Are you ready? Two of the brightest stars in the dance universe are about to collide, the gamma-ray burst is already being felt in the future: Ellen Allien and Apparat are releasing a CD together. Allien, the head of the BPitch Control aesthetic steamroller, teams with Apparat, partner in the Shitkatapult brand empire to develop a remarkable sonic salvo. Orchestra of Bubbles is what it's called, and it might be the road-trip CD of the year -- 11 tracks of the most delightful, uplifting electronic mus   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Another single from Ellen Allien & Apparat's album Orchestra of Bubbles. On the A-side there is a dance remix of both artists that really cracks, vibrates, accumulates and then explodes. A2 is a remix by Robag Wruhme of pure dance music full of cut-up broken beats -- jazzy, bouncy, that turns body and soul into a steaming pot. The B-side features two tracks otherwise only available on the CD version as bonus tracks. Where "Rotary" can be described as a perfectly built-up dance track wit   [ read more ]

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Lazily categorized as an electroclash pinup, Ellen Allien's ultra-progressive label BPitchcontrol may release the occasional vocodered electro track. But much like fellow false diva Miss Kittin, Allien's persona is shattered once she takes to the decks, playing a challenging array of beats and pieces that would intimidate even the most left-of-center DJ, while rarely losing the dancefloor plot. Weiss Mix is Allien's second mix CD, and while her first set, Flieg Mit Ellen Allien, deni   [ read more ]

CD $16.13

CD $16.13

CD $16.13

Disc unheard, the collaboration between DJs Ellen Allien (of the BPitch Control label) and Apparat (Sascha Ring of the Shitkatapult imprint) is far from a natural match. Both are iconoclastic with different approaches to electronic music in general and dance music in particular, though it should be noted from the outset that Orchestra of Bubbles is not their first collaboration. They've worked on remix projects together, and done one another's remixes for a few years now. Allien h   [ read more ]

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