sonar eXperience, by Jörg Schaaf

sonar eXperience

by Jörg Schaaf

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patient_ot An updated 90s take on Berlin School electronic music. Quite a lot of variety here, but it holds well together thematically and is very well crafted. I'm guessing this a pretty obscure release outside of Germany, but it definitely deserves more attention.

Michael Brückner .

This marvellous album is one of the hidden gems of sophisticated (yet entertaining) German 90ies electronica and has been criminally underrated since it's original release.

It's - partly - in the vein of Jörg Schaaf's (also excellent!) collaborations with synth pioneer Klaus Schulze - but is actually even wider in stylistical scope, while it manages in the same time to create a very cohesive experience (!).

A great, great sonic journey indeed!
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... Favorite track: laydown sonics.

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The download contains two hidden bonus tracks, only available for customers, who bought the entire album download. Thank you very much for your purchase and enjoy the additional tracks. One of them is unpublished so far, the other one is the song flyday you maybe already heard in the youtube video.
UPDATE: I added scans of the CD artwork for the booklet, the inlay card and the CD. I also added some photos.

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1.	awake 00:57	buy track
2.	sonorous supersonics 06:26	buy track
3.	fear I 00:58	buy track
4.	turningpoint 05:22	buy track
5.	fear II 01:01	buy track
6.	psychosis beat 06:27	buy track
7.	sequencia 05:22	buy track
8.	fear III 00:27	buy track
9.	Eric's birth 04:42	buy track
10.	nighttrip 05:00	buy track
11.	laydown sonics 06:56	buy track
12.	wave transmitter 05:29	buy track
13.	last point of infinity 03:13	buy track

about

Beautiful in it’s darkness, perfect in it’s terror. The panic pouring from it attracts the listener from the very first instant; its bleak, confining ambiences, are born from the lowest of sounds and the most distorted effects. Sonar Experience is a quest through fear and the past; a past overcrowded with german sounds and perfect sequences in which textures are varied and twisted to the point that they reach the perfection of a Greek sculpture. Tangerine Dream, Schulze… their style is evoked yet reformulated; adapted to modernity, yet not perverted by it. A masterpiece reminding us that which is creativity: to know the past, mix it up, and from its sum, become innovative.
Laura S. García – Amazing Sounds

www.joergschaaf.de/wordpress/dannebroek-musikstudio-linden-und-die-produktion-des-sonar-experience-albums/

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released January 1, 1999

music composed, produced and mastered 1998-1999 by Jörg Schaaf at Dannebroek Musikstudio, Linden. Thanks to Vartan, Wolfram Schmidt, Klaus Schulze, Dierk Uwe Walther, Hans Joachim Reh, Musikhaus Schönau - Gießen. contact: mailbox@joergschaaf.de

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