P.D. 'INWEGLOS' (absurd #40)

p.d., p.16.d4, & selektion have been some of my favest & influential projects ever! 'inweglos' had been the record i like a lot since early 90's that i first listened to it at a friend's place, as it combined it all... post punk / new wave (hhhmm you can call it also 'neue deutche welle' perhaps), experimentation, tape techniques, musique concrete elements, etc. that perhaps together with 'tionchor', 'nnnn', 'slp'& 1st sbothi belong to some of my favest recordings from the selektion crew.
under a lust for post punk / new wave stuff sometime in early 00's asked ralf wehowsky if he minds for a reissue or not. pretty funny but at that point he was looking also for someone who might be interested in doing 2 early w volumes (#4 & #5). fancied #4 a lot which actually saw daylight on editions_zero (sooner or later to be uploaded during the week) as i couldn't resist the temptation releasing it and meanwhile he was working on the restoration & transfer of the original tapes to cdr master... some extra tracks are featured too, sadly not the flexi that was coming with the LP.

enjoy some trully adventurous stuff!

http://www.divshare.com/download/7785809-c3e

nixilx.nijilx cdr (absurd #38 - 2004)

can't recall how i chanced socrates martinis or actually he chanced upon me or something like that... however this was a brilliant recording that landed one day in absurd's hq out of the blue and liked it a lot. since then of course more memorable recordings of socrates's work have been out on drone, entracte and am sure much more is to come.
till then though enjoy this little diamond!!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?21mwzjkwf31

mbehrens 'selected minimalist concerns' (absurd cdr#17)

i was and still am fond of marc's work. since the first time i chanced upon it. his first trente oiseaux cds and the design he used to do for the first cds of the label but also his unique soundscapes. if not all of his entire discography at least his first ones belong to some of the most formidable listenings i had. it won't be a lie to say that. being fond of his work as in some cases had broadened my horizons too, wanted to make a cdr. came up the 'selected minimalist concerns' a compilation of tracks spanning somehow a period of a decade's work. must admit that it was probably one of the few times that will never forget as long as marc not only did the artwork for the cdr but is probably the first time that an absurd artist checks the slightest details of the release regarding sleeve or cover artwork problems!

cdr came in those heavy japanese plastic cases provided by touch

cdr promos in the typical plastic sleeves that absurds come.

bilingual cover (enligsh / greek) too.

play ultra loud!!!

www.divshare.com/download/7672825-f23

sam dellaria/adam sonderberg : fold your arms and the world will stop (absurd #29)

i was a lot into adam's work at that time (still am!) we had traded some cdrs/cds when he proposed this one and i fall in love with it upon listening it!
still hold the same feelings as the ones described in the press info which i paste below.

"fold your arms and the world will stop" sounds, as its title suggest, like a bizarre game scored by sam dellaria and adam sonderberg and is their third encounter (personally in consider it as their most intense) since their "signal hill" debut back in 1998 and 2000's "64 squares" (both were issued on sonderberg's longbox recordings - www.longboxrecordings.com). scored & assembled out of various recordings the duo extensively did within late 2002
the stunning result is giving you the feeling that slowly folding arms move like the soundscapes presented on this cdr, intense ambiances that slowly vary in mood & lower while listening in density & intensity to stop while arms have folded. a really phrenetic trip through dellaria's & sonderberg's visionary world.”

play loud!!!!!!!

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nm23i0afmqt

fibo trespo (absurd cdr #16)

a cdr am nuts with.. fibo trespo the brainchild of sindre bjerga & kjetil brandsdal still stands as one of my favest lo-fi groups. their eponymous cdr being my favest as is closer to the more improvised lo-fi sounds i love. of course nearly all of their releases are nuts, from lo-fi rock to more noisy and improv stuff including parodieds like the 'fibo trespo' (another self titled cdr) which was a parody of the 1st iron maiden lp including the same cover, track listing changing only the name 'iron maiden' with 'fibo trespo' and so on.. guess their smalltown supersound lp is probably their weakest moment at least in my humble opinion... but back to this one...
intially was out on gold soundz and was if am not mistaken one of the reasons i had written long ago to sindre to obtain it. got it listened it liked it and as as limited to 50 dropped a line and asked for a reissue... includes bonus the myke droner 7" too.

play loud!


http://www.divshare.com/download/7334669-dbb

matt davis mark wastell : derby / liverpool (absurd cdr #21)

pretty funny but is exactly 7 years since the mini uk tour of 2002 and the release of this baby... matt & mark were (at least matt still is) for playing the trumpet & cello. however during the 'reductionism' heyday they searched other genres too. this is one of their first (if am not mistaken) live sets where the use of amplified textures was used.

enjoy

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?tyzyttlgz2z

black to comm (eclipsis 4 / absurd # 68)

another cdr to celebrate a child's birth... little nefeli's time now... like the machida cdr we talked with mihalis 'bout it... i was nuts with black to comm then (and still like this works) him too so we dropped a line to mark and asked for a recording which turned to be our favest black to comm!!!! no kiding because is an absurd... get it here, play loud & you'll see why...

http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?g5attj1mtjo


plus here's some more extra info on the cdr

A sound collage of nine tracks mixed to one lovely dreamy song.

Limited to 70 handnumbered copies.

A5 size transparent colored plastic envelope with 2 pencils and 2 colored drawing paper.

Co-production with absurd (#68).

Artwork: Maria Amaryllis

Released: 24/07/2007