2022MusicReleases

Paul Divjak – Collected Releases

It’s simply unbelievable, that already 20 years passed since my first release “so fine” (7″) on sue.mi (Berlin/Prague). In the very same year, 2002, Hans Platzgumer, with whom I had the chance to collaborate on my first EP, mentioned Konkord Records, a young team of audiophile enthusiast from Vienna. I got in contact with Wolfgang Reitter and the boys (back then they really were young) from “the friendly record label” from Vienna, and learnt to appreciate their vast pop historical knowledge and musical expertise. To cut a long story short: We released the EP “A Glimmer of Hope” together in 2005. And ever since Konkord turned out to be the very trusted homebase for my musical concepts and releases. – I’m already pretty much looking forward to celebrating a “Best Of” at the occasion of our 20-years anniversary. Here’s to you, Konkorditos!***

Feel free to sneak into the back catalogue! – Info & free listening @Konkord

2013MusicReleases

Bee Pop – Prologue

by Team Tool Time

©Michael Dürr

BEE-POP-A-LULA!

We have been fascinated by bees forever. But what did we really know about them? Ok, there’s the stuff with the birds and the bees, we all love the yummy syrup known as honey and fear the bee’s sting. (Since we have all made first-hand acquaintance with it back then, barefoot in childhood days.)

It was late autumn 2011 when we first came up with the idea of connecting more closely with the life of the honey bee. We wanted to do some research, collect sounds on location in and around the hives. The aim was to produce an entire album based on field recordings. — mehr —

2001MusicReleases

So fine / As if

7"

Cover art: Manuela Mitterhuber

The Western world has a brief history of ecstasy. Affected through and through by a belief system that triggered off the industrial revolution, achievement and pleasure were perceived as opposite poles of time spent. Work meant the construction of order. Pleasure meant indulgence in disarray. Formulated in more precise terms by Calvinism, such assumptions opened the world for the industrial revolution and the almost religious accumulation of wealth an property.

Also at the dawn of the revolution of the cultural industry, the same paradigms can be found. Freeing Rock´n´Roll from the indulgent disarray of darker and more intimate urges, over-achievers such as the Beatles would turn music into work. Manufacturing order in any possible aspect, intuition was replaced by multi-track recording and improvisation became theory. — mehr —

2007MusicReleases

St. Moritz – EP

Weit weg. Und glücklich

Prickelndes Champagner-Klima, wohltuende Höhensonne und ein kühler Drink am kristallklaren Pool. Paul Divjaks jüngstes Œuvre lädt zu einer kurzen Zwischenlandung ins mythenumrankte St. Moritz ein. Entstanden im legendären Palace Hotel, “Rangierbahnhof und Operationsbasis der High Society” (© Der Tagesspiegel), serviert Divjak Elektronikhäppchen vom Feinsten – und das nicht nur für Industrielle, Erben, Neureiche und Steuerflüchtige. – Eccolo! Hier kommt der Melonen-Juice! Wir schließen die Augen, und genießen den Sound, der uns mit sich trägt und von ganz oben erzählt. Im Handumdrehen sind wir weit weg. Und glücklich.

Visit St. Moritz together with Paul Divjak. Fine pieces of electronica served fresh and on ice (… and not only for billionaires). His sounds take you far away and pretty soon you are high on happiness.
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