Biography
We are a small record label based in Leipzig / Germany and we produce a kind of
music here which we call - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE
(DLR).This means nothing else but that we produce first and above all REGGAE music
(or DUB) in it's classical sense, which in itself is nothing new, but since we're
having a background of mostly electronic music we're doing this with the only tool
that is obvious to use for that purpose - a COMPUTER, and a computer only.
When you are using a computer via a specific interface (the software) for making
music the sound and feel of it is by definition DIGITAL. You can always hear the
math and the algorhythms that are the foundation of sound design and arrangment.
So
the interesting thing with DLR is and was (first of all for us - since DLR
started
out as an experiment) that it is nevertheless possible to generate
something like
Reggae or Dub, basically the manifestation of a non-math, 100%-soulful approach on
music, with a machine made for calculation of numbers and
computation of programs.
Or in short: the basic principles behind REGGAE and COMPUTER generated music are
by
definition principles that completely exclude each other. To our surprise
experiments with this paradoxon turned out a kind of music that functioned and
that
is even 'NEW', whatever meaning this term can have today.
So, above all we are a REGGAE label. You won't find any straight bassdrums or Dub-Techno here, you'll find classic DUB done with a computer.
music here which we call - for the lack of a better term - DIGITAL LAPTOP REGGAE
(DLR).This means nothing else but that we produce first and above all REGGAE music
(or DUB) in it's classical sense, which in itself is nothing new, but since we're
having a background of mostly electronic music we're doing this with the only tool
that is obvious to use for that purpose - a COMPUTER, and a computer only.
When you are using a computer via a specific interface (the software) for making
music the sound and feel of it is by definition DIGITAL. You can always hear the
math and the algorhythms that are the foundation of sound design and arrangment.
So
the interesting thing with DLR is and was (first of all for us - since DLR
started
out as an experiment) that it is nevertheless possible to generate
something like
Reggae or Dub, basically the manifestation of a non-math, 100%-soulful approach on
music, with a machine made for calculation of numbers and
computation of programs.
Or in short: the basic principles behind REGGAE and COMPUTER generated music are
by
definition principles that completely exclude each other. To our surprise
experiments with this paradoxon turned out a kind of music that functioned and
that
is even 'NEW', whatever meaning this term can have today.
So, above all we are a REGGAE label. You won't find any straight bassdrums or Dub-Techno here, you'll find classic DUB done with a computer.