{"product_id":"the-brandt-brauer-frick-ensemble-mr-machine","title":"The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble – Mr. Machine","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e— The Analog Vault \/\/ Essential Listening —\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGerman trio Brandt Brauer Frick first made waves in 2009 due to their live orchestral approach to the throbbing 4\/4 pulse of Berlin’s dance music scene. The triumphant culmination of their modern classical meets minimal techno lens can be found on their heady sophomore album, originally released via !K7 in 2011. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eExpanded to a ten-piece ensemble, Brandt Brauer Frick welcomed seven other instrumentalists on piano, timpani, strings and brass (just to name a few) to craft a deeply textured meeting between the organic old world and the electronic new world. \u003cem\u003eMr. Machine\u003c\/em\u003e brims with cinematic grandeur, opening up expansively lush soundscapes that feel like a seamless convergence of Steve Reich, Paul Kalkbrenner and Jazzanova. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFeaturing reworks of standouts from their debut \u003cem\u003eYou Make Me Real\u003c\/em\u003e, alongside propulsive new originals, this is Brandt Brauer Frick at their best. — \u003ca href=\"German%20trio%20Brandt%20Brauer%20Frick%20first%20made%20waves%20in%202009%20due%20to%20their%20live%20orchestral%20approach%20to%20the%20throbbing%204\/4%20pulse%20of%20Berlin%E2%80%99s%20dance%20music%20scene.%20The%20triumphant%20culmination%20of%20their%20modern%20classical%20meets%20minimal%20techno%20lens%20can%20be%20found%20on%20their%20heady%20sophomore%20album,%20originally%20released%20via%20!K7%20in%202011.%20%20%20Expanded%20to%20a%20ten-piece%20ensemble,%20Brandt%20Brauer%20Frick%20welcomed%20seven%20other%20instrumentalists%20on%20piano,%20timpani,%20strings%20and%20brass%20(just%20to%20name%20a%20few)%20to%20craft%20a%20deeply%20textured%20meeting%20between%20the%20organic%20old%20world%20and%20the%20electronic%20new%20world.%20Mr.%20Machine%20brims%20with%20cinematic%20grandeur,%20opening%20up%20expansively%20lush%20soundscapes%20that%20feel%20like%20a%20seamless%20convergence%20of%20Steve%20Reich,%20Paul%20Kalkbrenner%20and%20Jazzanova.%20%20%20Featuring%20reworks%20of%20standouts%20from%20their%20debut%20You%20Make%20Me%20Real,%20alongside%20propulsive%20new%20originals,%20this%20is%20Brandt%20Brauer%20Frick%20at%20their%20best.%20%E2%80%94%20The%20Analog%20Vault\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eThe Analog Vault\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBack in the mid 70s, Kraftwerk discarded their conventional instruments and turned to synthesizers to create their hugely influential LP Autobahn. Nearly forty years on, another German group are again playing with musical conventions, but in a reverse of their forebears, Brandt Brauer Frick are using acoustic instruments to recreate techno. In doing so the group aren't the first to translate dance music through 'traditional' means, but the sound they created on their debut LP \u003cem\u003eYou Make Me Real\u003c\/em\u003e was much more automated and ultimately rhythmic than that of say Christian Prommer's more jazz based Drumlesson. As the group's Paul Frick explained at the time of release: “instead of using only the typical epic orchestra or piano sounds, we love to explore the dirty percussive sides of those instruments.” It's an approach that sits the group perfectly between Steve Reich and Jeff Mills two of their biggest inspirations, and one that makes them equally at home playing the Modern Art Museum as Club Berghain. It's been through these live performances that the group has developed the sound we hear on this their second LP.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMr Machine\u003c\/em\u003e sees BBF further the concept of their outstanding debut, building on those live shows and dispensing completely with all 'synthetic' sound. Paul Frick explains the changes in what has become a ten-piece orchestral work: \"On\u003cem\u003e You Make Me Real\u003c\/em\u003e, we still used some effects and more synths, whereas \u003cem\u003eMr Machine\u003c\/em\u003e is completely unplugged, except for the Moog synth, which is amplified through a bass guitar amp. \u003cem\u003eYou Make Me Real\u003c\/em\u003e was still 'produced'. On \u003cem\u003eMr. Machine\u003c\/em\u003e there's nothing like that at all.\" \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor the first time, The Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble’s seminal album \u003cem\u003eMr. Machine\u003c\/em\u003e is being re-issued on coloured vinyl. T\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003ehis is a record that put them alongside names as Steve Reich and Philip Glass, but with considerably more groove. More than anything, Daniel, Jan and Paul are keen that the Brandt Brauer Frick Ensemble are not written off as a curiosity:\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e“Often people focus a lot on this whole \"cross-over\" aspect,” says Brauer. “We wish people would simply notice we have good chords, melodies etc. and take the music as it is. Because we make it the way we feel, and not for other, let's say purely conceptual reasons. Some only seem interested in how it’s made. Some reviewers perceive us as minimal techno, some as modern classical, some as nu jazz and so on. But we don’t divide the world into techno and non-techno.” — (via \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/brandtbrauerfrick.bandcamp.com\/album\/mr-machine\" title=\"https:\/\/brandtbrauerfrick.bandcamp.com\/album\/mr-machine\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"\u003eLabel\u003c\/a\u003e)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"100%\" height=\"600\" style=\"border-radius: 12px;\" src=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/embed\/album\/6fKeC40X5rrSZgY2Q9Xzwq?utm_source=generator\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; fullscreen; picture-in-picture\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ciframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rqC14QdHaGc?si=eJJiQUCW429Yq3VU\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e↓\u003cbr\u003eLabel: !K7 Records – !K7286LP\u003cbr\u003eFormat: 2x Vinyl, LP, Album, Stereo, Clear\u003cbr\u003eCountry: Germany\u003cbr\u003eReissued: Feb 23, 2024 \/ Original Release: Oct 24, 2011\u003cbr\u003eGenre: Electronic, Classical\u003cbr\u003eStyle:  Modern Classical, Experimental, Tech House, Minimal\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFile under: TAV Essential Listening\u003cbr\u003eFile under: Electronic \/\/ Leftfield\u003cbr\u003e⦿\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"!K7 Records","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43284637909150,"sku":"4062548081640","price":48.0,"currency_code":"SGD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0584\/5434\/3838\/products\/a3451241754_10.jpg?v=1709710934","url":"https:\/\/theanalogvault.mom\/products\/the-brandt-brauer-frick-ensemble-mr-machine","provider":"The Analog Vault","version":"1.0","type":"link"}