Hello out there!

This month we’ve got something more blue then Yves Klein could ever imagine. Our krauty fellows KREIDLER have just finished their European tour and really got their kicks playing live. This Saturday they will once again raise the awareness of their audience for airy soundscapes far beyond the space-time continuum, while performing a rare home match in the context of the Viktor & Rolf exhibition in the NRW Forum in Düsseldorf. If you want to dance to percussive sci-fi dancemusic played live, just follow this link for further information.

Our second KREIDLER news goes out to all you vinyl lovers: from 8 February a limited wax edition of their mind-expanding album Mosaik 2014 is waiting for you in selected record stores around the globe. For lazy-bones we recommend the webshop of our friends at Morr Music, where you can save yourself a copy right away by clicking here.

Also in late March the first remix 12inch of Mosaik 2014 will hit you with a percussive long 12“ edit of the track “Impressions d’Afrique”. The flip-side features a Unit 4 rework, made for a disco party where not only mirror balls turn crazy.

While others rethink their work, KREIDLER hit the road to northern Germany to visit Tobias Levin at his studio in Hamburg. The touring days evoked some unanticipated creative energy within the band that needed to be recorded in order to let the KREIDLER saga continue. If you’d like to get some poetic impressions about their days in Hamburg, just visit the KREIDLER blog at spex.de.

Ok, lets hit the other side of the river Rhine to take a little trip from Düsseldorf to Cologne where our mates VON SPAR have been mega productive in the last month. Christmas was canceled for them. Instead they meditated in their rehearsal room and finished their upcoming longplayer Foreigner. Eight tracks for folks who like to listen to music that goes further than what is immediately audible. To give a little taste, in late April the first single „trOOps“, a heartbreaking R&B-ish disco kraut anthem, will spread the first fresh VON SPAR virus. The 12inch comes along with a remix made by New York’s current Disco wizard Prince Language, who already transformed tracks by LCD Soundsystem, MGMT, and The Rapture into irresistible late night dancefloor smashers.

Another sound hobo from Cologne hasn’t been inert either. Instead of waiting for spring days, POPNONAME is warming-up himself while playing some free sessions together with the legendary Ex-Can-Drummer Jaki Liebezeit. A little video recording documents how deep they move inside - watch out here.

Beside this POPNONAME continues to work on his next longplayer. If you’d like to gain an insight to his current workflow just watch this interview made in Portugal right before one of his one-off live performances.

Well - that was it for now - for Cologne. We’ve got to go back to Düsseldorf because some magic happened over their again. For our 10 years jubilee Italic bash, we invited a young artist called LUCAS CROON to bewitch us with his glamorous live show. The member of the trio Stabil Elite devastated us and we highly recommend that you check him out.

And what you thought a love letter without any ANTONELLI news would hit your mailbox. Well - sorry, we have to disappoint you. But no worries - this time only one little bit of news: the never sleeping bass seducer plays in Zagreb at Klub Sirup on February 13 during the Deutsch Minimal Tour, which is curated by the Goethe Institute.

Yours - The Italics