The album’s first pressing comes out as a limited deluxe double-CD Digipak holding a bonus disc featuring each album song remixed by an impressive list of electro artists in the likes of Sebastian Komor, ORANGE SECTOR, PLASTIC NOISE EXPERIENCE, METROLAND, AIBOFORCEN, AD:KEY, IMPLANT, AESTHETISCHE, KANT KINO and CUBIC.
After a couple of teasing EP & video clip releases, ladies and gentlemen, Alfa Matrix is proud to present to you today the much awaited full length album by the new ultimate EBM project by the members of one of the cult electro industrial music pioneers of all times next to KRAFTWERK and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN: DIE KRUPPS’ very own Jürgen Engler and his fellow members Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher!
The idea for them was to have an outlet for songs that couldn’t be used in a DIE KRUPPS context. The use of guitars in ROBO SAPIENS music being taboo! ‘In a way, it’s a return to our Electro roots, but with a twist. Imagine the Duesseldorf sound of KRAFTWERK mixed with hard DIE KRUPPS EBM. This combination of styles has been spooking around my brain for a while, and it was time to put it into action,’ Juergen Engler says.
This stunning 10-track “Robo Sapien Race” album offers the perfect blend of minimal, vintage and outstanding powerful synth music with harder, stronger and angrier EBM assaults made of fat and ripping basslines, powerful German vocals and upbeat synth sequences. The result proves that DIE ROBO SAPIENS have already found their own niche, which Electro fans from both genres will surely appreciate!
“Robo Sapien Race” is also presenting a conceptual background about the dehumanization and technological dependency of mankind… without it you are nothing… so conform or revolt! A futuristic atmosphere perfectly rendered by the talented Japanese designer Tomoki Hayasaki.
T.A.N.Z… T.A.N.Z… Tanz mit DIE ROBO SAPIENS! Volle EBM Kraft Voraus!
The album also gets released on vinyl format as a fan edition pack limited to 333 units worldwide including the 10-track album on black vinyl in a deluxe gatefold packaging (with full lyrics) with a bonus DJ turntable slipmat, a page marker and a numbered postcard + the new 20-track “Sounds From The Matrix 023” label CD compilation.
After a couple of teasing EP & video clip releases, ladies and gentlemen, Alfa Matrix is proud to present to you today the much awaited full length album by the new ultimate EBM project by the members of one of the cult electro industrial music pioneers of all times next to KRAFTWERK and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN: DIE KRUPPS’ very own Jürgen Engler and his fellow members Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher!
The idea for them was to have an outlet for songs that couldn’t be used in a DIE KRUPPS context. The use of guitars in ROBO SAPIENS music being taboo! ‘In a way, it’s a return to our Electro roots, but with a twist. Imagine the Duesseldorf sound of KRAFTWERK mixed with hard DIE KRUPPS EBM. This combination of styles has been spooking around my brain for a while, and it was time to put it into action,’ Juergen Engler says.
This stunning 10-track “Robo Sapien Race” album offers the perfect blend of minimal, vintage and outstanding powerful synth music with harder, stronger and angrier EBM assaults made of fat and ripping basslines, powerful German vocals and upbeat synth sequences. The result proves that DIE ROBO SAPIENS have already found their own niche, which Electro fans from both genres will surely appreciate!
“Robo Sapien Race” is also presenting a conceptual background about the dehumanization and technological dependency of mankind… without it you are nothing… so conform or revolt! A futuristic atmosphere perfectly rendered by the talented Japanese designer Tomoki Hayasaki.
T.A.N.Z… T.A.N.Z… Tanz mit DIE ROBO SAPIENS! Volle EBM Kraft Voraus!
The German city of Duesseldorf has always been seen as the mecca for electronic music since the early 1970s, when KRAFTWERK released their first albums and morphed into robotic aliases. Duesseldorf was also the home of other cult-bands like NEU!, LA DUSSELDORF, DAF… and DIE KRUPPS! This is the city where Juergen Engler and Ralf Doerper grew up. RHEINGOLD, KRAFTWERK, DIE KRUPPS and the above mentioned NEU! and LA DUSSELDORF all knew each other since the late 70s, and used to go to the same clubs and bars, where friendships were formed.
When Bodo Staiger of RHEINGOLD passed away in December 2019, the time had come to pay homage to one of Duesseldorf’s legends with their song “FanFanFanatisch”. Our Electro Industrial music pioneers decided that this should be released under their “electronic-only” project DIE ROBO SAPIENS.
Although KRAFTWERK were never a direct influence to Juergen Engler, the track “Duesseldorf” pays tribute to the city that brought us that unmistakable sound that made the city famous.
The music lives on, and the featured additional remixes by label mates KANT KINO, AESTHETISCHE, IMPLANT and 808 DOT POP prove that even newer generations of musicians are still influenced by it today and put all their (he)art and craft into this tribute to the electronic school cradle.
This “Duesseldorf EP” is past, present and future… and its homage to electronic music is even more significant today with the recent additional loss of Florian Schneider (KRAFTWERK) and Gabi Delgado (DAF).in 2020.
Are we all electronic music “FanFanFanatisch”? Minimal, vintage and outstanding powerful synth music delivered for the pleasure of your ears by DIE ROBO SAPIENS. Volle EBM Kraft Voraus!
The German city of Duesseldorf has always been seen as the mecca for electronic music since the early 1970s, when KRAFTWERK released their first albums and morphed into robotic aliases. Duesseldorf was also the home of other cult-bands like NEU!, LA DUSSELDORF, DAF… and DIE KRUPPS! This is the city where Juergen Engler and Ralf Doerper grew up. RHEINGOLD, KRAFTWERK, DIE KRUPPS and the above mentioned NEU! and LA DUSSELDORF all knew each other since the late 70s, and used to go to the same clubs and bars, where friendships were formed.
When Bodo Staiger of RHEINGOLD passed away in December 2019, the time had come to pay homage to one of Duesseldorf’s legends with their song “FanFanFanatisch”. Our Electro Industrial music pioneers decided that this should be released under their “electronic-only” project DIE ROBO SAPIENS.
Although KRAFTWERK were never a direct influence to Juergen Engler, the track “Duesseldorf” pays tribute to the city that brought us that unmistakable sound that made the city famous.
The music lives on, and the featured additional remixes by label mates KANT KINO, AESTHETISCHE, IMPLANT and 808 DOT POP prove that even newer generations of musicians are still influenced by it today and put all their (he)art and craft into this tribute to the electronic school cradle.
This “Duesseldorf EP” is past, present and future… and its homage to electronic music is even more significant today with the recent additional loss of Florian Schneider (KRAFTWERK) and Gabi Delgado (DAF).in 2020.
Are we all electronic music “FanFanFanatisch”? Minimal, vintage and outstanding powerful synth music delivered for the pleasure of your ears by DIE ROBO SAPIENS. Volle EBM Kraft Voraus!
Definitely one of the most played songs from the recent tribute compilation to DEPECHE MODE “Alfa Matrix re:covered vol.3”, this unique collaboration between two EBM generations around the Gods of synth pop’s classic “Master And Servant” is now released as a 7-track EP.
AD:KEY’s characteristic male/female vocal duality approach, their straight danceable EBM basslines and catchy synth lines nicely come and wrap the unmatchable powerful voice of Jurgen Engler – DIE ROBO SAPIENS (the 100% electro project of DIE KRUPPS members).
Besides the single and extended versions, we also get alternative and diverse remix versions by IMPLANT, AESTHETISCHE, RECTOR SCANNER, ZWEITE JUGEND and MASCHINENWART. “It’s a lot it’s a lot – let’s play master and servant…”
Devoted Electronic Body Music followers will surely instantly identify who is hiding behind this new band project: DIE ROBO SAPIENS!
Ladies and gentlemen, Alfa Matrix is proud to present to you today the first EP by the new ultimate EBM project by the members of one of the cult electro industrial music pioneers of all times next to KRAFTWERK and EINSTÜRZENDE NEUBAUTEN: DIE KRUPPS’ very own Jürgen Engler, Ralf Dörper and Marcel Zürcher.
Collaborating with the exceptional U.S. Electro artist JG and the ROBOTS, who also directed and can be seen in the DIE KRUPPS Video “Robo Sapien”, “Tanz Mit Dem Roboter” is a direct wink to the Düsseldorf synth origins of the band, intelligently reworked by label mates RETRO SCANNER, the unique Belgian vintage synth duo METROLAND and the uprising Swedish minimal electro pop talent of ELEKTROKLÄNGE.
The outstanding track “Teufelskreis” reveals the harder, stronger and angrier EBM side of DIE ROBO SAPIENS, with its fat and ripping basslines, powerful German vocals and upbeat synth sequences. This new instant club hit gets remixed here by two other prominent figures from the EBM scene and Alfa Matrix label mates ARMAGEDDON DILDOS and Sebastian Komor (KOMOR KOMMANDO, ICON OF COIL…).
A stunning hi-energy kick-ass 7-track EP giving a promising foretaste of the band’s forthcoming album “Robo Sapien Race” presenting a conceptual background about the dehumanization and technological dependency of mankind… without it you are nothing… so conform or revolt!
T.A.N.Z… T.A.N.Z… Tanz mit DIE ROBO SAPIENS! Volle EBM Kraft Voraus!
To celebrate 20 years of Alfa Matrix and over 30 years of collaboration in mutual respect and care between Seba Dolimont and Martin Sprissler, we have the honor to insert an exclusive 19-track label CD compilation in the April 2022 issue of the unique Gothic magazine. To make this event even more special, this Gothic . File 22/1 CD is also accompanied by an exclusive download link of 30 more tracks from the Alfa Matrix label roster.
The CD compilation and its 30-track download companion does not only feature very fresh music released by Alfa Matrix, they also hold exclusive and previously unreleased material by REICHSFEIND, MONDTRÄUME (new band line-up!), AIBOFORCEN, METROLAND, SYNAPSYCHE, ACYLUM, AVARICE IN AUDIO, FIRST AID 4 SOULS, COSMIC ARMCHAIR, SUICIDAL ROMANCE, NEIKKA RPM, etc. and reveals 2 exciting new additions to the Alfa Matrix family being the much promising female fronted powerful industrial metal act THE TRUE UNION and the enigmatic HELLE9 that is nothing but the new dark trap industrial project of our beloved ALIEN VAMPIRES demons.
Cherry on the cake, the bonus download release available via Bandcamp also includes additional exclusive interviews (in PDF format) conducted by Gothic magazine with numerous other bands than those featured inside the print magazine…
CD
Aesthetische Feat. Lis Van Den Akker – Back To Life (Radio Version)
Reichsfeind – This (Exclusive Mix)
Mondträume – Something
Aiboforcen – Cycle Of Life (Short Edit)
Cubic – Q (Bong 13 Mix)
Metroland – 4.1
Implant – The King And The Rebel (Distributed Denial Of Service Rmx)
Adkey – Alles Was Ich Will (Single Mix)
Synapsyche – Silvertongue (Graveless Version)
Imjudas – People Of The Blame
The True Union – Purousthai
Helle9 – Omen
Avarice In Audio – Do Unto Others
Siva Six – Fight The Machine
Acylum – Tears Of Blood (Short Cut)
First Aid 4 Souls – I Am The Night
Circumpolar – Waiting In The Rain
Digital Factor – What
Psyaviah Feat. Mari Kattman – Can We Make It Rhyme (Radio Edit)
BONUS DOWNLOAD
Lights A.M – Run Away
Cosmic Armchair – Bleed
Suicidal Romance – Love Promise (Elektrostaub Remix)
Entrzelle – Let Me Be A Memory
Elektrostaub – Save Me (Feat. René Anke)
The Psychic Force – Lockdown Lovers
Kant Kino – Horror Tv
Alien Vampires – World In Denial
Venal Flesh – Adytum I
Diffuzion – Ain’t Gonna Fuck With My Brain
Komor Kommando – Music Is My Religion
Matthew Creed – Walking In Circles (Video Edit)
Neikka Rpm – Some Kind Of Hell
Studio-X – New Blood
Circuito Cerrado – Zeit
Aengeldust- Fremdling
Dunkelwerk – Waffengang
Pouppee Fabrikk – Burn Forever
Elm – Smother Box (Mother Of Aggression Mix)
Die Robo Sapiens – Fan Fan Fanatisch (Kant Kino Rip Gd Mix)
Plastic Noise Experience – End Of The Road
Armageddon Dildos – Destruction (Darkroom Mix)
Freakangel – The Last White Dance (X Anniversary Edit)
Lovelorn Dolls – Happy Endings (Elyose Heavy Mix)
Helalyn Flowers – Skyland
Neuroactive – In Rust We Trust (Single Mix)
Llumen -The Path That Leads Me Home
808 Dot Pop – Looking For The Sun
Rector Scanner – Epsilon Tucanae (Single Mix)
Technoir – Da Hast Du Deinen Traum (Minimal Radical Mix)
The music market has shifted a lot over the years and in many ways losing its solid footing. With physical CD sales literally collapsing and digital music downloads getting progressively replaced by music streaming, all potential revenues for artists and labels keep melting away…
The challenge for artists and labels in such a unique indie music scene has become more than tough and no one is immune to this difficult situation. Too many labels have already ceased activities while artists simply gave up, and we fear that this trend will continue. This evolution has created an environment where many labels have almost stopped playing their key-role of talent scouting, no longer daring to invest in new talents who deserve to be heard by you! Alfa Matrix is one of the very few record companies on our dark underground scene to keep struggling with the economics to manage keeping the right balance between releasing renowned artists and supporting younger bands who still need to catch the attention and reach your ears…
By supporting us and our artists today, your contribution goes to the future of our endangered music scene and Alfa Matrix makes the guarantee to you that it will keep fighting on, and injecting more freshness, and new blood into the alternative electro scene.
This new FREE (or pay as you wish) 9th edition of the now classic “Matrix Downloaded” digital compilation is another perfect eclectic alternative music soundtrack that reflects the label’s music repertoire and impressive artist roster in the full-force of its diversity.
Some 61 label bands join hands to share love and offer you these precious sonic moments, a sincere outreach to tell you how grateful we all are to have such a staunch fanbase like you in our precious underground scene.
The ultimate collection of scene famous and established artists featured next to rising new talents and stunning new discoveries from the label’s growing army of artists… Since 2001, ALFA MATRIX has been offering you electronic music with attitude… EBM, synth pop, industrial, electronic, indie rock, nu electro, dark elektro, avant-garde, goth metal, wave, techno house: you get it all!
Again this new selection of some 61 songs nicely represents the label’s most recent singles and albums while giving a preview of some promising forthcoming 2020 productions including announced new releases by POUPPEE FABRIKK, NEUROACTIVE, ALIEN VAMPIRES, HELALYN FLOWERS, DIE ROBO SAPIENS, IMJUDAS, 808 DOT POP, ACYLUM, ARMAGEDDON DILDOS, PSY’AVIAH, AVARICE IN AUDIO, SIVA SIX, NEIKKA RPM, AESTHETISCHE, KANT KINO, KOMOR KOMMANDO, AD:KEY, H.O.W., CIRCUMPOLAR, SYNAPSYCHE, LLUMEN, ENTRZELLE, LIGHTS A.M, REACTOR7X, FIRST AID 4 SOULS, etc.
Matrix Downloaded 009 is once again downloadable in MP3/FLAC quality via the label’s successful Bandcamp page (where you can also still find the 8 previous editions in case you were trapped in another universe over the last few years and did not catch these yet!!).
It was back in 2009 when some Alfa Matrix artists came up with the crazy challenge of paying a collective homage to the unique and mighty DEPECHE MODE. That very band that has been a reference and influence for many of us, let it be for their matchless synth melodies, their carrying song arrangements, their inspiring lyrics or yet their so poignant dark touch.
10 years later, here we are doing it again and release the 3rd volume in the “Alfa Matrix re:covered – a tribute to DEPECHE MODE” series with 32 brand new cover versions reinterpreted by Alfa Matrix artists.
With a good combination of unavoidable classic hits and other darker and more obscure songs from DEPECHE MODE’s immense music repertoire, this compilation of cover songs nicely flows in your ears across the rich sonic diversity of Alfa Matrix’s roster of artists. From electro pop to dark elektro, from pop wave to goth metal, from industrial to techno pop, this 32-track compilation is guided by each band’s profound intention to appropriate the song they chose at best and give it an all new perspective.
Compiled by and for DEPECHE MODE fans, “Alfa Matrix Re:covered – a tribute to Depeche Mode vol.3” will offer you once more a very own insight in what makes the DEPECHE MODE songs so special. Enjoy these interpretations and re-discover the beauty of all those classic DEPECHE MODE songs re:covered by the Alfa Matrix stable including AD:KEY feat. DIE ROBO SAPIENS, ARMAGEDDON DILDOS, ALIEN VAMPIRES, KOMOR KOMMANDO, STAR INDUSTRY, METROLAND, HELALYN FLOWERS, TECHNOIR, ACYLUM and so many more! The track list speaks for itself. Enjoy these non-silence moments.
In 2018, Belgian vintage synth duo METROLAND released their 4th album “Men In A Frame” around “photography” as new artistic concept and prolonged the experience through several exclusive digital singles and an audiophile yellow double-LP vinyl release “Framed”.
For the occasion of the second “Pictures To Listen Too“ exposition at the Cultuur Centrum of Mechelen in Belgium (26th January 2019 until 24th March 2019), once again uniting image and sound, METROLAND serve their ever growing staunch fanbase with another original and unique collector item opening some more hidden doors to the secret conceptual world of METROLAND…
Strictly limited to 150 units worldwide, “The Key To Metroland” is a deluxe black yellow-printed key-shaped 16GB USB-key marketed in a beautiful metal tin box and its content is split into 3 categories:
The 1st “audio” part is spread across 3 sub-folders with 3 exclusive 3-song EP’s (“3×3” – does it ring a bell to some fans!?) being “Een Dag In Mechelen” (exclusive new expo song with Dutch vocoders!), “Pictures To Listen Too” and “Shades Of Pale”; the “Framed” folder with a selection of some 20 remixes made by other artists and the band itself; and the stunning “Mixland” folder revealing amongst others mega-mixes exclusively arranged and carefully crafted and mixed by Passenger S himself, bringing us on some non-stop sonic journeys across METROLAND’s history for an ultimate 90 min+ flow of melodic electronic bleeps and beats that will please all fans of KRAFTWERKian tunes…
The 2nd “picture” part adds the visual dimension to the whole concept with 6 screen-sized minimalistic METROLAND designs plus copies of the 14 floor stickers paving the “pictures to listen too” exhibition.
Last but not least, the 3rd “video” part unites image and sound with an 82-minute-video documentary retracing the band’s extraordinary ascension from their “Mind The Gap” debut album until the “Framed” vinyl release, topped with 4 additional exclusive video clips shot for the occasion. Every video is made available in various formats, making them playable for every METROLAND sonic commuter across the globe.
All in all, another original top-quality product with the standard METROLAND seal of quality.
What you see is what you hear…
What you hear is what you see in your best electronic dreams.
On the next conceptual travel with METROLAND!
TRACK-LISTING
1/ AUDIO
. “3×3” EP’s:
een dag in mechelen EP
101. een dag in mechelen (short conduct)
102. een dag in mechelen (long conduct)
103. een dag in mechelen (no conduct)
pictures to listen too EP
201. pictures to listen too (clipped)
202. pictures to listen to (increase mix)
203. pictures to listen too (unclipped)
shades of pale EP
301. shades of pale (re-framed)
302. shades of pale (decibel sintético)
303. shades of pale (re-framed anew)
. “Framed” remix collection:
01. creative rose (Passenger S perennial mix)
02. memorabilia (Der Dritte Raum rmx)
03. proiezione (OT-Vorsprung-remix)
04. concrete witness (Analogue Audio Association remix 3)
05. shades of pale (re-framed by Metroland)
06. next choice (Kurt Baggaley’s destination mix)
07. man in a frame (Decibel Sintético)
08. trust (never trust an Implant rmx)
09. speed of life (Elektroklänge 1-2-3 mix)
10. la macchia d’aqua (Him+He’s real sounds from a matrix edit)
11. memorabilia (Zusammenklang mix)
12. man in a frame (Frohm remix)
13. hope (Psy’aviah remix)
14. b-old (Aavikko remix)
15. concrete witness (Analogue Audio Association remix 1)
16. shades of pale (Die Robo Sapiens mix)
17. creative rose (perennial edit)
18. pictures to listen too (clip)
19. man in a frame (Decibel Sintético edit)
20. memorabilia (hunted video)
. Mixland
1. Remixland (60min megamix)
2. Megaframed (30min megamix)
3. Radioland (spoken word version of the video documentary)
2/ PICTURES
6 computer screen designs
14 floorsticker design images
3/ VIDEO
1. The Key To Metroland – video documentary – 82min
2. Man In A Frame (Decibel Sintético edit) – video clip
3. Memorabilia (hunted video version) – video clip
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