Fred Rapid delivered a monster,
only groovebox and vocals, produced on the run and recorded rough,
the unwanted daughter of Menschmaschine.
To release this gem we decided to try something new. While the first single was released as a T-Shirt with download-code, we releases the album as a book, an art catalogue with an introduction by Ralph Christoph and Tobias Thomas (Kompakt). Several artists interpreted the music in a medium of their choice, like Modest Mussorgsky’s “Pictures at an Exhibition” the other way round. The only obligation was to entitle the contributed work with one of the song titles of the album. All works of the artists are displayed in the catalogue, which includes a code to download the whole Fred Rapid album (320 kbit/mp3) and a 7” single (crystal vinyl). It is of course also possible to buy the music without catalogue at download shops, but there is no conventional medium like CD or LP.
The following 29 artists contributed works to the project:
Tim Berresheim, Bernadette Blendl, Theo Boettger, Hannes Broecker, Jan Brokof, Markus Buddenbrock, Sebastian Gögel, Henriette Grahnert, Owen Gump, Ulrich Hakel, Andreas Hildebrandt, Gregor Hildebrandt, Gunilla Jähnichen, Iris Kettner, Alicja Kwade, Briac Lepretre, Phillip Maiwald, Christof Mascher, Regine Müller-Waldeck, Anne Neukamp, Ulrich Pester, Malwine Rafalski, Renaud Regnery, Jenny Rosemeyer, Jürgen Schwämmle, Vreni Spieser, Juliane Walther, Gudrun Wernet, Johannes Wohnseife
Glassworks
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