AUTOMAT - Modul Remixes #1 '2020

Tracks list

Tracklist:

[08:56] 1. Automat - Ankaten (Patrick Pulsinger Remix)
[07:28] 2. Automat - Easy Riding (Shahrokh Dini Medusa Remix)
[07:42] 3. Automat - Nothing Strange (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer House
Remix)
[11:09] 4. Automat - Nothing Strange (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Remix)

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ABOUT THE ALBUM
Original Release Date: 13 Mar 2020
Release Date: 13 Mar 2020
Label: Compost (Groove Attack)
Total Length: 00:35:14
Genres: Electronic, Deep House, House
ASIN: B083XVFKND

For Automat’s „Modul Remixes #1“ we present a package of
stunning remixes by Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Patrick Pulsinger and
Shahrokh Dini.

Automat - Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut), Achim Färber
(Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub, Skip McDonald) and Georg Zeitblom
(wittmann/zeitblom) - operates like a well-oiled machine: it buzzes, it whirrs,
it follows an unswerving course. Together with modular magician Max Loderbauer
and Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikiman, Lydia Lunch and Mika Bajinski on vocal duties,
they now present »Modul« their most varied and consistent album, on
Compost Records.

Automat operate like a well-oiled machine: it buzzes, it whirrs, it follows an
unswerving course. On its fourth album however, the trio shifts down a gear,
further refines its musical approach and partners with other figures from the
world of adventurous music. Besides Candy Bomber Studios neighbour Max
Loderboder - with whom Jochen Arbeit, Achim Färber and Georg Zeitblom have
already worked together in 2015 for an EP -, they are joined on the microphone
by dub legend Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikiman, the undisputed queen of gutter
poetry Lydia Lunch and the newcomer Mika Bajinski. They all contributed to the
recordings according to the guiding principle which lends its name to
»Modul«: the eight pieces were written collectively based on a building
block system that dynamically set the compositional process in motion and evenly
divided responsibility between all participants. The result is a musical
perpetuum mobile - an album with the steady resting pulse of a dub production
that always stays on the move.

As an album, »Modul« captures a continuous process of transformation that
was first to be experienced in the year 2018, when Automat presented an earlier
version at the Pop-Kultur festival as part of a commissioned work. Having been
invited by the curatorial team, Zeitblom, Färber and Arbeit together with
their guests St. Hilaire, Lunch and Gemma Ray created a live set that was
resolutely developed in the studio on the basis of single modular elements that
were (re-)combined according to the principle of a resonance module: it’s
a to-and-fro between the individual members, structures morph and the sound
incessantly takes on different shapes. It is precisely this approach that
necessitates the constant evolution of the pieces which together with producer
Ingo Krauss were then moulded into an album that has not lost an iota of its
approachable and improvisational character. Compared to the three theme-
oriented predecessors »Automat« »Plusminus« and »Ostwest« that
explicitly dealt with Berlin airports, dub as a genre and the European refugee
crisis respectively, »Modul« allows for a thematic permeability that
mirrors its musical openness.

After »Modul 15« opens the album with deep dub sounds and a rolling bass
line, »Easy Riding« increases the speed with gentle riddims that are
perfectly in line with St. Hilaire’s wanderlusty lyrics. Already in the
next song, »Ghost« Bajinski celebrates her debut with detached vocals on
top of a piece dripping of melancholy that is characterised by
Loderbauer’s modular sounds. And so the album continues from the
interlocked rhythms of »Ankaten« - complemented by the ghostly voices of
Lunch and St. Hilaire - to the balladesque »Nothing Strange« with St.
Hilaire and the feverish vocoder piece »Who For Eyes« until it finally
reaches the last two pieces, »Pavo« and »Modul 11,« which present
themselves as a deeply relaxed coda to the previous tracks.

»Modul« thus passes through a series of moods, timbres and musical ideas
that keep on forming ever- new formations. The extended artistic approach much
like the enlarged personnel makes this album the most varied yet conceptually
consistent record in Automat’s discography and presents them as a well-
oiled machine that buzzes, whirrs, and follows an unswerving course towards new
and unheard-of sounds.

About Automat:
Automat are guitarist Jochen Arbeit (Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut,
amongst others), drummer Achim Färber (Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub, Skip
McDonald amongst others) and bassist Georg Zeitblom (known for his solo work and
his collaborations with Fred Frith, John Zorn, Arto Lindsay, J.G. Thirlwell,
Pyrolater, as well as others). Since 2014, the trio has released the three
studio albums »Automat,« »Plusminus« and »Ostwest« and
collaborated with several central figures from the world of experimental music,
amongst them Genesis P. Orridge, Schneider TM and Max Loderbauer. For their
album »Modul,« released in 2019 through Compost Records, they have again
worked together with Loderbauer and invited Paul St. Hilaire aka Tikiman, Lydia
Lunch and Mika Bajinski to contribute vocals for the record. 

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