Mikrovolt — I
CASETTE + DIGITAL
CATALOG UR104 — Released October 2017
Recorded and produced by Veit König in Cologne, 2011-2017.
Mastered by Felix-Florian Tödtloff at Ætherweight in Berlin.
Artwork by Daniel Castrejon.
TRACKLIST / 67 minutes
01 Perpetuum Mobile
02 Systemfehler
03 Prim
04 Gleichstromversatz
05 Pneumatik
06 Smog
07 Stromung
08 Biturbo
09 Grotte
CASSETTE — SOLD OUT
DIGITAL FORMATS ︎︎︎ BANDCAMP
DIGITAL FORMATS ︎︎︎ BANDCAMP
Hailing from Cologne, Mikrovolt is the nom de plume of music journalist and radio author Veit König. Recorded sporadically over the last six years, his first release I is the culmination of a hitherto undocumented musical journey. König has always made music for the last two decades, initially starting more pop-oriented before heading into a space disco direction, ultimately arriving at the retro-robotic synthesizer kraut of Mikrovolt’s I. Assembled in his DAW from a host of vintage organ, mellotron, drum machine, and rhythm loop samples, König stays true to this music’s cybertronic roots, locking into epic robotic pulses that sprawl into futuristic jams. König colors the synthetic palette with guitar, harmonica, or other percussion when necessary, but it’s his dab-hand for driving grooves that defines the music here. While the influence of classic German acts like Neu!, Cluster or Kraftwerk is discernible, Mikrovolt’s sprawling minimalist grooves owe just as much to composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass, Italian horror movie soundtracks and the era of techno and electronica in which he grew up.
New album by Mokrovolt “III”, available to stream here at apple or spotify.
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