13 years ago, Mego label released Pure’s the.end.of.vinyl on a 3†CD. The release marked a shift in Pure’s sound from more dancefloor-oriented productions toward something more abstract and experimental. Ironically, the release was pressed on CD because it was the prevalent format at the time; the name describes the techniques used to create the …
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Fourteen years after Vienna-based Mego released “The End of Vinyl” by Austrian dynamic producer Peter Votava aka Pure on 3″ cd, someone could think that its sibylline prediction could be better spot-on if it were called “the.agony.of.vinyl”, so that Cronica folks decided to fishes it out from the ocean of sonic memories by involving a …
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Episode 96 of Futurónica, a broadcast in Rádio Manobras (91.5 MHz in Porto, 18h30) and Rádio Zero (21h GMT, repeating on Tuesday at 01h) airs tomorrow, September 6th. The playlist of Futurónica 96 is: André Cepeda & Eduardo Matos, Field Recording for Canal Project (2013, OuUnPo(RTO), OuUnPo & Dent-de-Leone) Alejandra & Aeron, Joaquim Nogueira e …
The End Of Vinyl fu il primo disco in cui Peter Votava aka Pure abbandonava il mondo della techno da club per cercare di condurre la sua musica verso nuovi orizzonti. Per omaggiare la sua opera, l’etichetta portoghese Crónica chiama un cast di propri scudieri e grandi nomi a rimettere mano ad una selezione di …
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Crónica is celebrating 10 years of continuous activity with a series of performances. The first of these will happen in Lisbon, at the Trem Azul store, next Thursday September 12. Marc Behrens and @c will perform twin sets, followed by a DJ set by Crónica’s founder Palo Vinhas. More information. UPDATED: Unfortunately this event was …
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“Des Ende des Vinyls†winkte 1999 am Horizont, als Pure seinen Kommentar dazu in der Form zweier intensiver Drones aud fer Grundlage von Auslaufrillen aud Mego herausbrachte, als 3â€-CD. Nun, es kam anders. Das schmucke Format des Originals ist mausetot (begleitender Reissue: als Free Download bei Crónica); dessen großem Bruder, in del jetzt die Fortsetzung …
This fresh-out record features ten reinterpretations of Pure’s the.end.of.vinyl EP, one of the first records to establish the glitch sound of the label Mego. “Remixers†include Mego cofounder Pita, and also a@, Cindytalk, and Arturas Bumsteinas, among others. Of course, Pure was wrong back then, hence the revised title and these reinterpretations that provide wide-ranging …
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Strangely ironic that this latest album by Pure is titled ‘No End of Vinyl’, yet is released on Compact Disc; however, I do love the embossed triple-folded slipcase that feels like the well-loved grooves of an actual record, which is a nice touch. As the album states, this is a collection of collaborative works, where …
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Als Peter “Pure†Votava Ende des letzten Jahrhunderts mit dem Gebot brach “Du sollst dir kein Bild machenâ€, dass wahrscheinlich ebenso die Abwehr der zu billigen, der falschen Utopie ist, lieferte er dennoch mit “The End of Vinyl†ein gutes Drone-Album ab. Das Ende von Vinyl – das schien Ende der 1990er als eine Art …
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Restless techno visionary Pure, and Portugal’s Cronica label present dissections of his 1999 release constructed from run-out groove crackles, ‘The End Of Vinyl’, from Rashad Becker, PITA, Cindytalk, Christoph De Babalon, and more. The original release was a reflection on what was then thought to be the imminent demise of vinyl. 14 years later it’s …
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