POOLcast

POOLcast 099 - J-M-S The second POOLcast of 2024 joins the line-up of fully improvised works from previous months. This time, however, it's not one person alone who has sat down at his modular system and pressed record, but J-M-S have once again recorded one of their jam sessions for you. J-M-S plays live music with all kinds of electronic devices, which are completely improvised without any guide...

POOLcast 098 - Lumia Sylko Our first POOLcast in 2024 comes from Switzerland and, like our last edition, is a live modular synth recording. Lumia Sylko is essentially an audiovisual project that uses the technical means and media of today to offer a platform for creative development. Musically, there are almost no limits. Ambient, minimal, jazz, drone, electroacoustic and musique concrète are all...

POOLcast 097 - Demiurge Our last edition of POOLcast for 2023 brings us back a familiar face. Demiurge aka Demas von Klangscheiben, founding member of POOL and co-initiator of the idea of a monthly podcast series under the POOL banner, has sat down at his modular system again after a "life stuff" break and provided us a recording for you. The end of this creative break is more than a return to wha...

POOLcast 096 - GNILYF We start our new POOLcast season with a mixtape by Gnilyf, co-founder and POOLcast curator from the very beginning. For the start of our tenth POOLcast season, gnilyf presents a mixtape that ranges between the genres of jazz, experimental, ambient, drone and techno. The mixture of styles has accompanied POOLcast since the first editions and is thus the cornerstone for the dev...

POOLcast 095 - Concept Special - Transmissions III https://youtu.be/l_03gJ2T4c0 … dHJhbnNtaXNzaW9uIGNhbGwgYmFjaw0KcHJvdG9jb2wgMg0KQXJyYXkgR S1GLTM2DQpub2RlICVNMzQ5OCB0byAlTTM1MDINCkNhbGxpbmcgU2VlZC AlTTM0OTgNCnBpbmcgJU0zNDk4DQpwaW5nICVNMzQ5OA0KcGluZyAlTT M0OTgNCnBpbmcgJU0zNDk4DQpQaW5nIHJlc3BvbnNlIGRldGVjdGVkDQpS ZWNpZXZpbmcgdHJhbnNtaXNzaW9uIGZyb20gJU0zNDk4DQpTdGFydCBB cmNoaXZpbmcNClBhY2tpbmcgbm9kZ...

POOLcast 094 - ANN For our September issue we have another Founderscast, so a POOLcast directly from the heart of The POOL Berlin and the POOLcast department. ANN's ongoing journey through the spheres of electronic music currently finds a new peak in the interplay of Ambient and Drone. The first thought that comes to mind with the terms Ambient and Drone is the idea of a wall of standing vibration...

POOLcast 093 - PLO Our August issue brings you another live improvised recording from our very own project PLO. For this recording ANN, Dr. Nojoke, Waldboot and The Artist Formerly Known as From Karaoke to Stardom came together with a whole truckload of music hardware. Samplers, grooveboxes, keyboards, guitar pedals, synthesizers and more create a unique vibe at the PLO sessions right from the set...

POOLcast 091 - Dr. Nojoke For our first summer POOLcast in 2023 we have a collector set from our beloved Dr. Nojoke. Classical, dub, techno, ambient, jazz and electronic are carefree mixed together here, creating a marvel over and over again that fits perfectly into the POOLcast concept. "Life During Wartime" - Part 2, is what Dr. Nojoke calls his collage. Part 1 was a little over a year ago ( htt...

POOLcast 090 - IMT Ninety releases in our POOLcast series is over seven years of monthly releases and for our current milestone ANN and GNILYF aka IMT, our main POOLcast organizers, sat down at their instruments and recorded one of their fully improvised sessions. Such sessions are always an exploration of two constantly, independently, changing musical spheres. Spheres that constantly orbit each...

POOLcast 089 - Live Special - Flandez For our 89th edition of the POOLcast, we dared to do something new , in terms of logistics. In the context of one of our Kitchen Party, we have transmitted the live performance of Flandez Live. Flandez played exclusively self-produced material live arranged and mixed. Hypnotic and driving. Perfect for a nice evening with friends and friends of friends, in one...

POOLcast 088 - GNILYF x Waldboot For our March issue this year we have a kind of creative face-off. The two alter egos of our POOLcast host Sebastian lets the different musical worlds of his creation compete against each other. The two sides of his musical being draw their creativity from self-created sounds, with all kinds of synthesizers and effects, programmed and arranged by himself. However,...

POOLcast 087 - Dinner Special - J-M-S This year's February edition of POOLcast is a new special format that has its origins in the early so-called "beer, wine and machines" meetings of gnilyf and ANN. The idea is simple, it will combine a dinner evening with a jam session. The first edition of the dinner special is an excerpt of a recording made at a dinner in Berlin in late summer 2022. Enjoy. ht...

POOLcast 086 - .subd We kick off the year with a POOLcast edition of .subd from Brazil. POOLcast 086 is a refreshingly energetic piece of work, the perfect start to a new year with our POOLcast series. Every year around new year, some reflect on the past one, and others wonder what the new one has in store for them. Sometimes we look back on the past and let our thoughts wander into the future. Bu...

POOLcast 084 - GNILYF For the conclusion of our seventh season, here's one of GNILYF's Melange Mixtapes. Whether it's ambient, jazz, techno, electronic, musique contrete, classic or virtuosic instrumental music, anything can end up in these multitrack mixtapes. The goal is a journey through many emotional states, creating new perspectives with every playthrough and ever changing mindsets. Sometime...

POOLcast 083 - rand We are happy to present something very new and unique for our october issue. rand, the duo for urban sensitive music for piano and electronics by Dr. Nojoke and Jan Gerdes, have provided us with an exclusive recording of an improvisation. rand have just released their first album "Peripherie", which they distribute themselves. A project that took over two years of work and is n...

POOLcast 082 - ANN Our September edition of the POOLcast this year comes from one of our co-founders, ANN. He rolled out his music carpet and provided us with a digitized tape recording for you. "THE LOST RECORDINGS ARE LEADING US TO ALL THE ANSWERS WE'VE BEEN SEARCHING FOR IN THE BEGINNING" - ANN Searching and finding is an integral part of life and especially the creative life. Sometimes you sea...

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POOLcast 080 - PLO Our 80th POOLcast issue comes directly from the original POOL forge. PLO the heart of the matter, the driving force behind POOL and everything that surrounds POOL, so it is a logical causality to celebrate our current anniversary edition with PLO. POOLcast 080 is a recording. which was created between the holidays in December 2021 as part of the rC3 - remote Chaos Experience - o...

POOLcast 079 - Waldboot Our latest edition of the POOLcast comes this month from Waldboot. A fictional, artificial construct from the world of Three Apes. POOLcast 079 is a weave of the musical aspects of this construct. Synthetic, acoustic and emotional sounds, which have their origin in the coincidence of the moment, document a timeless journey through sheer endless worlds. Waldboot's musical fo...

POOLcast 078 - Collab Special - Infinite Monkey Theorem + The Artist Formerly known as From Karaoke to Stardom Issue 078 of our POOLcast series brings you another collaboration special. This time we have an excerpt of the session of the Infinite Monkey Theorem Duo, consisting of Marcus Block and Sebastian Mehl, and The Artist Formerly Known as From Karaoke to Stardom. The session is completely imp...

POOLcast 077 - Dr. Nojoke For our first POOLcast spring edition of the year we have a collector set from our POOL founder Frank Bogdanowitz aka Dr. Nojoke for you. The foundation of this set consisting of Dub-Techno, Ambient, Jazz and Experimental creates a mixture of reflection and hope, which almost magically pulls the listener out of the moment. A welcome break, as the moment is only a small fr...

POOLcast 076 - Zeitgeist Special - War On Everything War on Drugs War on Terrorism War on Climate Change War on Terror War on Arts War on Religon War on Poverty War on Hunger War on Cancer War on Books War on Crime War on Food War on Inflation War on Water War on Money War on Freedom War on Fear War on Guns War on Homelessness War on Health War on Journalism War on Kindness War on Love War on Land...

POOLcast 075 - Collab Special - Storlon + Dollar Mambo Our second POOLcast of the year is a collaboration between Storlon and Dollar Mambo from Switzerland. In their POOLcast the worlds of a modular enthusiast and a piano player are colliding. Both use all kinds of electric and acoustic sound generators to create a musical hybrid. Acoustic-analog and synthetic-digital with influences from jazz, cl...

POOLcast 074 - Demiurge Our first POOLcast of the year comes from Thomas Bäz alter ego Demiurge. Demiurge is a persona that materializes out of the tensions and flows of a modular system and takes us on his musical expeditions every now and then. To play such a modular system live is already an art in itself, to patch it live and let it expand acoustically in all directions without a fixed obvious...

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