Freund der Familie - Symbian/Pewars / FDF004
residentadvisor.net wrote:
After a run of remixes by other artists, Berliners Freund der Familie return for the fourth release on their eponymous imprint. This pair of tracks have already moved particularly quickly, making it into the sets of Sven Weisemann and the like, who himself has already contributed his fair share to the burgeoning project.
Clocking in at a little under nine minutes, "Symbian" is billed as an edited version, which makes me more than curious to hear the track in its full glory. Shadowy, atmospheric and progressive, it resembles a great bird wheeling steadily inwards towards its prey without ever burying its claws. The slow rise in tension is like a cruel game, while the dubstep-inflected beats skip like a steadily racing heart. The percussive work is particularly impressive, adding surprisingly soft layers of rhythm and syncopation to crowd in the dub synths and slowly build the compelling pressure.
"Pewars" is longer still, but a slow burner, ploughing along workmanlike thanks to its chugging cymbals. The light-hearted bass bobbles battle doggedly to lift the gloomy, industrial ambience of the slithery metallic echoes until the rugged beat drops in. While a little heavy, "Pewars" never gets dull as there is always a little change around the bend to keep it interesting.



boomkat wrote:
**White Vinyl** We've been struggling to breath through the swamp of sub-par or just plain nice dub techno releases over the last 12 months at least, but one label we can always trust to handle the template with care and an intrepid spirit is Freund Der Familie. While so many labels and artists feel so obliged to stick with the formula of heavy four to the floor kick drums and 120bpm-130bpm tempos, this label has made the simple step of creating broken patterns and here, leaping up to 140bpm to sound like a lost Chain Reaction classic. 'Symbian (Edit)' strides up to tempos more associated with Torsten T++'s Erosion project , but with the benefit of dubstep related hindsight, screws the rhythm with offset snares to create a tensile strength with the best of both styles. 'Pewars' on the flip subsides to a resting subbass pulse of 120bpm, guided by crisp hi-hats and set deep into an atmosphere of ominous grandeur, reminding us of the subtle darkness of Moritz Von Oswald's 2raumwohnung remix. These cuts simply stand out from the crowd - get in while you can, these twelves never ever last! Highly Recommended.


Freund der Familie - Sark Remixes / FDF003
de-bug wrote:
"Herrliche Remixe von Sven Weisemann und Marko Fürstenberg, die sich beide so tief in den fluffigen Stromschnellen des Dub verlieren, dass man gar nicht merkt wie die Zeit vergeht. Weisemann ist dabei ein wenig melodieverliebter, macht kleine Ausflüge unter Wasser, stoppt da, wo die Bömbchen explodieren und schaut den geplinkerten Hallfahnen ganz tief in den Schlund … so grün wie die Wiesen in “Pushing Daisys”. Fürstenberg geht da ein bisschen strenger vor, kettet den Dub gandenlos an und punktet in Funkyness. Kann ich den ganzen Tag hören, so großartige Platten.
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thaddi  

residentadvisor.net wrote:
After some pressing plant delays, the new Freund der Familie single finally hits the stores in glorious white 10-inch vinyl. If you're lucky enough to get the numbered special edition, that is. But don't let the aesthetics distract you from the quality music inside: Both Sven Weisemann and Marko Fürstenberg apply some serious atmospheric pressure to the dubbed out original with stunning results.
Weisemann is up first and lets his short range mix stroll elegantly and at length over the never ending heartbeat throb of the bass. Less café house and percussively embellished than some of his previous works, Weisemann almost sounds like the medium for the music to pass through here—rather than its strict master. The pace is wonderfully light and persistent while the mood sustains its subtle colour and bright revelations. The breakdown in the middle is paramount, letting in a head rush of oxygen and brimming night. Slowly the flow is released again into a gentle current of synth pads, scratchy percussion and drifting tides, which simply ebb gently away without ever peaking.
Marko Fürstenberg's mix is also full of broad changes, but is somewhat faster flowing. Opening like an early Pole track, it quickly digs deeper into the rhythm section while adding a castigating whip-like percussion. The sound is at first overtly mechanistic, but the illusion is soon broken as hot dub jets and tiny, unpredictable percussive volcanoes erupt everywhere to add a compelling flow. The accumulation of subtle details is spectacular, but only when the hand claps drop in and the whole track turns on its head into a darkly seductive house number does it become clear just how well made it is. Sublime and moody.


 



Freund der Familie - Sark / FDF002
de-bug wrote:
Nach der sensationellen “König der Welt”-EP mit Weisemann-Remix, macht der neue Release vom Freund der Familie nicht weniger Spaß. Sehr gefühlvoll schwurbeln die Dubs durch den Kosmos der unscharfen Glückseeligkeit, tapsen japsend an den Echo-Kratern vorbei und verwirbeln sich in leichten, irgendwie total positiv gestimmten Tape-Delay-Entladungen. Taron Trekka legen in ihrem Remix auf der B-Seite den Zeitlupen-Deephouse ganz vorne auf die Kante, lassen eine Art Rhodes über das Stück ziehen, das zuerst klingt wie eine Gitarre, setzen zum frei schwingenden Improvisations-Gipfel an, bevor sich alle wieder brav in die Reihe stellen und den handclappigen Boogie-Hüftschwung perfektionieren. Ein großes Stück Musik, das nicht nur erschütternd laid back ist.
www.freundderfamilie.com
thaddi

residentadvisor.net wrote:
If you missed the first single on Freund der Familie’s new label of the same name, don't sleep on the second. Like Mojuba, FDF is starting to become a seriously listenable and highly collectable imprint. And while Sark may not reach the heights of FDF's debut, this second instalment comes pretty close, packing in plenty of smooth deepness into two widely varied sides.
As on the previous outing, the A-side comes courtesy of Klaus Rakete and Mirko Hunger in their Freund der Familie guise. This time, however, they've traded in the ominously brooding and glacial dub step/dub techno sound for ethereal dub house. Poised somewhere on the edge of sleep, 'Sark' drifts between an almost inaudible heartbeat bass and a trickling brook of percussive flutters, never quite awakening. The echoing chords and hiss that work the spaces are reminiscent of Rhythm and Sound, but the outcome is a bodiless drift into tranquillity rather than dancefloor mayhem. For home listening it’s a treat, but DJs will still find it useful for bridging sets or using it as a tool.
The flipside remix comes from little known Taron-Trekka, last seen earlier this year on the Brut! label. With so few sounds to work with, it's no surprise to hear them taking a similar pace and kick drum—and maintaining the original's dreamy ebb and flow. The mix, however, is far more bright-light and awake, no doubt due to the fact that the duo layer on new sounds like a run of twinkling cocktail glass piano licks. Coupled with a slow-building percussive swagger, this track eventually reveals itself as a suave and slow deep house hit. Simple but elegant sounds on both sides of limited—and numbered—white vinyl. Need I say more?


boomkat wrote:
Given that the last release on this label was, for our money, pretty much the best thing to have happened to the whole "dub techno" scene in quite some time, it's with no small amount of relish that we greet the arrival of this incredible second twelve from the mysterious Freund der Familie imprint. Available in a hand-numbered edition of 499 copies and pressed on white vinyl, the material here simply puts to shame so much of what passes for deep Techno these days - with a completely engrossing production style that, while reminding us of Rod Modell's most inspired moments, somehow takes the whole thing to another level. The original version of 'Sark' just oozes brilliance, with a padded kickdrum and submerged percussion flowing in and out of frayed, almost dysfunctional chords and layers of tape hiss. The effect is almost paralysing, you more or less forget that this thing has a beat or any kind of propulsion, so woozy are its surroundings. The flipside offers up a remix from Taron-Trekka, who manages to somehow out-do the original with a complete re-configuration that turns the whole thing into a sparkling, slowed down House variation complete with impossibly nostalgic chord changes and distant bells that you don't expect but which suddenly throw you into a spin. It just has to be, for our money, one of the loveliest things you'll hear this year, completing another absolutely precious release from this wonderful, utterly beguiling label. MIGHTY twelve - Essential Purchase!


Freund der Familie - König der Welt / FDF001
boomkat wrote:
An absolutely immense twelve this - Freunde der Familie cut bone deep with a simply unbeleivable track from 1998, an endlessly deep, dense dub variation that comes over like some kind of heart-stopping dubstep prototype fused with classic Basic Channel stabs and reverberations. It's a spectral stepper formed around a broken halftime rhythm ensconced within luxuriant vapours of dub atmospherics, taking all the time it needs to muster up a whole minutes worth of 4/4 kicks around 3/4 way through, before subsiding back into mist like it was never there, f**king ace. Sven Weisemann gives the track a far more functional overhaul with a steady 4/4 pulse running throughout and some wickedly offset dub chords making for a highly involving dancing experience, shut your eyes and get with it. Needless to say, this is just utterly awesome - and extremely limited to boot!

phonicarecords wrote:
Mysterious new label and artist from - where else - Berlin, with what was originally an ultra limited, hand-stamped, white vinyl release (could they do anything more to make it collectable?!) that's in line with the whole Mojuba/Artless/Hardwax family of labels. Deep dubby techno for the mind and the body. Incorporating some dubstep elements, the original version of "Konig Der Welt" (King of the world to us non-Germans) is slow dreamy and rather wonderfull. On the flip remix comes from Sven Weisemann who beefs things up, adding a techno beat to spice up the proceedings. Black vinyl repress.

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