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Al Chem Weird Fiction

Art Yard | Item No: 556519
Vinyl LP | 2017 / EU – Original | New
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Item Description
Solo album displayig a collection of foggy electronic dub meditations recorded between 2000 and 2005 by Berliner Ring member Alexander Christou under his Al Chem guise. He has previously released for Tummy Touch and was part of the Elecdrones formation on the Berlin Katzensonne label. Further output include theater and radioplay compositions. Limited 1st pressing 500 numbered 180gram tip-on sleeve. Check!
In 2009, the label Art Yard sent a probe into the outer regions of contemporary electronic music, releasing Berliner Ring's "Orbital" album, a dub techno hymnal for Berlin’s orbital ring road. Drawing together the disparate elements of invented instruments, modified keyboards, customized rhythm and string machines, it was built around moods and themes drawn from the Berlin landscape.
One member of the Ring, Alexander Christou, also a part of the Berlin electro rock group Elecdrones, recording for Katzensonne. The band were “not interested in the crafting of chunks of music ready to be consumed”. Christou has since been recording under the moniker Al Chem, crossing analogue and digital realms, synthesizing a kind of philosopher’s stone. As Al Chem, he released on Tummy Touch Records, and now follows with a collection of foggy electronic dub meditations recorded between 2000 and 2005 in a full album.
In the battle to harness the elements, ancient mists permeated Chem’s music. A murky, mercurial humidity saturates the project. A distinctly north European descendant of dub, a kind of Seventh Seal that Bergman could have made, if provided enough hydroponic infusions.
No Hopper is a rework of the Ras Michael song No Hoppers, from his legendary album, Rastafari Dub, Chem's version shuffles the pack of electronic percussion with organic, Moondog-like rhythms and hazy atmospheric chords; The Prophet pinpoints Chem's GPS firmly in Berlin, just as The Red Tower blurs that kick-drum parallel
between reggae and house music; Baudelaire sputters digital delay, piling on the pressure, a clatter of surgical implements performing an operation out of Dead Ringers, the patient storming out of the theatre with loosely fitted mechanical body parts; the instrumental No Hopper only serves to highlight the distant gathering storm. Ladder of Perfection rounds off the set with a drone, creaking with bubbling digital mud pools
Item Details
Item No: 556519
Artist: Al Chem
Title: Weird Fiction
Label: Art Yard
Catalog No: ARTYARDLP 2017
Format: Vinyl LP, Vinyl, LP
Pressing: EU – Original
Release Date: 2017
Genre: Electronic & Dance
Style: Dub Techno, Cosmic | Balearic, Downbeat | Electronica | Leftfield
Available since: 2017-10-20
Condition: New
Price: $ 17.25
Weight: 250g (plus 250g Packaging)
Tracklist
A1 No Hopper
A2 Prophet
A3 The Red Tower
B1 Baudelaire
B2 No Hopper (Instrumental)
B3 Ladder Of Perfection
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