“Encompassing future funk, old soul, new jazz and dreamy dub into their well-rounded sound...the lovechild of Morcheeba and Portishead.”
- BLUES & SOUL (SINGLE OF THE FORTNIGHT)

“Just what I'm into these days. Bajka's voice fits perfectly with exotic, ethereal and esoteric jazz styles like that” - GERALD SHORT (JAZZMAN)

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Strictly Limited Edition wax featuring 4 brand new tracks from Radio City

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“The quality don’t let up”,“Utterly essential!”
STRAIGHT NO CHASER

“One of the best compilations this year."
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“Damn, this is good! Montreal visual artists HVW8 curate a collection tighter than Jordache jeans circa '79.”
EYE WEEKLY

“HVW8 is just that, all tracks are killer killer cuts... a track for every point in the night....”
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•••••Kings Size Dub No. 11 (compilation) | Alpendub | CD 2005 Echo Beach

Rob Cummings, Malcolm Artson, Moe Jaksch, Klaus Janek (Music)& Doreen Kutzke(lyrics).

The latest in an extensive and successful series of crucial dub recordings from label Echo Beach. The current release King Size Dub, Vol. 11 is another impressive example of how dub has crossed cultural boundaries and progressed with all its reference points between commerce and innovation. Previous releases in the series have featured both well-established artists of the genre as well as some of dub's more obscure crew. The exhilirating variety of styles on Vol. 11 (reggae, soul, pop, dancehall, trip-hop, dope beats) is the pivot for more "logical dubgression" with all the usual - and some very unusual - suspects of the remixer and artist set. From the Viennese heavy monster dub of Dubblestandart, to the South African punk-dub of Kalahari Surfers, to the Moroccan ambient trancedub combination of Azzdine with Bill Laswell, this compilation is designed to continue your education and enhance your understanding of dub while simultaneously getting you to move your feet. Other artists include: Dub Guerilla, Math Doly, Alpendub, Divination, Keith Le Blanc & Bim Sherman, Noiseshaper, Seven Dub (feat. Paul St. Hilaire), Matthew, M21,

Ari Up, Punks Jump Up vs. Springmine Desaster, and M&M.

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••••••Caspar2 | Klaus Janek Solo Doublebass | FMP 2004

All music performed by Klaus Janek on a Pöllmann 5-string 3/4-size double bass
No overdubs, no cuts. Composed by Klaus Janek (GEMA) Published by: Edition Harmonie & Rhythmus / Scoop Music GmbH / BMG Ufa Musikverlage
Recorded, mixed and mastered at db 29 (Berlin) by Mickie D., January 2004
Photos: Mike Auerbach (www.mike-auerbach.com)
Designed by Klaus Untiet (wppt:kommunikation)
Produced by Klaus Janek (www.klaus-janek.de)
Helma Schleif (www.free-music-production.de)

01.First years 06:05
02.Arriving in the box 15:53
03.One day out of 16 years 15:24
04.Free13:08
05.Last menuet 05:20
06.Epilogue03:03

Excerpt from the booklet
Wild Children have always occupied the mythic and literary imagination. They embody the limits of nature and civilization and offer, so it seems, a glimpse at humanity in its natural state - if only in single, rare specimens.
Kaspar Hauser is a late bloom and the apex of a long line of Wild Children in Europe. He appears in Nuremberg on Whitmonday 1828, scarcely able to walk or speak. His arrival soon is the talk of the town. Held for observation in a local jail tower, the foundling quickly becomes a tourist attraction.
A proclamation, issued soon after by Mayor Binder, marvels at Hauser's "highest innocence of nature" and mentions his incarceration of many years. Because of his "most marvelous endowments of spirit, of temperament and heart", a kind of natural nobility, Binder speculates that the boy might have been deprived of "his riches, perhaps even of the advantages of noble birth". The foundling is, in effect, declared a prince. Newspapers everywhere reprint the story, making it a pan-European sensation.
The legal scholar Anselm von Feuerbach conducts the official investigation. He concludes that Hauser is the heir to the Grand Duke of Baden, abducted in order to manipulate the line of succession. The Berlin police councilor Merker, on the other hand, declares in 1830 that Hauser is but a common crook. Since then, historians have assembled surprisingly extensive circumstantial evidence supporting the theory that Hauser was indeed a prince of Baden. (...) Kaspar Hauser spends five and a half years in the sensation-loving public eye. The high school teacher G. F. Daumer teaches him to speak, read and write. Drawing, water color and chess lessons are part of the program as well. In October 1829, an unsuccessful attempt on Hauser's life is made. The would-be assassin escapes.
Hauser spends the final two years of his life until a murderer's dagger cuts it short in December 1833. With his death, Hauser's story is thrown wide open to his interpreters in psychology and jurisprudence, in history and pedagogy, in literature and the fine arts. Klaus Janek´s recording is an outstanding contribution to this artistic Kaspar Hauser tradition. - Ulrich Struve

Solokontrabass ist eine der spannendsten Sachen der Welt, wenn sie von echten Meistern darbegracht wird.(...)Janek hat mit dieser einstündigen Tour d'esprit der gemarterten Seele eine Stimme gegeben. Mehr noch: Er ist damit selbst zu einer Stimme des freien Kontrabasses geworden, der man in der Zukunft noch viel Gehör schenken sollte. - Thorsten Meyer [Jazzpodium]

At times you could swear the textures arise from reeds and valves -- or even a synthesizer -- not strings.(...)everyone should be impressed with ORNETTE ON BASS and CASPAR2.- Ken Waxman [jazzweekly]

It´s almost unbelievable that the recordings, which boast excellent, natural and full sound, were made without overdubbing, without cuts – no jiggery-pokery here! As is my wont, I first listened to the record without any preliminary information. Yet right from the start, Janek´s music moved me deeply, I ´felt´ it – despite its complexities. Even so, it will reveal all its beauties and subtleties only after several hearings. However, I´m sure that open-minded listeners will feel that this music strikes a sympathetic chord in their own sensibilities. Do open your senses to this wonderful music. It´s not an easy ride, but you will be richly rewarded. -Werner Merz

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••••••••Requiem für Kurt | Torsten Sense | 2004 edel classics

for 3 pianos and 7 doublebasses
Sense, Torsten composition, piano, Klaus Janek, doublebass

1. Introduktion
2. Satz 1
3. Satz 2
4. Satz 3
Stücke Für Klavier Und Kontrabass
Torsten Sense, composition, piano, Klaus Janek, comosition, doublebass
1. Blue Note Special
2. Minimal Standing
3. Space Caughing
4. 6-Achetl-Nocturne

Komponist Torsten Sense hat eine Suite in drei Sätzen geschrieben, bei der Motiv-Versatzstücke aus Cobains Oeuvre in Klangwolken irrlichtern - gespielt von sieben Kontrabässen und drei Klavieren mit all den Effekten und Sollbruchstellen, die der zeitgenössischen E-Musik zu eigen sind. Die Bässe müssen gewittern und wimmern, den Flügeln wird in den schutzlos offenen Bauch gegriffen. In unerwarteten Augenblicken, wenn das "Requiem" nur noch böses Geräusch oder ganz verzärteltes Wispern ist, vermittelt die Uraufführung die Idee, die tief in dem zornig-traurigen Rockstar, steckte: Ein jeder singe sein eigenes Lied, so dissonant es auch sein möge. - j.e.Berliner Morgenpost 13.04.2004

Die Musik, die dieser zehnköpfigen Truppe entspringt, ist so erstaunlich wie eigenständig. - tocafi [klassik.com]

Der Berliner Komponist Torsten Sense hat dafür eine Lösung gefunden. Es ist eine Suite in drei Sätzen, bei der kleine Motiv-Versatzstücke aus Cobains Werk in Klangwolken irrlichtern - gespielt von sieben Kontrabässen und drei Klavieren mit all den Effekten und Sollbruchstellen, die der zeitgenössischen E-Musik zueigen sind.- Josef Engels[die Welt]

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•••••••••17 Hippies play Sexy Ambient Hippies | Hypster Records 2003

The Sexy Ambient Hippies are an offshoot of the 17 Hippies with guests from the electronic scene as well as a wide range of groups such as Frigg and Element of Crime. The music we perform is 100% live and organized by a live conductor with 23 secret signs at his disposal. I've performed in three of the extravagant (that's really the fitting term) live concerts, the last of which was performed in August 2002 during Pop d'Europe at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin. This concert was recorded in excellent quality with no overdubs, and indeed the recording sounds excellent!
Who's invoplved? The Sexy Ambient Hippies are a big band in the true sense of the word. They are comprised of whomever of the 17 Hippies are currently available plus guests such as:
Carsten Dane - Multiphonic sampling, live sampling
Rob Cummings - MPC2000, loops, FX
Klaus Janek - Double-bass
Boris Bell - Drums, sheet metal
Richard Pappik - Percussion
Stefan Gatti - Pedal steel
Johannes Leis - Tenor sax

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