The Magic Movement is excited to present the first remix EP of Noema’s new album, ONE - featuring five fantastic remixes by Kalabrese, Lauer, Mehmet Aslan, Panthera Krause, and Shubostar. Ranging from Nu-Disco, Funky Electronic Breakbeats, to Indie Dance, these tracks will surely have you dancing your way into new dimensions.
In the first track, Kalabrese brings us a magnificent re-jam adding funky keyboards, live drums and his trademark vocals on top of the original. Next, Lauer offers a hypnotic leftfield Disco tune, featuring a bubbly arpeggio synth, live drums and a catchy melody! Following this, Mehmet Aslan’s remix is filled with rhythmic textures, playful melodies, and funky electro breakbeats. Panthera Krause’s remix is an energetic dance track driven by mind-bending arpeggiators and syncopated chords. And lastly Shubostar brings her infectious and groovy “cosmic disco” sound to the funky and absurd universe created by Noema.
The original piece ONE is an “interactive performance concert” that includes original music, interactive choreography and stage design, theater, costumes, videos and remixes. Sun Ra meets Steve Reich meets Larry Levan - imagine it as a “happening” from the 70s.
Over the past year and half, Noema has created an impressive cosmos: He has written and recorded the music with a small orchestra, but also created the story, texts, costumes, graphics, videos, choreography, and showed an early experimental version at Garbicz Festival 2022.
In ONE, Noema tells the story of his space explorations, in which he manifests as four Interdimensional Space Voyagers. Because humanity has lost their ability to play and connect with each other, these entities became trapped in our dimension and now put on performances to re-power their portal, so that we can all be interdimensional again! During the performance five dancers invite up to 120 people from the audience to join the action.
As the founder of The Magic Movement, Noema is a pioneer in the electronic and downtempo scene in Europe. As co-producer and A&R he released iconic records of artists such as Xique-Xique, Carrot Green, Kermesse and discovered artists like Oceanvs Orientalis.
DJing since 1997, and being former resident DJ in the legendary Berlin Club institution Wilde Renate for a decade, Noema has been touring the world with his eclectic and stunning DJ sets just as long. His extended sets go up to 10 hours and are indeed the stuff of legends. In his studio work, he has collaborated with electronic music heavy weights like Apparat, Dj Dixon and Grammy winners Basement Jaxx.
credits
released January 26, 2024
Music Written, Produced and Mixed as well as Concept, Art Direction, Background Graphics and Texts by David G. Benjamin |
Additional Remix Production by Lauer, Kalabrese, Mehmet Aslan, Panthera Krause, and Shubostar.
Recorded by Tobias Ober at Bonello Studio in Berlin | Mastered by Bo at Calyx Mastering in Berlin | Mixing Consultant: Christoph Schlimmbach | Flute: Efim Braylovskiy | Oboe: Katharina Haritonov | Clarinette: Sam Hudson, Peter Roth-Westdickenberg | Bass Clarinette: Oliver Fox | Marimba: Dylan Greene | Vibraphone: Enrique Luna | Piano: Claudia Fox | Synth: Quentin Tolimieri | Violine: David West | Viola: Paul Livingston | Cello: Anton Peisakhov | Vocals: Carolin Schnabel, Emma Quinlan ||
Dance & Performance by Marc P. Gabriel, Marcos Nacar, Alicia Minar, Meteoro, Breanne Saxon | Choreography by Alicia Minar and David G. Benjamin | Additional Performers: Ina Jia Guo, Sebastian Luzzi, Uli Pilwax ||
Costume and Headpiece Design by Anastasia Dorofeeva and David G. Benjamin ||
Photos, Videos and Edits by Maurice-Vincent Komischke | Artwork Layout by Cris Capetillo ||
Special Thanks to the Garbicz Crew: Axel Kochmeier, Fritz Windisch, Nadja Noodt, Ani Anca, Anne Marie Silvera, Paul Berberich, Aline Tima, Niko Schöll, Bige Ergez ||
Special Thanks to Anastasia Dorofeeva, Jens Körmer, Anne & Klaus Schönfeldt, Daniel Eichholz ||
Supported by Initiative Musik gGmbH with project funds from the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media ||
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