The buzz has been around for some time, but now it's getting real! The recently created Cologne Label MAGAZINE will release its debut record "COLOGNE TAPE." Until now, they have made their appearances almost hidden, but it might not be too far-fetched to refer to them as a kind of supergroup: COLOGNE TAPE are ADA, AXEL WILLNER (THE FIELD), JÖRG BURGER (MODERNIST, BURGER & VOIGT), PHILIPP JANZEN (VON SPAR), JOHN STANIER (BATTLES), JENS-UWE BEYER (POPNONAME), JOHN HARTEN and DANIEL ANSORGE as well as other friends from the label’s entourage like MARIO KATZ, MICHAEL HEYDEBERECK and VOLKER PANNES (DEEPULSE).
When listening to the mini album RENDER, one can hear that COLOGNE TAPE can sound like HELDON, SOFT MACHINE, EMTIDI, HUMAN RESOURCE, MIKE
DUNN, AFX all together, or completely different. And this is only the beginning. Next year, a long album will follow. RENDER is the first release, and
will be strictly limited to 300 records, and 1000 downloads. MAGAZINE 1 is the first document of the group’s sprawling, unpredictable future. Drifting synth
sounds meet blown away vocals, preset shout-outs hit stoic drums, and mountains of noise lure far away guitars. RENDER 2 in the MAGAZINE EDIT of
COLOGNE TAPE-members and MAGAZINE-founders BARNT, CRATO and PNN moreover translates the improvisation into a slow rave hit with a brute fanfare
that finishes in an unbelievable solo of a transverse flute. So the group’s energy will also be palpable on the dance floor.[ko txt from ]