Mapstation
Stefan Schneider, aka Mapstation, modestly places music near the arts, somewhat akin maybe to the Fluxus aesthetics of concurrence. In a balance between ego and machine, Stefan discovers what is at hand, at present; everything is equally important and, after all, open-ended.
If beat defines the genre, Mapstation is no genre at all. Using a myriad of seemingly unsynchronised gear, Mapstation is rhythmic without beats, ambient with slightly melancholic tunes, some fragile field recordings here & there and, above all, maddeningly poly-patterned, drifting in gentle, warm disorder. Mapstation implies to "draw a map to get lost," as it quotes Yoko Ono. It is a point of departure: simple, clear & relaxing, and opens up new meaning to accompany us in our daily life.
Stefan Schneider is an ex-member of Kreidler, bassist
of To Rococo Rot, and has collabotated with reggae singer Ras Donovan as
well as Martin Brandlmayr from Vienna-based Radian. Together with Paul Wirkus
and Barbara Morgenstern he toured as September Collective. Stefan also was
a visiting lecturer in photography and sound at the Center for Art and
Media (ZKM/HfG) Karlsruhe, as well as at the Academy of Media Arts (KHM) Cologne.
Mapstation
homepage
Download free MP3 || (a
new track every 2 months) from mapstation.de
Download free MP3 || Factory
(3'58" with 5.5 Mb) from scape-music
Listen to Mapstation
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(Album) The Africa Chamber
|01| mchiki cha
|02| unitel
|03| cobra |
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(Album) distance told
me things to be said |01| horns
version |02| the
way things change |
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(EP) betrieb vs mapstation
feat. ras donovan |01| gravitation |
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(Album) kuchen meets
mapstation |01| primary |02| rosso
pieno |03| your bonjours |
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(Album) version train
(feat. ras donovan) |01| gravity
|02| wake up feat. scallo |
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(Album) a way to find
the day |01| a map of africa |02| two landscapes |
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(Album) sleep, engine
sleep |01| i begin to know the map |02| bedeckt |
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(EP) mapstation |01| frankel |02| espoo |
