Cologne Tape

Sharing a united interest in German electronic music, <a href="spotify:artist:23MIhFHpoOuhtEHZDrrnCS">the Field’</a>s Axel Willner, <a href="spotify:artist:46XudiprCWFUJ7d4peXv5c">Battles’</a> John Stanier, and Jens-Uwe Beyer (aka <a href="spotify:artist:43BoT3OogAQeX24UASk3rG">Popnoname</a>), teamed up with some of Cologne, Germany’s most established electronic and experimental artists for a related side project titled Cologne Tape. <a href="spotify:artist:5zzqzIMneFGMgiufQNGoBI">Jörg Burger</a> (<a href="spotify:artist:4SpBNXtuURDoPjtIRvGyqi">Triola</a>, <a href="spotify:artist:21BfjoxdHptm7obdPQhk88">the Modernist</a>), Philipp Janzen (<a href="spotify:artist:6rRQbKeGYpX8armrlaxWcn">Von Spar</a>), and Michaela Dippel (<a href="spotify:artist:1SUz2JjWDXSVyAtWokVinQ">Ada</a>) all took spots on the super-group’s roster, along with <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt+Records%22">Kompakt Records</a>’ visual artists and producers John Harten, and Daniel Ansorge. In 2010, Cologne Tape’s debut EP, Render, was slated to be the first release on Magazine, a subsidiary start-up of <a href="spotify:search:label%3A%22Kompakt%22">Kompakt</a>. In hopes of keeping the release exclusive and to add appeal to collectors, Magazine announced their plans to limit Render to 300 vinyl copies and 1000 downloads, before releasing a follow-up. ~ Jason Lymangrover, Rovi