A collection of remixes and compilation tracks 1999-2006. Carefully edited by Felix Kubin and Eric Mattson, this CD is more than a compilation.
It brings lights on the different activities of a great open-minded composer from Hamburg. All these tracks have been composed and recorded by Felix Kubin unless otherwise stated. They have appeared on rare or badly distributed releases. This CD brings back to live these amazing tracks. The power of this release is to build bridges in between compositions belonging to various so-called genres in electronic music in such a way you will be trapped in one of the most enjoyable and dynamic release of 2007.
Carefully brought to you by oral for the pleasure of your ears.

Key selling points :Sci-Fi Pop, Magnetism, X-Rays
Felix Kubin lives and works against the gravity with Sci-Fi Pop/Noise/Animation Films/Radio Plays/Experimental Broadcasting. As the messenger of exploding lungs he started his label "Gagarin Records" in 1998 and rules the "syndicate of counte--noise" since 9. 9. 1999.
Who hasn't heard of Felix Kubin - the "Whirlwind Wizard of the Ivories", whose appearances on stages at a multitude of health spas rendered audiences almost speechless ?

Press :
Herr Felix Kubin, Lord of the Deranged... I am of the opinion that Herr Kubin is the spearhead of this wacky and unrepentant new musical beasty that is brewing (with a certain amount of fermentation) in Chermanny. - Mark Poysden, Vital Weekly/NL

...elektronischer Anarchismus a Go Go - Hans Kulisch/SKUG (Vienna)

Hamburg's purveyor of dadatronic experimentalist pop music - CBC / Brave New Waves

This music is the melancholic hum of protons.

Credits :
1. with Wechsel Garland, half of a track for ALKU 17
2. mindless sketch
3. remix for People Like Us, Staalplaat/STCD126 compilation
4. rack for "Nanoloop 1. 0" (Disko Bruit 4)
5. remix for Norscq, Lavatron. X compilation
6. cover version of an homonymous track by Der Plan, compilation "Ein Tribut an :Der Plan (Glückauf)
7. track for Diskono, the great red LP
8. remix for Michiko Kusaki, Angelika Köhlermann AK 008
9. track for Circle Machine Compilation
10+12. duets with Asmus Tietchens, compilation "Zu Gast im Aroma Club" (Klang der Festung/KdF 4)
11. track for Diskono 07
13. remix for ZEA, "One bomb fits all"
14. compilation track for "1rst fist & stroop" (SKIPP 003)

For Listeners of :
Candie hank, Gangpol Und Mit, Holger Hiller, Der Plan, Coolhaven, Günter Adler, Vromb

More info available at :
www. felixkubin. com

Taken from : +/- : Volume 2 by TJ Norris


This collection of compilation tracks, remixes and other short oddities spans 1999-2006 and is a welcome relief to many who have watched this man's elusive career and random output. For he uninitiated Felix Kubin is this slamdunk cross between the ping-ca-chong tonalities found in Kraftwerk, the wry humor and pacing of They Might Be Giants and his own poker-faced delivery. And here tracks like "Ich Traeume Nur In Super-8" fit the niche to a t. It's a rat-a-tat-tat throw-back to the gay old era of Liberace and Lawrence Welk. On "Marche Telepathique" add the playful themes of Danny Elfman, mix it all up by fellow frolicking sound boxers like People Like Us or Analogue alchemist Asmus Tietchens – and voila – instant harmonious pandemonium. This record brings together a whole slew of fun music, handclaps, twang guitar, reverb and all into one place. 'Axolotl Lullabies' is collected chaos at its best. There are moments when things get a bit more off and dense as on the short "Rudi Gullit's Head" which harkens to some of Richard D. James "Come to Daddy" days, which sequences into "Let's Rock, Baby" perfectly. The cadence here is amply messed around with, blending lunge and Wurlitzer like a set of twins forced to wear their Garamimals (r). “Trauergonelparadies” is a whole other world where Kubin collaborates with Tietchens. What emerges is something of a grey area blending each of their sounds. If you might imagine "The Nightmare Before Christmas," but just a whole lot more darkly psychedelic, with characters caught in the eye of the storm, falling endlessly to their untimely death, you may see what I see. And just when you thought it was safe to continue playing "Slides From Yesterday" from the One Bomb Fits all compilation throws Grace Jones, ESG and Slayer into the Blendit for fun. Its melancholy chords vs. gravely rock stance is a frolicking match of pompous wit and pert punctuated attitude. You have to sit this one out because they saved the best for last, the anthemic "Russian Robot in N.Y... It's his own lushly noir-filled march of the robots combining the precision of the stealthy futurism of Metropolis opposing the little people of Munchkinlan. A complete romp!

In : Bad Alchemy 56, rerview by Rigobert Dittmann. Danke sehr

FELIX KUBINs Axolotl Lullabies (ORAL 20) wedeln danach mit einem ganz andern Zipfel von Nobodaddy‘s Rotzfahne. Diese Collection of remixes and compilation tracks 1999-2006 zieren drei Schönheiten, die jeden Paris in Verlegenheit brächten. Versammelt sind 14 Tunes, von denen allerdings nur wenige als Betthupferl taugen. Mit dabei sind Remixe für People Like Us, Norscq (der muntere ‚Marche télépathique‘), Michiko Kusaki und ZEA, ein Lalala-tütütü-Tribut an Der Plan und mit ‚Trauergondelparadies‘ & ‚Heißes Eisen‘ sogar zwei Duette mit Asmus Tietchens. Titel wie ‚Rudi Gullit‘s Head‘ und ‚Menstruation Glamour‘ packen nicht nur heiße Eisen an (s.o.), sie zeigen auch unumstößlich die Bedeutung, E zu sein - ohne Scheiß. Und wie ließe sich die mit Occams Messer rasierte Punktgenauigkeit von „Let‘s rock, baby“ toppen, diese Quintessenz von Elektropop? Kubin gehört zu den ganz Wenigen, bei denen man Flappsigkeiten wie „Das Leben ist zu wichtig, um es ernst zu nehmen“ mit einem Lächeln quittieren kann. Er ist auf pfiffige Weise albern. Oder sind ‚Russian Robot in N.Y.‘ und ‚Heißes Eisen‘ vielleicht nicht albern? Wie er Asmus dazu gebracht hat, daran mitzuschmieden, ist mir ein Rätsel. Noch rätselhafter ist jedoch ‚Slides from yesterday‘, diese seltsame Begegnung von Der Plan und Can in einer Kölner Karaokebar, mit Riot Grrrl-Intermezzo. Der kluge Mann, der mal sagte: Humor ist immer die Zuflucht der Leute, die den Ernst der Lage begreifen, könnte dabei an Kubin gedacht haben.