Kreuzberg - Kreuzberg

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4...according to our Clinton on Fri 01 Jul, 2011.

Minimal by name and minimal by nature. This is the project of drummer and composer Andreas Peters and DJ Jens Strüver. They met while playing football and 20 years after the last sliding tackle re-united to record this LP of very minimal kraut rock sounds. So influenced in fact that the first track is called 'Neu!?'.The sounds contained on the tracks herein are based on drums, vibraphone (bowed), with other noises comes from turntables and bass. It has a very trebly digi-dub type sound to it but the most impressive track, the dub-laden 'Unheimlich' recalls To Rococo Rot, Kriedler and other Germanic travellers. The lesser spotted "phasing" effect is used on the drums on "Kaffeepause" whilst the whole of the B side is taken up by one track 'Grille' which is something akin to the Knightrider theme tune played by 'Future Days'-era Can.

After the second reissue by Conrad Schnitzler and a new album by the label heads Borngräber & Strüver it's time now for Kreuzberg.

Kreuzberg is the project of drummer and composer Andreas Peters and DJ Jens Strüver (borngräber & strüver, J.R. Plankton). In their childhood they played in the same football club somewhere in West Germany and met again 20 years later in Kreuzberg / Berlin.

They realized that in their lives music always has been playing an important role and as their interests in musical styles where highly compatible they created the project kreuzberg.

The tracks are based on drumset, vibraphone (bowed), other acoustic material comes from turntables, the bass is the only synthetic element of the record. The music is influenced by dub, club music, minimal music and Conny-Plank-Krautrock.