BOCHUM WELT April LP

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PRZEZROCZYSTY WINYL

Limited edition for Record Store Day 2017

Veteran Italian hardware lover Bochum Welt returns with ‘April’, due on !K7
as their first ever Record Store Day release in April 2017. ‘April’ is a broad
16 track exploration of ambient and downtempo that revisits and re-edits
a selection of old works as well as offering up brand new music - and sees
the first release on vinyl of all tracks compiled here.
Real name Gianluigi Di Costanzo, Bochum Welt has long been experimenting
with his various machines, and as far back as 1994 was releasing
on Aphex Twin’s influential Rephlex label. He went on to put out many EPs
and three full lengths there, as well as linking with BMG and Sony Music
Japan. He is an accomplished musical engineer, sound designer and
master of electronic atmospheres, and in his time he has made it into The
Wire’s Top 15 albums of the year, and has also worked with the legendary
Thomas Dolby's California based Beatnik and Headspace Inc. Live, he
has opened for Aphex Twin and Thomas Dolby; often the sketches on
display in ‘April’ form the basis for Welt’s live show, having been transposed
using various vintage pedals and sound manglers.
All of these accomplishments are proven here across short but absorbing
tracks which are all previously unreleased or newly reworked. A number of
the selected tracks here previously appeared on ‘R.O.B. ( Robot Operating
Buddy)’ and on ‘Good Programs (To Be Coloured In Yellow)’, originally
released on Rephlex in 2008 and 2013 respectively but never before on
vinyl. Among these, the likes of ‘Garden (NYC Mix)’ showcase a return to
the originals with an inventive re-edit and re-invigoration. Additionally,
‘Ghost’ and ’Azure’ are brand new and previously unheard material from
Bochum Welt - the former a beautiful daydream introduction to ‘April’, and
the latter an equally atmospheric bookend to the release.
Indeed, from crunchy beats overlaid with pixelated pads to blissfully
organic and spring-like sound tracks via tender piano laced ambient
numbers, the music on ‘April’ is never less than beautiful. It can be
heavenly yet of this world, but also synthetic and computerised. Together,
though, it makes for dynamic and standalone work that is utterly timeless.
Expressive and personal throughout, this album is about sound research
and melodic sensibility and is as technically awe inspiring as it is purely
enjoyable.