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john eckhardt
by john eckhardt
www.johneckhardt.deWhether performing today’s most challenging double bass repertoire, developing his own music, or working sound systems with his bass guitar or a set of turntables - John Eckhardt is testing the limits of being a bassist on planet earth in the 21st century, working towards a broader vision of what bass always was and can become in the future.Seeking to combine scope with depth, John Eckhardt is constantly involved in the creation of new music and has both collaborated with a wide spectrum of artists and created his personal brand of solo projects. He worked with composers ranging from Helmut Lachenmann and Pierre Boulez, top new music groups from Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Vienna and musikfabrik, improvisors from Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Peter Evans, to today’s new blood in a wide field of today’s music.John Eckhardt has performed on over 30 recordings, among them three internationally acclaimed solo releases. These share an interest in low frequency and spe
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Basswald #37: Dub Tape
basswald’s latest edition dub tape surfs the strangely infinite ways of dub today, spiralling down sonic rabbit holes to often surprising and sometimes strange places. 1. Evan Caminiti 2. Gil Barte 3. Sa Pa 4. False Aralia 5. Ghost Dubs 6. Parris 7. TNT Roots 8. Deadbeat 9. J. Albert 10. URA 11. wzrdryAV 12. Cloud Management 13. Felinto 14. wakan tanka records (Vodlemko Mix) 15. MT Gemini 16. Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad
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CAVE installation
JOHN ECKHARDT - CAVE Audiovisuelle Installation mit Katrin Bethge (Lichtprojektion, Objekte) 808 Kick Drums / Aufnahmen von im Raum vorgefundenen Gegenständen / Bassgitarren-Feedbacks Der Drumcomputer TR-808 wurde von 1980-83 von der japanischen Firma Roland hergestellt. Seine Klänge waren stilbildendes Element des Hip Hop, bevor sie von Weiterentwicklungen in den Hintergrund gedrängt wurden. Sein goldenes Zeitalter begann mit dem Südstaaten-Rap der 1990er Jahre, welcher in der Trap- sowie in der Chicagoer Drill-Musik der Nuller Jahre seinen bis heute nachwirkenden Durchbruch erlebte. Inzwischen ist der zunehmend auf Software übertragene 808-Sound von viraler, kulturübergreifender Omni-Präsenz. Kultstatus kommt dabei der im TR-808 enthaltenen Bass-Drum und ihren Mutationen zu, um deren Produktion sich produktionstechnische Geheimnistuerei rankt. Bemerkenswert ist dabei, dass sich Attack und Sustain voneinander abgekoppelt haben. Letzterer stellt nunmehr in einem großen Teil heutiger Musik das einzige Bass-Instrument dar. Als Jäger und Sammler der Bassmusik, der just 1980 mit dem Plattensammeln begonnen hat, habe ich diese Entwicklungen fasziniert mitverfolgt und auch im Club am eigenen Leibe mitvollzogen. Das Anregen der teils im Subbassbereich beheimateten Eigenresonanzen von Räumen ist zentrales Element meiner Installationen. Dies geschah oftmals mit einem speziellen Setup aus E-Bass und Effekten. Bei CAVE wenden wir uns noch konzentrierter als sonst den faszinierenden Fragen einer archaischen Kunstpraxis und deren Potential als gegenwärtigem wie futuristischem Ideenstreinbruch in Zeiten der Wachstumsgrenzen und der digitalen Zerstäubung des Individuums zu. Deshalb sind es hier vor allem heutige 808s, die auf die Eigenresonanzen des Ausstellungsraumes im Westwerks abgestimmt sind und somit seine Stimme hörbar machen. Und während auch die noch junge Disziplin der Paläoakustik daraufhin deutet, dass die lokale Wechselwirkung tiefer Trommeln mit der sie umgebenden Raumakustik Teil der paläolithischen Musizierpraxis gewesen ist, lautet meine Arbeitshypothese: Nie war die Musik so nah an der Steinzeit wie heute, auf dem Gipfel ihrer technischen Entwicklung und Verbreitungsmöglichkeiten. Diese bis an die untere menschliche Hörschwelle reichenden Schwingungsmuster stehen im Dialog mit helleren Perkussionsklängen, die während der Vorbereitungszeit ausschließlich auf vor Ort vorgefundenen Gegenständen produziert wurden. Für den aufmerksamen Zuhörer deuten die aus dunklen und hellen Ereignissen entstehenden Zeit-Strukturen immer wieder Konstellationen wie etwa das sog. “Call & Response” und “Patterning” an - zentrale Gestaltungselemente nicht nur im Hip Hop, Dub oder in Volksmusiken, sondern auch in der subsaharischen Musik Afrikas, wie sie auch heute noch von Communities praktiziert wird, die zu den ältesten Überlebenden der Menschheitsgeschichte gehören. Ohne jemals ganz zu regelmäßigen Beats zu gerinnen, entstehen gleichsam Vorstufen, Potentiale künftiger Tracks - oder wurden sie wie Ruinen oder Skelette in lose beieinander liegenden Teilen ausgegraben und wollen neu interpretiert und zusammengesetzt werden? Das dritte Element bilden die aufgenommenen Klänge einer im Raum rückkoppelnden Bassgitarre. Auf der spielerischen Suche nach der minimalsten Geste menschlicher Musiker-Präsenz in der vorgefunden Umwelt wurde das Instrument gleichsam behutsam in den Raum gehalten. Über etliche Meter Westwerk-Luftraum hinweg verstärken die Klänge aus dem Lautsprecher wiederum die Schwingungen der Saiten usw. Dabei droht der anfangs zerbrechliche, vom Musiker ins Leben gerufene Klang stets, innerhalb weniger Sekunden zu einem Fiasko für Leib und Technik zu geraten. Somit besteht diese Art des Musizierens vornehmlich in einem vorsichtigen Deichseln, das auf einem schmalen Grat zwischen Verschwinden und Eskalation balanciert und seine Erfüllung in der Entfaltung eines vitalen Eigenlebens der Elemente sucht.
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Basswald #36: Primal Transmit
finding deep and thrilling techno tracks has always been a challenge to me. but since even the last humans will for sure be raving to it, i never stopped trying: here’s a banging selection of some of my favourite, industrial-leaning tracks from the past twelve years. 1. Michal Wolski 2. Pris 3. SNTS 4. Pause 5. Flaminia 6. Torn 7. Ducerey Ada Nexino 8. Avatism, Clockwork (C/W), CW/A 9. Pause 10. Zisko, ArchivOne, Lacchesi, Sina XX 11. 6SISS, Positive Centre 12. In Half Light 13. Pfirter 14. Yuji Kondo
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Stalagmite City Dub
my next collaboration for an audiovisual environment with katrin bethge will take place as part of the alte opera nights festival, alte oper frankfurt. in resonance with the festival's urban, cosmopolitan theme, we create a multi-sensory atmospheric charging of the hertie foyer for festival visitors to hang out between concerts. amidst a light installation refracting and liquifying frankfurt’s unique architectural vibe, dubtechnoesque structures slowly emerge from engulfing abstract soundscapes.
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Basswald #35: Strum
a free-flying book of songs touching on indy, folk, krautrock and more experimental storytelling. 1. Civilistjävel! x Mayssa Jallad 2. james K 3. Jabu feat. Daniela Dyson & memotone 4. Perila and Ulla 5. Any 6. Jenny Hval 7. Stephen Vitiello, Brendan Canty, Hahn Rowe 8. Meril Wubslin 9. Any 10. Jabu 11. Lou Venturini 12. Meril Wubslin 13. Wu-Lu 14. Joe Lally 15. Anika 16. Kim Gordon 17. Violence Gratuite 18. Lou Venturini
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Basswald #34: Byte Fog
a highly unlikely pixel breeze of shoe-gazing ambient-trap, bound to massage your eardrums, subs and your brain cells, too! 1. nueen 2. Aethek 3. Iceboy Violet 4. Yungwebster 5. 990x 6. Bianca Scout 7. Haji 8. Jessicnt 9. Loraine James 10. Time Cow 11. Kim Gordon 12. Sockethead 13. Klein 14. nueen 15. URA 16. 990x 17. Loraine James
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Basswald #31: Tonguez
sharing a special passion for the poetic pleasures of languages i don’t understand, for voices that sound unfamiliar and sometimes otherworldly - embedded in sprawling textures and a branching jungle of original, sometimes weird, sometimes outright bouncy beats... 1 Yikii 2 Howie Lee 3 Violence Gratuite 4 Dijit 5 Sockethead 6 DJ Anderson Do Paraiso feat Sarah Guedes, Mc Code, Mc Paulin do G 7 IFS MA 8 Violence Gratuite 9 Yokel x D.Ham x Franco Franco 10 Phelimuncasi & Metal Preyers 11 Kamohelo, E-Unity 12 King Midas Sound 13 Zuli ft. Mado $am, Abanob, Abyusif 14 Howie Lee 15 Dijit 16 The Maghreban, Nah Eeto 17 DJ Anderson do Paraíso Feat. MC's Laranjinha & Laureta
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Fatwires - Gawa Riddim feat. Emol
Fatwires' first album The wicked path was hailed as one of the heaviest industrial dub albums of 2020 and acclaimed for its contributions to past and future sound system culture. After two recent EPs with the Osaka-based Atsushi Izumi, Book of Riddims unfolds a hefty volume of industrialesque beats, organic dubs and spectral soundscapes around the voices and lyrics brought in by recent international acquaintances from John Eckhardt's Hamburg hood, speaking diverse mother tongues. Just a handful of short first encounters with a mic on one side and his beats/bass on the other inspired a clash of spontaneous story-telling and primal song-writing procedures: a poetry lab for building diverse worlds amidst the unpredictable fields of vibration that are created together on the fly. What began as an intimate experimental refuge now turns into a celebration of the unfamiliar, and of the rewards of interacting in creative resonance with the unknown wealth we always find around and right in front of us. Essential skills for survival. All post-production preserved the original vocals, beats and drones created spontaneously during each session. Music played, recorded and mixed by John Eckhardt. Vocals by Shimo, Emol, Mai-Linh Dang and Dennis Robert - John Eckhardt'S deepest thanks for coming out despite not knowing what they were in for, and contributing raw, striking and honest performances. John Eckhardt is a hunter-gatherer of all things bass and one of the most versatile bass artists in a wide field of today's music. As a bass player, he features on over 40 recordings and in solo and group performances around the globe. He works us a sound artist, DJ and photographer. www.johneckhardt.de www.depthoffieldmusic.com www.instagram.com/basswald
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Fatwires - Kinetic Riddim feat. Emol
Fatwires' first album The wicked path was hailed as one of the heaviest industrial dub albums of 2020 and acclaimed for its contributions to past and future sound system culture. After two recent EPs with the Osaka-based Atsushi Izumi, Book of Riddims unfolds a hefty volume of industrialesque beats, organic dubs and spectral soundscapes around the voices and lyrics brought in by recent international acquaintances from John Eckhardt's Hamburg hood, speaking diverse mother tongues. Just a handful of short first encounters with a mic on one side and his beats/bass on the other inspired a clash of spontaneous story-telling and primal song-writing procedures: a poetry lab for building diverse worlds amidst the unpredictable fields of vibration that are created together on the fly. What began as an intimate experimental refuge now turns into a celebration of the unfamiliar, and of the rewards of interacting in creative resonance with the unknown wealth we always find around and right in front of us. Essential skills for survival. All post-production preserved the original vocals, beats and drones created spontaneously during each session. Music played, recorded and mixed by John Eckhardt. Vocals by Shimo, Emol, Mai-Linh Dang and Dennis Robert - John Eckhardt'S deepest thanks for coming out despite not knowing what they were in for, and contributing raw, striking and honest performances. John Eckhardt is a hunter-gatherer of all things bass and one of the most versatile bass artists in a wide field of today's music. As a bass player, he features on over 40 recordings and in solo and group performances around the globe. He works us a sound artist, DJ and photographer. www.johneckhardt.de www.depthoffieldmusic.com www.instagram.com/basswald
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Basswald #33: Witchtape
A new mixtale of krauted avant folk, outernational tape loops and magnetic field recordings! 1. Angus MacLise 2. Aeson Zervas 3. Christopher Trapani, Zwerm 4. Rat Heart Ensemble 5. Garth Erasmus 6. Angus MacLise 7. Gaister 8. Das Ende der Liebe x su dance110 9. Gosheven 10. Symposium Musicum 11. Sandy Chamoun / Anthony Sahyoun / Jad Atoui 12. Inre Kretsen Grupp & Prins Emanuel 13. A Taut Line 14. Aly Eissa & Ayman Asfour 15. Gaister 16. Laura Cannell & Andre Bosman
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Basswald #32: Aeons
a terrestrial, dark ambient selection meditating on both the elemental might and ultimate indifference of what we refer to as „nature“, as well as on the inescapable presence of ecological principles even in late-industrialism. 1. Francesco Fabris & Ben Frost 2. Eric Holm 3. Devika 4. Mønic 5. Amby Downs 6. Christina Giannone 7. Basic House 8. Mariam Rezaei ft. Teresa Winter & Bobby Glew 9. Stave 10. Bliss Detention Center 11. PureData 12. SELM 13. Inner8, Koichi Shikmizu, Franz Rosati, Lifecutter, Scald 14. Cleared 15. Shakali
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Basswald Podcast #4 - Underwood
Next installment of the Basswald mix series - this time with some recent, strictly heavy weight Dubstep. www.johneckhardt.de/basswald
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Basswald Podcast #3 - New Jungles
Basswald's DJ mix of fresh, jungle related tracks, all released during the past two years. www.johneckhardt.de/basswald
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Basswald Podcast #2 - Foundation
the revolutionary bass sound whose vibrations have been spreading from past time, inner city kingston across the globe today, and whose studio experiments and song deconstructions have led the way for so much of today's music that has drums and bass in it or gets remixed. www.johneckhardt.de/basswald 1. Basswald Intro 2. King Babylon Dub - Impact All-stars 3. Cool This Dub - Tappa Zukie 4. Jammy a shine - Prince Jammy 5. Herb Vendor - Leroy 'Horsemouth' Wallace 6. Jah Jah Dub - Herman Chin Loy 7. Sneak Invasion Dub - Johnny Clarke & The Aggrovators 8. Ordinary Version Dub - Impact All-stars 9. Beng come down Dub - The Congos 10. Freedom - Tappa Zukie 11. King Tubby Meets Rockers Uptown - Augustus Pablo 12. Dub Trap - Yabby You 13. Use This Dub - Horace Andy 14. Heavenless Dub - Scientist 15. The rightful Organizer - Lee "Scratch" Perry & The Upsetters 16. African Roots (extended)- Johnny Clarke 17. Kojak - Lee Perry & The Upsetters 18. Concrete Jungle - Big Youth 19. Chim Cherie Rock (Melodica cut)- The Upsetters 20. 1 Rutland Close - Augustus Pablo 21. From Dub Four - Clive Hylton & The Upsetters 22. Lovers Serenade - Joe Gibbs & The Professionals 23. Dub Babylon Dub - Impact All-stars 24. Freedom (dub) - King Tubby
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Basswald Podcast #1 - Expedition
First edition of John Eckhardt's Basswald DJ podcast series, presenting a diverse spectrum of bass music. "Expedition" comes with an hour of fuzzy power ambient! www.johneckhardt.de/basswald 1. Nimbes (Eric Holm 10 50 mix)- James Ginzburg, Yair Elizar Glotman 2. Absence - Emptyset 3. Murmur - Oren Ambarchi 4. Wire - Emptyset 5. Core Value - Suum Cuique 6. 5 Wheels - Untold 7. Ion - Untold 8. HTH020 (The Haxan Cloakas Cloud Of Witness)-Akkord 9. Live Room - Tim Hecker 10. Gravure/Continuum (Fis Hayfield To New Mills version)- Akkord 11. Approach & Identify (Demdike Stare Cross Border Incursion remix)- Source Direct 12. Excavation (Part 2) - The Haxan Cloak 13. Her Rituals - Rafael Anton Irisarri 14. Kal - FIS 15. Her Third Eye (Drum Rain) - Fis
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www.johneckhardt.deWhether performing today’s most challenging double bass repertoire, developing his own music, or working sound systems with his bass guitar or a set of turntables - John Eckhardt is testing the limits of being a bassist on planet earth in the 21st century, working towards a broader vision of what bass always was and can become in the future.Seeking to combine scope with depth, John Eckhardt is constantly involved in the creation of new music and has both collaborated with a wide spectrum of artists and created his personal brand of solo projects. He worked with composers ranging from Helmut Lachenmann and Pierre Boulez, top new music groups from Ensemble Modern, Klangforum Vienna and musikfabrik, improvisors from Evan Parker, Elliott Sharp and Peter Evans, to today’s new blood in a wide field of today’s music.John Eckhardt has performed on over 30 recordings, among them three internationally acclaimed solo releases. These share an interest in low frequency and spe
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