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  • Streaming + Download

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    01. Sektor
    02. Trafo
    03. Schlang Bang
    04. Crows
    05. Tranq
    06. No Body
    07. Trans_it
    08. Databass133⅓
    09. Buttcracker
    10. Silo
    11. Spur

    Includes unlimited streaming of Transsektoral via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Barker & Baumecker | Bundle
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    The bundle includes the 2x12'' LP Transsektoral, the 12'' EP Love Hertz / Cipher and the 12'' EP Candyflip by Barker & Baumecker.

    Due to Bandcamp restrictions the download-code for Love Hertz / Cipher is included in the vinyl. The digital tracks for Candyflip & Transsektoral will be sent to you in a separate email.

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    Barker & Baumecker | Transsektoral | OSTGUTLP11

    Techno comes in all shapes and sizes, and few recent outfits embody that truth more obviously than Berlin’s Barker & Baumecker. One operates as Barker/Voltek and the other as nd_baumecker. Both solo projects exhibit unconventional takes on Techno inflected by the influence of other genres, from Glitch to Dubstep to Ambient and beyond. Judging from their output so far on Ostgut Ton, one gets the idea that these fellows know a lot about electronic music; their label debut “Candyflip” was a 9-minute opus spelled out in broken beats and trancelike tones, the kind of track that seems to reference a million different things in one coherent, confident statement.
    It should come as no surprise, then, that their debut album together is a many-sided prism reflecting different iterations of Techno from all angles. Titled “Transsektoral”, the album name refers to the duo’s ambition to travel across the entire spectrum of electronic music. That’s what they do on the LP, bridging a seemingly impossible gap between the dubby blobs of ambient opener “Sektor” to the effervescent bubbling of the epic closer “Spur,” like happy hardcore unravelled and disassembled into a soothing afterword worthy of someone like Dntel.
    What happens in between is nothing short of alchemy, or some other lost art, traversing all sorts of terrain without ever losing the plot. It’s held together in part by the duo’s keen grasp of sound design—they always work together in person, on an expansive set of hardware—so no matter what tunnel they’re travelling down head-first, the sounds are always pristine, filled with unexpected details like hi-hats shoved into corners where you’d never expect them to fit.

    These are machinistic creations that swell with organic respiration and lush life, despite their artificial origins. The album jumps from garage-leaning bouncy house with “No Body” to exuberant tonnes-heavy off-kilter house (“Buttcracker”) where bubbles of caustic acid send the track into overdrive—yet none of these shifts quite feel like the gigantic stylistic leaps they represent. Instead, they’re smoothed out into something altogether pleasant and listenable, the album itself sharing each track’s own gentle sense of development and build-up.
    That’s largely due to careful sequencing: for every stretch of twitchy funk like “Schlang Bang”—where hi-hats and snares swim against a sea of topsy-turvy basslines like in difficult backstrokes—or the pumping liquid grooves of “Trans_it,” there are brief but texturally rich interludes like the sleepy-eyed “Tranq,” which rumbles reassuringly below a palette of twinkling synths. The album has an ebb-and-flow that makes its eccentricities enjoyable rather than obnoxious. And eccentric it is, particularly on mid-album highlight “Crows” (reworked for the single “A Murder of Crows” earlier this year) where what sounds like a blaring horn fanfare lights the dark passage of rustling snares - a startlingly unexpected turn that quickly becomes natural.
    By the time we get to the end of the album, the simmer becomes nearly unbearable and finally boils over with the awe-inspiring “Silo,” the track that betrays the duo’s Berghain heritage (Barker runs the club’s Leisure System night, Baumecker is a booker for the club and long serving resident DJ there), where hissing hats get lost in a wringer of ropy vicegrip basslines and violent whiplash kick drums. It’s almost the album’s one concession to conventionality. Until you listen closer and notice that no element sounds untreated, that everything sounds elastic and oddly magnetic like the beat is violently snapping into place with each hit. It’s a perfect distillation of the overall aesthetic that Barker & Baumecker reveal with “Transsektoral” —it makes perfect sense in execution, but put it on paper and it’s nearly incomprehensible, not to mention sprawling. It’s enough to make you wonder what kind of magic they did to put it together in the first place.

    (Text: Andrew Ryce)

    Tracklist:

    A1 Silo
    A2 Crows

    B1 Trafo
    B2 Schlang Bang
    B3 Databass133⅓

    C1 Buttcracker
    C2 Trans_it

    D1 No Body
    D2 Spur

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    Barker & Baumecker | Love Hertz / Cipher EP | o-ton99

    Preceding their album Turns – out via Ostgut Ton on 25 November 2016 – Barker & Baumecker return with a double faced two track 12“. “Love Hertz” is a blissful, uplifting, melodic and – at times – bluesy UK Bass-inspired cut, shuffling and playfully flicking throughout. The record’s alternate lead track “Cipher” on the flip side is a rework of a two-part track from the forthcoming Turns LP: while the album’s “Encipher & Decipher” puts focus on the home listening-aspect, this 12“es’ “Cipher” is made for the club. The track’s atmospheric build-up eventually turns in favor of a heavy, dark kick drum and multi-layered percussion, feeling at times as if the duo’s hammering onto Berghain’s steel staircase.

    Barker & Baumecker are sound fetishists, carefully and scrupulously sculpting their clang on analogue synth machinery, all without turning to cacophony and always staying compositionally sound – established, grown-up club kids with attitude and love for music.

    Tracklist:

    A1 - Love Hertz

    B1 - Cipher

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    Barker & Baumecker | Candyflip EP | o-ton40

    The pairing of Andreas Baumecker (nd_baumecker) and Sam Barker (Voltek) seemed almost destined to result in some outstanding music. The fruits of a friendship and production partnership closely founded upon their love for more experimental dance sounds, the 'Candyflip' EP introduces the pair's debut output.

    Straddling the boundaries between emotional, classically inspired techno and heavy broken beat electronics, 'Candyflip' comes across as a wonderfully analogue sounding tribute to well many spent years on the underground. Echoes of the past resound proudly throughout this touching, moody epic while stark, futuristic elements urge it forwards still.

    Stepping into 'The Hole', a darker sound takes precedence, as a deep tripping techno jam unfolds from the pair's machines. As if recorded within the resonating concrete walls of Berghain itself, the dramatic and richly atmospheric DJ tool is a shining example of contemporary body music.

    'Refugee Hipster' lets a heavy dub inspired theme blow smoke over the grooves in a gorgeous half-speed celebration of machine funk and absolute love for the genre. Warp's wonder-kid Jimmy Edgar contributes a stunning keyboard solo, while washes of colourful texture, breathtaking subs and endless subtle details make it a perfect conclusion to Barker & Baumecker's first release.

    Tracklist:

    A1 - Candyflip

    B1 - The Hole
    B2 - Refugee Hipster (feat. Jimmy Edgar)

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  • double LP | ostgutlp11
    Record/Vinyl + Digital Album

    A1 Silo
    A2 Crows
    B1 Trafo
    B2 Schlang Bang
    B3 Databass133⅓
    C1 Buttcracker
    C2 Trans_it
    D1 No Body
    D2 Spur

    Includes unlimited streaming of Transsektoral via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

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