Work, by Nick Höppner

Work

by Nick Höppner

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kristian Amou Hello your album has a lot of musical energy, I was not expecting a change of direction

Myrko This track is pure energy!
Thanks Nick, you're a master
Love Favorite track: Clean Living w/ Tram 78.

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A1. All by Themselves (My Belle)
A2. Clean Living w/ Tram 78

B1. Fly Your Colours
B2. From Up And Down

C1. The Dark Segment
C2. Forced Resonance

D1. In My Mind
D2. Hole Head
D3. Three Is A Charm w/ Randweg

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1. All by Themselves (My Belle)
2. Clean Living w/ Tram 78
3. In My Mind
4. Hole Head
5. The Dark Segment
6. Forced Resonance
7. Fly Your Colours
8. From Up And Down
9. Three Is A Charm w/ Randweg

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1.	All By Themselves (My Belle) 08:18	buy track
2.	Clean Living w/ Tram 78 06:31	buy track
3.	In My Mind 06:02	buy track
4.	Hole Head 04:21	buy track
5.	The Dark Segment 09:09	buy track
6.	Forced Resonance 06:13	buy track
7.	Fly Your Colours 07:06	buy track
8.	From Up & Down 07:14	buy track
9.	Three Is A Charm w/ Randweg 05:33	buy track

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Nick Höppner | Work | ostgutcd40/lp26

Panorama Bar resident Nick Höppner gets to Work on his second solo album on Ostgut Ton, connecting the territories of House music with the ease of Alt-Pop.

An axiom that fuels the capitalist system just as the Techno/House scene economy says that one needs to keep oneself busy to make a living. As a musician, things are complicated of course. It’s a long way from the romantic idea of creating music simply for the sake of art to becoming a full time musician. Those who have accomplished this feat often find themselves in a professional loop of writing the music, producing it, promoting it (with an info text like this), releasing it and then hopefully selling it. After leaving his full time job as Ostgut Ton’s label manager in 2012, Nick Höppner went fully freelance, focusing on his musically diverse, deep and dynamic DJing in and outside Berghain’s Panorama Bar, but more importantly spending more time in the studio. The result was his critically acclaimed debut album Folk (Ostgut Ton, 2015), various 12“ releases and remixes, and now his sophomore LP, Work, which, more than ever, lays out his refined production skills and his talent to work the machines until they reveal their inner ghosts: nine new songs that now dodge the dance floor, then fully embrace it.

On Work, Höppner shows his everlasting lust for musical detail, his increasing technical skills and compositional finesse. Work is a very personal, soulful and deep record that breaks through the usual club/dancefloor narrative by documenting Nick’s interest for hybrid sounds and combining elements from varying musical genres. Work’s lead single “All By Themselves (My Belle)” is a very atmospheric, intimate and steadily unfurling IDM piece with ethereal synth and vocal pads; on the album it’s contrasted by “Clean Living” with Tram 78, a modern Höppner club classic: powerful, kick-heavy, muscular, cheerful and uplifting. It’s a very personal track resulting from a recent reencounter with an old friend. Having spent countless hours together in Berlin’s clubs in ever changing states of mind a decade ago or longer, things have since changed for both towards a more „clean living“. Connecting to this musical vibe “In My Mind” follows with a slightly darker tone putting emphasis on bassline, percussion and squeaky sound detailing. “Hole Head” pays tongue-in-cheek homage to Nick’s love for UK club music, when a dashing melody of synths and vibraphone is matched with clattering breaks and syncopation. The dubby, mesmerizing “The Dark Segment” not only impresses with its hypnotic synth figurines, but also by morphing to a shuffling Jazz rhythm towards it’s middle part; “Forced Resonance” uses Oberheim synth brass stabs to dramatic effect; the percussion- and clap-laden “Fly Your Colours” comes with an irresistible piano melody atop an energetic kick; and finally the album-closing, shuffling but rhythmic, noisy yet bluesy “Three Is A Charm” featuring the duo Randweg on clarinet, cajón and acoustic guitar is a coherent departure heading towards Indie Pop territory. It sees Nick collaborating with acoustic instrumentalists for the first time in his ten-year-spanning Ostgut Ton release catalogue.

more info: ostgut.de/label/record/197

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released June 9, 2017

Written and produced by Nick Höppner
2 written by Nick Höppner & Tram 78
9 written by Nick Höppner, Andi Ernst & David Baurmann
Clarinet on 9 by Andi Ernst, guitar & cajón by David Baurmann
Mixed by Matthew Styles

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