To Rococo Rot

The trio from Berlin founded in 1995 by Stefan Schneider (ex-Kreidler) and brothers Ronald Lippok (Tarwater) and Robert Lippok indulges its own special Electro-Kraut-Rock since the beginning. Over a decade ago the band reached the point when digital precision and instrumental abstraction were harnessed into new directions in contemporary music, detached and accessible. Their early albums spoke in the future imperfect tense, highly complex but concentrated sound happenings. Especially on their latest effort, every idea is well played-out without being exhausted too much. For the 9th album "Speculation", to be released in March 2010 on Domino, they went into the "Klangbad Studios" of Jochen Irmler (Faust), who eventually joined in for some parts and one whole song with his self-made organ, delivering a raw and unique sound. In a sea of electronic washes Speculation sets itself a drift to wonder and wander in the ether, repeating and circling in the haze, constantly shifting, like the band's palindromic name. Especially the equipment at the Faust studios enabled them to record almost as live band which is easily recognizable when listening to the songs.

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