Deriving from the acclaimed performance and exhibition—staged by Anne Imhof at the 57th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia and awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation— the album Faust is part documentation and part elaboration, the sonic capture and extrapolation of the gestures, intensities, and durations of the live event.

Out on PAN.

Joy without Pleasure / Ain’t no fun / ain’t no fun / ain’t no fun.

✝ Daniel Johnston (January 22, 1961 – September 11, 2019) was an American singer-songwriter and visual artist regarded as a significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative music scenes. Most of his work consisted of cassettes recorded alone in his home.

taken from Aphex Twin – Selected Ambient Works Volume II.

The music of Zane Reynolds AKA SFV Acid celebrates lysergic life in small town America. His are urban hallucinations. Conceived in “business parks, strip malls”, in “blue collar luxury”. On a diet of “diner burgers”. From the self-released, hand-painted cassettes of his high school years, he has moved to work commissioned by locals 100% Silk, Japan`s Big Love, and Dutch imprint, BAKK.

Out on Ekster.

Dem Irrsinn des Straßenverkehrs auf der Spur – Ob zu Fuß, auf dem Rad oder im Auto – auf der Straße reißt die dünne Schicht der Zivilisation. Auf dem Weg von A nach B geschieht mehr mit uns als nur ein Ortswechsel. Im toten Winkel bricht der blanke Hass hervor.

Von Hermann Bohlen
Produktion: WDR 2019

Audiobook Download (DE).

Evoking the sentimental attraction of the everyday, das bisschen Totschlag is all about the beauty of the vulnerability of the Digital Age and the ever more apparent fact that nothing really matters.

The protagonist explores augmented tenderness in a world where the concept of togetherness is reinvented; where no one is ever truly alone, neither together. What does it take to be real?

Official website.

A serial killer strikes again during WWII in Germany. The wrong man is arrested and a detective hunts down the real killer. But justice in Nazi Germany is not so easily administered.