Hunker

Schedelvreter

Hunker

 

2012

  • 1.
    A1 Beast
  • 2.
    A2 Cibola
  • 3.
    A3 Sounding Heaven
  • 4.
    A4 Howl
  • 5.
    B1 Efigy
  • 6.
    B2 Desert
  • 7.
    B3 Artificial Life
  • MW034

We’re proud to an­noun­ce our 34th re­lease, a li­mited edi­tion hand-silkscreened 10” re­lease of Schedelvret­er (which loose­ly trans­lates as “Skull Gobbl­er”), the Dutch side pro­ject of bril­liant minim­al synth pione­er Danny Bost­en, best known for his pro­ject Das Ding. The seven tracks were original­ly re­cor­ded in Danny’s home studio and self-released on a cas­sette en­tit­led Hunk­er via his Tear Apart Tapes label in 1985. The newly re­mas­tered 10” re­lease will be out in late Janua­ry, and will be li­mited to 999 hand-silkscreened num­bered co­p­ies pre­ssed on black medium weight vinyl.
Un­like Das Ding, Schedelvret­er is not pattern-based or sequen­ced, the synth sounds are hand played over a col­lage of found sounds. At the time, Danny was ex­periment­ing with a Crumar synth that was fall­ing apart, and would sporadical­ly create sounds that were like human voices. He created mas­sive drum sounds by layer­ing noise, using lef­tov­er four-track ad­di­tions in re­ver­se and some live drum re­cord­ings co­ur­tesy of his brot­her’s tapes. The end re­sult feels nar­rative and fil­mic, like the sound track to an im­agina­ry apocalyp­tic movie: bleak and de­solate.

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All sample clips are 30-90 seconds in length

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