Hier ist ein kleines Interview für die Workshopreihe „CDR Berlin“ für die ich ein wenig erzählt habe. Related articles „You & Me“ in 2012 top 30 album charts of teshno.com (jacobkorn.de) Jacob Korn @ Boiler Room (uncannyvalley.de) New Megamix-Podcast by Jacob Korn (uncannyvalley.de)
Number 23, jacob korn, you & me, uncanny valley (listen/buy it) uncanny valley have many a talent in their extended family, but the first to breakthrough with an album all his own was jacob korn. well, it was sort of all his own, because every track also featured a high profile guest either on vocals or beat work duty. the result are a prickly deep house album that sounds thoroughly, arrestingly european and industrial instead of exhaustingly african and soulful like many of its peers. http://www.teshno.com/2012/12/albums-of-the-year-2012.html Related articles Podcast for „Trace A Line“ (jacobkorn.de)
Number 5 in Album Top 10 in „Groove“ magazine this month! Thx!
We talked about him just a month ago for the release of his You & Me album, Jacob Korn hits the headlines again with this exclusive and very well-executed podcast. Like most members of the Uncanny Valley label based in Dresden, Jacob discovered music production through hip-hop, jazz and IDM, three quite different genres of music that he started combining with more techno vibes early in his career under the alias Granufunk. After participating to the infamous Red Bull Music Academy back in 2007, he decided to get serious into music producing and especially into house and…read more
Clubmusik mit Holger Klein. Das Label Uncanny Valley stellt in Dresden für eine beachtliche Anzahl an Musikern ein kreatives Zentrum dar. Der wohl bekannteste unter ihnen ist der Cross-Media-Künstler Jacob Korn. Mit „You & Me“ (Uncanny Valley) legt er nun sein erstes Album vor. Da Korn gerne mit anderen Menschen zusammenarbeitet, beschloss er, darauf nur Kollaborationen zu veröffentlichen. Neben Freunden aus seiner Heimatstadt wie Cuthead, Sandrow M oder Break SL finden sich im Line-up die US-Sängerin Kid A, San Soda aus Belgien, Mr. Raoul K aus Lübeck oder Christopher Rau…read more
Antithetical to the concise aesthetic statements found across well-rehearsed 12”s, the full length LP is dangerous territory for most producers. Having to spread the kinesis of a taut club track across 60 minutes without exhausting the listener is difficult. Relying on the usual compositional techniques transforms potent ideas into islands in an uninviting sea of DJ-friendly intros and outros. Conversely, cutting the dancefloor out of the equation often neuters any appeal the artist once had, relegating their vision to the electronic music world’s analogue of coffee table jazz: the dreaded…read more
If Workshop, Smallville and Dial are the wise, safe old hands of deep house, then Dresden’s Uncanny Valley are here to fuck shit up with some post punk attitude and sonic scuzz. At the heart of the label since day dot has been Jacob Korn, someone who has shied away from the genre’s usual trappings and instead favours a prickly pallet that takes cues from swathes of music well outside the usual electronic sphere. And that’s what seems to define his debut full length, You & Me. It feels thoroughly…read more
