Anthology 1980 - 2017

A 17 track leftfield/idm album (15m 23s) — released December 22nd 2017 on Nonplace

"An essential retrospective that shows how Burnt Friedman has been reinventing rhythms for over two decades." (Resident Advisor)

This compilation spanning a period of 37 years features Burnt Friedman's releases and edits thereof from vinyl-only labels (Latency (FR), Marionette (CA), Dekmantel (NL) amongst others) plus 4 hitherto unreleased tracks, making them available on digital formats. Friedman's music from 1980 to 2017 covers a broad spectrum of played and programmed rhythmic styles that traverse not only club music from techno, electro and dub, but, above all, trace Friedman's own artistic development. A trajectory that owes a lot to his long-standing collaboration with Can drummer Jaki Liebezeit, who died at the age of 79 in 2017. Like Liebezeit, Friedman already explored even and uneven rhythms back in the late 1980s. This selection of 17 tracks documents this pursuit while bringing rough or discarded tracks to light, which did not fit onto any album or were intended for the Nonplace label. The compilation runs the entire gamut of his work on percussion, keyboard, samplers and toys of all kinds using various production methods (tape, Atari, Midi, sampler, hard disk recording, digital audio tape). Studio work (instant-composition, programming and recording) underwent major technological changes and revolutions in the 1980s and 1990s, but Friedman's distinctive signature style prevails throughout. Surprisingly danceable tracks, interrupted by alien atmospheric periods, defy any genre.

All tracks produced and mixed by Burnt Friedman
Recorded in Lohfelden, Kassel, Cologne, Berlin 1980 - 2017
Hayden Chisholm, reeds on Monkhide (2) and Wentletrap (12)
Takeshi Nishimoto, sarod on The Pestle (3)
Joseph Suchy, electric guitar on Grace (11)
Roy Steinbrecher, Casio Keyboard on Sayonara (17)
Mastering by Rashad Becker, Dubplates & Mastering except tracks
5/14/15/16
Published by Freibank, cover artwork by Theo Altenberg (O.T., oil on
cardboard)

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