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P R E S E N T S .···. ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ Daniel Brandt - Without Us ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ARTiST..[ Daniel Brandt ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ TiTLE...[ Without Us ▓▓▓▓█ ████ GENRE...[ Ambient CAT#....[ ERATP173DL ████ ████ LABEL...[ Erased Tapes ENCODER.[ Lame 3.100 ████ ████ YEAR....[ 2025 QUALiTY.[ 320kbps ████ ████ SOURCE..[ WEB (FLAC) MODE....[ Joint Stereo ████ ████ PLAYTIME[ 44:21 REL.DATE[ 03.20.2025 ████ ████ TRACKS..[ 09 RiPPER..[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ SiZE....[ 101,62 MB SUPPLiER[ TEAM OMA ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. T R A C K L i S T .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ NR. TRACK. TiME. ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ 01 Daniel Brandt / hatis noit - Paradise O.D. 06:03 ████ ████ 02 Anne Mueller - Lucid 06:07 ████ ████ 03 Anne Mueller - Addicted 00:56 ████ ████ 04 Daniel Brandt - Steady 05:19 ████ ████ 05 Anne Mueller - Soft Rains 03:06 ████ ████ 06 Anne Mueller - Resistance 06:37 ████ ████ 07 Daniel Brandt - PNK 06:15 ████ ████ 08 Anne Mueller - Persistence 05:05 ████ ████ 09 Anne Mueller - Nothing to Undo 04:53 ████ ████ ∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙∙ ████ ████ TOTAL: 44:21 ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. R E L E A S E N O T E S .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ ██████▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██████ █████▀ ▀█████ ████▀ ▀████ ███▀ ▀███ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ █▓▓▓▓ ▓▓▓▓█ ████ https://play.qobuz.com/album/q7ro9hvqraygb ████ ████ ████ ████ The Doomsday Clock currently sits at 90 seconds ████ ████ to midnight, the closest the big hand and the ████ ████ little hand have come to signalling our total ████ ████ destruction since the conceptual chronograph ████ ████ was incepted back in 1947. If weÆre dancing on ████ ████ the brink then we might as well make sure that ████ ████ the music is great. Step forward Daniel Brandt, ████ ████ of lauded German electroacoustic outfit Brandt ████ ████ Brauer Frick, who leads the apocalyptic rave ████ ████ with his third solo album Without Us, released ████ ████ March 21 via Erased Tapes. ████ ████ ████ ████ On top of the music, Without Us is a multimedia ████ ████ event that clashes head on with the spiralling ████ ████ chaos of our times, trying to make sense of the ████ ████ world as it unravels. These are big themes for ████ ████ a full-blooded and forceful record full of ████ ████ rhythmic propulsion, though sometimes itÆs the ████ ████ tiny details that help us to see the bigger ████ ████ picture. Indeed, the spark for Without Us ████ ████ ignited in a supermarket when Brandt was ████ ████ innocuously going about the weekly shop in ████ ████ 2020. ████ ████ ████ ████ ôThe idea for this project began with a small ████ ████ but unsettling experience in South London,ö he ████ ████ remembers. ôI was looking to buy a single ████ ████ avocado, but every store I went into only ████ ████ seemed to offer them in plastic wrapping, ████ ████ packed in pairs with a little cardboard base. I ████ ████ remember thinking: æbut the avocado already ████ ████ comes in its own perfect packaging? And I only ████ ████ want one.Æ It struck me as absurd that, despite ████ ████ our awareness of the damage plastic causes, ████ ████ unnecessary packaging like this still ████ ████ persists.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ The scenario turned into a farrago - Brandt ████ ████ went from store to store discovering the same ████ ████ nightmare in every shop where every avocado was ████ ████ wrapped in superfluous packaging: ôAs a touring ████ ████ musician, maybe I have to admit my own carbon ████ ████ footprint is questionable,ö he admits, ôbut ████ ████ itÆs countries and corporations that need to ████ ████ quit with the half measures that avail the ████ ████ planet nothing, usually under pressure from ████ ████ powerful, short-termist lobbying groups.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ He continues: ôWithout Us is about the ████ ████ helplessness of the individual in the climate ████ ████ crisis and the apparent need to take radical ████ ████ global action to change the trajectory of the ████ ████ current threat of a climate disaster. ItÆs ████ ████ about the despair and inability to be able to ████ ████ properly contribute to change as an individual, ████ ████ even though the general idea is that everybody ████ ████ can play their part. But this part that each ████ ████ individual is supposed to take responsibility ████ ████ for is so small compared to the scale of what ████ ████ is needed. The responsibility must not be with ████ ████ the individual when weÆre suffering from ████ ████ decisions by global corporations aiming to get ████ ████ rich quick.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ If South London provided the impetus then it ████ ████ was the Joshua Tree in California where the ████ ████ record began to take shape against a mise-en- ████ ████ scene of staggering vistas and eerie quiet. ████ ████ Brandt spent the week recording mostly ████ ████ percussion with barely anyone around, and that ████ ████ feeling of deserted landscapes and unspoiled ████ ████ natural beauty translated itself throughout the ████ ████ rest of the process back at home in Hackney ████ ████ Wick, London and the studio in Neukoelln, ████ ████ Berlin, where he completed the album. ████ ████ ████ ████ ôI really enjoy going to places that are remote ████ ████ when I start making stuff,ö he says, ôand so I ████ ████ hired this shack in the middle of nowhere with ████ ████ this beautiful view of crazy scenery. You could ████ ████ call it cinematic, and it definitely influenced ████ ████ the way I made the music, but thereÆs also a ████ ████ sense of sadness in a place like Joshua Tree ████ ████ that the joshua trees themselves wonÆt be able ████ ████ to survive when the earth heats up.ö ████ ████ ████ ████ That feeling is evoked in the album opener ████ ████ æParadise O.D.Æ, featuring Japanese voice ████ ████ artist Hatis Noit, which begins with the sound ████ ████ of ominous synths liquefying in the heat, ████ ████ followed by urgent, metronomic percussion, ████ ████ counting down as though Father Time himself is ████ ████ looking impatiently at his watch. The kinetic ████ ████ energy that infuses the album, burning like ████ ████ fossil fuel, barely lets up: from the melted ████ ████ mellotron-like weirdness of æLucidÆ to the ████ ████ shuffling, skittering mayhem of æPNKÆ; the ████ ████ four-to-the-floor tension of æResistanceÆ to ████ ████ the hand-drum hypnotic experience of æSteadyÆ, ████ ████ and the final reckoning of æNothing To UndoÆ, ████ ████ the sonic equivalent of the ultimate season ████ ████ finale (whether the show gets cancelled or not ████ ████ is still in the balance). ████ ████ ████ ████ To help us visualise, Brandt has even made a 20 ████ ████ minute film of the same name with Anthony ████ ████ Dickenson, shot in the searing heat of Athens ████ ████ in 2023, a microcosmic reflection of climate ████ ████ chaos, offering extreme solutions and a large ████ ████ helping of hyperbole. ████ ████ ████ ████ Brandt, as you might have gathered, isnÆt on ████ ████ this mission alone: Anne Mueller brings staccato ████ ████ cello bass to æAddictedÆ and more thorough ████ ████ strokes throughout; French multi- ████ ████ instrumentalist Akusmi aka Pascal Bideau ████ ████ interjects arpeggios that teeter on the edge, ████ ████ and Florian JunckerÆs manipulated trombones ████ ████ bring sinister shadows to sprawling ████ ████ soundscapes. ████ ████ ████ ████ Without Us feels like BrandtÆs most focused and ████ ████ expedient offering to date: Bideau and Junker ████ ████ both played on the brighter, Steve Reich- ████ ████ inspired Channels from 2018, while BrandtÆs ████ ████ celebrated 2017 debut Eternal Something had ████ ████ started out as ôa cymbals albumö that developed ████ ████ into something else when he discovered Ryoji ████ ████ Ikeda was making 100 Cymbals at the same time. ████ ████ If he didnÆt get to join the niche drum album ████ ████ club alongside artists like Babatunde Olatunji, ████ ████ Tito Puentes, Dave Lombardo and Jim White, then ████ ████ rhythm itself is always front and centre of ████ ████ what he does. ████ ████ ████ ████ Without Us the full projectùalbum, film, and ████ ████ live performanceùwill premiere as an immersive ████ ████ experience at Barbican Hall in London on April ████ ████ 24th, 2025 (tickets). The event will combine ████ ████ live music, the film and an ôapocalyptic raveö ████ ████ where weÆll be able to explore our collective ████ ████ anxieties in a multi-dimensional way. ItÆs time ████ ████ to mobilise, and hope against hope that the ████ ████ Doomsday Clock knows how to move in an anti- ████ ████ clockwise direction. ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ████ ▄▀▀███▓▄ ▄▓███▀▀▄ ████ ████ ■ ███▓█ .···. G R O U P .···. █▓███ ■ ████ ████ · ▄▓███▓ ▓███▓▄ · ████ █████ ▄▄▓█▀▀▀│ ▓ MAiL: [email protected] ▓ │▀▀▀█▓▄▄ █████ █▀ ▀██▓▀ ▀ ▀ ▀▓██▀ ▀█ ██▄██▀ ▀██▄██ ████▀ The only thing that really matters is music!!! ▀████ ▀██▓ ▓██▀ ▀██▓▄ ▄▓██▀ .▀ │ ▀▀██▄▓▄ .···. G R E E T S .···. ▄▓▄██▀▀ │ ▀ . ▄▓▓▄ │ ▀▀▀█▄▄ ▄▄█▀▀▀ │ ▄▓▓▄ . ▀▀ ▀▀▄ FRiENDS / SiTEOPS / NUKENET ▄▀▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄ ▄▓▓▄ ▀▄ RIP kHz ▄▀ ▄▓▓▄ ▄ . ▀ ▀ ▀▓▀ ▀▀ ▀ . ▄.···. !kb^faa 08.MARCH 2009 .···.▄ . ▀ ▀▀ ▀▓▀ ▀ .