BRANDT BRAUER FRICK

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Brand Bauer Frick has no time for cultural pessimism. These three guys are way too busy actualizing their own unique vision of purely acoustic dance music that sounds as if you created a common denominator for Steve Reich and Theo Parrish (Groove Magazin). It makes sense that you Make Me Real is the name of their debut LP a dialogue between work and artist, a thank-you to the comrades-in-arms, a declaration of love to the listener. And a bow before the spiritual fathers.

Using the tonal richness of classical instruments to play techno feels very natural for us, one can say that out music has grown organically out of our backgrounds. We had felt for years that most instances of combining techno and classical music lack an authentic approach. Instead of using only the typical epic orchestra or piano sounds, we love to explore the dirty and percussive side of those instruments, adapting techniques from composers like John Cage or Helmut Lachernmann: preparing our piano with screws and rubbers, knocking against every single part of the instrument, until we find one great sound.

Whereas Daniel Brandt and Jan Brauer had already met in the Jazz Band of their school and later founded the project Scott playing jazz-influenced club music, Paul Frick had studied classical composition with Friedrich Goldmann at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). When the three met in 2008, they discovered quickly that they should make music together. After releasing EPs on Tartelet Records and their self-founded labels Doppelschall and The Gym, their debut album You Make Me Real on !K7 is most intense manifestation of their unique chemistry so far.