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<label id="kracfive" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/boutique/kracfive/">
  <name>Kracfive</name>
  <shortname>Kracfive</shortname>
  <recording id="kfat_003" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_003/">
    <artist>[va]</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/003_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Penguin Mechanics vol. III</title>
    <catno>KFAT 003</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
    <description>The mechanics were given nearly complete freedom, with the rough guideline of
    constructing a track that resembles the machine; possibly combining recorded and synthesized
    sounds of -- klankgrinding, motor whirring, metallic collisions, beeps and buzzes -- into
    rhythmic components.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_000" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_000/">
    <artist>Colongib</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/000_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Colongib 1</title>
    <catno>KFAT 000</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CAS</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_002" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_002/">
    <artist>Colongib</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/002_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Upgrade [to v2.0]</title>
    <catno>KFAT 002</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_004" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_004/">
    <artist>Colongib</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/004_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Mapping Music</title>
    <catno>KFAT 004</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_008" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_008/">
    <artist>Colongib</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/008_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Special Rumble</title>
    <catno>KFAT 008</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_015" href="http://www.kracfive.com/content/index.php?release=kfat015mp3.htm">
    <artist>Colongib</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/015_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Megablasterfiend 2</title>
    <catno>KFAT 015</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>WEB</code>
      <price></price>
      <availability>
        <a class="out" href="http://www.kracfive.com/content/index.php?release=kfat015mp3.htm">
        visit</a>
      </availability>
    </format>
    <description>Tracks made with paragon5&#8217;s Gameboy tracker in 2000.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_012" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_012/">
    <artist>Colongib, Octopus Inc</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/012_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Colongib &amp; Octopus Inc</title>
    <catno>KFAT 012</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>20.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Touches all the ground from noise to sampledelica to Original Instrument, their
    most recent collaboration with Kettel and Miragliuolo. While Original Instrument used only the
    human voice as a sound source, this new release finds Chris &amp; Noah on familiar ground,
    where everything and anything is available as an instrument including Japanese Gagaku, violins,
    and a bulldozer graveyard. This is 'electronic' music about metal and dust, gritty and dreamy,
    as listenable as Matmos or Boards of Canada, always balancing between chaos and the songs and
    the beats&#8230; and the notes. CD version comes with enhanced data track with music videos,
    KRACFIVE sequencer, mp3's.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_001" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_001/">
    <artist>Colongib, Pacman</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/001_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Pacman|Colongib</title>
    <catno>KFAT 001</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>CDR</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_006" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_006/">
    <artist>Kettel</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/006_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Dreim</title>
    <catno>KFAT 006</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
    <description>After a year of hard working and gnome hunting, the chicken punisher finally
    delivers his debut album. Reimer Eising with his Kettel-Dreim LP has built a cool trunk-full of
    melodic nostalgia and grooves with a hip-hop attitude. His use of repetition and layering is
    done similar to the way of Plaid or Boards of Canada, feelings drawn from simple movements with
    purpose. Dream-like connections between the parts. Memorable songs. Discover a great album
    where the ambivalent dsp frills of some are replaced with original fun and emotion.
    &#8220;Please note that this musical service is not for use for children over 113 years of age.
    If it comes to my attention through reliable means that a listener is a child over 113 years of
    age, Kracfive will send gnomes to steal the CD back. Also please note that this CD is always
    vulnerable to various gnome attacks and hence should be considered unsecured.&#8221; --
    Kettel</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_014" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_014/">
    <artist>Kettel</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/014_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Look at this! Ha ha ha!</title>
    <catno>KFAT 014</catno>
    <year>2003</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <availability>not in catalogue</availability>
    </format>
    <description>The noble Reimer Eising returns for his second outing on Kracfive, again enlisting
    his loyal gnome-choir to sing and play synthesizers for his catchy melodic folksongs.
    They&#8217;ve learned a lot and can really groove! Similar to his Plaid-influenced debut LP
    Dreim, Look at this is heavily melodic and equally satisfying, but catchier and further
    developed. Look at this calls into mind rolling hills of Netherlands campgrounds, flying
    catbirds, and gnome hideouts. Following releases on Holland's DUB and England's Neo Ouija and
    Planet Mu, as well as the collaboration album Original Instrument with Colongib and Octopus Inc
    and Miragliuolo, this collection of songs recorded between 2001 and 1999 is Kettel's most
    upbeat and uplifting release yet.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_007" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_007/">
    <artist>Octopus Inc</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/007_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Mere Things &amp; Mindless Creatures</title>
    <catno>KFAT 007</catno>
    <year>1999</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Classic debut album from Octopus Inc.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_010" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_010/">
    <artist>Octopus Inc</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/010_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Fluid Freedom</title>
    <catno>KFAT 010</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>Noah Sasso further builds his style with his second Octopus Inc full-length for
    Kracfive. Since his works throughout the nineties as Pacman, Noah has developed with the mind
    of the mighty octopus a beautiful blend of electronic and acoustic instrumentation, where
    through clever sound design and processing one can&#8217;t be distinguished from the other.
    Love of detail doesn&#8217;t stop at the sonic design stage however; here the sounds are
    arranged into full things. Songwise the music is melodic as always and purposeful, with good
    use of space. Here it&#8217;s playtime, there a changing move to groove to, a bit of fun, and
    up over here a violent spasm. Where previous album &#8217;Mere things..&#8217; stepped
    comfortably through genres of electronic music of the past &amp; future, Fluid Freedom moves
    into styles that haven&#8217;t even been discovered, accompanying pioneers such as Zammuto, We,
    Matmos, and Bisk.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_009" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_009/">
    <artist>Original Instrument</artist>
    <artistdetail>Eising, Miragliuolo, Sasso</artistdetail>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/009_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Original Instrument</title>
    <catno>KFAT 009</catno>
    <year>2001</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>This album sees Colongib, Miragliuolo, Octopus Inc, and Kettel collaborating with
    all sound sources being human vocals. Constructicons use a wide range of real human
    instruments, the result being funky, unexpected, surreal, sexy, &#8220;emotional&#8221;,
    dynamic. What a load of fun these guys have! Real songs! Human emotion! Human voices! They must
    be crazy to imagine such songs as these! The beginning and end of music at the same time? Vocal
    cutups and distortions are taken to extremes - not woven in, they are the music. It will be a
    marvelous, completed album with the pointed upward precision the Scherapparates arrange of the
    blow of the axe the voices to bring around the Vergngen and make you suprised.</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_011" href="http://www.kracfive.com/content/index.php?release=kfat011mp3.htm">
    <artist>Os Tron</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/011_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Only Visiting This Planet</title>
    <catno>KFAT 011</catno>
    <year>2002</year>
    <format>
      <code>WEB</code>
      <price></price>
      <availability>
        <a class="out" href="http://www.kracfive.com/content/index.php?release=kfat011mp3.htm">
        visit</a>
      </availability>
    </format>
    <description>From San Francisco, Logan Tremelo is Os Tron, the child of a lost satellite
    spinning nowhere. Coming into view is a reality not our own&#8230;&#8230;</description>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_005" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_005/">
    <artist>Pacman</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/005_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>This Is The End</title>
    <catno>KFAT 005</catno>
    <year>1998</year>
    <format>
      <code>2xCDR</code>
      <availability>out of print</availability>
    </format>
  </recording>
  <recording id="kfat_016" href="http://www.electrocd.com/en/cat/kfat_016/">
    <artist>Proswell, wwcarpen</artist>
    <cover href="http://www.electrocd.com/res/couv.lrg/016_KFAT.gif" />
    <title>Proswell &amp; wwcarpen</title>
    <catno>KFAT 016</catno>
    <year>2006</year>
    <format>
      <code>CD</code>
      <price>25.00 CA$</price>
      <availability></availability>
    </format>
    <description>You may already know Proswell&#8217;s &#8220;wicked and nostalgic 8-bit&#8221;
    albums on the American label Merck, or you may have heard his music featured during Cartoon
    Network&#8217;s &#8220;Adult Swim&#8221; bumps. wwcarpen is a man whose brain has systematic
    yet mythical processes running, and his imaginative music and artwork reflects this. He
    designed and printed the artwork for this release at his Baltimore gallery, Goodview. The pair
    met through discussions of &#8220;pure data&#8221; and teamed up to build this refreshing
    collaborative album. Through nearly pure electronic means, they play with form and chaos in
    familiar &amp; unfamiliar ways. Somehow they each present us with honest, thorough, synthesized
    imagination. Thanks guys, it is really good! They have something akin to each other&#8217;s
    music.</description>
  </recording>
</label>
