Die Welttraumforscher - Werkstatt Wasserstadt

Label : Das Moniflabel - PP040 / Ebus Music - EM056

Country : Switzerland

Year : 1999

Format : LP

To preface this I would like to make a few announcements: Die Welttraumforscher has a new album out on the very intriguing label New York Haunted, it's very nice and I recommend the purchase for all who may have been exposed to him from my blog. Still some copies left of the tape, of which I ordered, so try and go for that if you're into the physical paraphernalia. Cheap, too

The other announcement (...before I once again repeat myself about this wonderful artist for nth time) is that I have been in the process of re-ripping a bunch of records and cassettes previously found on here. I have (marginally) better equipment and instead of doing it from the jack of an old stereo I have come to my senses and started ripping directly from the output. Armed with a Scarlett 2i2 and iZotope, better days are sure to come. If you have slsk, you should have direct access to the FLAC rips (sometimes in 24 bit). I say this because I'm undecided if I should reupload all these one-by-one given the space constraints on Drive and Mega, even considering the efficiency of the opus file format. We will see, new rips will of course still be featured here.

This particular LP is a bit different than the previous ones found here. From my observation, this one is less "song" orientated and more ambient, like the Loon side-project. The singing is there, but the vox feel as if they will melt and meld into the surrealist backing track any second, and they will. Another peculiarity among his peculiar discography is the B-side, a side-long suite. I was tempted to try and split the tracks as they may but without notation I couldn't possibly bother. And why should I? It works perfect as a singular organism of a track.

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The above image is my best attempt at manually stitching together the scan of one side of the record sleeve. For understandable reasons, the program was unable to finish the job. This is because each "slice" was simply a mirror image. Although it's not a perfect match, I tried my best.

Die Welttraumforscher - Drittes Bewusstsein

Label : Das Moniflabel - PP058

Year : 2012

Country : Switzerland

Format : LP

As of now the last entry in WTF catalogue, and a fine entry at that. Even folkier than usual, with the expected blurry synthpop coalescing with the whimsical arrangements and playful vocalizations.

Third Consciousness is about right. An astral spectral spectacle. What more is there to say other than to leave it all to the waveforms found in this el-p? Pretty-pretty.

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Die Welttraumforscher - Ohm Olunde

Label : Zauberhaus (Das Moniflabel) - PP052

Country : Switzerland

Year : 2005

Format : LP

Old dawn fades, new dusk rises. The cosmic deep field of Welttraumforscher expands, the stars are coming undone and it's a beautiful thing. Really, it is. I love the little world he has made, even though I can only see it through a small window.

Not much has changed in terms of sound, that is the sound which I have described several times over in various euphemistic phrases. You know, folky synth-tunes from a cosmic forest, etc, etc. Not to say it's derivative, not at all really, or even a complacent difficult 32nd album, nor is it par for the course. Something different this way comes, I say.

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Though in the process of ripping this for your pleasure I am reminded of the frustrations that entails the vinyl format for what I do, it was all worth the effort.

Die Welttraumforscher - Gold Vom Tiefen Himmel

Label : Das Moniflabel - PP031

Year : 1993

Country : Switzerland

Format : CD

Naive art, the true solitary reveries of an outsider*. Is this naive? Only an appearance? If even, it's impossible to be cynical about such beautiful music and warm sleeve art. Made right in the wheelhouse t'where I first entered Pfluger's dreamlife, this is a nice journey into a mysterious bois.
Drink it in.

Empty spaces are to be filled with imagination, or somesuch.

I recall quotes pertaining to a similar notion.

I figured I'd try a taste of what's over my paygrade.

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*wrong Rousseau

Olliwor - To Many Heroes

Label : Das Moniflabel - PP015

Year : 1988

Country : Switzerland

Format : C60

Or is it "OILiwoЯ"? Think Chris Knox further augmented by the Residents and label honcho 

Die Welttraumforscher, and at times antecedent to the utterly unique Svede mrperfect.

Another treat from the welt of Loon:

a previous mystery to me in the Moniflabel catalog, I had only so much information provided to me about the who's and what's of this project; Olliwor Fried is the token.

On this tape, the singularly named Olliwor

plays the browns as it were, a focus on

lowfi pop and the odd interlude

of dreamtime.

My comparisons above were rather immediate connections.

     Very Tall Dwarfs, in an affected English that is. The best parts of this exercise is the bent melodies mixed with

       the discordant synths and fuzzed out geetars. It is rather different from the usual Forscher affair but also very much hereditary, especially based on what I have heard from the early days of the label.

I'm going to continuously seek out as much as I can from Das Moniflabel 

With that, enjoie.

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Die Welttraumforscher - Ein Sommer In Der Wirklichkeit

Label : Das Moniflabel - PP026

Country : Switzerland

Year : 1991

Format : LP

Ripped by Scramoutcha

Friends are becoming easier to come by, another guest rip. Via the slsk chat service I have been in correspondence with this fine fellow for the past few weeks, and we have reciprocated gifts with each other ever since. I've mentioned Die Welttraumforscher before in a post from the side gig called "Loon", where I briefly laid out my various admirations for the protjection.

Released in the early 90s on his own imprint, Christian (Pfluger) lays out rumsey in the feeling that lingers, to butcher a Bodycocktail tape title. Whimsical, great word. A cheatcode in description, a word which can describe (as descriptions ought) a myriad of ecstatic feeling without giving too much in the way of actual thought. Anyway, it is whimsical. On a whim, I can imagine, 'ol Weltschmerz cut this piece of plastic in a matter of a few afternoons. The synth melodies are pretty as ever, the minimalisms of which compound and impress upon the remote listener an appropriately dreamlike quality.

My supplier compared it to the latter nineties group Broadcast--"Tender Buttons" in specification--which I can definitely hear though very much stripped down and lowfidelity. Yes, yes, yes; less Romandie Stereolab and more... Well Swiss Die Welttraumforscher. Not much like it, doesn't take a world of dream researchers to find that out.

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Comes with both the original rip and the declicked version, use either or both at your convenience.

(also, it's FLAC)