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Stuff I've found great (so far).

Barbara Morgenstern - Fjorden
Michaela Melián - Baden-Baden

Also, Quarks seem great,fun pop, but I only have the odd song here & there.

They have a lot of compilation/sampler type things too!

Raumschiff Monika, Musik Fürs Wohnzimmer, Santa Monika, Monika Force and a live label DVD 'Monika's Himmelfahrt/Monika's Ascension'

Should I look into any of these at sometime in the future?

In the catalouge I think I can take or leave Masha Qrella, Cobra Killer and Figurine seem a little too twee on the material I've heard so far... this is all based on some downloads, but no full-lengths.

This thread is also my roundabout, not wishing to shout about every single CD I buy way of saying, that the "4 Women No Cry" compilation I just bought is absolutely kicking my ass. SO good. Please talk about it!

http://www.monika-enterprise.de/4womennocry.html

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:02 (twenty years ago)

Seconding Baden-Baden as well as their comp from earlier this year, plus 4 Women No Cry -- definitely agreed it's an excellent album. The Gudrun Gut reissue was a kick as well. I've been appreciating them more and more the more I listen to their work and love writing about it, since so many of the artists on the label have such elegant takes on electronic and techno.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, I've slowly begun to be aware of her influence behind the scenes in Berlin since watching the 'Berlin Digital' DVD. I even bought one of her WMF mix cd's (Ocean CLub) but it frustratingly came with the wrong disc. Oh well.

What is "The Gudrun Gut reissue" though?

The only thing I have of her actual music is Gut/Humpe - "Butterfly (Ellen Allien Remix)" on her Remix Collection. And whatever Malaria! songs Chicks On Speed decided to cover.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 16:24 (twenty years ago)

also agree on baden baden - terrific stuff. "tesri" by lippock / morgenstern is great as well, toning down the dryness of the to rococo rot sound with some humour and fun. the 1st track is one of my favs of the years.

― phil turnbull (philT), Wednesday, 8 June 2005 21:06 (twenty years ago)

seven months pass...

great great great Gudrun Gut 7" on Earsugar--"Move Me". T Fehlmann remix on the bside, too--what else has she done that sounds like this?

― nerve pylon (flat_of_angles), Friday, 13 January 2006 03:57 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

One day I'm going to get round to finding the whole Gudrun back catalouge just for the hell of it. Ned I guess you're taking about Moabit & the Malaria! reissues?

I don't know it too well so far though :(

I read there's a second volume of the "4 Women No Cry" in the works? Google is failing me on finding out any more.

― fandango (fandango), Tuesday, 30 May 2006 22:42 (twenty years ago)

Yeah I heard the same about 4 Women, don't know details yet. Gudrun is touring with Barbara in America :) The "Move Me" single is excellent.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:49 (twenty years ago)

I still haven't convinced myself I need a third BM album :(

Even though I loved the lead-off single (and started the thread). I need to sort that out really.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:54 (twenty years ago)

I really didn't like it initally! But it has grown a great deal on me lately.

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

*initially

― Michael F Gill (Michael F Gill), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 01:58 (twenty years ago)

I will get round to hearing it... I've just been getting picky to extremes lately.

― fandango (fandango), Wednesday, 31 May 2006 02:08 (twenty years ago)

four months pass...

How's the second 4 Women No Cry comp?

― Moderation Request Line (fandango), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!!!!!!
anyone?

― zappi (joni), Wednesday, 25 October 2006 23:05 (nineteen years ago)

three months pass...

New Gudrun Gut = sehr guht.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 21:37 (nineteen years ago)

lawd... busy first half is 2007

can you say any more of this Ned?

I regret, still not picked up new Babs, or new 4 Women No Cry comp, but will probably get new Gudrun regardless. Yay! for German renaissance women of a certain age... they get me kinda hot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WdLzlvv5SR0 (see? HOT!)

― fandango, Friday, 23 February 2007 23:11 (nineteen years ago)

Moody, mysterious, a tribute record of sorts (most of the songs are specifically noted as being inspired by other musicians), almost kinda makes me think of Siouxsie in Creatures mode meets early Laurie Anderson (sonically and vocally), but it's hardly limited to that.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 23 February 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

was really disappointed with 2nd "4 Women" album.
loved the gudrun "move me" 7" though, so have high hopes for an album.

― zappi, Saturday, 24 February 2007 08:26 (nineteen years ago)

monika catalouge on boomkat now... http://www.boomkat.com/promotion.cfm?id=39 (and still on kompakt net where it was already I guess).

and hey "move me" is on this new record (I guess I can be all "oh I have the vinyl" or something :P )

01. move me
02. rock bottom riser (a Smog cover!)
03. the land
04. cry easy
05. girlboogie 06
06. blätterwald
07. last night
08. sweet
09. pleasuretrain
10. the wheel
11. tip tip

― fandango, Saturday, 3 March 2007 03:47 (nineteen years ago)

I liked 4 Women Part 2. If you can find the Eglantine Gouzy record ("Boamaster") it is also worthy of your time. Gudrun Gut run over by a reindeer also sounding good.

― Michael F Gill, Sunday, 4 March 2007 01:12 (nineteen years ago)

one month passes...

apropros of nothing, or maybe to make up for bitching in the other thread Gudrun Gut debut solo LP

some blog put up this really nice mix of all-Monika tracks

01.Michaela melian "Brautlied"
02.Komeit "I Can Tell"
03.Quarks "Gut (besser)"
04.Chica And The Folder "I'll Come Running"
05.MilenaSong "Something Else"
06.Dorit Chrysler "Spring Breeze"
07.Manuela Krause and Pole "Mein Freund Der Baum"
08.Figurine "Connections"
09.Barbara Morgenstern "The Operator"
10.Tusia Beridze "Wound"
11.James Figurine "Apologies"
12.Malaria vs Chicks On Speed "Kaltes Klares Wasser"
13.Cobra Killer "Heavy Rotation (Like A Tim mix)"
14.Masha Qrella "I Want You To Know"
15.Florida "The Girl On The Escalator"
16.Chica And The Folder "Daleko (Dinky Splastik remix excerpt)"

(and Figurine aren't so bad at all, after all, Cobra Killer... twee? not sure what I was smoking that day either come to think of it)

― fandango, Wednesday, 4 April 2007 00:40 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

I wish they'd release more stuff by Mico/Mieko Shimitzu... The tracks on 4 Women No Cry, as well as the couple of others by her that I've heard are really good, but her solo material seems to be sparse and hard to find. AFAIK her album catalogue consists of one CD released in Japan in 1998, and one self-published(?) that came out in 2006. I managed to locate a used copy of the former, but I can't find anyone on the Internet that would sell the latter.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 10:22 (fourteen years ago)

oh yeah. i think i only ever heard i see a soul, on that sampler. or maybe heard some others but just in passing. that one song is so great, strung out and slowed down.

― john-claude van donne (schlump), Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:15 (fourteen years ago)

This comp has a cool track by Shimizu released under her Apache 61 drum'n'bass moniker. The sleeve notes also have a mini bio of her that says she's been involved in music since the late 80s, but sadly her solo releases seem to be few, and most of them are Japan-only, I think.

― Tuomas, Wednesday, 14 March 2012 12:49 (fourteen years ago)

Just got the Apache 61 album in the mail, and it's a pretty awesome piece of experimental drum'n'bass/electro/whatever. Elastic and hard-hitting, kinda like Squarepusher without the IDM wonkiness. I really wish Monika or whoever would put out more of her music, she deserves to be known wider.

― Tuomas, Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:05 (fourteen years ago)

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