It’s been over a year since his last EP, but finally, it is with mixed feelings that the Brainwaves crew have decided to release Thomas Bodenständig’s sophomore album, Speed Am Rhein.
Sometime in May of this year, our friend Thomas got in touch with us once again, sending us a box of 66 hand-numbered cassettes in mismatched dusty cases along with an enigmatic letter from his home in North Rhine Westfalia. Most of the letter unfortunately consisted of incomprehensible rambling, but we were able to gather that he was delving in high-speed trading in periodic visits to Frankfurt, that he had some sort of pulmonary affliction with complications and that he wanted us to release his album before the end of 2020 no matter what. We immediately tried to get in touch with him through all traditional channels, but in the months following the package, we received no response to any of our phone calls, letters, emails and soundcloud messages.
2020 has been a complicated year for everyone, and losing all contact with our german associate has been devastating to the entire crew. Since May, all five of us have been doing all that is in our power in order to get in touch with Thomas, but he seems to have completely disappeared. His apartment is vacant with no trace of his departure, his favourite barstool in Leverkusen’s dirtiest Kneipe is gathering dust and his cellar seems to have been emptied of all of his recording equipment. We have sent our notorious alien friend Brian to comb the streets of Leverkusen, we have been looking behind every barstool in every sleazy bar in the region, we’ve even checked all local hospital and morgue records in order to find some trace of his name, but to no avail.
It has been a long search and we do not plan on giving up, but we have finally decided that it is time to follow the great man’s instructions, and so today, after six months with no news from him, it is with a mixed emotional bouquet of sadness, pride and nostalgia that we release Speed Am Rhein and put the 66 cassettes on sale.
credits
released November 25, 2020
Tracks 1 to 8 composed by Thomas Bodenständig
Track 9 remixed by Warzou
Track 10 remixed by Christian Coiffure
All tracks mastered by Julien Guillot aka Stazma
Artwork by Thomas Perrodin
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