the (v)illage of kptmichigan

JAD FAIR / HIFIKLUB / KPTMICHIGAN = BIRDHOUSE

2012-01-05T08:35:00.002+01:00

a while ago i was asked to jump aboard for a collaborative effort featuring jad fair, hifiklub and obviously myself. what we came up with has now been released twice....
once as a 4 track 7" on the lovely french Les Disques en Rotin Reunis and now it`s seen it`s re-release as a super fancy 5 track 12" on the indianapolis based Joyful Noise.

you can get the 12" here

check out more videos of the tracks here

the whole thing is limited to 300 copies on transparent gold and yellow vinyl. 5 tracks on one side, screenprint based on a paper cutting by jad on the other.

TRUE DÖRENTRUP NU-METAL

2011-12-15T21:34:00.002+01:00

this is sergej sporting his homemade slipknot mask (a pimped plaster cast mask which he made at school)

DAMO SUZUKI AND SOUND CARRIERS

2011-09-22T12:12:00.000+02:00

i`m extremely chuffed to have been invited to partake in the following......

SUPER REVERB VIDEOS

2011-08-03T11:47:00.005+02:00

here are 6 vids to songs off of the new super reverb album.....

SUPER REVERB 2 OUT NOW !!!!!!

2011-06-20T21:13:00.002+02:00

finally......
the second Super Reverb album sees the light of day !!!
get the vinyl here. Check out the pics of the vinyl bellow.
download the free version here (mono mix which was transfered to tape).
listen and buy bellow.

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JAD FAIR / HIFIKLUB / KPTMICHIGAN

2011-05-16T14:04:00.010+02:00

here`s 4 vids by arnaud maguet to a 7" which will be available for a jad fair exhibition at le dojo in nice, some time next month, i think....

POLNISCHE OSTERN : OST BY DIRK DRESSELHAUS

2011-05-10T08:28:00.000+02:00

today we`re releasing Dirk Dresselhaus` ost for the german film Polnische Ostern over at MWM.....check it out bellow.

Polnische Ostern - Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by MirrorWorldMusic

A FEW DAZE AGO IN HILLENTRUP.......

2011-04-29T11:30:00.006+02:00

on friday the 15th of april, belgian freaks The Urpf Lanze, Edgar Wappenhalter and Hellvete played a wonderful set each at the papermill in hillentrup (the house next door, so to say). bellow are excerpts of Urpf`s and Hellvete`s sets......
the vids are courtesy of the groovy el grube.

the following day i set up my yamaha mtx8 (with 4 mics aimed into the room from the corners) in our hallway and with inclusion of kirsten, we kicked (or should i say stubbed) out a few super hungover jams......

The Urpf, Edgar, Hellvete, kpt, Kirsten

KPTMICHIGAN / BLACK STEPDAD OUT NOW

2011-02-14T11:27:00.001+01:00

kptmichigan / black stepdad by MirrorWorldMusic

TUESDAY WELD VIDEOS

2011-02-04T14:56:00.001+01:00

somebody was friendly enough to post these 2 tuesday weld videos on youtube.....
my fave is the one to teenager of the year, probably the cheapest video to ever be shown on t.v.
basically all it cost was postage.

SOMETHING THE CAT DRAGGED IN

2011-01-10T15:53:00.001+01:00

scanned at 600 dpi

BLACK STEPDAD / KPTMICHIGAN SPLIT TAPE

2011-01-09T17:27:00.003+01:00

this one is preperation as a co-op release between the lows and the highs and MWM
check out black stepdad here
you can check out my contribution here

COMING SOON......SUPER REVERB 2

2011-01-03T18:54:00.003+01:00

From a house deep in the North German countryside comes a droning, a plume of smoke hanging over a roof battered by storms. A picturesque stream turns an old mill wheel, its creaking frequently overwhelmed by the ferocious feedback that emanates from the building next door. Inside, in a room littered by cheap German Pilsener bottles, overflowing ashtrays, battered amplifiers, tortured musical instruments and cables that twist like the roots of an old tree that has broken through the house’s foundations and, later, its floorboards, the dwarfish, bespectacled ex-pat Brit Michael Beckett and his comrade-in-noise, the Belgian two metre giant Jürgen De Blonde, wrestle with guitars and pedals that saw better days many years ago.

They are Super Reverb, named after the Fender amplifier that sits in the corner, its tubes blown during the recording of their first album, its repair long ago forsaken in favour of more beer, its role now taken by a Brooklyn 10 transistor amp found by the roadside. There are drums, too, but the kind of kit favoured by young children, bought from the Penny Markt nearby. And there’s a budget, though this is obviously not visible. But that’s because it’s miniscule, and not long after this scene De Blonde fled the countryside pleading poverty, communicating instead via Inbox and Dropbox, leaving Beckett to chop wood and pick mushrooms alone for his survival. Pink Floyd they are not.

Super Reverb are instead the sound your mother always told you to steer clear of, the kind of devilish clamour used to crush terrorists into weeping submission. You could call it space rock, but only if you recognise that space is a vast darkness that leads infinitely nowhere, sucking you into its vortices and spitting you out into unknown worlds. This, their second album, is - without question - shocking in its indulgence, refusing to pander to bloated, oversaturated, 21st Century values in its desire to soak up its surroundings and render them meaningless. Instead it simply drops you into a dizzying four dimensional prismatic kaleidoscope of sounds and textures that somehow coalesce into recognisable shapes and forms, recalling the work of such luminaries as My Bloody Valentine, Spaceman 3 and early Monster Magnet, breathing new life into old dinosaurs and then beating them with mighty sticks until they wail like baby seals. It won’t make Super Reverb popular. But who wants to be popular these days? Super Reverb don’t. And that’s why you’ll love them.

But if you go down to the woods today…

Sir Wyndham of Wallace, 12011 HE

Mammoth

WINTER IS HERE.......

2010-12-21T08:43:00.004+01:00

FONDA 500 (taken from their fantastic album autumn winter collection)
check `em out here

HIFIKLUB : ALECIA (R STEVIE MOORE COVER)

2010-09-29T11:54:00.001+02:00

here`s a cool little r stevie moore cover version i helped out on....

Lyrics & Music: R. Stevie Moore
Re-arranged by Hifiklub (Luc Benito, Régis Laugier, Nicolas Morcillo)
From R. Stevie Moore Tribute album vol.2 "New Wave Moon's" (2010)
Recorded by Hifiklub with kptmichigan (additional guitars, piano and organ beats)
Produced and mixed by kptmichigan
Mastered by Sarah Register at the Lodge, NY

LIVE AT THE MIDI FESTIVAL 2010

2010-09-21T13:36:00.001+02:00

here`s a clip someone was friendly enough to put up on youtube of my show at this years fantastic midi festival in hyeres, south of france.
check out the amazing volume of the cicada......

BACK TO LA TOMATE

2010-09-10T11:37:00.001+02:00

coming soon...............

KPTMICHIGAN : DAY 1.2

2010-07-18T19:10:00.008+02:00

here`s a video to one of the pieces from the 10 Self-Modulating Loops Made Whilst Fasting album.
the video was made by the excellent jan fuchs.
be sure to watch in hd !!!!!

HIFIKLUB : CATFISH (ONE TRACK MIND)

2010-06-19T12:29:00.003+02:00

here`s a nice video directed by arnaud maguet to a hifiklub re-work i did.
the lyrics are about this dude here. it`s kay kayser introducing the sonovox machine, which was an early version of the vocoder.

Additional production & remix by kptmichigan
Music by Luc Benito/ Régis Laugier/ Michael Beckett
Lyrics by Michael Beckett
Originally recorded by Hifiklub - under the name « Catfish » - with Kirsten Hennig (additional bass), kptmichigan (acoustic guitar & electric guitar), Jean-Marc Montera (12-string acoustic guitar) & Skerik (saxophone),
Originally produced, mixed & engineered by kptmichigan

TUESDAY WELD : HISTORICAL CRIMES

2010-06-11T23:22:00.000+02:00

here`s a new tune. the first tuesday weld interweb collab......

Historical Crimes

TUESDAY WELD : TURN ON AND LAY LOW

2010-05-18T15:05:00.001+02:00

ok, it`s been a bit slow TW wise but here`s song number 2. again it`s a demo. as of october we`ll be picking up the pace. delboy`s heading off to the states for 3 months to make sure his aunt`s wife makes it safely along the gulf coast on her charity run (after beating the evil C herself).
oh....it`s rome wasn`t burnt in a day, incase you`re wondering.....
enjoy.

Turn On And Lay Low

FREE DOWNLOAD : KPTMICHIGAN AND SON

2010-05-16T11:46:00.022+02:00

this is home/away which was released on cassette by Someone Else`s Tapes and as a free download on MirrorWorldMusic last year.
the music is based on treated field recordings (made with the crappy built in mic of our exilim) i made with my son sergej on our summer hols a few years ago.....
to get a physical copy of home/away, go here.

<a href="http://mirrorworldmusic.bandcamp.com/album/home-away-free-release">Home_Away (Free Release) by MirrorWorldMusic</a>

TUESDAY WELD IS BACK

2010-01-09T09:08:00.003+01:00

i used to have a band with a bunch of friends. we were called tuesday weld, we came from sinsheim in the south of germany, made 2 albums, moved north and split up in 1999. i met lots of people due to this band. many of which i would still class as top notch friends, one of them i even call my wife.

in may 2008 we played a show in our cellar, just for a laugh. on our family hols in august 2009 i got drunk and kinda slushy and the idea of a get together started to form in my warped little mind. i guess about a month later, i wrote dirk and bob a mail, asking if they were up for a little bit of drinking and playing music, just to see what would come about. at this stage i may add that our original bass player is not on board. his ersatz is a her. her being my wife kirsten who also plays in the beautiful new born children and used to play in the fantastic grand slam.

anyway, we got together for a weekend in november and made rough recordings of two new songs. live with a few mics, vocals and extra stuff overdubbed. one was deemed a warm-up exercise. the other was to be our first proper new song in 12 years. the plan is to meet as often as possible and to demo about 15 songs, pick the best and make a new rekkid. as a work in progress kinda thang, the demos will be posted here.

I Don`t Wanna Know

s2K - HEAD CLEANER

2010-01-08T12:52:00.011+01:00

one of my goodest friends ever, the humanly brilliant s2k released his tape Head Cleaner last year on the brilliant and should be rulers of the world tampa based label Cephia`s Treat.

i have no idea how he made it (apparently a lot of homebrew gear and i`m guessing quite a bit of weed....or none at all) and i won`t even attempt to explain what it sounds like, that`s what the little bit of audio bellow is for. just let me say that it reminded me of the micro-funk of prince and the spooked out vibe of david lynch....but in weird.

if anybody in europe would like a copy, lemme know....i have a few here.

s2k - Head Cleaner, Side 2 (Excerpt)

NINTENDO KORG DS 10.......ROCKS !!!!!

2009-12-12T11:03:00.007+01:00

in november my son sergej got a nintendo dsi for his tenth birthday.

2 weeks later, i got the korg ds 10 cartridge for € 25...a bargain if ever there was one.

enjoy.

Hushauba

Did You Recognise Them People?

THE BEAUTIFUL NEW BORN CHILDREN

2009-12-09T08:50:00.027+01:00

Hectic Control

Do The Do

LOVELY MARIO KART Wii GLITCH

2009-11-11T17:02:00.006+01:00

bloody rain rain rain......
so this afternoon i wanted to play mario kart online with my brother max (max is the bottom driver, me up top). whilst logging in, the wii crashed and decided to play this drone....
so at least something came out of the crap weather.....

MAILING OUT SUCKS

2009-11-06T16:08:00.009+01:00

right, i`m getting ready to unleash 4 tracks of my new and almost finished album upon the clogged letter boxes of labels small and not so small. i don`t think i`ve ever done this before....i remember preparing a mailout for player, player, all cds burned and packed, and then the day i wanted to take them to the post office i received an email from aesthetic`s ken dyber, asking if i wanted to put out an album on aesthetics.....well those days are over, apparently. living on the fringes of society does kinda make sure you`re not connected to any kind of pool of creative people (unless you count boring 50th generation punk bands and boring metal). anyway, i invite you to listen to one of the finished tracks bellow. enjoy.

Black Wood

TRUE DÖRENTRUP BLACK METAL

2009-11-01T13:58:00.007+01:00

my son, sergej, sporting corpsepaint for a bit of serious trick or treating..

OUT NOW : NACTON SUR MER - THE HOLIDAY ALBUM

2009-09-10T10:56:00.003+02:00

i`m very happy to announce that the limited cd-r run of nacton sur mer is now available.
limited to 50 copies, it comes in a lovely sleeve, printed on 180g textured card with an inlay printed on 160g card. all spliced by hand...
the release is a co-op between the fantastic Frequency Thirteen and MWM.
it`s your`s for € 5 if you drop us a line here or £3 if you get in touch here .
and this is what it`s about.........

when on our family hols this year, i decided to try and record a track a day using only laptop, headphones and whatever was laying around in my direct field of view....without ruining the holiday vibe of course.
i only allowed myself to be at one place per track and the length of time spent on a track was dictated by the battery life of my laptop.
press play on the audio player bellow and enjoy.

Nacton Sur Mer (Full Album)

WE CALL IT ZWANZIG AB

2009-09-09T08:00:00.008+02:00

awright !!!!!!!! two firsts.......
my first post and......my first and only paintings.
they were made a few years ago out of score sheets from drunken (not drinking) card games (a german game called 20 ab) and now belong to the groovy el grube.