Goldmann vs. Fennesz: Remiksz

by Stefan Goldmann

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	1.	Part One 28:29
	2.	Part Two 28:01

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This is a remix of Fennesz's 'Szampler' cassette release, created by Stefan Goldmann by erasing Christian Fennesz's original samples one by one and replacing them with corresponding samples of his own, made between 1999-2010 for his Akai S5000 sampler, in the same sequence. As a result, this cassette contains no sounds whatsoever from Fennesz's original.

While 'Szampler' was a journey through Christian Fennesz's own sample collection, Stefan Goldmann structured his own sound archive around the layout of 'Szampler', replacing it all sound by sound. The result is a dialogue of the sonic atoms that built the works of two of today's foremost electronic artists. And a first ever glimpse behind the curtains – a full anatomy of sound, more revealing than any interview on "how it was done."

Wire Magazine (UK):
Remiksz follows a previous Tapeworm release, Szampler, in which Fennesz stitched together a series of samples from a collection amassed over more than a decade of laptop sound manipulations. Goldmann replaces every single one of Fennesz's samples from that piece, so that the end result consists entirely of his own personally sourced sounds. In this sense it's a remix of Fennesz in the same way that working through Shakespeare's “Sonnet XIX” replacing every word might be a remix. Does this Borgesian exercise leave a trace element of the organising spirit of Fennesz's piece? Is it a meta-comment on the tenuous connection of so many remixes to the original?

What Remiksz is: a series of miniatures, strung together like jewels on a necklace. A high-speed flick through a scrapbook in which speaker-shredding static is succeeded by ghostly absence and then klaxons of distortion. Eight seconds of static; ten seconds of sinister machinoid exhalations.

Experiments begun and discarded by some post-millennial Radiophonic Workshop. A roulette-wheel spin through a radio dial in which most stations are playing musique concrète – but a booming electro groove could click into place at any time. A post-sampling Faust Tape; an utterly absorbing sound world.
[Sam Davies]

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released November 1, 2010

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Stefan Goldmann Berlin, Germany

"STEFAN GOLDMANN’s productions don’t sound like they’re coming from the same universe as practically everything else on the shelves."

(Resident Advisor)