Noisezone: Kaivalya

" Membranes is a ghost record by Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Uliel Saldanha, which is an unfinished non-record. We started it in 2007. And finished it a million times. But never really. I found these mixes in a forgotten cloud and the cassette label "specific interest"decided to release them as they are. But it's just one version and one format. The principle of the dub is the spirit and the replicas. The spirit of a spirit. Substitutions. Not an original master.Remixes of a lost source. Like translating a non-native language into another language, passing things on to others; This vinyl release is a Polaroid image of a zone of sound, rhythms, lyrics, dynamics of an unquantifiable or particular moment in history. It could have been recorded yesterday or tomorrow. Or not recorded at all. This mix has emerged from the abyss." (Benjamin Brejon) The S|S vinyl master once again sheds new light on the sound of some of the mixes previously released on cassette. Mixes from a lost source emerge in new splendor from the abysses of sound. credits released September 13, 2024 MEMBRANES are: Instruments Benjamin Brejon & Jonathan Uliel Saldanha Vocals Adolfo Luxuria Canibal Ivo Machel Mark Stewart Strings Henrique Fernandes (double bass) Mathieu Werchowski (violin) All music by Beast Box (Brejon/Saldanha) ................................................................................................................ Mixed & produced by Jonathan Uliel Saldanha Vinyl compiled, mastered and produced by Alex Buess ................................................................................................................ Artwork Kristin Gerwien/ Julius Brejon (Original Artwork) Reworked for this vinyl edition by Roger „Big Rogers“ Graf

Atlas Kopko was initiated by Markus Jud in 1987 and was at the beginning more of a musical project than a band, a descendant of the group Ix-Ex-Splue with their hypnotic improvisations and meditative noise orgies to experimental industrial/noise rock. This description also fits the current production of Atlas Kopko. Atlas Kopko is a follow-up band to Ix-Ex-Splue, but with an expanded musical vocabulary that additionally includes a strong tendency towards cinematic music. The creative element of improvisation also takes a more subordinated role in Atlas Kopko's new album and, since the recordings made in 1994 were very carefully done, brought the possibility of transferring these over 29 year old recordings into the present time through current mixing and production techniques. Atlas Kopko consists in this production of musicians , who were at that time all involved in the Basel experimental music scene and some still are today . Since the Skin And Speech label was also founded at that time, it became necessary to make this exciting, diverse production accessible to the public.. credits: released January 22, 2024 Atlas Kopko: Markus Jud: Sax and Electronics - Tobi Madörin: E-Bass, Rebab - Role Schmid: Drums Manuel Liebeskind: Guitar, Banjo and Mandolin - Dani Meyer: Electronics - Markus Kneubühler: Synthesizers and Electronics All tracks composed by: Markus Jud Recorded by Alex Buess @ Wolf281 Studios, Basel 1994 Mixed by Markus Jud, 2023 Mastered by Alex Buess @ Wolf281 Studios, Basel 2023 Lacquer Cut by Adi Flück @ Centraldubs, Bern Titles generated by Andreas Kreie Kreienbühl Cover by danilot & PAZ Graphic design and Videoworks by BigRogers

After two extensive tours through Europe and 4 Albums finally released in Europe by the end of the 90s, Oxbow, and their German label Crippled Dick Hot Wax, discussed thoughts on extending the audience for the indie noise rock giants and do something largely popular in the pop world that seemed vastly unusual, however, for a band in the alternative music world: a remix album. Those plans were even publicly stated on Singer Eugene Robinson's own TV show on German Viva TV, yet never realised. But Oxbow had already done a first step to actually make it happen. They handed their long time European sound engineer Manuel Liebeskind and producer and former label mate Alex Buess (with 16-17 on Kevin Martin's pathological label) the full Steve Albini recorded multitracks of their album Serenade in Red. Instead of just remixing an existing song, Liebeskind and Buess, now under the name of PxfXFn5, composed 2 completely new tracks. Using loops and sounds from the original Oxbow recordings, and samples from live recorded cassette tapes, they created something that still is Oxbow - and not. 2 Tracks that transport the heavy blues and noise inspired unique sound of Oxbow into electronic soundscapes and beats. They open a totally different approach to Oxbow music, and to what remix, or re-composition, could mean. In 2024 these tracks have been revisited and remastered by Alex Buess who brought the tracks to the life they deserve. While Oxbow singer Eugene S. Robinson can also be heard with Buess on 16-17's last studio album Phantom limb (Trost records, TR193), he now also is half of electronic Duo Mangene with Manuel Liebeskind, that has recently released their first album '101 Atomic Terms and what they Mean' on fellow label A tree in a Field Records. Oxbow are Eugene S. Robinson - Vocals Niko Wenner - Guitar Dan Adams - Bass Greg Davis - Drums PxfXFn5 are Alex Buess and Manuel Liebeskind credits released February 28, 2025 Original recordings by Steve Albini  Mixed by Alex Buess and Manuel Liebeskind at WWolf 281 Mastered by Alex Buess Graphic Design by Karin Blaser and Roger Big Rogers Graf Editors Manuel Liebeskind and Greg Davis