Freibank has been an independent music publishing company actively promoting innovative artists for 11 years now. The third edition of our compilation series "for films" features tracks from our brand new repertoire, especially selected for the potential use in films, commercials and all other moving images as in games and websites. And since the pictures we have in mind are quite up to date this flowing mix of modern, mostly electronic music does also serve perfectly for easy office or advanced home listening. From actual film trailers to jazzy drum'n'bass, subversive techno and big beat tunes we also offer some summer flavoured latin influences. We can also recommend this CD strongly for friends, for restaurants and for sex.
If you want more and/or different music please contact us and specify your interests. We do have a variety of guitar music and vocal artists not featured in this series (such as Fettes Brot, Rocko Schamoni, Niels Frevert, Regy, Einstürzende Neubauten, Die Haut, Tindersticks, Pro Pain, Unsane and many others). Although our material is licensed to GEMA we are known to be very flexible regarding pricing and the clearing of synchronisation and master use fees.
TRACK LISTING
1. Lunatek "New Age Soft Porn"
Exclusive track, written and produced by Raoul Brand & Graham Waugh / published by Freibank
Lunatek is a London based music production duo writing and producing their own unique urban anthems, while composing and designing state of the art soundtracks for commercials and short films. Working together since the end of '96 Graham Waugh and Raoul Brand are fast establishing themselves on the leading edge of music for films. They have been working with top commercial directors from all over the world and their most recent work has been featured on campaigns such as Nike, Audi and Red Cross.
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Lunatek is a jazz obsessed techno styled chilled out sound expansion coming out of the heartland of London.London. F Formed by Raoul Brand and Graham Waugh the outfit are currently building their reputation as composers for cutting edge commercial films, as for example the latest Yamaha TV spot. P. P3 has its own tuneful dubbed out avantgarde feel created from the soul of 90's technology.
2. Barry Künzel "Theme from 'Growing Up'"
From the album "Tunnel Vision" / written and produced by Barry Künzel & F.Paravicini / licensed from Yo Mama Rec. / publ. by Ed.Tromo/Freibank
It's summer. You walk barefoot along the beach, soft ice being your basic food. From the open windows you hear The Isley Brothers, Temptations and James Gang. The only thing breaking are the waves, the wind carries the smell of sun lotion. Everything is really fine. Summer holiday madness, growing up could take forever, listen to Barry Künzel now.
3. The Pilotage "Driver"
Exclusive track /written & produced by Mr. Chubais, Dr.Alfred, Appa, Alex, Marty / licensed from OHL Rec. / published by Ed.Stora/Freibank
This group is from St.Petersburg, and although this instrumental track is not typical for the band who usually produce Disco / Funk /House-songs in Russian and English, one has to acknowledge the international standard of electronic music in Russia, featured well by the 'Stora'- activists from Hamburg, who will release a compilation and artist albums soon.
4. Gator "L'Autre Jour"
From the album "Matrix" / written and produced by Stefan Mertin / licensed from Lounge Rec. / publ. by Ed.Légère / Freibank
Gator is Stefan Mertin from Hamburg. Musician at daytime and DJ at night, Mertin crosses stylistic boundaries from jazzy listening to electric clubbing. He has been creating music for more than ten years now - working with digital as well as analogue sounds, with computers as well as real instruments. "L'Autre Jour" is taken from his debut album "Matrix": most of the tracks are instrumentals, only occasional vocals create atmospheric soundscapes. "L'Autre Jour" with its haunting accordion is a nostalgic, yet futuristic and immensely melodic trip.
5. José Carlos Mac "Rumboid"
From the forthcoming album / written and produced by José Carlos G. Macarro / publ. by Alondra/Freibank
The track "Rumboid" is taken from the impressive first album, "Hybrid Music", by Spanish artist José Carlos Mac. In the artist's opinion any kind of noise can be used as a musical element. The challenge lies in being able to combine a series of noises of different origins in a way that they all form one coherent piece of music. The composer becomes a painter. The main basis is a "rumba" rhythm pattern played by a muted flamenco guitar and a "cajón" (wooden box). Over this, a reaping deep bass and a languid piano support a minimal robotic voice and sparkling electric noises.
6. A.D.N.Y. & Vincenzo "Soulmates"
From the album "Da Minimal Funk 2" / written and produced by VincenzoK. & A. Delano / licensed from Dessous / publ. by Ed.Babelfisch /Freibank
The now 22 year old Vincenzo already presents more than a dozen releases on relevant labels as Superstition, Raw Elements, Stickman (Canada), Dessous and Parachute Music, the latter being his own label just recently founded while living and working in New York. His influences are clearly House music and Hip Hop and Jazz, both for his DJ-sets as for his own productions. When he met the Chilean A.D.N.Y. (alias Alexi Delano in New York) they created this deep, jazzy and sexy house track.
7. Hendrik Lorenzen "Fade"
From the album "Bastard Memory" / written and produced by Hendrik Lorenzen / licensed by Manifatturi Criminali / publ. by Freibank
This track is part of a composition for a dance performance called "Fade - a triptych of stolen stories", performed in 1996 and released on the CD "Bastard Memory". Lorenzen's music is inspired by Brazilian culture, as is the choreography of Angela Guerreiro. Again the chosen track is not typical for his work, but perfect for cool film scenarios.
8. Nonplace Urban Field "Sonic Simmer"
Exclusive track, written and produced by Bernd Friedmann / publ. by Freibank
Bernd Friedmann is known as the hyperactive artist from Cologne who has several projects such as Some More Crime, Drome and Nonplace Urban Field. "The new city's construction has been so rapid and so unforeseen that we lack even a commonly-accepted name for what we have created. Or, rather, we have too many names: spread city, urban village, megalopolis, sprawl, slurb, the 'burbs. As a result of millions of uncoordinated decisions made by distribution companies, label managers, promotion headquarters and journalists, "Drum'n'Bass" had to set up as one of those containers in the suburbs. The space in between the containers, a grey area, I call a "nonplace urban field".
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Drome is, along with Some More Crime (SMC) and Nonplace Urban Field (NUF), is one of Bernd Friedmann's most important projects. He has been producing electronic music since 1983 and studied art in Kassel (1984) and at the Medienkunstschule (Media Arts School) in Cologne (1993). Since 1990 Friedmann has intensified his activities in electronic music. He has released three albums as SMC, established a professional recording studio, has released three albums as SMC and initiated various other electro projects. Drome and NUF, two of the few German projects early recognized in the UK music press, became so popular that they were not only played frequently in clubs but and attracted the attention of commercial producers. The jingles and trailers that he has produced since 1995 include the "VIVA Wecker" program, all VIVA 2 programs up until the summer of 1996, the "Disney News" program on SUPER RTL, the "CLICK" computer magazine on VOX and the soundtrack to "John E. Loskot, The lost Hero of the 20th Century".
9. Lemongrass "Qu'est-ce que tu fais"
From the album " Drumatic Universe" / written and produced by Roland Voss / licensed from Incoming Rec. / publ. by Freibank
A Jazz-drummer goes Drum'n'Bass, and you can recognise that easily on his debut "Drumatic Universe" - therefore a relaxing and pleasant home-listening album. Without any inhibition Roland Voss sees his music close to "New Age", due to inspirations by Gurdjieff, John Lily, Robert Anton Wilson a.o., and arranges catchy melodies and complex bass-lines to form a simple, but emotional soundtrack.
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The dream'n'bass project Lemongrass was born in 1996. Roland Voss composed music for commercials and worked as a drum teacher and DJ. Lemongrass is preparing to release their first album. They combine light-natured love songs with spicy beats and drum'n'bass.Lemongrass page at Mole site
10. Pluramon "Tel.Bell"
From the album "Render Bandits" / written and produced by Marcus Schmickler / licensed from Mille Plateaux / publ. by Ed.Mille Plateaux/Freibank
P1uramon is the project of Cologne artist Markus Schmickler. He is part of the electronic collective A-music, the homebase of acts like Mouse on Mars. On his new album, "Render Bandits", Jan St. Werner (Mouse on Mars, Microstoria) and Jaki Liebezeit (Can) are involved with additional instruments (gongs, keyboards, drums). Pluramon is definitely in the tradition of the main German Krautrock band Can, but neither is the sound of Pluramon a copy of the 70's sound, nor is the project part of the alternative post rock movement. The use of manipulated instruments like gongs, guitars and special keyboards is inspired by electro-acoustique and electronic sources and becomes very percussive on the album. The music emits massive soundwaves; sound, which is always travelling, never arriving.
11. Die Haut "At First...But Then" (Andy Hawkins Remix)
From the album "Springer" / written by Arbeit, Dreher, Wydler, Lingk / produced by Andy Hawkins / licensed from Rough Trade Rec. / publ. by Freibank
Die Haut are one of the few exceptional German bands who have been successful for 15 years now whilst continuing to push their creative horizons to new limits. As a band without a permanent vocalist, Die Haut have always featured impressive surprise guests on their albums, among others Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Arto Lindsay, Blixa Bargeld, Alan Vega and Debbie Harry. Blind Idiot God count among Die Haut's absolute fave groups, their albums being of a wagneresque beauty. With this remix their guitarist Andy Hawkins has achieved a fusion of dub and guitar riffs.
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The mysterious German band "Die Haut" started their career 15 years and eight albums ago. The band's nucleus, Dreher (bass), Arbeit (guitar), Lingk (guitar), and Moser/Wydler (drums), has always worked without a permanent singer, but have constantly invited. They have however worked with several well known guest singers such as Lydia Lunch, Nick Cave, Mick Harvey, Arto Linsay, Blixa Bargeld, Jeffrey Lee Pierce, Debbie Harry and Alan Vega. Compared with great bands like Velvet Underground, Can or the Grateful Dead, the band's use of big guitar sound leaning heavenly strongly on atmosphere often creates instrumental tracks ideally suited tofor films whereby the atmosphere is in the foreground.
12. Sket "Rotlicht"
From the forthcoming single "Tunguska" / written and produced by Stefan Müller & Christian Mevs / licensed from Otaku Rec. / publ. by Ed.Sonatine/Freibank
Sket is the project of Hamburg musicians Mevs and Müller, working together since 1984. "Rotlicht" is a track from their first release "Tunguska" (on Otaku Records), all composed and arranged on intercontinental flights around the globe with their labtops and friendly support of British Airways. The tension between sharp and precise rhythms and sensitive arrangements of harmonic levels forms a new style, somewhere between Underground, Drum'n'Space and Electro.
13. Cee-Mix "Cocobong"
From the album "Low Flying Fragments" / written and produced by A. Buchal & D.Schumacher / licensed from Incoming Rec. / publ. by Ed.Q Media/Freibank
"Another extremely check-worthy excursion into chilltastika from the Incoming-label. Cee-Mix do a post-modern skank, filling their abstract dub with clanking reverb, chains, horns and micro-melodies and generally making merry with the best in organic Jamaican vibes." (Muzik,UK). Cee-Mix also operate as junglists Kong Fu and are currently producing some of the most-hyped Drum'n'Bass tunes coming out of Germany on Don Q Records.
14. Gonzalo Martinez "La Cumbia del Pepino"
From the album " Gonzalo Martinez y sus Congas Pensantes" / written and produced by D.Jack & J.Gonzalez / publ. by Freibank
This artist from Chile has had several pop hits in the last decade. Since he met Atomheart, the German specialist for electronic avant-garde, who moved to Chile last year, his music has become more and more experimental. His album "GM" is a never-before-heard mixture of South-American traditional sounds and modern electronics.
15. Monkeeman "Another Crooked Pop Song"
Exclusive track, written and produced by Ralf Lübke / publ. by Freibank
Monkeeman plays Rickenbacker guitars and very old Vox AC 20 amps. His music, though, is not "retro" at all. While his songs are composed on a ramshackle 8 track analogue machine, they get a specialist's work over with interesting loops and other strange sound effects. Monkeeman, however, does not really care, as long as it sounds great.
16. Visit Venus "Internal Abyss"
From the forthcoming album / written and produced by M. v. Hacht & M.Cullmann / licensed from Yo Mama Rec. / publ. by Ed.Tromo/Freibank
German electronic duo comprising of die Herren von Hacht & Cullmann. The former being one of the main Hip Hop studio wizards in the country, the latter one of the leading Hip Hop DJ's. Their second album is to be released in October ´98.
-- as seen in "for film edit 2": The beginning of Visit Venus goes all the way back to the 60s and to the NASA Apollo Space program. At that time NASA had plans for a type of "Space Tourism".: For the planned journey into space the German-American composers Professor v. Hacht and Dr. Cullmann where at first contracted to write music accompanying an internal presentation for the travellers on their imaginary flight to Venus. The two composers had finished their work by 1976, however, NASA's plans for Space Tourism had been put on ice. Almost 20 years later M. v.Mario van Hacht and M.Mario Cullmann took their fathers' work, using the 48 track demo-material as sample sources for their own version of "Music for Space Tourism". Their debut album of the same name was released in 1996. They moulded drum'n'bass, hip hop, muzak, dub and easy listening into a weightless and driving unity.
17. Die Patinnen Teil II "La Festa di Maggio Primo"
From the forthcoming album "Murder Beats Vol.1" / written and produced by Donna Maya & Donna Neda / licensed from Disko Grönland / publ. by Freibank
Donna Neda and Donna Maya arrived in a Hamburg club called 'Tempelhof' from various directions. For many years they fought a battle for the control of music, only to emerge as the most powerful crime family behind the turntables: the "Godmothers" are two dangerous ladies firing their deadly Drum & House beats to the dancefloors of infamous clubs, celebrating with friends, members of the "family" and so called business partners.
18. Fünf Sterne Deluxe "Schund"
Previously unreleased version / written and produced by T.Schmidt / licensed from Yo Mama Rec. / publ. by Ed.Tromo/Freibank
When the German Hip Hop crew "Der Tobi & Das Bo" formed "Fünf Sterne Deluxe" they immediately entered the charts with their unique humorous lyrics and catchy songs. But even without the weird lyrics their musical skills become obvious in their innovative backing tracks.
19. Relais "Aquaplaning"
From the forthcoming album "Streulicht" / written and produced by Thomas Fleischhauer / licensed from Incoming Rec. / publ. by Freibank
Relais is Tom Fleischhauer from Hamburg, a man with a turbulent history. The early 80's saw him as an active Industrial / atonal musician, later he became member of and/or engineer for bands like Rossburger Report, Blumfeld, Eisenvater and Captain Kirk among others. Through his intense contact with electronic equipment, working alone without pre-given borders, he develops his own skills and his music has become "Minimal Techno". So, beside all his previous works, "Streulicht" is his debut album (on Incoming)
20. Solar Eclipse "Dialog"
From the single "Silence"/ written and produced by C. Meier/ licensed from After 6 AM / publ. by Freibank
Founded 1992 by Christian Maier the music of this Trance / Ambient project is made mainly for film and videos. Solar Eclipse has released various singles and longplayers as well as remixes on different labels and is known for atmospheric live performances in the UK and elsewhere.
21. The Righteous Men "When Love Comes Down (Never Trust A Righteous Man Remix)"
Previously unreleased version / written and produced by T.U.Seidel & K.J.-E.Wesenberg / licensed from KiffSM/PIAS / publ. by Freibank
This remix is previously unreleased, although the track is known from their album "Schwarzes Gold". The freestylers from Germany's "Ruhrgebiet" are known between Gelsenkirchen and Chicago from their collaborations and releases with Felix Da Housecat, the Broccoli Brothers, Laurent Garnier and Nathalie De Borah. This track features a brilliant mix between House, Big Beat and breakbeats, using weird film- and jazz-quotes. "Only he who eats coal knows life."
22. Autom. "P-Jack"
Exclusive track, written and produced by Wilkes, Sieveking, McIntyre, Kusterer, Busse, Vogel, Otto / publ. by Freibank
Autom. is a new live Drum'N'Bass project featuring a female singer and six young sound mechanics from Hamburg. Most of them have a history in several bands (Absolute Beginner, Di Iries, Elbcore). Presently they work on their first album and attach great importance to the live presentation of their new act.
23. Panacea "Anti-Funk"
From the album "Twisted Designz" / written and produced by Matthis Mootz / licensed from Position Chrome/Force Inc Rec. / publ. by Ed.Mille Plateaux/Freibank
The track "Anti-Funk" is taken from the second album "Twisted Designz" by German hardcore Drum'n'Bass star Panacea. His first album gained him success over the world, especially in the US and Japan. He remixed the German avant-garde band Einstürzende Neubauten, Illbient star DJ Spooky from NY and several other post rock bands. With his new album Panacea takes Drum'n'Bass to a whole new level of energy by creating an enormous soundmachine. The tracks are created by a new technology of composition which is based on a large variety of samples. The album causes riots in clubs - his music is a new soundtrack for cyberpunks. A video will be done by Atari Teenage Riot video producer P. Reichenheim.
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The 201-years-old Mathis Mootz aka Panacea started his musical career as a soprano singer in the Windsbacher Knabenchor. After five years, singing in one major step he went on to EBM, then UK-Hardcore Ravebands. In 1992 he started DJ'ing at school and private parties, blinding people with his mixture of teutonic Tekkno-Hardcore and the happy, uplifting sound of UK's early underground. After getting his first synthesizer from his mother in 1991 Mathis started to make his own music, which has evolved into a unique hardcore style of Ddrum'n'bBass, which Panacea himself prefers to name call it Industrial Dd'n'Bb/Hatecore. .
24. Lunatek "Mars Attacks!"
Exclusive track, written and produced by Raoul Brand & Graham Waugh / publ. by Freibank / info see track #1
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