raster-noton r-n 69 | 2007
01. INTRO (MONSATOR)
02. ERMAFA
03. NAPLAFA
04. ROBOTRON
05. MALIMO
06. WISMUT
07. RAWEMA
08. DATASETTE
09. SPORETT
10. EPIREX MOTOR
11. WISMUT (VERSION)
Recorded At Voxxx Studio/Chemnitz, Unit/Tokyo, Palast der Republik/Berlin between 2001 and 2006
Post-Production at Villa Masimo/Rome and Raster-Studio/Chemnitz
All Tracks by Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and Carsten Nicolai
raster-noton’s flagship Signal - Olaf Bender, Frank Bretschneider and Carsten Nicolai - is something like the reference group of one of the pivotal labels of new minimal electronic music. Although only having released one CD so far, their sessions and concerts have been very influential until today. Some of those tracks of the past years now result in a compilation that joins the work of the three masterminds of raster-noton, but not like a simple aggregation of egos, much rather like a conversation in which every discourse modulates the other and in the end it is not possible anymore to distinguish between each individual contribution. In this sense, Signal would be a superego that serves a process in which the rule, coincidence and interaction play equal parts. This blends into an open and democratic music that has some of Kraftwerk’s melancholy in it. Thus, Signal are their spiritual heirs.