rothkamm [ FB01 ]	CD	$12.99
	MP3	$ 5.99

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The 1st Album of the FB01-Machine-Trilogy

rothkamm's FB01 is a set of 6 synthesizer pieces with 7 sonic IDs, utopian and scientific. Recorded in full stereophonic sound, FB01 sweetens rothkamm's uncompromising experimentation with the crowd-pleasing sleight of "head music". Over 6 extended passages, pure electronic music burbles, shimmers, surges, swoops and speaker-pans in hazily melodic and crystalline shapes. FB01 is a consummate headphone album, a crafty and cosmic delight guaranteed to captivate all contemplating minds.

rothkamm's FBO1 investigates the realms of pure electronic music; synthesized only through mathematical operations on sine waves, the most fundamental building blocks of sound. A nod to the first pioneers of electronic music, notably the "Forbidden Planet" work of Carlos & Bebe Barron, Vladimir Ussachevsky's signal generator experiments, and the electronic serialism of Herbert Eimert and Franco Evangelisti that emerged in the 50s from the WDR studios in Cologne. rothkamm's aesthetic harvests the utopian energy of these modernists to form a supermodernism. Not unlike Raymond Scott's 1958 modifications of a Theremin, which led to his 'Clavivox' synthesizer, rothkamm's 2002 'IFORMM' system takes a commercial sound module and transforms it into a enigmatic new form of a sound-sculpting instrument.

rothkamm's FBO1 was recorded in Hollywood and manufactured in a limited edition of 500. The Compact Disc is purely electronic and makes full use of the left - right - and phantom channel.

Tracklisting:	play album:
[01] rothkamm ID 1	0:04
[02] rothkamm Incident outside Mesquite	3:57
[03] rothkamm ID 2	0:04
[04] rothkamm Message from Space Mountain	8:18
[05] rothkamm ID 3	0:04
[06] rothkamm Independent Bernoulli Trials	5:47
[07] rothkamm ID 4	0:04
[08] rothkamm Earth Frequency Oscillator	7:22
[09] rothkamm ID 5	0:04
[10] rothkamm Binary Rhythms of the Lizard People	10:35
[11] rothkamm ID 6	0:04
[12] rothkamm Atmospheric Composition	8:48
[13] rothkamm ID 7	0:04

Reviews:
[+]	It is all about to actually live utopia - a fantastic-futuristic tuning and atmosphere
	Joker Nies SOUND & RECORDING
[+]	Life, technology, and quasimystical principles of a philosopher-cum-musician
	Adam Blyweiss E|I
[+]	blippy, soul and ambient trippiness
	Your Imaginary Friend KZSU
[+]	austerity gets balanced by a unique and sympathetic kinky-calculated foolishness
	bleed DE:BUG
[+]	extremely listenable - extremely convincing
	Chris Cutler RER
[+]	his ideas, his sounds – his music: relentless richness of expression and modulation that you wouldn’t think possible.
	Ingvar Loco Nordin SONOLOCO
[+]	a true worship with the machines or rather with the instructions that they can be led to carry out
	Coltraz SONHORS
[+]	highly cerebral - just listen in sheer amazement
	Guy Montag KFJC
[+]	It's certainly great music
	Frans de Waard VITAL WEEKLY
[+]	astonishing variety of unusual geometries and movements in the aural space
	Massimo Ricci TOUCHING EXTREMES
[+]	computer sysex blah blah
	Keith Fullerton Whitman MIMAROGLU
[+]	truly unique digital music, sapping with an air of sci-fi
	Randy Nordschow NEW MUSIC BOX
[+]	really great and very different than anything i have heard
	Max Mathews MARMAX
[+]	Stockhausen might have had such an abundance of sounds in mind when coming back from Paris
	Gottfried Michael Koenig INSTITUUT VOOR SONOLOGIE
[+]	very starkly beautiful, unique yet connected to the tradition of classic(al) electronic music
	John Kannenberg STASISFIELD