Monday, August 02, 2010

YOU LACK DISCIPLINE!

Yeah, you might really do... This one just came in today and I need to share this with you. Feel free to hotlink this infamous and fresh REMIX by cologne funkmaster OLIVER BRAUN aka BEIGE of the even more hellish original YOU LACK DISCIPLINE by JOHN CALLAGHAN and HYPNOTIQUE. This violent little tune is to be released on the 24th of september 2010 on Serve and Destroy via iTunes, Beatport, Juno, Zero-Inch and you name it... John and Susi (Hypnotique) will tour Germany for this very reason, so watch-out if their hitting your favourite club in town, they'll sure kick out some stones from our beloved DOME, at least that's what I am paying them for. Click on the Blog-Title if you want to see the splendid video and hear the original track...

JOHN CALLAGHAN & HYPNOTIQUE - "You Lack Discipline" BEIGE RMX by SERVEANDDESTROY

You will find the official RELEASE-PARTY info right here: http://tiny.cc/ixqz8 - You shouldn't miss this one if you are near Cologne at this very date of the year, 'cause the line-up is nasty: LIVE: JOHN CALLAGHAN [Uncharted Audio, Warp], HYPNOTIQUE [Lunette, Flying Charts] /// DJs: EDDA [Slaughterdish], TELEKOLLECK [Propellor knights], BOB HUMID [Serve & Destroy] /// VJ: PARAPHRENALIA [Serve & Destroy]

Wednesday, July 14, 2010

Bob Humid "How Many Fingers" - LIVE at Eclectic Electric, Leipzig

This is a jammed live-version of "How Many Fingers?", taken from my album SECOND WIND PHENOMENON that I played on the spectacular "Electric Eclectic / Phantomnoise Records & Suburban Trash Industries LABELNIGHT" on the 12th of May in 2007. The gig took place in the impressive Moritzbastei in Leipzig, a wide ancient cellar that was re-discovered in the early 1970ies. IMO one of the most spectacular places in Germany to perform as an artist.

The track was jammed live with a YAMAHA RS7000 only while the intro consisted of the hyped and pumped-up noise hiss of the analogue mixer that ran through a chain of ALESIS MOD/FX (bitrman -> philtre -> smashup) units. The hiss suddenly appeared at the sound-check stage, so I spontanously decided to use it. Thanx to Klang Sergej for the awesome introduction and announcement. Best one so far. ;-)

Bob Humid "How Many Fingers" - LIVE@Eclectic Electric, Leipzig by SERVEANDDESTROY

Friday, July 09, 2010

Bob Humid - Phaenomenologie by SERVEANDDESTROY

This is my contribution to the current heatwave. "Phänomenologie" is one of this rare tracks that obviosuly come out of unconscious sources and have their own quality of timelessness. As a musician it gives you the feeling that you where not envolved in the process, as if it came through the window and went right in to the machines. If I listen to it now I notice that it resembles the spirit of today's Dubstep but with very supressed Beats (actually the PCF-Filter of ReBirth 2). So, open your windows and play this (duh) "summertune" to your neighbours at full volume. They won't stop you since they might not be able to move their bodies in this bloody heat... 
[the person who can tell me from which movie this image above is, wins a free MP3 "Deconcentration Now Begun..." Sampler, where "Phänomenologie" was featured first]

Bob Humid - Phaenomenologie by SERVEANDDESTROY

Tuesday, June 08, 2010

Building The Benjolin - D.I.Y. Synthmaking [Workshops on Tour]

ENGLISH:
On to Cottbus! FAT OF EXCELLENCE private audio class is on tour in June. Two new Workshopdates envolving the topics D.I.Y.-Synhmaking [JOKER NIES, ROB HORDIJK] and Labelmanagement [BOB HUMID] are taking place during DISCO FATALE [Club: MUGGEFUG], an Electronic Music Festival in Cottbus, Germany on the 25-27th of June. Additionally to the Workshopprogramm I will drop a mad eclectic Electro-Liveset on the 26th. Be there and be squarewaved, oscillated and distorted. /.-)


DEUTSCH:
Ab nach COTTBUS! FAT OF EXCELLENCE private audio class geht im Juni ein wenig auf Tour. Zwei neue Workshoptermine zu den Themen D.I.Y-Synthmaking [JOKER NIES, ROB HORDIJK] und Labelmanagement [BOB HUMID] finden am 27.JUNI im Rahmen des Elektronikfestivals DISCO FATALE im Cottbusser Club MUGGEFUG statt. Zusätzlich zum Workshopprogramm versprecdhe ich am Samstag, den zweiten Festivaltag, ein fulminates Electrostep-Liveset zum besten zu geben. Be there and be squarewaved, oscillated and distorted. /.-)

Friday, April 16, 2010

OUT ON 14th of MAY: "Fossile" by twila.too with remixes by Mathias Schaffhaeuser, Bob Humid, Kitbuilders, TLO & Audio Pervert

When twila.too and my studio-partner Numinos came up with this new collaboration earlier this year, I was pretty surprised by what I was hearing. As managing a rather experimental freeform Label I was listening to an incredible catchy and melancholic little pop-pearl that can simply be described as the perfect summer tune. The Original Mix is a blend of sweet and cleverly produced Electronic Pop with a strong french touch and an extremely deep and personal lyric work by twila.too that adds a serious and sad tone to an otherwise very catchy and airy dance tune, which, I don't dare to say, has a rather radio-friendly structure. To compensate for so much mass-appeal (sorry, by the way) we added a bunch of deep remixes by well-known electronic underground protagonists: Mathias Schaffhäuser, The Lethal Oscillators, Kitbuilders and Me (Bob Humid) have all been inspried by twila.too's work with very different results and artisitic impact.



To round up this release we added a wild Remix of twila.too's "Those Eyes" by one of the most talented indian newcomers from the electronic field, Audio Pervert's Sawtooth Remix is one of those tracks that you will love to play out loud on a large PA ... Enjoy!

Bob Humid

Label Manager from Serve & Destroy Records, Cologne in April 2010

Monday, February 22, 2010

PROPELLOR KNIGHTS - a new eclectica allnighter in cologne -


- a serve & destroy records allnighter - hosted by bob humid

from harsh experiments to electronic extravaganza, glamourous dance kicks and way beyond...
jump on our newsletter for further [k]nights:

LIVE:
ALL OF ORLOV [duelle & duette]
http://www.alloforlov.com

ERNEST DRAKE (Soulplex, Drake Rec.)
feat. twila.too (Serve & Destroy)
http://www.myspace.com/ernestdrake

DJs:
EDDA (who killed bambi? / slaughterdish)
http://www.myspace.com/nothingnatural
http://www.myspace.com/bambipop

TELEKOLLECK (slaughterdish / britis©he botschaft)
http://www.myspace.com/telekolleck

BOB HUMID (serve & destroy / slaughterdiush / britis©he botschaft)
http://myspace.com/bobhumid
http://bobhumid.de

VJs:
lleuchtmittell
http://www.youtube.com/user/lleuchtmittell#p/a/u/1/ID10IRmwlIg


caprice 2

Robert Vater | MySpace Music Videos


INFO:
Ist das zu fassen? Köln bekommt mit "Propellor Knights" endlich eine neue aktivistische Bühne für experimentellen Sound, komplexe Beats und Unangepasstes jenseits der etablierten und plattgewalzten Minimalpfade oder überhypten Mainstream-Club-Trends, und das an jedem 2ten Freitag im Monat. Bob Humid, der den kölnern Elektronik-Afficionados längstens als Gegenkraft zu den vielen in Gemütlichkeit und Eingleisigkeit gefangenen kölner Ravekulturkräften gilt, ist der Host des Abends und wird persönlich die schwarzen Perlen aus der internationalen Freestyle- und Experimentalszene aus dem elektrischen Hut zaubern. Mit seinem Label SERVE & DESTROY baut er seit einiger Zeit nämlich wieder lustvoll am Renegatenimage...

Die große Eröffnung findet am 12.März 2010 in den suburbanen Clubräumen der frisch renovierten und neuen Location LICHTUNG (ehemaliges ALL AREA, aber unter viel freundlicherer Leitung) mitten im Herzen der kölner Südstadt, statt. Das Line-Up ist confirmed und markiert ein musikalisches Breitbandspektrum zwischen Wagnis und Glamour:



LIVE
[ab 22h]:

ALL OF ORLOV (Robert Vater & Volker Hennes) verstehen sich als "Ensemble für übergreifende Musik" und definieren ihren Sound treffenderweise als "Duette und Duelle". Ein fulminanter Dialog zwischen Komposition, Improvisation, Live-Elektronik und Performance, der wenig verklemmt-nerdhaftes, dafür viel Leidenschaft in den akustischen Raum strahlt.

Mit ERNEST DRAKE, dem musikalischen Aushängeschild unseres Helden Dj Phoney, der auch als Betreiber des kleinen, aber geschmackssicheren Mülheimer Plattenladens DRAKE RECORDS den Kampf des leidenschaftlichen Musikliebhabers kämpft, geht es weiter in der Nacht. Stimmlich begleitet wird er von der Belgierin twila.too, die auf Bob Humid's Label SERVE & DESTROY unlängst ihr komplexes und emotional forderndes Debutalbum "Crossed Lines" veröffentlicht hat. Schwer zu kategorisieren: Postpunk? EklektoClash? Who cares. Its loud! - New 12" E.P. out in April 2010 [feat. co-production & mastering by Bob Humid] -

DJs
[ab 00h - open end]:

Danach geht es modernistisch-abstrakt, aber vehement und zwingend tanzbar mit den DJs weiter: EDDA, von der legendären WHO KILLED BAMBI?-Crew, und Protagonistin der neuen kölner SLAUGHTERDISH-Reihe (zuletzt in der Kolbhalle), is in the House und wird ihre sehr persönliche Vision von Frenetik gemeinsam mit den Zeremonien-Altmeistern und PROPELLOR KNIGHTS Residents TELEKOLLECK und BOB HUMID abfackeln. Zwischen Nu Disco Mayhem, klassischen IDM-Tunes, exotischen Club-Remixen, aktuellen Dubstep-Monstren, nostalgischen Electro Boogie Tunes oder allerlei angebreaktem Clubschiebern, ist immer noch Platz für Idealismus. Minimal ist überall - nur nicht hier...

VJs:
Dynamisch dekoriert und mit einer weiteren poetischen Metaebene versehen, wird der Allnighter von den selten zu bewundernden, aber exzellenten VJ-Kräften der kölner Gruppe lleuchtmittell. Macht einfach die Augen auf!

PROPELLOR KNIGHTS - a serve & destroy allnighter
FR 12. März 2010
Ort: Lichtung, Ubierring 13, Köln
Einlaß: 21h - Konzertbeginn: 22h (pünktlich!)

'nuff said.