Concerts, Festivals, Shows And Other Special Events Magazine

Collaborating in art, music and science since 1999, recently founding the label MAGAZINE and the collective Cologne Tape, this is nevertheless the first time Barnt, Crato and Jens- Uwe Beyer appear together as one formation, simply called MAGAZINE. If you combine their recent releases - Barnts stunning debut EP "What Is A Number, That A Man May Know It?", Crato's acclaimed and mysterious "30.6.1881", J-U Beyer’s incredible sound work on his highly respected last album (with Jaki Liebezeit’s Drums Off Chaos) and add the Cologne Tape recordings you can get an idea of the formation’s cosmos — but you are not quite there... Living in Cologne the past decade with exceptions of some years spent in London and Manchester, the group is based on DJ-culture as much as on the german electronic music tradition as you will hear: The whole record is pockmarked with overflowing melodies — sometimes well structured, sometimes wild and wooly. Sum up Hieroglyphic Being-like arpeggios and transparent, highly original computer rhythms or strange eight-oh-eight- live drumming and choir-or-not-like sounds and you get these strange dance floor moments again – Impossible to make out whether the peculiarity of this EP’s sound is all intentional or accidental. The artwork continues the conceptual MAGAZINE series on high quality, heavy stock – something to hold in your hands!