The EP2 edition offers us 7 new versions/remixes of tracks taken from the band’s recent and highly claimed comeback album “Radioteleskop” plus the exclusive highly danceable “Sattelit”. This includes 3 versions of the title song featuring an extended remix by 808 DOT POP, a sweet Düsseldorf-like “danse robotique” mix of “Radioteleskop” next to 3 different takes of the amazing song “Epsilon Tucanae” which could have been the title of this second EP, including the hypnotic and dreamy techno dance remix by Berlin electro musician and producer Eric Masch, who operates here under the name “MA = ST + ER”…

RECTOR SCANNER play vintage electronic music with vocoders and German-sung synth music evoking an exciting mixture of KRAFTWERK’s robotic electronics, AND ONE’s danceable techno pop and WELLE:ERDBALL’s 80’s melodic mechanical synthpop touch.

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In 2021, RECTOR SCANNER returns from a 15 year intergalactic travel to reveal their much anticipated 3rd studio album “Radioteleskop” on which the German duo shares with us what they discovered and encountered in the depths of space. Strongly influenced by science- and social-fiction literature from the early 20th century and novelists in the likes of Russian author Ivan Yefremov, RECTOR SCANNER tackles existential questioning of mankind’s origins and whether other forms of life exist somewhere in the universe… 

Across some 11 short stories, RECTOR SCANNER report about their exciting journey, connecting the present and the future and carrying us away in the electronic realms of a distant world utopia, somewhere between the blue planet, the icy shores of Titan, the solitary star of Epsilon Tucanae and the Andromeda galaxy, where we encounter artificial intelligence, intergalactic communications within the great ring of civilizations and perhaps the impossible distant love affair between an Earth scientist and an alien.

 Since its origins, RECTOR SCANNER always inscribed their sonic approach in the tradition of electronic music pioneers like KRAFTWERK and also KOMPUTER or MISS KITTIN. This is vintage electronic music with vocoders and German-sung synth music in line with WELLE:ERDBALL and AND ONE. RECTOR SCANNER indeed plays retro science-fiction pop music and invites you to dance electronically to their addictive catchy and almost mechanical tunes. Human vocals meet synthetic vocoders, clinking synthesizers play minimal percolating analogue melodies while robotic rhythms get your body in motion in no time.

The double-CD limited edition of the album also features an 11-track bonus disc with various exclusive versions and diverse exciting collaborations with METROLAND, 808 DOT POP, MASSIV IN MENSCH, AD:KEY , LETAL 30 as well as an extraordinary sensual featuring of toitronic electropunk diva Merry Chicklit.

Also notice the perfectly fitting design work by artist, illustrator and theatre actor Thomas Franke.

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This new EP announces RECTOR SCANNER’s 3rd studio album “Radioteleskop“ and reveals new material for the very first time after some 15 years of dormancy…

Since its origins, RECTOR SCANNER always inscribed its sonic approach in the tradition of his forefathers of the electronic music genre like KRAFTWERK. RECTOR SCANNER plays retro science-fiction pop music and invite you to dance electronically to their addictive catchy and almost mechanical tunes. Human vocals meet synthetic vocoders, clinking synthesizers play minimal percolating melodies while robotic rhythms get your body in movement in no time…

Questioning the master / slave relation between robots and humans, between men and women… the new RECTOR SCANNER songs should please all fans of vintage electronic music with vocoders as well as German-sung synth pop music like WELLE:ERDBALL, AND ONE and more.

We will also notice the perfectly fitting design work by artist, illustrator and theatre actor Thomas Franke.

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With this new 8-track EP, our Berlin-based duo Andrea and Rene Nowotny continue surfing on their uncompromised old-school EBM dancefloor tsunami triggered last year with their most ever acclaimed album “Reanimator” and reinforced by their recent 10th anniversary surprising assault.

The German duo remains at the top of their form and invites us to the next level combat mode on the dancefloors with stunning and powerful remix versions of the title song, but also for “Reanimator”, “Pfeil in dein Herz” and the hard-cutting “Elitär”. They also get supported in their tour de force by their friends at arms ANGRIFFSPAKT and MASSIV IN MENSCH for the ultimate frontal EBM impact!

Another hard-hitting release that will keep moving the bodies of fans of good old EBM pioneers like NITZER EBB, FRONT 242, DAF and other DIE KRUPPS. Never, never, never enough!

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Since AD:KEY’s arrival in the big Alfa Matrix family. Many fans have asked for this back-catalogue to be available again. This previously unreleased EP is now made available on all digital platforms…

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The process that will change our planet completely within the next ten thousand years is skilfully depicted in their music: Electronic bass rhythms ominously stomp through our brains, fragments of melodies hover around whilst dramaturgic cocoons are woven and sprawled. 1 

Andrea and Rene Nowotny deliberately took their time – almost three years – to complete their album with thirteen songs about human thinking and acting. In their lyrics the human being is at the centre of contemplation as well as his relationship to technology, the environment and to himself. Humanity in itself is controversial. 

Nevertheless, the new album “Anthropozän” features the unmistakable AD:KEY sound: electronic Body Music meets Neue Deutsche Welle. 

In best Armageddon Dildos style, harsh sequences, chase metallic drums, synthesizer melodies ripple through space and combined with string arrangements result in an overall harmony that is enhanced by Rene’s and Andrea’s undistorted voices, sometimes grim and threatening, sometimes cheeky and loud – just the way true EBM should sound. 

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Since AD:KEY’s arrival in the big Alfa Matrix family, many fans have asked for this back-catalogue to be available again. This album is now re-released on all digital platforms with the 14 bonus remixes.

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Since AD:KEY’s arrival in the big Alfa Matrix family, many fans have asked for this back-catalogue to be available again. This album is now re-released on all digital platforms with 4 exclusive bonus tracks: the previously unreleased “Pornös (Absolutions-Mix)” and “Pornokratie (Hard-Mix)”, as well as “Pissed off (Video-Edit)” and “Pornokratie” originally released on the “Electronic Body Matrix 1” and “Hymns of Sex” compilations.

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Since AD:KEY’s arrival in the big Alfa Matrix family, many fans have asked for this back-catalogue to be available again. This album is now re-released on all digital platforms with 2 exclusive bonus tracks: “Hoch die Hämmer (Erzbergwerk-Mix)” which was originally released on the compilation “Lieder der Berge” and the previously unreleased “Sex ist Macht (Electro-Mix by Rector Scanner)”.

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“Herzschlag” the second album by Rector Scanner is ready, completely produced and mastered, but there is no release. Just a few weeks before the release date, the label that released the legendary debut album “Vocoder”, suddenly was not longer. Rene Nowotny, live keyboarder of Armageddon Dildos and creative mind behind Rector Scanner then decided to stop Rector Scanner and founded AD:KEY.

Ten years later: Rummaging on his computer, René found audio files on some old hard disks which turned out to be the forgotten files of the Rector Scanner album “Herzschlag”. Quickly he decided to release this album due to rather nostalgic reasons. After a short conversation with emmo.biz, the label of AD:KEY the decision was made: Rector Scanner is back. Although the songs of “Herzschlag” remain unchanged the original artwork is discarded. Instead, René asked the well-known artist and performer Thomas Franke, which he met once at a vernissage to support him with some new graphics for his upcoming release- and immediately wins him over for the project.

With this album, Rector Scanner certainly walk the line between EBM and Synth pop. Full of energy and power, the twelve songs tell stories love and hate, fear and lust, politics and religion.

“Herzschlag” is an explosive roller coaster of emotions, featuring ambiguous lyrics with sometimes rather sarcastic undertones and sometimes a pinch of humour.

“Herzschlag” proves that electronic music does not necessarily have to sound cold and sterile: the German lyrics, presented with an undistorted voice, are supported by jingling and chirping electronic beats, analogue basses and decent big beats.

To wrap it all up, this Rector Scanner album provides four remixes: one by Armageddon Dildos, another by the Ambient-Electro-Project “For a Space”, a third by the music producer Dave Anderson and last but not least one by the Anhalt-EBM-Project T.A.N.K.

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