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2011-05-09T11:43:00.001-07:00

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MINI POPS JUNIOR

FREE DOWNLOAD!

to get a taste for the upcoming album you can download an EP with outtakes on last fm.
download-link: http://www.lastfm.de/music/Mini+Pops+Junior/it+took+too+long

MINI POPS JUNIOR - shallow tide / then came the dotes

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HAPPY CHRISTMAS!
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KIKI BOHEMIA feat. SICKER MAN

live in der Grünen Stunde

Reichenberger Str. 133 / BERLIN / 17.12.2011 / 21 h

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ZERO ZERO ZERO presents:

DRONE of the DAY

till the end of 2011 you will find every day a new track on facebook, soundcloud and of course on zerozerozero.info

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A NEW ALBUM IS COMING - END OF THIS YEAR!

MINI POPS JUNIOR - backlight

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New Music Video:

Shtaad - Got Dat

directed by HiFi Brown

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SICKER MAN is busy working on tracks for the first release of his ambient-drone-project: 000 (ZERO ZERO ZERO)

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SICKER MAN & KIKI BOHEMIA live at SCHOKOLADEN / BERLIN / 15.06.2011
photos: la bizi

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Thanks Everybody for creating this great Atmosphere at the SICKER MAN-Release Concert last Week!

Good to know You are out there!

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about

2010-05-09T11:45:00.000-07:00

Blankrecords is home to analog electronic music.

Playing concerts in East Berlin’s underground venues (clubs, theatres, illegal restaurants, open air festivals, parties, galleries,...),Andreas Rosenhahn (Empty House) and Tobias Vethake (Sicker Man) met New Yorker João Orecchia and they started to create an individual musical language crossing the boundaries of ambient, experimental, folk, electronic, and even what we consider to be non harmful levels of pop.

Improvised soundscapes mix with beautifully composed layers of acoustic instruments such as guitars and cello. Fed through endless effects and loop pedals combined with samples, records, toys and electronics, the result is a kind of organic, melodic, non-computerized electronic music..

Blainbieter

2008-05-09T11:57:00.000-07:00

Blainbieter is the futuristic view of krautrock, melting minimal guitar-loops with hypnotic soundscapes and beats into a disturbing roadtrip to twin peaks.

It´s the ability to write fine rock songs combined with the inner will to avoid all rock cliches, that creates these great songs of beauty and destruction
blainbieter are:
Enno Rietbrock (git)
Tobias Vethake (cello/git)
Konstantin Carydis (b)
Kofi Ohene Dokyi (dr)

links:
"cleanride" on amazon
"nicer dogs" on amazon

Blankmusic

2007-05-09T12:00:00.000-07:00

blankmusic can be seen as the heart of blankrecords.
it´s all about live played and live looped electronical soundscapes, based on improvisation.
up to 6 people with different musical backgrounds melt together into a free form ensemble. main interest is focussed on any kind of challenging music, whether it is so-called serious or so-called popular music.
classical experimental approach clashes with electronical equipment and broken pop-loops.

the result is surprisingly homogenic, truly unique and highly authentic.blankmusic are:
tobias vethake: e-cello, guitars, rhodes, lapsteel, zither
andreas rosenhahn: turntables, beats
joao orecchia: acoustic and electric guitars, melodica
jan hupe: saxophon, kalimba
simon ayton: drums, percussion, sounds
lucio capere: saxophon, bassclarinet.

links:
"quality is punk" on amazon
"afterglow" on amazon
myspace

releases

2007-05-09T10:36:00.000-07:00

Blank015:	SICKER MAN - nowhere enterprise on his new album "NOWHERE ENTERPRISE" he presents advanced songwriting, a soft, wispered voice embedded in a sound-kosmos mingling between acoustic warmth and electronic chaos. it's a complex melancholy. these 18 tracks are a score for the movie that is playing in the back of your mind. classical istruments like guitars, zither, glockenspiel and cello are mixed with electronic toys and synthesizer and then enstranged with heaps of analog effect-pedals. special guests are Chicago based HipHop-Legend SERENGETI, KIKI BOHEMIA and the israeli singer OFRI BRIN.
Blank014:	SHTAAD - shtaad SHTAAD is SERENGETI and SICKER MAN. After years of transatlantic-internet-transfer SERENGETI and SICKER MAN met for the first time face to face in april 2010 to start a new project melting a straight hiphop-attitude with a new version of experimental electro pop
Blank013:	SICKER MAN - theatre works After his last offical release "the subtle life", "theatre works" is proof, that SICKER MAN aka. Tobias Vethake still knows how to combine catchy songs and melodies with strange sounds and instruments. With the help of acoustic guitars, cello, lapsteel, glockenspiel and lots of analog effectpedals he lets his songs float somewhere between SPARKLEHORSE, CLIFF MARTINEZ and ADEM. All pieces are part of theatre plays, e.g. at Staatsschauspiel Dresden and Schauspielhaus Hamburg, where he is also live on stage in the play "Hamlet".
Blank012:	MOKKE - happy chameleon There are 20 tracks on this album and each one manages to challenge the listener, stealing sounds and ideas from almost every major genre electronic music has to offer -- just eavesdrop on the DJ Shadow inspired “Breakdown” and the glitchy yet heartwarming ballad “Silence of the Door Bell”. You could put me in a bumper car and I would feel complete sloshing, jiving and popping in and out to these superlative tunes. "This fantastic debut album is a colorful patchwork of sounds and melodies glued together by Ikeda’s exceptional production skills. (...) title track “Happy Chameleon”, an exotic and infectious track which should really be drowning out the world’s airwaves."

Blank011:	BLAINBIETER - nicer dogs After 4 years in studio BLAINBIETER come back with a furious, disturbing album, that lingers between post- and punk-rock. Noisy guitar feedbacks meet banjo-melodies, distorted vocal shouts are contrasted by atmospheric cello-sounds. This is not easy listening, but finest psychodelica, that reaches your heart andyour brain.
Blank010:	VINCENT (blankrecords) - it´s only wasteland, mum! This is the long anticipated debut of the duo VINCENT, consisting of Joao Orecchia and Tobias Vethake. Multiple analog instruments give these atmospheric masterpieces a unique, folk-like attitude, that is combined with electronic soundscapes. Hovering somewhat between The Notwist and Tom Waits, VINCENT create a new genre: folktronica.
Blank009:	MINI POPS JUNIOR - crew missingThe vinyl-debut of MINI POPS JUNIOR (Jan Hupe with Tobias Vethake) is a fresh combination of Jazz and Electronica. Warm saxophone melodies and fragments meet atmosperic rhodes-sounds and disturbing turntable scratches. strange and beautiful..
Blank008:	BYE BYE BERLUSCONI! - (O.S.T) This is the music for the highly controversal italian movie `Bye, Bye, Berlusconi!` by Jan Henrik Stahlberg. Among others it`s mainly The Phirefones that create musical style that makes this movie so strange and yet so authentic. Lingering between Ennio Morricone and The Notwist, The Phirefones combine witty and tiny sounds with big italian melodies. One leading member of the Phirefones is Tobias Vethake (aka.Sicker man).
Blank007:	Blankmusic - Afterglow This second Blankrecords sampler features live tracks by Sicker Man, Fotomaton, Vincent, Mini Pops Junior and Blankmusic. This compilation once again explores the possibilities of electro-acoustic improvisation. With soaring melodies and cracking atmosphere, it is difficult to believe this music was made purely with live instruments and without computers.
Blank006:	Sicker Man - The Subtle Life The second album by Sicker Man is a perfect meeting of ambient and pop. The same delicate exchange between atmosphere and textures we heard on his debut, Duive Moro, combine with vocals, beats and broken rhyrhms that closer resemble unhealthy machinery than imitation drums.
Blank005:	João Orecchia – Motherless BrooklynThis is the first solo album of electro-acoustic guitarist João Orecchia. Touching on the experimental, the poptastic, the soundscape and the beat, the result has a beautiful and sometimes epic quality. Motherless Brooklyn explores ideas of `home, homelessness and the feeling of displacement`through a narrative of epic beauty.
Blank004:	Blankmusic - Quality is Punk This Blankrecords sampler contains music that is inherently both acoustic and electronic. Virtually void of beats, Quality is Punk proudly occupies an undefined space, hovering between noise and melody, hiss and archestral depth.
Blank003:	Fotomaton - Live at NBI This one sided vinyl release puts you in one of Berlin`s famous wandering clubs, dimly lit and smokey, with Fotomaton beautifully clashing acoustic instruments and turntables noise. Improvised, atmospheric and mischievous, Live at NBI captures Fotomaton`s expertise at it`s best.
Blank002:	Sicker Man - Duive Moro Full of cellos and acoustic guitars, Sicker Man`s debut album is dreamy and romantic- It is the ultimate melancholy soundtrack to a moonlit winter`s night

German Experimental Loop Orchestra (GELO)

2006-06-23T01:42:00.000-07:00

Fotomaton

2006-05-17T05:59:00.000-07:00

Fotomaton is what happens when a well known DJ teams up with a sound maniac and both decide to create timeless crackling cinematic landscapes.

While Andreas Rosenhahn (HiFi Brown) absorbs himself in a crackling vibrating sphere of sound created with records, effects and distorted beats, Tobias Vethake (Sicker Man) envelops the music with his barrage of instruments including cello, guitar, prepared guitars and basses, synthesizers, toys and more
The result is something between ambient punk, improvised soundscape and odd hymns to the flow of depression.

Fotomaton @ amazon.de

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Live at Schloss Broellin by fotomaton

Live at the NBI / Berlin / 2003 by Fotomaton

2006-05-09T11:50:00.000-07:00

SICKER MAN
(with ZACHOV)
Friday, 17.2.2012, 10:00 pm, Jazzfestival, BERN, Switzerland

MINI POPS JUNIOR
Release Concert
"The Lost Weekend"
17.03.2012 West Germany / BERLIN

João Orecchia

2005-05-17T06:00:00.000-07:00

João Orecchia finds roots in sounds, melodies and loops. The heart of his music stems from guitar and prepared guitar, accompanied by other instruments such as toy keyboard, melodica and electronics, plus a range of effects and self made samples. Touching on the experimental, the poptastic, the soundscape, and the beat, the result has a beautiful and sometimes epic quality.

Ranging from soundscape to song and often merging the two, melodies and sounds form thick rich layers of odd rhythms and meditative scenes. Soft vocals occasionally accompany the largely instrumental songs, “beckoning his listeners” into what feels like a very private space.

Perched on a mountain of effects, loop pedals, cables and instruments, João gives the impression of piloting a private space ship on an exploration of sound, inviting his audience on a subtle journey of emotion and sound.

Guitarist João Orecchia originally from Brooklyn, New York, performs and records with a variety of different projects ranging from improvised soundscapes to dysfunctional rock to electro-acoustic pop. He has composed music for theater, dance performance, film, and installation.

more:
"motherless brooklyn" on amazon
"hands and feet" on amazon

www.joaoorecchia.com

Sunshine Girl by Joao Orecchia

That Day by Joao Orecchia

contact

2005-05-09T11:47:00.000-07:00

info@blankrecords.de

Mini Pops Junior

2004-05-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

Mini Pops Junior is multi-instrumentalist Tobias Vethake and jazz saxophonist Jan Hupe. Avoiding sleazy easy listening elevator music style melodies and a “hey, check our chops!” attitude, Mini Pops Junior is the ultimate fusion of jazz and space rock.

To Mini Pops Junior, jazz is about improvisation. Its about abandonment, letting go of everything, and exploration. Resembling at times a horror film soundtrack, the music touches more on punk than pop, more on experiment than cliché, but always has an emotional edge that keeps their audience interested.

links:
www.minipopsjunior.com
"crew is missing" on amazon

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MINI POPS JUNIOR - shallow tide / then came the dotes

MINI POPS JUNIOR - backlight

MINI POPS JUNIOR - crew missing

Mokke

2003-05-17T06:02:00.000-07:00

MOKKE

Mokke, aka. Tomoki Ikeda, was born in Japan and moved to Berlin quite some time before it became the thing to do for electronic musicians.
5558.73213 miles away from home he produced different Artists until he focused on his solo project Mokke.His first solo-album, Happy Chameleon, mixes broken and straight beats with twisted and soothing atmospheres, radiating a kind of funk in an electronically poisoned landscape.

links:
MOKKE on amazon
myspace

Mokke - Happy Chameleon by Berlin Music Commission

Kreuz Waltz by mokke

Shtaad

2002-06-19T04:18:00.000-07:00

SHTAAD is a project of Chicago-based Hip Hop artist SERENGETI (Dave Cohn) and Folktronika artist SICKER MAN (Tobias Vethake).

Tough streetkid SERENGETI who was born in the southside of Chicago, founded a label and a project with POLYPHONIC and will be soon releasing an album on the alternative Hip Hop label ANTICON. He has already appeared as a guest on releases of BUCK 65, THEMSELVES and HOWELLS WHERTHMAN.

Multi instrumentalist SICKER MAN lives in Berlin and works as a composer for television and theatre plays (e.g SCHAUSPIELHAUS HAMBURG, DEUTSCHES THEATER). Apart from being a member in several projects such as BLAINBIETER, VINCENT (blankrecords), MINI POPS JUNIOR, he also founded the ambient folk-label BLANKRECORDS in 2005.

Although the line up may apear controversial it all melts into a hybrid of electrobeats, soundscapes and hiphop-shouts.
Gasoline for the stuck-in-between.
SAUL WILLIAMS is meeting M.I.A. on the MODESELEKTOR-stage.

This LP is completed with 4 excellent SHTAAD-remixes by MOKKE, who stunned us all with his last year's debut HAPPY CHAMELEON.

Support: Buy Shtaad stuff:
@ itunes
@ amazon
@ juno
@ finetunes

Follow: More Shtaad stuff:
Website shtaad.com
@ faceboook
@ soundcloud
@ last.fm
@ myspace
@ bandcamp
@ youtube
@ twitter

Sherif Perid by shtaad

Verge Of Virgil by shtaad

Best Against Mainstream by shtaad

.:: FREE MP3 DOWNLOAD ::.
I Bitch U Bitch (Mokke Remix) by shtaad

Shtaad - Got Dat // directed by HiFi Brown

Sicker Man

2002-05-17T06:04:00.000-07:00

Sicker Man is the solo project of Tobias Vethake (Blainbieter, VINCENT (blankrecords), Fotomaton) where he hovers between true ambient pop singles and new ways of defining classical music. After studying classical cello at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hannover, Tobias Vethake was drawn to songwriting, initiating several collaborative as well as solo projects.
Picking up many other instruments in the process, such as guitar, bass, mandolin, synthesizers, Rhodes, drums, and electronics, Tobias has found his new home painting beautifully strange landscapes that touch on both his classical and songwriting talents.

links:
"a subtle life" on amazon
"theatre works" on amazon
"nowhere enterprise" on amazon
www.sicker-man.com

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SICKER MAN - I just can't get enough (Depeche Mode Cover) by Sicker Man

SICKER MAN - Party Rock Anthem (LMFAO Cover) by Sicker Man

SICKER MAN - Darkness Follows by Sicker Man

SICKER MAN - Nowhere Enterprise [2011, blankrecords] by Sicker Man

SICKER MAN feat. KIKI BOHEMIA - Hiding Away by Sicker Man

Sicker Man - 2009 - Poker Face (Lady GaGa Cover) by Sicker Man

SICKER MAN - Goodbye Foes [2005, blankrecords] by Sicker Man

SICKER MAN - Crack the Shack [2005, blankrecords] by Sicker Man

VINCENT (blankrecords)

2001-05-17T06:05:00.000-07:00

VINCENT (blankrecords) is improvised music, always testing the seemingly unbridgeable boundaries separating song structure, soundscape, and free-form noise. Whatever sound surfaces is to be released and added to the community of moods. This playful and mischievous duo performs instant composition at it's best.
Vincent aims to tell stories with their music. Both having a rather visual approach to music making, João Orecchia and Tobias Vethake are looking for the film to unfold within the improvisation. As if composing soundtracks to films that don’t exist might bring the film into spontaneous being, Vincent …

Vincent's sound palette includes guitar, bass, rhodes, cello, vintage synthesisers, paino, mandolin, toy keyboard, harmonica, alarm clock, slide whistle, theramin, toys, loops, and anything they can get their hands on.

links:
VINCENT on amazon

myspace

Summer Hollow

clip off state radiation

zero zero zero (000)

2000-05-23T02:00:00.000-07:00

ZERO ZERO ZERO is the solo-project of loop-artist TOBIAS VETHAKE a.k.a.SICKER MAN.

with his minimal equipment TOBIAS VETHAKE creates dark clouds of slowmotion melodies and atmospheres.

if STEVE REICH was on valium and playing along with BOHREN and the CLUB of GORE.

minimal music is embedded by dark drones.

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000 - heknot a gain

000 - sinistra

000 - solar

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2000-05-19T04:15:00.000-07:00

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1997-05-19T04:03:00.000-07:00

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