Latest Clone Reissues, Dopplereffekt live and more

Clone have a slew of new reissues available, including  a 'Colored Marbled Limited' 12' re-press of Sunday Night Live At The Laptop Cafe by The Other People Place, a re-press of Drexciya's 'Black Sea'/'Wavejumper'a blue double vinyl of Lab rat XL, regular black double vinyl of Abstract Thought's a;bum. Check out their main site and Bandcamp pages. 

You can hear an audio preview here of the new Dopplereffekt remix of 'Fear of Programming' by Marcell Dettmann. The 12" of remixes will be available from 14th Feb on Dekmantel.

Dopplereffekt are on the bill for Jazz is Dead! festival in Torino, Italy  on 30-31st May. Also, 20 Years of Dave Clarke Presents at Melkweg, Amsterdam features Dopplereffekt and many more, Fri 24th October.

The recent Dopplereffekt Quantum Paradox EP can now be listened to in full on YouTube on the 'Dopplereffekt - Topic' channel. 

The NFT (plus one-off gold plated 12") version of this EP did sell. I know this wasn't everybody's favourite thing for Dopplereffekt to do. I personally didn't mind but I'm very glad it was easy to get the actual music and photographs etc so that it wasn't a fully exclusive thing. 

In the NFT text, the possibility of future NFT releases like this was raised so hopefully there is more unreleased music and things from their archive to come. Perhaps it might even all manifest as a physical archival release in the future.

'No home is complete without at least one Drexciya album, so why not make it three?'

For those new to the world of Drexciya, there is a three album bundle offer (plus an additional 10% off) over at Bleep. You can pick your own combination and include albums by Drexciya, Elecktroids, Japanese Telecom, Arpanet, Der Zyklus, NRSB-11, Shifted Phases, Transllusion, The Other People Place and other related releases still currently in press.

"When they (Drexciya) eventually came down for an interview (BMG's Crush Collision radio show), we ran James’ voice through some processing, and Gerald showed up with his face painted half white, half black like that episode on the original Star Trek."

-BMG of Ectomorph in a Drexciya tribute he wrote in 2012. I found the episode of Star Trek in question, Let That Be Your Last Battlefield (1969). The story had a racial theme with the two guest characters hating each other as they were black and white on opposite sides but came from the same planet. 

'Spock's comment that "Change is the essential process of all existence" remains one of the most memorable lines of dialogue ever uttered on Star Trek.' This makes me think of a possible interpretation/context for Drexciya's message, 'Don't Be Afraid of Evolution'.  

Adam X has delivered another brilliant Sonic Groove podcast, this time he interviews Daniel Bell. The whole thing is worth a listen but there's a cool story around 40 mins about Daniel showing Adam around Detroit in the mid '90s and bringing him to Buy-Rite where he recommended him getting the Glass Domain 12" (the original pressing, which was still in stock there after about four years). 

There is plenty more about living in and the club life of Detroit, Frankfurt and Berlin and obviously they cover his own life and career (a real education, like eavesdropping on the best conversation). 

He mentions his 7th City Distribution company (1994-'98) but while he doesn't go into it here, I've linked a previous quote in comments where he talked about pressing and distributing all the Dopplereffekt records on Dataphysix.

The Wonky Angle have been reviewing albums by Drexciya, and Dopplereffekt, check out their channel to find these videos. 

One of my readers kindly sent me this review of The Quest from September 1997 issue of Muzik by Tim Barr. I haven't shared it here before.