Thx to the slices team for the nice interview.

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“Uncanny Valley´s Jacob Korn turns ‘Don’t U Know’ into a bumping Todd Edwards-esque Gospel house number, punctuated with all the same colour and streamlined liveliness as the originals, closing out a very handy release in style.”

Cat No: JIM001
Artist: Placeholder
Title: Brothers EP
Label: Space Hardware
Format: 12″ & Digital
Release Date: March 2012

The man with a hand in Hypercolour, HypeLTD, Glass Table, Losing Suki and Sneaker Social Club has such an inexhaustible enthusiasm for all forms of electronic music that he is starting a new label! Space Hardware is Jamie Russell’s latest project and comes to fruition with the inaugural sounds ofPlaceholder, an artist Russell unearthed one afternoon on Soundcloud.

The label’s MO is simple: to release spaced-out headphone music for the rave generation, where this debut EP consists of two original tracks from the mysteriousPlaceholder, plus 2 tidy remixes from Uncanny Valley’s Jacob Korn.

First track ‘Brothers’ goes deep and introspective, spiralling around in some underwater chamber à la house of Hot Flush with plenty of echoing, filtered voices, darting synth notes and swollen sub belches…. It marks an auspicious entry into the world not only for the artist behind it, but also for the label on which it’s released.

On the flip, ‘Don’t U Know’ is all wallowing, teary ambiance, lapping claps and sad robot voices to start with before it grows into a skipping, ticking and delightfully harmonic garage number. It’s spring-like in its colour and delicate charm and featuresplenty of melodic invention that gets your heart doing flips and your feet tapping in time.
Uncanny Valley´s Jacob Korn turns ‘Don’t U Know’ into a bumping Todd Edwards-esque Gospel house number, punctuated with all the same colour and streamlined liveliness as the originals, closing out a very handy release in style.

Musical seeds sower: Talking with Jacob Korn

Besides his actual profession on the interface of audio, visual and dance Jacob Korn has also been producing electronic music for what seems like an eternity. Born to parents with progressive dispositions and a record collection to match the path that led him to the 2007 edition of the Red Bull Music Academy in Toronto had long been paved. Early in his career he combined Hip Hop and Techno with elements of Jazz and weird electronics under the moniker Granufunk. Under his civil name he is now focussing predominantly on classic but versatile Techno and House. After releases on Labels such as Running Back, Astrolab or Permanent Vacation and a brilliant first release on Steffi’s Dolly Label (the highly acclaimed ‘Supakrank’) he now belongs to one the spearheads of the German house scene with his live sets much in demand. He has played live or deejayed at numerous clubs and festivals in Spain (Sonár Festival-Barcelona), Holland (Picnic at Night-Amsterdam), Sweden, Norway Denmark, Switzerland (Formbar-Bern), Austria, Czech Republic (Meat Factory-Praha) and Germany (Cookies-Berlin).

Jacob, you have releases at many different labels, but which one is your native, which helped you to grow and become known?

Our native label is “Uncanny Valley” which was founded in 2010 and run by friends. Releases on “Running Back”, “Dolly” and “Permanent Vacation” helped a lot spreading the word.

Do you live and work in Dresden now where you were born? Tell us a bit about this city and its club and sound culture. 

I was born nearby, then I moved to Ilmenau for studies and i came back to Dresden 5 years ago. I’m pretty happy with the way things are developing. There is a number of crews that are doing a good job of promoting parties. The crowds are very grateful, and the nights are usually rather intimate, but can there are also bigger events taking place depending on the acts. You usually meet people at clubs like the “Altes Wettbüro”, “Sektor E”, “Sabotage” or at record stores like ‘Fat Fenders’. This is also where the plan was made to pool the city’s musical potential under the Uncanny Valley banner. I do see a problem however regarding venues that do not cater for the musical mainstream. Clubs of an ideal size have recently closed, like the ‘Galerie Disko’ or struggle with administrative regulations imposed on them. 500.000 people currently live in Dresden – half a million sounds like a lot, but the club scene is still relatively small, compared to close-by Leipzig, which is the same size, but has an organically grown, well educated scene. Dresden still has some catching-up to do here, also regarding its label landscape.

You have many nice collaborations with the other musicians, djs. Do you have in mind some collaboration which you would like to have in a future, maybe with some of your favorite producers?

I was very lucky working with a lot of good musicians and producers the last years. As for the album there were loads of good singers like “Kid A” or “The Drifter” involved as well as talented producers like “San Soda”, “Christopher Rau”, “Swede:Art” or “Sneaker”, “C-Beams” and “Cuthead” from the Uncanny Camp. But you never know whats next.

Tell us about your new album at Uncanny Valley. How long did the production take? Is there any tour planned?

Its kind of a concept album that is scheduled for September. The concept behind was trying to collecting the best collaborations from the past years. It took me ages putting together the material since there were a lot of people involved. There is gonna be a club tour after summer but i will play a lot of the tracks during summer for festivals and of course at sound:frame!

What are the other new releases you plan for this year? 

There is a new EP on ”Permanent Vacation” together with “Good Guy Mikesh and Filburt” to be released soon. Also a couple of remixes for “Hivern Discs”, “Friends of Friends”, “Space Hardware”, “Compost Black” and “Sonar Kollektiv” should hit the stores soon.

Fotos: Christoph Sandig

Am Sonntag, 4. März 2012, eröffnet das GRASSI Museum für Angewandte Kunst Leipzig den dritten und letzten Teil seiner Ständigen Ausstellung. Besucher können nicht nur Design- und Kunstobjekte erleben, sondern sich selbst in Gestaltungsprozesse einbringen. Denn den Abschluss des Ausstellungsrundgangs bildet die interaktive Rauminstallation »Sinneslandschaften«, in der die Besucher in einen Raum aus Bild- und Klangprojektionen eintauchen können.

Entwickelt wurde die Installation von einem Team um Prof. Dr. Axel Buether, der im Fachbereich Design der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle das Lehrgebiet Farbe, Licht, Raum leitet. In den »Sinneslandschaften« machen die Designer den Museumsbesucher zum Gestalter: Farben, Lichter, Formen, Texturen und Töne im Raum reagieren auf seine Körperbewegungen. Ständig generiert er so neue Bilder und Klänge, die freie Assoziationen zu verschiedenen Stilepochen und Themen aus dem Rundgang hervorrufen. Bewegt sich der Besucher auf ein Bildfragment zu, öffnen sich immer neue Räume.

Wie genau funktioniert das? Die 360-Grad-Projektion ist mit Kunst- und Designforen im Internet verknüpft, aus denen sich die Bilderflut speist. Einegenerative Technik – bestehend aus einer 360-Grad-Projektionsmatrix, einem Audiosystem sowie interaktiven Bewegungssensoren aus Infrarotscheinwerfer und -kameras – sorgt dafür, dass die Installation auf die Bewegungen der Besucher reagieren kann. Digitale Impulse werden in Formen, Farben, Muster, Bewegungen und Töne übersetzt und in den White Cube, das Interface, projiziert.
Dabei entwickelt sich das System permanent weiter – es gleicht also kein Bild dem anderen. Wie die Gestalter sagen: »Alles ist Variation und gestaltsuchende Veränderung.«

Neben Prof. Axel Buether besteht das Design-Team aus den Absolventen der Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle Sebastian Huber, Johannes Timpernagel, Robert Pohle und Isabella Kolata sowie Marko Ritter, Jacob Korn und Ingolf Heinsch.

Ab Sonntag, 4. März 2012, 11 Uhr können Sie sich selbst einen Eindruck von der Installation machen.

Autor: Anna Weilberg http://www.page-online.de/emag/technik/artikel/interaktive_rauminstallation

The award includes prize money of 5,000 Euros and will be awarded on March 17th at Festspielhaus Hellerau. Since 1993, the prize honors the artistic works of people or groups that focus on the city of Dresden as their primary workbase. Jacob Korn, who studied media technology, stated: “I am delighted to receive this year’s furtherance award. I feel that this is a signal for Dresden’s cultural policy, with the prize not being awarded to the established arts (in 2012), but to a new art form.” The jury honored Korn as an “exposed representative of a cultural scene which improved its image during the last years and is giving utterance to a young generation’s cultural life.”

Jacob Korn will be showing his talents during the next weeks with a bunch of dj and live sets, catch up with him and the whole Uncanny Valley crew at one of the dates below. Learn more about the label itself by watching our recent Slices feature or listening to One Day In Metropia‘s live set for Electronic Beats Radio.

Uncanny Valley live & dj sets:
January 19th DE Dresden – Sputnik 2.0 (w/ Conrad Kaden, Felix Meyers)
January 20th DE Berlin – Loftus Hall (w/ Jacob Korn, Albrecht Wassersleben, Mano Le Tough, The Drifter)
January 20th NL Amsterdam – Chicago Social Club (w/ Hombres Discos)
January 21st DE Leipzig – Distillery (UV Rallye w/ Jacob Korn, One Day in Metropia, CVBox, The Moroders, Albrecht Wassersleben, Carl Suspect)
January 27th DE Berlin – Salon zur wilden Renate (w/ Break SL, The Moroders)
January 27th DE Frankfurt am Main – Tanzhaus West (w/ Jacob Korn)
February 1st DE Berlin – Farbfernseher (w/ Jacob Stoy, Conrad Kaden)
February 18th DE Essen – Hotel Shanghai (w/ Jacob Korn)
March 3rd FR Nantes – tba (w/ Jacob Korn)
March 16th DE Dresden – Sabotage (w/ Jacob Stoy)
March 31st DE Dresden – Sektor E (w/ Jacob Korn)
May 19th UK Manchester – Future Everything (w/ Jacob Korn)

http://www.electronicbeats.net/music/news/jacob-korn-to-receive-dresdens-furtherance-award-2012

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We close proceedings on a successful first year for our podcast series with a mix of fine house music from one of our favourite exponents in the art: Jacob Korn.

Perhaps the most lauded artist from the Dresden collective Uncanny Valley, it’s fair to say Jacob has enjoyed a superlative 2011, adding further to a widespread reputation for satisfyingly detailed and musically complex approach to deep house. This reputation was of course established with some finely judged releases across labels such as Dolly, Running Back and of course Uncanny Valley.

After playing an intergral role in the rapid rise of the strictly Dresden centric Uncanny Valley operation with key contributions to their distinctively presented self titled various artist EPs, Korn was the natural choice to signal a change in the label’s remit with the first in a series of solo artist EPs. Entitled She, the EP was the perfect way for the label to debut a new direction pairing two original productions from Korn with some finely judged remixes from John Talabot and Iron Curtis.

Alongside this, Korn has delivered fin contributions to labels such as Skylax and Permanent Vacation, gracing the latter alongside fellow Uncanny Valley cohort with “Ooohja” one of the finest tracks on the Munich label’s compilation If This Is House I Want My Money Back Zwei. Add to this a smattering of excellent remixes for the likes of Gerd and Mod Civil and it’s apparent why Korn is regarded as one of the brightest talents on the European deep house circuit.

Length: 1:05:33

Tracklisting:

1. Jacob Korn – Cybernetic Steersman (Phonocake)
2. Roman Flügel – How To Spread Lies (Dial)
3. Other Worlds – Only Down (CDR)
4. Mano Le Tough – Stories (Buzzin´ Fly)
5. C-Beams – Strollin’ Speechless (Uncanny Valley)
6. Session Victim – large processor (Permanent Vacation)
7. Cuthead – Brother (Uncanny Valley)
8. Matthew Styles – Galaxy 21 (Running Back)
9. Scott Grooves – The Journey (From The Studio of Scott Grooves)
10. Underworld – Little Speaker (V2)
11. Jacob Korn – SHE (Uncanny Valley)
12. Rick “Poppa” Howard – About Fourteen (Remix) (Beautiful Granville Records)
13. Hauschka – Girls (Fat Cat)

http://www.junodownload.com/plus/2011/12/21/juno-plus-podcast-24-jacob-korn/

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