Absurd Recordings

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Pepe Bradock
Lifiting Weights / Mujeras Nerviosas 12″

“Recorded in LA assembled in Paris”

Resident Advisor list Recondite’s “On Acid” in the top 20 albums of the year. Thanks RA!

http://www.residentadvisor.net/feature.aspx?1704

Achterbahn D’Amour return to Acid Test with Cardbox & Harmonia, including a stellar remix from Innerspace Halflife.
Available in all good record shops.

$20.00 + shipping email absurd@absurdrecordings.com

As the title implies, the 303 remains very much at the center of these dance floor excursions, whether holding down the low-end on “Devine Acid” and “The Muses” or stretching far and wide across the track, as we hear on “Museum Of Acid” and “Absurdist Acid.” It’s uncanny how simply Tin Man whips up a frenzy: a cut like “Futurist Acid,” with crisp hi-­hats and a steady thump delivering a circular 303 line with little more than delay as ornamentation, evokes a multitude of colors and emotions. Auvinen’s compositional intuition is as strong as ever here, its tracks unfolding with simultaneous calm and immediacy.

“Recondite has been extraordinarily successful, creating an album more deeply psychedelic and mind-bending than a vast majority of previous attempts” http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/review/recondite-on-acid/

RA Label of the month - Read the article, and check out the mix.

“Eddie Richards has mixed up new and old tunes from the Acid Test catalogue. It’s a journey which goes from soft to hard to soft again, with the only throughline being, of course, the ever-present 303.”

Little White Earbuds lists Acid Test 01 as #2 track of the year

As well as the #28 spot for Donato’s remix

Deep dubby house from the Bunker resident

Eric Cloutier - Absurdcast013

acid test 05, ‘trance me up (i wanna go higher)’ comes from achterbahn d’amour — the german duo of well-known iron curtis and his lesser spotted pal edit piafra. confusingly, despite the titles, it’s neither acid nor trance, but instead solid, raw, organic and classicist house music.

Full review here

Jonsson/Alter - Cycles of sex

After their debut on Acid Test 02, Achterbahn D’Amour aka Iron Curtis & Edit Piafra return for the 5th in the Acid Test series with 2 new tracks. Including a massive remix from the almighty Skudge.

A1 - Achterbahn D’Amour - Trance me up (I wanna go higher)
A2 - Achterbahn D’Amour - Adult movies
B1 - Trance me up (I wanna go higher) - Skudge remix

Acid Test 04

A1 - Holger Zilske - E preciso Acreditar
B1 - John Tejada reduction remix
B2 - Axel Boman remix
Digi - John Tejada v2 remix

Acid Test 04 drops from Berlin’s Holger Zilske - A pure analog jam using just a 303, 101 and a 808, its a slow pulsing bass heavy acid work out. Comes with remixes from John Tejada and Stockholm’s Axel Boman

The mix is done only with records and I left the mistakes in it. The mix tells a story about the acid moon which is a kind of dance planet with extrodinary spaces, moods and flows. The centre is the TB-303, which you can listen to in nearly every track. There are 17 acid tracks from 23 years acid works. It was fun to do — RVDS

http://files.absurdrecordings.com/podcast/Absurdcast011.mp3

Acid Test 03

A1 - Donato Dozzy - In Bed
B1 - Donato Dozzy - In Bed - Tin Man remix

Part 3 in our Acid Test series sees the return of both Donato Dozzy & Tin Man. This time, is Donato contributing an original composition and Tin Man on the remix.

Recorded for his overture at the Labyrinth festival in 2010 and comprised of a Devilfish 303, Juno 60 and Roland SH-2. “In Bed” is spaced out ambient techno in signature Dozzy style, meanwhile, Tin Man takes the melody of the original and turns it into an acid journey including the addition of his vocals.

Boomkat - http://boomkat.com/vinyl/407671-donato-dozzy-tin-man-in-bed-tin-man-mix

Decks - http://www.decks.de/t/donato_dozzy-acid_test_03/bxj-61

Phonica - http://www.phonicarecords.com/product/view/70833

“Absurd Recordings maintain the standards laid down with the Tin Man & Donato Dozzy shaped brilliance of their first Acid Test release in premiering the sounds of Achterbahn D’Amour. A new collaborative project between Iron Curtis and Edit Piafra….”

Part 2 in the Acid Test series comes by way of a new project from Berlin’s Iron Curtis. Along with his partner Edit Piafra we introduce ‘Achterbahn d’Amour’ - Including 2 dubbed out acid mixes from London’s Idjut Boys.

Joining Evil Eddie Richards & Alex Villalobos is Stockholm Sweden’s Axel Boman!

2010 was a big year for Mr. Boman with his “Holy Love” release on Dj Koze’s Pampa label earning the #5 slot on RA’s best tracks of the year. His sound is raw, playful and drenched in oceans of soul. Axel is also contributing to our Acid Test series so we’re excited to be showcasing his sound.

10pm til 6am +

Evil Eddie Richards - Fabric/Absurd UK
Axel Boman - Pampa/Studio Barnhus SE
Alex Villalobos - Absurd SD

21+

This is a private event and we ask that this info not be shared on other sites.

Call infoline after 9pm

323 960 5074

See you there!

Johannes Auvinen, best known as Tin Man, is the ultimate techno drifter. He’s wandered geographically (from Los Angeles to Vienna) and sonically (from twisted post-apocalyptic Chicago etudes to acid-tinged synth pop), and he’s never been particularly choosy about his passport (he followed an EP for techno mainstay Cheap by one for outré-indie boutique label White Denim). For an artist so in line with our handcrafted, old-school-obsessed moment, Auvinen is hardly a major player in the zeitgeist. His invisibility might be a shame for dance music, but I’m guessing being “neglected” suits the eternally downtrodden Tin Man just fine.

But mark my words: the mystery won’t last through 2011. It can’t. His latest 12″, this time for LA-based Absurd Recordings as part of their new Acid Test series, is just too good. It would be an incredible record if only for “Nonneo,” a new Tin Man joint which is brighter, punchier, and more floor-ready than practically any other record in his discography. But the fact that Donato Dozzy, the Italian techno shaman and elite member of mnml ssgs’s spank bank, has supplied a remix of “Nonneo” — one which transforms the original into one of the most otherworldy instrumentals to grace my inbox in a few minutes — seems destined to shine a very bright light on one of techno’s palest denizens.

Full review here:
http://www.littlewhiteearbuds.com/review/tin-man-acid-test-01/

2011 we bring you a new series. Acid sounds from around the world. Kicking off with Vienna’s Tin Man including a deep atmospheric mix from Donato Dozzy. Mastered by Rashad @ Dubplates & Mastering - Hand painted jackets. Out January 16th.

Absurd is back in the warehouse for an end of summer affair. Along with Absurd residents Evil Eddie Richards & Alex Villalobos we bring you direct from Berlin Holger Zilske! 21+ for entry

Holger (aka Smash TV) will bring his Live PA to Los Angeles for his debut appearance. Touring off his album recently released on Playhouse and also his recent release with us here at Absurd we’re excited to be featuring such an innovative artist.