Extrawelt - Schöne Neue Extrawelt on Cocoon
Extrawelt´s “Schöne Neue Extrawelt” is their debut album on Sven Vath´s Cocoon Recordings released on October 10, 2008.
“It´s all about hooking up our music to the emotional world of electronic music at the beginning of the Nineties, however, without falling for nostalgic references. We don´t want to do cowardly Zeitgeist Techno, we want to have the heart to dare big sounds and more melodies. Sunrise scenarios, energy, revolution and kaput-ness, all these are part of the Extrawelt.” (Extrawelt 2008)
However, don´t panic: even if the aesthetics of the debut album of the two Hamburg born artists Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe is affected by the attentive observation of electronic dance music over the last fifteen years, the “Schöne Neue Extrawelt” is above all this: Premium Techno 2008! The Hamburg-based producer team has been unmistakably imprinting the last three years club sound with widely noticed releases on Border Community ("Sooper Track"), Traum Schallplatten ("Doch Doch") and Cocoon Recordings ("Titelheld") as well as with remixes for Gregor Tresher, Minilogue or Alexander Kowalski - last but not least due to an excellent live presence, that resulted in the second rank in the Groove Live Act Charts, even still without the accompanying long player.
The work on “Schöne Neue Extrawelt” started more than two years ago for Schaffhausen and Raabe. “The initial idea was to present an album covering all styles of electronic music between Ambient, Breakbeats and Techno. When we had 25 tracks for the album ready, we had to realize that this approach did not work for us. Insofar, we finally decided to use the 4/4 bass drum in all tracks except in the little intermezzo “Kurt Curtain”. We have tested all tracks live over the last three month and constantly re-interpreted them. So the danceability is clear in our focus, but the sound spectrum and the dramaturgy of the titles should not be solely functioning in the club. Our intention was definitely not to deliver an album full of superficial peak time hits.”
Tracklisting:
CD
01. One Tree Hill
02. Darkside Of My Room
03. Wippsteert
04. Messy Machinery
05. Must Attack
06. Trümmerfeld
07. Wolkenbruch
08. Added Planet
09. Kurt Curtain (Skit)
10. Daten Raten
11. Lost in Willaura
12. Homing
DOUBLE VINYL
A1: Darkside Of My Room
A2: Wippsteert
B1: Trümmerfeld
B2: Must Attack
C1: Wolkenbruch
C2: Added Planet
D1: Daten Raten
D2: Lost in Willaura
D3. Kurt Curtain (Skit)
