T.Raumschmiere is the alias of 27 year-old Berliner, Marco Haas. He has produced music since 1997, mainly for his own label Shitkatapult and for imprints such as Cologne's Kompakt and Hefty Records of Chicago. Gnarled bass-lines, known in German as 'Gnarzigkeit' have become his stylistic device. His brand of 'minimalism' is to achieve the 'maximum' with as few means as possible ? with a decidedly punk ethos: why go for sterile minimalism when you can rock out? This bluntness informs the T.Raumschmiere soun...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. Bang bang buzz buzz gob gob growl: this is going to be one of those reviews where we just damn the cynical torpedoes and talk about how cool someone is. Someone whose music is all bang-buzz gob-growl happy-go-lucky tech-punk bounce, slathered with burned-chunky motor oil from evil cartoon dumptrucks and yet in very little need of any prettying-up. This particular someone: Marco Haas, recording as T. Raumschmiere. And this particular album: a pretty good one. At its most interesting, Radio Bl...   [ read more ]

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VINYL FORMAT. According to T.Raumschmiere, Blitzkrieg Pop is an punk-rock ambient record. There are many of the various details from the flora and fauna of his vast analogue equipment park, as well as rage and psychedelic bathed moods along with either catchy choruses of the boss rocker himself, or as balladesque appearances by his circle of friends-in-music, the T.Raumshmiere family. "I actually wanted to produce the loudest pop record in history. Less epic techno, more short and crisp songs," says Raumsc...   [ read more ]

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