THE EBERTBROTHERS

Titel: ENGINE EYES EP

Label: Mindwaves Music

Format: Download 

Release Date: June 22, 2012

Mastering: Tarekith @ Inner Portal Studio

Artwork: The Ebertbrothers

Distribution: Mindwaves Music

Cat.Nr./EAN: MWMEP02/4260125422033

Sunset and Delirium

The Ebertbrothers “Engine Eyes EP” is Axel and Michael Ebert´s second release on Mindwaves-Music. Featuring four new tracks plus three remixes of numbers from “Susten Pass”, their first album on Mindwaves-Music, which was reviewed very well by Cyclic Defrost, Igloomag, Headphone Commute and others. The remixes were done by fellow electronic artists Lackluster, Badun and Karsten Pflum.

The range of approaches on the EP extends from the straight forward to the rather complex and experimental. Within 35 minutes the music shifts from warm and melodic moments over crunchy excursions to dramatic and delirious depths. It closes with the impulsiveness of “Learning to walk”. As on “Susten Pass” a huge diversity of approaches is held together by a dark and cinematic perspective of how things should sound.

THE EBERTBROTHERS

Titel: SUSTEN PASS

Label: Mindwaves Music

Format: CD & Download

Release Date: May 20, 2011

Mastering: Rashad Becker

Artwork: The Ebertbrothers

Distribution: Arabesque

Cat.Nr./EAN: MWMCD05/4260125421814

Panoramas and Particles

The Ebertbrothers are Axel and Michael Ebert, an artist/composer duo living and working in Berlin. They started to collaborate in 2006, first creating video art pieces, then moving more towards a combination of visual&sound performances, which is now their main focus. So far they self-released several live recordings, an album and an EP, which are available for download.

During a year of gigs throughout Europe in 2010 they refined and extended their sonic palette. “Susten Pass” showcases their broad range of composition skills, featuring both detailed, micro-edited studio tracks and raw, performance-inspired landscapes of sound.

The album shifts between slow-motion sceneries (“Chrono”, “A perfect Fairytale” and “Commode”) and dark grinders like “Feature Film” and “Black String”. On the way it passes by electro-esque tracks like “Downrock Crooza” and “Risc Assembler”  before taking a rest and having some beans&bacon at a lonely campfire (“Cowboy”). The album closes with the  enthusiastic and shimmering “Susten Pass” and “Maitre du Village”.

BADUN

 Titel:   TANDOORI TENTACLE EP

Label: Mindwaves-Music

Format: Download

Release Date: 17. December 2010

Mastering: Loopo @ Dubplates & Mastering

Artwork: Mads Westrup, Cola Jeff

Distribution: Finetunes / MKZwo

Cat.Nr./EAN: MWMEP01/4260125421739

"Tandoori Tentacle" is a combination of intelligent drum & bass with ambient electro and post-jazz fusion, with colourful arrangements by tabla, electric & electronic bass, Rhodes piano and intelligent laptop beats.

As usual BADUN manages to let the boundaries of jazz and electronica melt into a whole piece of musical art.

KARSTEN PFLUM

Titel:   SLAPHEAD FAUN

Label: Mindwaves-Music

Format: CD Digipak & Download

Release Date: June 04, 2010

Mastering: Sofus Forsberg

Artwork: Anton Nesretiep

Distribution: Arabesque

Cat.Nr./EAN: MWMCD04/4260125421470

Collection of bastard tunes 

 When Karsten Pflum started making music about 12 years ago, he was using the moniker Slaphead Faun, but when his first releases were hitting the shelves in 2002 he discarded the name again. Since 2002 Pflum has released three albums, but now Slaphead Faun is back, although this time as the name of an album. 

 This album is a collection of bastard tunes produced between 2002 and 2007; they are the unreleased offspring of previous albums and EPs - the tunes that never made it on to the releases. There is a certain classic feel to the tracks, like they were in some way a yet unreleased collection of favourites. 

 Pflum's early works are very experimental with beautiful melodies, elaborated beats and unconventional ideas. Tricky and clever tunes that are catchy yet border seeking, and the tracks Tak 1 and Tak One are representatives of this period. During his career, Pflum's productions gradually became more edgy, the melodies more subtle and the drum programming more equilibristic. Tracks likePan BD Spiree and Six Step Chase shows how the music brings sound design into the mix, adding an extra layer of glitchy and quirky textures. 

 The album Slaphead Faun shows the whole Karsten Pflum spectre of sound - from the harsh and aggressive Thael Spir to the softer and almost magical Computer Weekend. It reveals different approaches to composition techniques and arrangement - Byrd or Fy Darkspedter are straight forward going, while tracks likeJazzkroge III or Make Rite are gradually morphing in new mysterious directions. 

 Slaphead Faun offers poppy melodic lines, psyched drill n' bass, old-school IDMand experimental electronica. It is a timeless dish of old and new tunes, a dish that altogether adds a new flavour to your ears. Poignant and seductive, like shadows manifistating in the dark.

BADUN

Titel:   LAST NIGHT SLEEP

Label: Mindwaves-Music

Format: CD Digipak with Poster & Download

Release Date: May 29, 2009

Mastering: Will Worsley

Artwork: Mads Westrup, Cola Jeff

Distribution: Arabesque, Rough Trade

Cat.Nr./EAN: MWMCD03/4260125421104

Free flowing through dreamy landscapes of sound  

 When tuning your ear to Badun’s contemporary pitch on this album, you’re likely to hear reminiscences from late sixties and early seventies psych jazz and sinister impro-funk experiments. On one hand, as you listen to tracks like Plastic Jungle and Slow City there’s a clear sense of unbounded groove and cosmic feel, congenial with the music of the cool-headed masters of the past – this album definitely holds the inspirational echoes of spirits such as Miles, Zawinul and Sun Ra. On the other hand, when inviting the listener to set off on both interstellar and internal mind trips, Badun manage to fuse the reverb of spacey music history with their own present day reality of laptop-based modulation, digital glitches and multilayered sound architecture. 

 Since 2002, Badun has been exploring the intriguing territories of electronica, jazz and improvisation. Focusing on the energy of live performances while probing the secrets of home grown sound recording, the band has continuously changed its expression and artistic approaches. Now, well consolidated as a trio,Oliver Duckert, Aske Krammer, and Hjalte Møller, Badun release their most ambitious album yet. Not only does Last Night Sleep present itself as a coherent piece of work, where the tracks are subtly connected and add up to a solid whole. The album also points to Badun moving in another, more contemplative direction. Compared to their 2007 debut, the tempo has been slowed down significantly together with a radical expanding of the listening space. In this way, the trio has opened a deeper and wider auditory sphere which is still held together by a distinct sound that has Badun written all over it. 

In addition to the organically flowing syncopations and harmonic ideas that spring from the trio itself, the album has contributions from among others multi-instrumentalist and guitar wiz Jonas Stampe. As well, on Juuhm and The Man with the Fine Hair, you’ll notice the percussive textures being contrasted by low key saxophone intonations of reed player Roger Döring. Inviting and integrating the sounds of fellow musicians is however not Badun’s biggest accomplishment. Even more importantly, they overcome the tricky divide between acoustic, electronic and digitally rendered elements. Far from being superficial, this results in a seamless amalgamation of new and old, of micro circuits and classic instrumental resonances - from the timbre of Rhodes piano and crispy synths to complex, yet earthy rhythm structures and fretless bass lines. This is a universal kind of music that calls for both relaxation and heavy sit down-grooving. And no matter how and when you listen to it, please don’t waste your time trying to find a fitting label – instead loosen up your inner aural system and let it all come through.

Label: Mindwaves Music & Psycrowdelica  

Format: Douple CD Digipak & Download  

Distribution: Arabesque London 

Release Date: July 11, 2008  

Compiled by: Pat Flanders (CD1) & Cannibal Crow (CD2) 

Mastering: Tim Schuldt @ 4CN-Studios  

Artwork: Nazart Hazard feat. Neil Gibson 

Our second release is a collaboration with the festival PsyCrowdelica. The double digipack is made of one disc psytrance (by PsyCrowdelica) and the other downbeat (by Mindwaves-Music) in the familiar musical taste. On both discs is a mix of newcomern and top artists of their genres to reflect the outstanding atmosphere of this extraordinary event and give us the chance to experience it in a safer household too.

Titel: VA-Plantation

Label: Mindwaves-Music

Format: CD-Digipak & Download

Distribution: Arabesque London

Release Date: February 15, 2008

Compiled by: ChillinBerlin

Mastered by: Ganjaman

Artwork & Design by: Nasos Creative

Our first release "Plantation" includes 10 (plus bonus) carefully chosen tracks from artists around the globe.
Their views of the electronic dub worlds weave a groovy and slippery ride through different fields of electronica and bestows an extraordinary chill-out, as well offering the luxury to lean back and relax while listening:)