Exercise One's No News Today - Video

Exercise One: DJs know them as crafters of cracking tracks on wax. Clubbers around the world know them as a live act that hurtles like a runaway train. Now, prepare to meet another side of the Berlin-based duo. In Cars We Rust is their debut album, and it presents the most complete picture of Exercise One's world to date.
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The dancefloor stormers are still there, and the record's flow is guided by the same spirit of improvisation that drives their live sets. But the clubbier material is rounded out by sounds we've never heard from Exercise One before: gorgeous, enveloping ambient tracks; soundtrack-ready synthesizer ballads; even a kind of retro-futurist electro-pop. Best of all, it all hangs together with ease.



Marco Freivogel and Ingo Gansera are the mad mechanics (albeit with a sensitive side) behind the humming, pulsing Exercise One machine, and In Cars We Rust is a testament to the distance they've traveled since the two began making music together five years ago. During that time they've released singles for Mobilee, Num, Exone and Exercise One's own Lan Muzic imprint, but more importantly they've spent the time perfecting their technique. Whether performing onstage or practicing and recording, music-making is a fundamentally live endeavor for Exercise One. It happens in real time, the fortuitous result of painstaking preparation, communication and the willingness to go where the music leads them. Produced and finessed over many months, In Cars We Rust is the studio product of their hands-on approach, as passages of spontaneous creation are edited, collaged and remixed into a strikingly varied, startlingly cohesive whole.



LINK TO VIDEO:
Exercise One feat. Argenis Brito - No News Today from mobilee records on Vimeo.
mobilee records was launched in 2005 and quickly established itself as one of the brightest new stars in Berlin’s glittering galaxy of electronic music labels, producers and DJs. Founded and owned by Anja Schneider and Ralf Kollmann, the label boasts a sound that is simultaneously familiar and innovative. Based on the timeworn structures of house and techno, mobilee’s approach is a triple threat: its records reference vintage dancefloor minimalism, trade ideas with like-minded contemporaries, and suggest surprising new directions for a genre that has weathered both hype and backlash—yet keeps on clicking.

Aspiring to be more than the manufacturer of simple DJ tools, mobilee publishes tracks full of finely turned hooks and hypnotic depths, the stuff of today’s charts and tomorrow’s classics.

ResidentAdvisor Label of the Month: WOLF+LAMB

Congrats to the Wolf+Lamb Music imprint! They have just been announced as label of the month on RA!

Burning Man sculptures, steam room breaks and a fake hotel: It's all part of what has made Wolf + Lamb one of the most exciting labels of 2009. RA's William Rauscher sweats it out to find out more...Read the whole feature on ResidentAdvisor here!

Konrad Black's Watergate

Situated by the river Spree, known for it's rst-rate lineups of international talent and of course it's famous wall to wall LED dance floor installation, the Watergate Club in Berlin has quickly become one of the world's leading dance music clubs. Only 5 years after it's ocial opening the club now goes a step further and releases a characteristic Mix CD series delivering only the best DJ Mixes by some of club’s most exiting residents and guests. With the focus being put not only on the music but also on the packaging and design, this series will quickly become a truly sought-after collectors item and will surely stand out in flood of mediocre music and mixes that often dilute the market.

The Watergate Mix series goes into the next round. Konrad Black is a founding member of the Wagon Repair Label and part of the Richie Hawtins M_nus family. For Watergate he delivers a mix containing inuential classic material as well as new unreleased productions by himself with collaborators such as Martin Buttrich. His signature sound, a dark vision of techno shines throughout the entire project and reects his self-perception as a DJ. Over the last years Konrads sound has found a home in Berlins Watergate Club and one can catch him play here on a regular basis...

Tokyo Black Star's Innervision

This “Black Ships” is led by the two greatly talented warriors of the production team known as Tokyo Black Star. Based between Tokyo and New York armed with his high grade receptor antennae is the world traveling international French DJ Alex from Tokyo. His partner, Isao Kumano, operates from his studio-base in Tokyo as a multi-talented high-profile engineer and sound producer specializing in all musical aspects from mixing to mastering. As Tokyo Black Star their ship has advanced through the galaxy, meeting fellow travelers along the way. Their encounter with Dixon influenced the start of Dixon’s label Innervisions, their encounter with the NYC based rising Japanese new generation painter Tomokazu Matzuyama on the “Still Sequence EP” produced the beautiful artwork of this album, and with the poet Rich Medina and his distinctive deep voice as one of the characters in this story, here is the declaration of the Tokyo Black Star state of mind! This album “Black Ships” is at once Tokyo Black Star’s nonfiction travel diary, and at the same time a supreme fiction of traveling through the world of imagination. It can be described as the ultimate brilliantly executed electronic dance music novel within the modern club-oriented electronic dance music genre. The journey of the imagination begins with the exalted feeling of departure, sometimes steady, but also sometimes facing navigation trouble in times of emergencies. A climax which happened twice, three times, and here comes another voyage…If you press the play button, the story starts…Is the beginning of this story to be found in a distant port, not shown on any map, where pirates are said to gather? Or does it begin in their own space station in a galaxy far, far, away? Kenji Hasegawa (gallery, Tokyo) December 2008