Curve, by Frank Bretschneider

Curve

by Frank Bretschneider

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1.	Blue 06:08	buy track
2.	Curve 07:25	buy track
3.	Fall 07:00	buy track
4.	Silk 08:57	buy track
5.	Sat 09:40	buy track
6.	Star 08:48	buy track
7.	Tag 07:54	buy track
8.	Tones 04:26	buy track

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Keplar releases a vinyl reissue of 2001’s »Curve,« the second album released by Frank Bretschneider on Mille Plateaux under his real name. »Curve« saw him pick up on the underlying concept of 1999’s »Rand,« but gave his explorations of the sonic and stylistic range of electronic music notably more space and time to unfold. Merging compositional minimalism with sonic complexity, the eight tracks display an affinity for the production techniques of dub music, which had already been a major reference point for Bretschneider’s work before. Its subtle grooves, especially in the rhythmically charged pieces towards the end of the album, also nod at the dance music-inspired work of contemporaries such as SND or Vladislav Delay. Produced during a prolific time for Bretschneider, who had previously co-run the Rastermusic label and was at that time still active under his Komet moniker, he considers »Curve« to be a crucial album in his discography.

Bretschneider was an important figure in the 1980s Karl-Marx-Stadt (Chemnitz) scene and released his first solo experiments with electronic music through his own klangFarBe tape label as early as 1985. Throughout the 1990s, he was part of projects such as Produkt and Tol and also released solo albums as Komet on Rastermusic, which he had co-founded in 1995 together with Olaf Bender a.k.a. Byetone. At the turn of the millennium, he gradually started releasing more solo records under his real name. After 1999’s »Rand,« followed »Rausch« on 12k—with whose owner Taylor Deupree he would collaborate for 2002’s »Balance,« reissued in 2020 by Keplar—in the following year and, finally, »Curve.« Produced after he had moved to Berlin, Bretschneider used a Clavia Nord Modular as his primary sound source and the Logic DAW to modulate and synchronise the sounds, adding only drum loops to some tracks in the second half of the album.

»Curve« is a record that is hard to pigeonhole and thus an archetypical Bretschneider album: marked by a meticulous attention to detail, infinitely playful, and fully dedicated to pushing the envelope of electronic music. It is no wonder that it left a lasting mark on the international scene for adventurous electronic music.

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released November 24, 2023

All tracks composed and recorded by Frank Bretschneider.
Originally released on Mille Plateaux in 2001.
Remaster and cut by Lupo @ Loop-O.
Artwork by Frank Bretschneider & Tim Tetzner.
Text by Kristoffer Cornils.

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Frank Bretschneider Berlin, Germany

Frank Bretschneider (born 1956) lives and works as a composer in Berlin. Still in the GDR he founded the tape-label klangFarBe in 1985. Later he co-founded the Raster-Noton label in 1996.
His work is known for precise sound placement, complex, interwoven rhythm structures and its minimal, flowing approach. ... more

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