Al Chem, Weird Fiction  
Al Chem
Weird Fiction
GBR 1xLP 
Label: Art Yard
Release Year: 2017
Style: Techno, Tekhouse
 
  Tracks  
  1 No Hopper
2 Prophet
3 The Red Tower
4 Baudelaire
5 No Hopper (instrumental
6 Ladder Of Perfection
 
  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
 
      Wish List  
  Price: CHF 28.00   Currently not on stock!
Please check back later or call us for more information:
+41 (0)43 322 02 04
 
  Releases of the same artist  
  No items found ..  
  Releases of the same label  
  Sun Ra, Space Aura  
Sun Ra
Space Aura
[Art Yard]
GBR 10inch  Wish List
CHF 25.00 Restocking!
 
Benjamin Booker
Lower
[Fire Next Time]
Breakfast Mood
Will He Show His Face / Longing For You
[Onecamp]
Charif Megarbane
Hawalat
[Habibi Funk]
Chrissy Zebby Tembo & Ngozy Family
I'm Not Made Of Iron
[Now Again]
Craig Mack
Project: Funk Da World (RSD 25)
[Get On Down]
DJ Koze
Music Can Hear Us
[Pampa]
E.S.G.
Ocean Of Funk
[Armabillion Recordz, RRC Music C]
E.S.G.
Sailin' Da South
[Armabillion Recordz, RRC Music C]
Flying Lotus
Spirit Box
[Warp]
Gianni Brezzo
Sprechiamo!
[Jakarta Records]
Gimisum Family
Gimisum Family (RSD 25)
[Now Again]
Gūsū
The Ending Was A Typical Part
[Subject To Restrictions Discs]
Heem B$F
Bars & Noble
[RRC Music Co.]
Jae Skeese & Superior
Testament Of The Times
[RRC Music Co.]
Johnny Hawksworth
Bite Hard
[Music De Wolfe]
Junior Scaife And The Penrose Scholars
Nobody Gets My Love / Too Much Too Son
[Penrose]
Krysl
Mach Keis Büro Uf
[Cosmic Turn]
Michaelangelo
No Face, No Case
[RRC Music Co.]
Obijuan x Giallo Point
Mystery Merxhant
[RRC Music Co.]
Okonski
Entrance Music
[Colemine Records]
Ray Lozano
SILK&SORROW
[Melting Pot]
Raz Fresco
Pocket Operations
[RRC Music Co.]
Sister Nancy
One, Two (Colour Vinyl RSD 2025)
[VP Records]
Smif-n-Wessun
Infinity
[Duck Down Records]
V/A
Horse Meat Disco Presents Disco & Boogie From Brazil Vol. 1
[Mr Bongo]
VDon x Willie The Kid
Deutsche Marks 4
[RRC Music Co.]
  1. A Thin Man
JT002
 
  2. Carmike
Comin' At Yo Ass
 
  3. Doechii
Alligator Bites Never Heal
 
  4. Fleetwood Mac
Rumours
 
  5. Kutmah
Sacred Conversations
 
  6. Nas
Illmatic
 
  7. The Altons
Heartache In Room 14
 
  8. VDon x Willie The Kid
Deutsche Marks 4
 
  9. Annie And The Caldwells
Can't Loose My (Soul)
 
  10. Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers
Another Taste Reworks