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Thanks to Frans de Waard for reviewing Mugress in Vital Weekly 1445:

KRAUSEN YPSMAEL – MUGRESS (cassette by Steep Gloss)

Steep Gloss is a label that only releases collaborations. Behind Krausen Ypsmael, we find Stefan Krausen, a drummer active since the 1980s with groups such as Deux Balaines Blanches, Pfad der Tugend and I-Burnettes and who worked with Stefan Schneider of Kreidler and To Rococo Rot. Ypsmael is the musician NM, and I am sure that isn’t helpful either. His work is mainly in the field of live electronics and acoustic manipulations. Ypsmaek and Krausen met in 2013, and their work is recorded in concert, even when they don’t play much. At first, they used drums and bass/guitar+electronics, but these days, it’s more open when it comes to instruments. It’s not easy to recognise, and much of it is electronic. Despite being active for some time, this cassette is the debut release. I understand this release is a bit special, as it sees Krausen doing a painting and the sounds he uses are processed by Ypsmael on the spot, using “audio artefacts, electromagnetic and feedback devices, amplified objects, Pepsi, slide whistle, voice, fx pedals and field recordings. I have no references to their other music, so I am listening here for the first time. The music is a beautiful collage of acoustic sounds, none of which I saw any relation to painting. The music is the kind of electro-acoustic affair I heard in previous releases by Ypsmael. Slightly brutal attacks combined with more introspective sounding and gentle scratching of surfaces result in a great mix of various approaches and techniques. It has that somewhat more improvised feeling of musique concrète approaches but lacks the refinement to make it that kind of thing. Which is something I enjoy very much. I prefer the rough ‘n tumble of this over, as things can’t always be all too refined. Very lovely, and perhaps something more can be released? (FdW)

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Psyched to be included in :zoviet*france: 's A Duck in a Tree | Getting in the Sea

…the new edition of their radio show, broadcast by Resonance 104.4 FM on FM and DAB in London and online worldwide:

This edition features a new release by Katpis Tapes, two new releases on the Steepgloss label by Krausen Ypsmael and MSGG, Philippe Neau's contribution to a new Petroglyph Music compilation marking the summer solstice, and recordings by Lustmord, Half Unusual, Ensemble Musica Negativa, Adam Williams and Leonardo Rosado, Stephen P. McGreevy, Rabbitsquirrel, Fluorescent Grey, Shaun Robert, Christian Zegna, Otolythe, and Vangelis.

Broadcasts (also transmitted simultaneously online):

Saturday 20 July

19:00 (UTC+1) on Resonance 104.4 FM, London, UK, and

19:00 (UTC-7) on CJMP 90.1 FM, Powell River, British Columbia (simultaneously)

Tuesday 23 July

00:00 (UTC+1) on Resonance 104.4 FM, London, UK

Wednesday 24 July

01:00 (UTC+2) on Colaboradio, Berlin 88.4 FM and Potsdam 90.7 FM (simultaneously)

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Hamish MacKenzie plays tracks from 'Mugress' by Krausen Ypsmael (tape out on Steep Gloss, June 2024) alongside tracks by MSGG, Zoviet France, Vesal Javaheri, Noise a Noise, Fossil Aerosol Mining Project, Bren't Lewiis Ensemble, Butte County Free Music Society, Chemiefaserwerk, Burnt Seed Records, The Pianos, Facetoucher and more on the upcoming Lost and Found Sounds radioshow on Australia's 2BOB RADIO 104.7fm - this streams live today from 1 PM CET, or later on-demand at www.2bobradio.org.au/lost-and-found-sounds

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Thanks to Rigo Dittmann for reviewing Mugress by Krausen Ypsmael (Steep Gloss, sg70, C-40) in the upcoming issue of Bad Alchemy Magazine (BA 125): “Wie gemalt. Aber Stefan Krausen hat neben seinem malerischen Fokus auch eine musikalische Vorgeschichte mit Stefan Schneider (von Kreidler, To Rococo Rot) und Deux Balaines Blanches in der Düsseldorfer Elektronikszene der 80er. In den 10er Jahren verband er dann seine visuellen und perkussiven Gestaltungsformen mit Ypsmael, dem mehrfach bei eh? und mit Bryan Day (→Eloine) begegneten Schwarzwald-Enigma. Hier auf dieser pastellgrünen Kassette gehen die bei der Anfertigung des im Original 200 x 96 cm großen ‘Mugress’-Artworks 'erklungenen’ Tinten-, Acryl- und Ölfarbpinselstriche einher mit damit korrespondierender Elektroakustik seitens von Ypsmael. Es erklingt ein raues, in sich bewegtes und metallisch akzentuiertes Surren, Dröhnen, Beben und Oszillieren. Als quasi turntablistische Suggestion im Stil von Ignaz Schick, Martin Tétreault etc. Als motorisches Brummen und Sirren mit mechanisch knackenden Anmutungen, Loops kurzer lautlicher Injektionen und Erika Manns: Am Ende liegt die Welt in Schutt und Trümmern. Die wir so listig-tüchtig aufgebaut. Nix mit Ich male mir die Welt, wie sie mir gefällt, nein, statisches Rauschen, durchwirkt mit knarrigen und Scratchgeräuschen. Bei 'B1 (re-barraging NM)’ als Klangturbine auf üüü mischt, dröhnt, saust, quarrt noch N. Mueller / Soundindex in Meersburg mit. Und bei 'B2’ branden im Breitformat raue Schübe und wiederkehrende Flatterwellen zum nur milden Alarm einer eintönigen 'Harmonika’. So progrediert man Richtung Mu.”