Dopplereffekt Eonfield 12", Der Zyklus s/t 12" re-press, Arpanet remix and more

There is a new two track Dopplereffekt 12" called Eonfield released on 26th June on the Skynet Cybersonix label (run by Robotron). You can listen to samples of 'Twilight Realm' and 'Limit Zero' and pre-order at this Juno link or Bandcamp. Limited to 200 copies.

There is a new Arpanet remix on the upcoming Shawescape Renegade 12" EP,  Exoframe, on Tresor Berlin. Shawescape Renegade  is producer and DJ from Detroit, Bandcamp here.

The self-titled Der Zyklus 12" EP, is for the first time being reissued on Clone Records' Aqualung label. It features four tracks from Der Zyklus I (1998) and II (2001). This package was first released by Frustrated Funk in 2006 and was last re-pressed by them in 2015 so a re-press is just about due for new and even some old fans. Bandcamp

In case you missed it, Der Zylkus' Truth Matrix 12" is out now on Bandcamp and elsewhere.

Currently Dopplereffekt have upcoming shows in Amsterdam, Belgium, Austria and a return to the US for shows in New York, Chicago and Philadelphia. Details for all here.

T.R.I.N.I.T.Y. Remixed (2006) by Cisco Ferreira/The Advent is now on the Tresor Bandcamp in digital. It includes the classic Heinrich Mueller remodel of 'Woman's Scent' along with remixes by Adam Beyer, Hertz and Chris Liebing. 

You can watch the entire set from Dopplereffekt's recent show at the Encore Room, Kansas City,  Missouri (22nd May) on this YouTube channel.

The excellent Aphex Twin archive Lanner Chronicle sent me a link for an interview with Japan's Remix magazine where Richard D James talks about releasing Transllusion's L.I.F.E. on Rephlex and very interestingly planning to meet Gerald Donald in London (about early 2003) to discuss the possibility of bringing back Drexciya. 

This might have been his own dream as he was a major fan but his label Rephlex did release Arpanet's Quantum Transposition two years later. Read the full interview at link.

"...I really like Detroit stuff, like the work of Jeff Mills and Underground Resistance, and also James Stinson of Drexciya recently passed away, and I think it’s really sad for us to have lost one of the greatest acts in Detroit. Right after James Stinson died, we released his second album under the name Transllusion called “L.I.F.E.” on Rephlex....It’s so dark and ominous, yet so captivating. I didn’t get it at all when I first heard it, but now I really, really like it. I’m currently in contact with Gerald Donald, one of the founding members of Drexciya, who now does Dopplereffekt and Der Zyklus. So, we’re trying to revive them and keep its original name...I’ll be meeting Gerald in London next week and we’ll spend some time together, so I think he’ll be able to make a decision then.” 

Takeshi Natsuno, the inventor of the I-Mode mobile phone by NTT Do Co Mo is interviewed in this BBC Archive video first broadcast on The Money Programme in Feb 2000 (over two years before Arpanet's Wireless Internet album was released). This was the very early days of wireless internet technology and they really did not know if it would ever be popular to go online through your phone. (11 mins)

I came across 'Let Me Be Me' (1993) by Davina Bussey and yes, it shares the same name as the song by The Other People Place. It is a really nice track too, I wonder if James Stinson was referring to it? (listen here). Davina worked with Mad Mike Banks of UR in 1992 on the classic 'Don't You Want It?'. She has plenty of her own music too and is still making it today. 

I wonder if Drexciya were referencing the Canadian aqua themed TV series Danger Bay (1984-1990) with their track of the same name on Bubble Metropolis EP (1993)? I'm sure they could have watched it from nearby Detroit, I'd love to think they were fans when they were young. Read more about it here.