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The Men Who Lost Their Heads Are Here!

mock — Sat, 11 Sep 2021 13:12:47 +0000

Finally, we released our new album Men Who Lost Their Heads. The album features 18 tracks, including our latest singes Lizard People, Betörve, Samesjwaering Onger Idiote and A Stronger Climate.

Created under lockdown conditions we made consistent and pandemic-related use of the digital possibilities of contactless music-making – together and yet separately, social but with distancing, virus-proof and yet highly infectious.

The idea was to create an album about conspiracy theories and paranoia that spread with the Covid pandemic. The guest vocalists include Léda Szemerédi, Mark Daelmans-Sikkel, Bernd Geiling, Thanatoloop and Ümit Kaya. Special thanks go to Levente Dudás for recording some of the vocals at his N/O/E/W/A Creative Music Studio.

We released the album as a deluxe 6-panel digipak CD and to the usual streaming services. There also is a limited edition CD with a special cover created by Sonja Ackermann.

To find out more, please visit our music page.

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One Minute of mockART

mock — Wed, 25 Nov 2020 09:25:29 +0000

A new mockART track was released on a compilation One Minute Compositions. The track is called Ropa de fibra sintética. As the title of the compilation suggestions, is is exactly one minute long. The disc features 38 artists and we all got exactly one minute for our compositions.

You can download the album from AEMC Records on Bandcamp.

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A New mockART track is featured on the compilation Communal Music Vol. 7

mock — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 13:05:14 +0000

mockART recorded a new track called Kulman Takana for the compilation Communal Music Vol. 7 by AEMC Records. The album also features a track by Mark Daelmans-Sikkel who has contributed some vocals for the forthcoming mockART album Men Who Lost Their Heads. In total the compilation features 19 tracks by various artists who experiment with music. For this album each musician had to contribute two samples and all the music was composed by working with the collection of these samples. AEMC describes the process as follows:

This album is part of the Communal Music series. AEMC created this ongoing experiment as an exploration of the usage of audio sources, the methodology of experimental ambient composers and sound in general.
Beforehand, each composer contributed audio – recorded instruments, field recordings, analog synthesizers, etc – resulting in a collective sample pack. The composers then had to translate this audio material to a musical composition. They weren’t allowed to add anything, so each composition is made with the same audio material.
It is striking to hear how the audio is interpreted, used and contextualized differently by the individual composers and how diverse and unique the compositions are. This clarifies the agency of the creators: they – not the audio – make the music. On the other hand, the audio sources demarcate a certain musical terrain, similar as to the limits of an acoustic instrument.
Above all, the Communal Music series is a celebration of experimental music and the collaboration between – often underappreciated – artists.

You can download the album from AEMC Records on Bandcamp.

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