhaus

a1 against the gain
a2 strophe/refrain

b1 wir gehen nicht nach hause
b2 nachtzugnachzagreb

after a short break, here is the new festplatten. the solodebut of andi teichmann contains much more of andis musical background than just minimal-housmusic: you can find funk and rock, guitars and prophets, vocals, even a slow and deep ambient song is on it and last but not least a smile on your face.
we won´t go home!

wir.zwei

a1 markus güntner featuring martin haygis - syndrom
a2 smalltalk (aka superuser) - opinion market

b1 andi teichmann - solo
b2 phil stumpf featuring flo froetscher- du kannst nicht tanzen
b3 benjamin wild - minimal again

c1 raumagent alpha - plugger 1
c2 ha.te & the bad financer - kickstart

d1 gebr. teichmann in love with acid maria - makin salad
d2 markus jackson (aka markus müller) - kopfüber
d3 meta.83 - alles ist trip hop (rmx)

a preview on vinyl. 10 unreleased tracks, to show what 2002 will bring for festplatten!

unser:eins - a review of festplatten 1 to 10

01 ha.te - neuja (5:19)
02 benjamin wild & ha.te - kopfsalat (4:57)
03 raumagent alpha - luna rocker (6:07)
04 gebr. teichmann in love with acid maria - making salad (6:13)
05 meta.83 - metalgroove (5:31)
06 benjamin wild - vektorblume (5:58)
07 andi orange & ha.te - für nina (das leben ist wieso) (5:31)
08 gebr. teichmann - flocken (5:27)
09 superuser - undelete (4:26)
10 hannes teichmann - jäger (6:47)
11 markus güntner - äpfel & birnen (6:15)

the first label review on cd. one track per fest1 to fest10!

meta.83 - metalgroove

a1 antrieb
a2 end titles

b1 metalgroove
b2 tanzstudie

meta.83 = christoph wieland. he has lived in hamburg since 1995. christoph’s early musical interests were focused on guitar music but he then entered a new musical period: electronic music. a passion for old synths and drum computers shapes meta.83’s special way of producing tracks. he uses neither a computer nor a multitrack-system: the music is recorded in one take on a stereo track and is cut to the final version afterwards. large-scale construction with the computer is often a waste of time. it deeply affects the original idea – spontaneity is and will be the most important part of the creative process. other important elements of the creative process: sound-aesthectics, rhythm, melody and room for sound…
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benjamin wild - born to be…

a1 nachtleben
a2 testbesen

b1 tango
b2 vektor-blume

after his track togheter with ha.te on our third release gemeinschaftspraxis there´s coming out the first benjamin wild-festplatte finally…

on it: four tracks in typical benjamin wild-style and altough with total festplatten-
compatibility… his mixture of poesie and dancability is made for the dancefloor as well as for home. tango together with testbesen and nachtleben is from the minimal club-funk-syndicate and his track vektor-blumen opens your heart.

hannes teichmann - wenn schon, denn schon

a1 jäger

b1 samariter
b2 zünder

now is the time! … for ha.te´s first own release and for spring.

both is coming soon with our 8th release - on it: freshly squeezed, jäger - a extra funky track from hamburg, with it´s completely own side - samariter - young and from berlin allways between the main-house and the dub-lounge - as well as zünder - a soft sunnyboy, with a big fun-cigarette.

raumagent alpha - luna rocker

a1 schneider
a2 luna rocker

b1 schieber
b2 hate´s lunarework

raumagent alpha is from bamberg. his name is schneider… ron schneider! he´s the man behind mdz and is also playing in the wonderfull band oh.. but when he´s alone he´s becoming the raumagent… with his superfunky maximal house he´s saving the earth from total tedium! here is his first 12″ - three dancfloor-tracks plus ha.te remix!

gebr. teichmann - we are one family

a1 flocken

b1 würfelzucker
b2 flocken2

after markus güntner´s - äpfel und birnen, here´s the new festplatte. fest 06 is produced by the labelowners themself, the teichmann brothers. this festplatte features 3 tracks. chordy, dubby sounds meet minimal funky grooves. the b1-track was also the trailersoundtrack of the 7. international shortfilmweeks 2000, that are happen in regensburg every year. the 3 tracks are showing the teichmann brothers from another side: more funktionally, but not without their typically weirdness.

markus güntner - äpfel & birnen

a1 tegernheim
a2 äpfel & birnen

b1 schlüssel
b2 don

markus güntner is also from regensburg - everybody knows this, since his wonderfull release regensburg on kompakt. here he goes with some more pumping, technoid mimialhouse tracks. the delicacy on this record is the title track, which comes with crazy philosophical outpourings of a long night.