Wolfgang Haffner - The Remixes '2014

Tracks list

Tracks:
01. Bing (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Ging Bing Remix) (13:31)
02. Melodia del Viento (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Meloopdia Remix)
(11:38)
03. Melodia del Viento (Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer Zeitloop Remix)
(18:31)
04. Luna (Nightmares On Wax Remix) (4:49)
05. Luna (Timo Maas Remix) (9:06)
06. Bing (Acid Mondays Remix) (10:03)

With its HQ in rural Germany - Rockets & Ponies is a coterie for the outsiders -
those etoo strange for the normal business with an ethos that fosters freedom of
expression, experimentation and an avant-garde approach. So who better to
present a remix package of works by Jazz luminary Wolfgang Haffner that includes
Ricardo Villalobos & Max Loderbauer, Nightmares on Wax, Acid Mondays and label
padrone Timo Maas. Prolific doesnt quite cover Haffners creative output. With a
career that spans over 30 years beginning in the German and French Jazz Ensemble
and moving on to collaborative works with the likes of Chaka Khan, Bill Evans
and Roy Ayres Haffner has appeared on over 350 recordings. The selected material
within this package is taken from his latest album eHeart Of The Matter released
through The ACT Company in 2013 - eMelodia, eLuna and eBing are twisted,
stretched and reformed by the eminently prestigious roster of remixers. First in
is Ricardo Villalobos - an exalted genius and champion of freedom of expression
with previous releases on Perlon, Playhouse, Cadenza and Cocoon who pairs up
with regular studio partner Max Loderbauer for two wonderfully elongated,
no-holds-barred dissections of eBing and eMelodia. Loderbauer himself, as a
master of audio design, injects experience assimilated from sharing his studio
with Tobias Freund and together the pair opt for their regular method of
developing tracks on modular machines using no overdubbing or multitrack mixing.
Next up, previous collaborator with Haffner himself, Nightmares on Wax steps in
with a typically balmy, Rhodes-heavy revision of eLuna. The longest ever serving
artist on Warp Records opts for signature dosages of Dub, Soul and Jazz that hes
perfected and refined over his long and illustrious career. And who better to
offer an alternative take on eLuna than Rockets & Ponies co-founder Timo Maas.
Following up his eLifer LP and his eTantra and eArticulation EPs, Maas steps in
with his brash and physical reworking of eLuna that he creatively re-images into
a billowing beast. In doing so he further substantiates his own left-field
productions and indeed, Rockets & Ponies is an entirely unique and creative
experiment capable of producing incredible results. Also included are coequal
space cadets Acid Mondays (Negghead and Lex Wolf) who beam a unfurled and
twisted transmission into the package over a 10 minute work-out of eBing.
Crashes and Space Echo ring out as the pair add to a catalogue of releases on
Circus, Illusion and 20:20 Vision.

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