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In the autumn of 2013, the formaldehyde-drenched “electronaut” Felix Kubin and the extraordinary big band Mitch & Mitch convened in their studios in Warsaw and Hamburg to conduct an electro-acoustic experiment: the production of an album serving as an avant-pop phonotheque. To bridge their complex arrangement, they invited the legendary German producer Tobias Levin to act as their electrical conduit.

With their faces turned toward the dark side of the Moon and hearts steeped in the spirit of Gesamtkunstwerk (the synthesis of arts), they plunged into the depths of dread, sharpened their lenses, and peered into the heart of electric voodoo. Having completed the “delta phase” of the project—documented via the underground (yet fully legal) laboratories of Lado ABC and Gagarin Records—Felix Kubin and Mitch & Mitch now enter the next stage, known as “sonic presentations” or “the litmus test.” This big-band X-ray music arrives in European cities in the form of a ten-piece combo supported by an array of sophisticated instrumentation. In addition to the new material, the ensemble will present special arrangements of earlier works by both Felix Kubin and Mitch & Mitch

Inspirations:
BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Czech and Polish film music, Stockhausen, Stockholm, stroboscopes, the KPM Music Library, Raymond Scott, Daphne Oram, Jerzy Woźniak, Philips Laboratories, Electric Voodoo, medical catastrophes, the Ultimate Flu, electrocardiographs, X-rays, silencers, Wagner played backward, Mambo Mortale, sequencers, musique concrète, “indecisive music,” underwater cuisine, explosions, earthquakes, maximum production capacity, elevator music, electric toothbrushes, electric shavers, electric chairs, hairy animals, radio plays, and sinister reverb.

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