We are very pleased to announce the launch of THE ITALIC SHOWROOM on Tuesday 22 June from 8 pm to 10 pm at the GOLD concept store in Cologne. In order to celebrate the release of the brand-new VON SPAR long-player Foreigner we will introduce limited compact disc and vinyl editions of the album along with some specially designed products which will be available exclusively on the evening.
THE ITALIC SHOWROOM is a temporary store and exhibition space.
Tuesday, June 22, 2010, 8:00pm - 10:00pm, Gold, Antwerpenerstr. 13, 50672 Cologne, Germany
For this year’s C/O POP we are presenting artists from Cologne and Düsseldorf and organizing the first ever Italic Come Together Mini-Festival at the Deutzer Hafen in Cologne in order to put our newest artists onstage in an open format.
The headlining act is VON SPAR, who will be presenting their magnificent, cosmic album “Foreigner” in a danceable, atmospheric and playful manner – with visual reinforcement. The glamor of their show will be foreshadowed by a young producer from Düsseldorf, the bon vivant and entertainer LUCAS CROON. His Krautrock-No-Wave is extremely sexy and his show is massively extroverted. Much more raw, yet even more danceable are HARMONIOUS THELONIOUS & BAND. Africa is coming to Deutz – and anyone who can’t stand drums or gets an earache from industrial sounds should be prepared an inferno! POPNONAME is a man who needs no further introduction, right? But if that is not the case: Get ready for grand pop gestures and sophisticated beats for body and mind. It’s enough electrifying entertainment to make Brian Ferry green with envy.
So put on your white overalls, slip into those leather sandals or just go barefoot and dance with us. It’s going to be a hippy-fest for everyone who appreciates flowers, free love, peace and futuristic music… (read on…)
Von Spar - trOOps (Original Version) by italic
Von Spar - trOOps (Prince Language Pleasure Dub 7inch Mix) by italic
Hey Folks,
Well, at the moment the soundtrack to our lives is Foreigner, the fabulous new VON SPAR long-player, which comes out on May 28. Before the dauntless quartet releases the full package, the 12″ trOOps will hit the streets. This one comes with two real deep cosmic exercises by Prince Language and one dry cool slamming Rebolledo remix. Those who have followed the VON SPAR tribe over the last years know that the boys from Berlin and Cologne also like motion pictures, too. Now the airplane-crashing cyber-video for the their last single HyBoLT is nominated for the MuVi award at the famous International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. If you would like to support our disco troopers, vote for their masterpiece with some clicks via this link: www.kurzfilmtage.de/vote-for-von-spar
As we all know: these days, you no longer join a trail to the west in order to challenge new frontiers. Instead you dive into technology. That’s why KREIDLER are playing their first ever Iphone concert, as part of the Night of the Museums in Düsseldorf. The concert is taking place on May 8 at the NRW-Forum and we all wonder how it will sound. More cosmic? More digital? More Afro-digital? Will they jack? And where will the percussion attacks come from? Surprise, surprise…
Okay - that’s it for now. We promise to be back soon. Here are the upcoming releases:
ITALIC 089 - Kreidler - Impressions d’Afrique (Extended 12 Inch Version & Unit 4 Remix) - 12″
ITALIC 090 - Von Spar - trOOps (incl. Prince Language & Rebolledo Rmxs) - 12″
ITALIC 091 - Von Spar - Foreigner - CD/LP
Love from outerspace, The Italics
“The ever-intriguing KREIDLER return with a single version of “Impressions d’Afrique” from their MOSAIK 2014 album, backed with a Krautrocking disco mix. The original album version is firstly given an extended makeover, grooving deeper into the tribal drum patterns and giving the cold-wavey synths longer to unfurl. In remixed form, “Impressions d’Afrique” becomes a serious cosmic groover, revolving around simple bassline arpeggiations and wicked slow 80s drum machines to sound like something from the Moxie series or a Danielle Baldelli set. Ace.” (Boomkat, UK) Read more… Physical 12″ vinyl edition is available from Kompakt.fm, A Number Of Small Things, Boomkat, Phonica, etc…
Kreidler - Impressions d’Afrique (Extended 12 Inch Version) by italic Kreidler - Impressions d’Afrique (Unit 4`s Oro Borum Bonga Baum Chant Remix) by italic