INGRID SCHMOLINER
»mneem«
digital formats
out on March 1st!

 

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The composer and pianist Ingrid Schmoliner writes and plays music the allure of which cannot be resisted. Her pieces are ecstatic cascades of sound which unite formal strictness and psychoactive effects. Her new work MNEEM is a musical monolith.It is a breathtaking one hour plus tour de force through complex uptempo pattern, played on the prepared grand piano.

TEARING
»all sides find insides«
digital formats
out now!

 

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In their work, TEARING (Lens Kühleitner and Manu Mayr) deal with the hyperreality and artificiality of sounds. They draw on the rich potential of their diverse musical roots and skillfully move from ethereal clearness to sophisticated sound collages.

KUTIN
»The Slowest Urgency«
digital formats
out now!

 

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Peter Kutin reinterprets the site-specific compositions he created for the choreographer Philipp Gehmacher over the past four years. It recreates the multi-channel sound experience for binaural headphone listening, capturing the key compositional parameters and spatial relations presented in the live work. Slow, but urgent.

PLF
»ParziFoooooooooooL«
LP & digital formats
out now!

 

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For their second album, the non-conformist trio PLF delves deeper into broken song structures and harsh rhythms. Restless, the »scream-of-consciousness« vocalist Elvin Brandhi, sonic dissident & producer Peter Kutin, and multifarious drummer Lukas König spew a fresh batch of tracks resembling post-apocalyptic rituals.

VENTIL LABEL NIGHT 
28th September 2023
Arkaoda, Berlin
 

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start: 9.30 pm

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ISABELLA FORCINITI
GISCHT
KOENIG
KUTIN + LUDWIG WANDINGER

→ September 28rd 2023, 9.00 pm
Arkaoda, Berlin

PLF
ALBUM RELEASE
23th September 2023
Rhiz, Vienna
 

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doors: 8.30 pm
start: 9.00 pm

MISONICA (dj-set)
NOUSHIN (dj-set)
PLF (live)
TEARING (live)

In cooperation with LICCHT.

→ September 23rd 2023, 8.30pm
Rhiz, Vienna

TEARING
»INVERT«
first single out now!

 

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Happy to announce TEARING's single »INVERT« and upcoming album »ALL SIDES FIND INSIDES«. Stay tuned!

Coming from differing musical backgrounds, the two musicians  - Lens Kühleitner aka Lan Rex and Manu Mayr - draw from fuzz peaking synth sounds, wave-beating strings and rousing basses. Dealing with the hyperreality and artificiality of sounds, from ethereal clearness to multiplied voices - they offer you an immersive room. Drawing you in - until decisively releasing you.

THE SOUND OF MUSICK [SIC!] - A NOISICAL
8 YEARS OF VENTIL RECORDS
10th & 12th August 2023
Odeon Theater, Vienna
 

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We're celebrating Ventil Record's 8th year of existence, and as part of that celebration we're joining an extraordinary & insane project for which the term #noisical seems to be the only accurate one. 
 
following artists on stage...

Johanna Sophia Baader, Alessandro Baticci, Didi Bruckmayer (FUCKHEAD), Freya Edmondes (PLF), Katrin Euller (RENT), God's Entertainment, Gratis Kaiserin, Florian Kindlinger, Lukas König (PLF), Peter Kutin (PLF), Leon Leder, Mathias Lenz, Matthias Loibner, Chora Malik, Katharina Meves, Karolina Preuschl, Victoria Shen (EVICSHEN), Michael Strohmann (FUCKHEAD), Christopher Sturmer (STIRN PRUMZER), Akemi Takeya, Elisabeth Bakambamba Tambwe, Ursula Winterauer (GISCHT)

→ August 10th & 12th 2023, 9pm
Odeon Theater, Vienna

BILLY ROISZ
RELEASECONCERT
»BAJO«
sharing stage with dieb13 & Jérôme Noetinger
 

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Vienna's new space Westbahnstudios will host the release presentation BAJO by sound and video artist Billy Roisz. She will present her exciting new work with electronics and live double bass. On this evening she will share the stage with the duo dieb13 & Jérôme Noetinger.

→ May 24th 2023, 7.30pm
Westbahnstudios, Vienna

KŒNIG
»1 ABOVE MINUS UNDERGROUND«
LP 
out now! - shipping around 1st June 2023

 

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Happy to share the newest solo work by drummer, composer, rapper, multi-instrumentalist Lukas König aka Kœnig.
»Solo« is, in fact, a misnomer, as each track features carefully chosen musicians from around the globe: Will Brooks (Dälek), Guilty Simpson, Moor Mother, Sensational, Nappy Nina, Elvin Brandhi, Rojin Sharafi , Viktoria Shen, Nik Hummer, Julien Desprez, Aquiles Navarro, Martin Eberle, and Chris Pitsiokos.

→ 29th of April 2023, Releaseconcert at donaufestival, Krems

BILLY ROISZ
»BAJO«
LP & digital formats
out now!

 

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On the album »BAJO« Billy Roisz explores the frequency spectrum and the sound materiality of the double bass in her well elaborated experimental setting.  

→ 24th of May 2023, Releaseconcert at Westbahnstudios, Vienna

MORE INFO SOON!

Gischt's »Grimper« featured on newest The Wire Tapper 59

 

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The Wire Tapper 59, compiled by Shane Woolman, Astrud Steehouder and James Gormley contains a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from Gischt, Evicshen, Tegh & Adel, MimiCof and others..

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»FRAGILITY OF SOUNDS«
digital formats
out now!

 

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The music released on this album was composed and performed over the years 2019–2021 within the framework of the artistic research project »On the fragility of sounds«.
This project listened into intersections of contemporary composition, music theatre, and feminist practice from a unique position: from the position of the artist themselves while being at work.

The album features compositions from Elaine Mitchener, Séverine Ballon, Elisabeth Schimana, Electric Indigo & Pia Palme a.o. performed by Schallfeld Ensemble.

All digital formats are availabe from now on. 
Please stay tuned for their releaseconcert on the 2nd of November 2022 in Echoraum, Vienna.

VENTIL x PARKEN
22nd & 23rd of July 2022

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SUBLETVIS
»NOT THE WHOLE TRUTH«
LP, Tape & digital formats
out now!

 

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 »Not The Whole Truth« explores the themes of memory and emotional affect. Mo Nahold uses his online Subletvis moniker to further thread the line between abstract electronic composition and melodic hooks.

ROJIN SHARAFI
»KARIZ«
2LP & digital formats
out now!

 

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With her latest release »Kariz» Rojin Sharafi opens up a very unique musical world, in which historicity and poetics intertwine.

2LP & all digital formats are availabe from now on. 
Unfortunately, the vinyl can first be shipped approximately around 15 January 2022.

SCHTUM
»SEQUENCING DETACHMENTS«
LP & digital formats
Out now!
→ RELEASESHOW 29/10/21

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On the new album »Sequencing Detachments«, the duo schtum transforms elements of electronic dance music into detailed, oversized sound close-ups.
Through repetitive structures, layers of sound eventually detach themselves, thus developing a life of their own, leaving behind an abstract impression of emotional depth.

MOPCUT
»JITTER«
LP & digital formats
Out now!
→ CONCERT 06/10/21
→ RELEASESHOW 07/10/21

 

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The trio lean inward, bestial and chaotic, Chen's primitive huffing and reptilian bubble blowing lending each track a human disorder which spars perfectly with the pugilistic pops of Koenigs digital kicks and Desprez desert of atomic guitar scree. (Opal Tapes)

The LP will be released via Ventil Records on 1st of October 2021, tape edition released via → Opal Tapes.

VENTIL x SONICA FESTIVAL
23rd of September 2021, 8pm
feat.
Abu Gabi | Asfast | Lifecutter | Misonica | Rouge-Ah | Spatial

at Das Werk, Vienna
 

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Ventil Records and Sonica Festival collaborate on this very special evening of eclectic and exciting music. The evening can be seen as a pre-event of the Sonica Festival, which will take place from 27.9 - 2.10.2021 in Ljubljana. We will also celebrate the sixth anniversary of Ventil (and one more birthday).

RDEČA RAKETA
»...AND CANNOT REACH THE SILENCE«
LP & digital formats
Out now!

 

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Rdeča Raketa combines abstract electronic sounds with heavy beats, inspired by acousmatic and industrial music. The artful interweaving of spoken and sung language (based on Osojnik’s texts) coalesces with the collaged sound material.

The LP will be released via Ventil Records on 4th of August 2021, followed by a special edition on Maja Osojnik’s own label → Mamka Records.

VENTIL SUMMER HANG
30th of July 2021, 8pm
Elvin Brandhi (live), GMNR (dj-set), GAST (dj-set)
at Central Garden, Vienna

 

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Don't miss Elvin Brandhi's ecstatic live performance and the gorgious sets of GMNR and GAST this friday on the edges of the danube canal.

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STEPHAN BLUMENSCHEIN
»HMM... 1, OR 2 OR SO METRES. INSIDE«
LP & digital formats
out now!

 

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Stephan Blumenschein approaches sound and music from a visual artist's point of view, though, if one were to expect that everything here would be about abstraction, reduction or deconstruction, one would be completely wrong. It is also not about noise or being radical. Rather, Blumenschein’s music seems to be an excursion about spaces, or about giving sounds a certain place.

RES.Radio
»Curated #1«
feat. DJ-Sets by Misonica, Inou Ki Endo, Abu Gabi & Gischt

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Ventil Records' very own Gischt was invited to curate a radio show on RES.Radio, an online community radio based in Vienna.

Listen to 5 hours of eclectic music in the fields of industrial, noise & techno feat. Misonica, Inou Ki Endo, Abu Gabi & Gischt.

VENTIL ON SCREEN
13th of March 2021, 8 pm
streaming via echoraeume.klingt.org

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To watch, please klick this button at 8 pm:

SHAPE PLATFORM
Congrats to Kœnig & Gischt!

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Happy to announce that Kœnig & Gischt - among other very interesting musicians - are selected SHAPE participants in 2021!

KUTIN
»A C H R O N I E«
digital formats & photoprints 
out now!

 

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With ACHRONIE, Vienna-based composer and sound artist Peter Kutin releases his first purely solo album since 2013. It opens with the synthetic voice - generated by machine-learning (A.I.) - of philosopher Theodor W. Adorno, reading a short excerpt from Kafka's The Trial. Kutin deliberately incorporates a mistake into the text, which points to a temporal impossibility, a paradox. By having Adorno's voice talk about a laptop, Kutin subtly and clearly suggests that something must be wrong here, disrupting our linear view of time.

ANDREAS BERGER
»WORK FOR LIQUID LOFT«
out as LP & digital formats
on the 10th of October 2020

 

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Basically, all of Andreas Bergers very unique tracks are based on speech samples, of which mostly only fragments can be understood or guessed. Robbed of their syntax and semantics, they become musical building blocks from which Berger arranges minimal and finely woven sound worlds with surgical precision, cleverly combining them with electronic sounds and field recordings.

Releaseconcert: October 10th ODEON, Vienna

5 YEARS VENTIL
Oct 13th | Fluc Wanne, Vienna

 

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ROJIN SHARAFI
MO NAHOLD
SHRACK!

Ventil Records looks back on five years of working with wonderful artists, adventurous projects and great friendships. Due to the current situation smaller than last year, but just as big in beauty, the evening will provide an insight into Ventil's aesthetics.

Oct 13th 2020, → Fluc Wanne, Vienna
Start: 20:00
AK 15€ / VVK 12€ / 50 Tickets / bestuhlt

KATHARINA KLEMENT
»VESSEL 1.2 / SUITE POUR UNE FEMME SEULE«
out as LP & digital formats
on the 18th of September 2020

 

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With »vessel 1.2 & suite pour une femme seule«, the Vienna based composer Katharina Klement presents a precise arranged album where instrumental approaches (piano on Side A and Zither on Side B) are almost invisibly connected to electronic manipulations.

Releaseconcert: September 18th ECHORAUM, Vienna

New Releases coming soon!

 

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Soon to be released! New Records from Andreas Berger (Ex-Glim), Katharina Klement and Stephan Blumenschein coming up...

Peter Kutin wins Award for best Sounddesign at Diagonale 2020

 

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»The complexities of an android learning to be human are conveyed through Peter Kutin’s stunning, tactile, and sometimes disturbing ambient sound design creating an understanding of these confrontations on an almost subconscious level.«

Kœnig's Mr. Kiwi's (feat. Sensational) featured on newest The Wire Tapper 53

 

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The Wire Tapper 53, compiled by Shane Woolman, Astrud Steehouder and James Gormley contains a range of new, rare or exclusive tracks from Kœnig, Beatriz Ferreyra, Max Eilbacher, Sheng Jie, Agnès Pe, damelove and others...

Peter Kutin contributed to the great podcast by Sonic - Genealogies
Reina - Sofia Museum
Have a listen!

 

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Also listen to statements by Thomas Ankersmit, Olivia Block, Jim O'Rourke and Steve Roden.

KŒNIG
»MESSING«
out as LP & digital formats

 

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»MESSING« is a courageous statement that rejects straightforward pop and instead shines with artistic freedom and the will for change. The metal, the brass, always reverberates, at times mercilessly pounding on us, driving us forward, resonating.

New Video-Single out now!
»CHOP ZD« by Kœnig
with analog Laser by BR-Laser. 
Outtake from soonish to be released Album »MESSING«.

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KŒNIG
MR. KIWI'S (FEAT. SENSATIONAL)

Listen to MR. KIWI'S (feat. Sensational) by KŒNIG and get sucked into the wildly radical aesthetics of his new album »MESSING«, which will be released in the beginning of June!

»MESSING« is a courageous statement that rejects straightforward pop and instead shines with artistic freedom and the will for change. The metal, the brass, always reverberates, at times mercilessly pounding on us, driving us forward, resonating.

Delighted with this news!
schtum join the Ventil Records catalogue with a new album in autumn.

Watch their new video »EMIT«.

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VARIOUS ARTISTS
TEMPUS EX MACHINA

This compilation is a deep dive into some corners of Vienna’s vivid underground and advanced music-scene. You will find unreleased material from artists we will hear more from in the near future!

If you want to support artists & the scene, buying this sampler is a very pleasant way to do so.

FEAT. ANDREAS BERGER, ROJIN SHARAFI, KŒNIG, PATRIK LECHNER, KATHARINA KLEMENT, KATHARINA ERNST, SCHTUM and many more …

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SCHRECKEN | PETER KUTIN
THE TROUBLE WITH BEING BORN

Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

David Schweighart (aka Schrecken) and Peter Kutin composed the original music for Sandra Wollner's latest feature film - The trouble with being born. This soundtrack lives from the interchange of experimental electronic music and classical song structures. The songs appear like islands to hold on to, in a world that has become difficult to grasp.

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