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  2.  Release  :                  Extrawelt - Schone Neue Extrawelt
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  5.  Artist   : Extrawelt
  6.  Album    : Schone Neue Extrawelt
  7.  Genre    : Electronic
  8.  Source   : CDDA
  9.  Label    : Cocoon Recordings
  10.  URL      : http://www.myspace.com/cocoonrecordings
  11.  Date     : 10-14-2008
  12.  Encoder  : LAME.EXE -V 2 --vbr-new
  13.  Quality  : 179kbps    44100  kHz    Joint Stereo
  14.  Tracks   : 12
  15.  Time     : 77:52 min
  16.  Size     : 99.94 MB
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  20.      1   One Tree Hill                                           7:40
  21.      2   Dark Side Of My Room                                    7:38
  22.      3   Wippsteert                                              7:46
  23.      4   Messy Machinery                                         7:23
  24.      5   Must Attack                                             6:27
  25.      6   Trummerfeld                                             7:03
  26.      7   Wolkenbruch                                             7:21
  27.      8   Added Planet                                            5:47
  28.      9   Kurt Curtain (Skit)                                     1:11
  29.      10  Daten Raten                                             6:30
  30.      11  Lost In Willaura                                        5:28
  31.      12  Homing                                                  7:38
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  36. It's all about hooking up our music to the emotional world of electronic music
  37. at the beginning of the Nineties, however, without falling for nostalgic
  38. references. We don't want to do cowardly Zeitgeist Techno, we want to have the
  39. heart to dare big sounds and more melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy,
  40. revolution and kaput-ness, all these are parts ofthe Extrawelt. However, don't
  41. panic: even if the aesthetics of the debut album of the two Hamburgborn artists
  42. Arne Schaffhausen und Wayan Raabe is affected by the attentive observation of
  43. electronic dance music over the last fifteen years, the "Schone Neue Extrawelt"
  44. is above all this: Premium Techno 2008! The Hamburg-based producerteam has been
  45. unmistakably imprinting the last three years' club sound with widely noticed
  46. releases on Border Community ("SooperTrack"), Traum Schallplatten ("Doch Doch")
  47. and Cocoon Recordings ("Titelheld") as well as with remixes for Gregor Tresher,
  48. Minilogue or Alexander Kowalski - last but not least due to an excellent live
  49. presence, that resulted in the second rank in the Groove Live Act Charts, even
  50. still without the accompanying long player. The work on "Schone Neue Extrawelt"
  51. started more than two years ago for Schaffhausen and Raabe. "The initial idea
  52. was to present an album covering all styles of electronic music between Ambient,
  53. Breakbeats and Techno. When we had 25 tracks for the album ready, we had to
  54. realize that this approach did not work for us. Insofar, we finally decided to
  55. use the 4/4 bass drum in all tracks except in the little intermezzo "Kurt
  56. Curtain". We have tested all tracks live over the last three months and
  57. constantly re-interpreted them. So, the 'dance ability' is clearly in our focus,
  58. but the sound spectrum and the dramaturgy of the titles should not be solely
  59. functioning in the club. Our intention was definitely not to deliver an album
  60. full of superficial peak time hits." Those twelve tracks on "Schone Neue
  61. Extrawelt", all unreleased, are there for primarily representing a pleasurable
  62. 'in-between', the organic development of hypnotically compressed dance music
  63. that is more than "just" Minimal Techno, reduced Trance or electronic listening
  64. sounds of the Warp era - even all those elements have left their marks. From the
  65. richly decorated musical-clock-intro "One Tree Hill" via the stereo singingbowl
  66. of "Trummerfeld" to the asian-sounding creaking of "Daten Raten", Extrawelt
  67. celebrate a vision of futuristic melancholy with organic detail richness, which
  68. is permanently in motion but is nevertheless seeming to be well-balanced.
  69. However, in the Extrawelt universe, one gets a long quite well with antagonisms.
  70. "We have always been polarizing, not only in the Techno scene, also in the
  71. Trance scene. Because in the end, "Schone Neue Extrawelt" - freely adapted from
  72. Aldous Huxley - is now not only a big neon-coloured future, but is likewise
  73. positioned in the often disillusioning grey of the here and now." Perfectly
  74. matching to this is the cover artwork of photographer Christopher Griffith from
  75. New York. The abstract detail photos of torn-up car tyres turn rubbish into
  76. artistically ornamented still lifes. "Due to the fact that we often build our
  77. sounds around small parts, sound snippets or unexpected mistakes, we couldn't
  78. imagine a better visualisation of our music", say Schaffhausen and Raabe.
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  81. http://www.myspace.com/cocoonrecordings
  82. http://www.midimiliz.com
  83. http://www.myspace.com/extrawelt
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