Published
Thu, Oct 11, 2007, 00:22
- Tobias Freund and Max Loderbauer move away from the dancefloor with an album of piano drone music on Sähkö this month.
NSI move away from the dancefloor to release a full album of piano drone music on Sähkö this month.
NSI is a collaboration between Berlin sound engineers Max Loderbauer (Sun Electric) and Tobias Freund (Pink Elln, Sieg Ûber Die Sonne), both prominent techno producers whose careers date back the mid-1980s. Their previous records as NSI were perhaps the most experimental on Luciano's Cadenza label - and that's saying something - both 'Max Binski' (2005) and 'Clara Ghavami Extended' (2006) combined dance beats with ghostly effects to unusual effect.
Now NSI move even further from the floor with a minimalist/ambient album on classic Finnish label Sähkö. Recorded over a two-year period in Berlin, 'Plays Non Standards' is twenty-three nameless tracks based on the sounds of a grand piano played by Loderbauer, which are then "treated" by Freund with the help of vintage Roland DEP 5 and TR 808 machines. Mistakes and all. You can check out the ghostly results over at Sähkö.
'Plays Non Standards' by NSI is out now on Sähkö Recordings.