Byetone
Dual
*In process of stocking* VAxBY is Albert van Abbe & Byetone. Dutch sound artist Albert van Abbe now joins the Raster family, with an unexpected collaboration with founder Olaf Bender aka Byetone title »Dual«. The result of their collaboration is both smooth and haptic, rounding out as an expressive camaraderie between the two veteran producers. Jovial and innocent, »Dual« alludes to the experimental research process of finding common ground. Fully embracing the haphazard richness of live recordi…
Plastic Star
Olaf Bender is co-founder of Raster-noton label. With Plastic star he (pre-)releases an ep of his upcoming album death of a typographer on the label. Plastic star, the title track, illustrates quite well his main concern with music. a stoical bass drum beat grows, gains energy and intensifies with expressive guitar-like sound waves into an intense and propulsive piece. The sound pretty much reminds of rock music, of the 80-s, but byetone rather focuses on the concept and attitude of that music. …
Deathofatypographer
Death of a typographer is meant to be a snap shot. The release was recorded in a winter week in Berlin. Only the pre-released single plastic star was created in sunny athens. The album contains the original session version of plastic star. The music of death of a typographer carries the special sound of raster-noton - but it is different: the tracks act as focal points, as elegy of an latently flowing stream, a stream that still moves on even when the music has long faded away. The tracks do not…