Philipp Hölke

Music

Klangtechnik (2015) original sleeve — a bright, empty white gallery room with a lone figure lying on the floor, the words "a hellfried production" and the KLANGTECHNIK wordmark set in light type across the centre.

Klangtechnik

Album · 2015 · 11 tracks · 55:11

The debut full-length as Hellfried — deep-house foundations meeting a more restless, progressive electronic architecture. Tracks built as structures with narrative rather than loops.

  1. 01 Commute 3:52
  2. 02 Upon Shores, Through Ditches 2:56
  3. 03 A Universal Truth 4:16
  4. 04 Thought I Knew 5:56
  5. 05 Ipioneer / Moving 4:53
  6. 06 Vorwärts 6:04
  7. 07 Entering the West Zone 6:31
  8. 08 Cyph 4:11
  9. 09 One 3:47
  10. 10 Mondstein 5:59
  11. 11 Outro (Bonus Track) 6:42

Album notes

The first record as Hellfried: deep-house foundations put under tension by a progressive electronic architecture. The interest is the same one that runs through the systems writing — building tracks with structure and narrative rather than loops, letting real instruments (electric guitar especially) keep the sound human, evolving, and melodic.

Recorded over a long stretch and released at the end of 2015. It later became the record worth returning to — see the tenth-anniversary remaster.