Radio Blackout
T Raumschmiere
(Novamute)
Reported Saturday, September 13 2003
Courtesy of Jonty_Adderley @ www.skrufff.com
Signing a record deal with critical darlings Novamute last year, Berlin based producer T Raumschmiere (known to his folks as Marco) told Skrufff this week that he stressed his music wouldn't be techno and Radio Blackout, his first album for the label, certainly proves the point. Varying from hip hop (the impressively accomplished A Million Miles) to ambient and punk funk (on the Miss Kittin enhanced punk-funk howler The Game Is Not Over,) Blackout is both diverse and impressively accessible, presenting a surprisingly commercial package to the presumably delighted Novamute execs.
Though that's not to say that techno doesn't inform T Raumschmiere's work, nor that he's deliberately tried to make a crossover hit. Coming up via Berlin's anarchist squat scene of the late 90s, Marco took his seemingly difficult name from the German title of a William Burroughs short story The Dreamcops, gradually gaining a reputation through his powerful industrial strength productions and even more energetic over-the-top stage shows. Coming to the attention of Mute chief Daniel Miller at one such gig, the pair cemented a relationship, offering him creative freedom, and Mute, the credibility that comes from signing one of the brightest stars in today's new electro scene.
Stylistically Radio Blackout is both achingly hip and confrontationally out of fashion, much like T Raumschmiere himself- Which is presumably exactly as he likes it.
Radio Blackout is released in September.
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