Exclusive combined appearance of the German space-electro-Dadaist Felix Kubin and wacky Polish (big-)band Mitch&Mitch who will be releasing a joint album on Felix’ label Gagarin records just before coming to Ljubljana. You will be roaring with laughter! MITCH&MITCH / KUBIN In the autumn 2013, the formaldehyd elektronaut Felix Kubin and the incredibly flanging big band
Exclusive combined appearance of the German space-electro-Dadaist Felix Kubin and wacky Polish (big-)band Mitch&Mitch who will be releasing a joint album on Felix’ label Gagarin records just before coming to Ljubljana. You will be roaring with laughter!
MITCH&MITCH / KUBIN
In the autumn 2013, the formaldehyd elektronaut Felix Kubin and the incredibly flanging
big band Mitch & Mitch meets, mixes and mingles in their studios in Warsaw and Hamburg
conducting an electro-acoustic experiment: the production of an avant-garde pop library
record. To reach this goal they invited German producer legend Tobias Levin to be their
electric conduit. With their faces turned to the dark side of the moon and their hearts
charged with the alluring moods of Gesamtkunstwerk, they will descend into the cellar of
human fear and entartete Rhythmik, sharpen their lenses and look right into the eye of
electric voodoo. Upon completion of the delta phase, documented by the underground (but
fully legal) laboratories of Lado ABC and Gagarin Records on stereophonic sound carriers,
Felix Kubin and Mitch & Mitch will enter the next phase, called “sonic presentations” or
“science’s litmus paper.” At the turn of 2013 and 2014 this Big Band X-ray music will arrive
in some cities of Europe as a 10-person combo, aided by a sophisticated selection of
instruments. Apart from the aforementioned material, they will also present special
arrangements of previous exploits of both sets.
Influences: BBC radiophonic workshop, Czech and Polish film music, Stockhausen,
Stockholm, Stroboscope, KPM library music, Raymond Scott, Daphne Oram, Jerzy
Woźniak, Philips Research Labs, Electric Voodoo, Medical Disasters, The Final Flu, EKG
machines, X-Rays, Silencer, Reverse Wagner, Mambo Mortale, Sequencer Music,
Musique Concréte, Buildings of Concrete, Underwater Dishes, Explosions, Earthquakes,
Maximum Capacities, Elevator Muzak, Electric Tootbrushes, Electric Shavers, Electric
Chairs, Hairy Animals, Phase Extinction, Hörspiel, Sinister Reverberation, Pluto
Solidarnosc…
Short BIOs:
Being a lovechild of the home recording era, Felix Kubin started to make electronic music
already at the young age of 12. Since the 1980s he has become a prolific composer,
producer and performer, working across the fields of theatre, animation, film, radio art and
electronic music, much of it containing his dark humor and manic-retro perspective on the
surreal mindstates that developed behind the Iron Curtain during the Cold War. Kubin has
gained an international reputation as one of the most dynamic live performers of electronic
music, as well as being Jury Gagarins telepathic conductor.
There are plenty of stories trying to cover the Mitch & Mitch phenomenon. Most of them
include keywords like: Tom (…), (…), 5-piece duo, 9-piece duo, and more. It would be great
(…) to clear it all up, but after (…) we’re totally lost.
But (…), maybe it all does make sense? Let’s see. We started the band (…) wanting to
record a cover of (…). (…) we used to play the shows as a 5-piece duo, since 2008 we’ve
rarely done so, choosing instead a better, 9-piece option. (…) some people started to call
what we do (…), probably due to the (…) usage of a brass section and the instrument
called Vibr-O-Matic (TM) (…) defining the sound of our latest album “XXII Century Sound
Pioneers”. And more? Yeah, there is (…) more, but after (…) of being (…), we’re totally lost.
