A Number Of Small Things/Labels/Italic products

Antonelli - Me, The Disco Machine 14,99 €

Antonelli - Click 14,99 €

Antonelli - Love And Other Solutions 14,99 €

Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' - Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' 13,99 €

Antonelli - Me, The Disco Machine 13,99 €

Borneo & Sporenburg - Remember Today 13,99 €

Antonelli - Love And Other Solutions 13,99 €

Sustainer - Cuantico from 13,99 €

A Rocket In Dub - If Music Could Talk 13,99 €

Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' - Little Annie & The Legally Jammin' 13,99 €

Antonelli - The Blackout Quintet 13,99 €

Antonelli - Live in Tokyo 13,99 €

Popnoname - White Album from 13,99 €

"POPNONAME is already considered to be the JACK KEROUAC of the new sound of Cologne. And you´d better listen to his new album to know why..." CLUBBINGSPAIN/ SPAIN
"Light, airy and very handsome music that´s extremely easy to love..." NEW FRIENDS ELECTRIC / SWEDEN
"If you prefer your electronic music like a 1000-thread down comforter, then POPNONAME... could change your life..." STYLUS MAGAZINE / USA
"Pop music has never sounded quite as uneasy as it does here..." THE WIRE / UK
"NO DOUBT starts as a techno ballad with BERNHARD SUMNER / NEW ORDER lik vocals and ends up being one of the most euphoric rave hymns at the moment. You will never forget this extremly catchy, stuttering hookline. A real hit!" GROOVE / GERMANY
"... JASMINSTRAUCH is the most enigmatic of the tracks. Slow, fluttering beats fade in and out as chimes and melodies hover, alert and progressively insistent. The percussive patterns thicken and link with the growing ambient weight just as it breaks free from beneath." RESIDENT ADVISOR / UK

Antonelli - Soulkiller from 13,99 €

ITALIC would like to announce ANTONELLI's new album "Soulkiller". It is Stefan Schwander's aka ANTONELLI's 6th album and was produced using analogue drummachines, synthesizers and sequencers only and recorded live without any overdubs onto an old-school TAPE recorder. The result is amazing: ANTONELLI's House music on "Soulkiller" is so incredibly rough and emotional that it reminds of the Garage Rock from the "Stooges". And the tracks sound as if "ESG" was doing cover versions of "Moodymann". Moreover, you will find flamboyant Pop references, from "Bohannon" to "Terry Hall". The first single release taken from this album is the track "Hamilton".

Popnoname - Surrounded by Weather 13,99 €

Within the electronic music scene, JENS-UWE BEYER's new album SURROUNDED BY WEATHER is considered a flamboyant sound experience. It is an impressive combination of traditional instruments, song structures and Techno tools. Reference points may be located between House-not-House (2012, Love), Avant-Pop (Touch, ID Cart, The Smallest Part) and a new feeling for Krautrock or Glam Pop - once created by "La Düsseldorf" - with tendency toward experimental, rather improvised compositions on the one side, and extended, instrumental and monotonous dance-floor tracks on the other side. A very personal touch is added by using his own, pure and non-processed voice or vocals thus creating, supporting, accompanying and representing the different moods of the album. JENS-UWE BEYER started working on this new album immediately after his debut album WHITE ALBUM in 2007. First, he created rough demo versions which he later refined and elaborated in the legendary former EMI studio in Cologne. The album starts with the track 2012 and wonderful vocal harmonies à la "Beach Boys" or "Rufus Wainwright" - and later turns into a deep dancefloor track with a cosy house beat and deep, disharmonic strings. The track TOUCH is the first single release taken from the album (incl. remixes made by "The Field" and "Tennishero") and represents probably the most intense tendency toward Pop music with its soft guitar sounds, a laid-back beat and a vocal hook line. The kick drum sound of ID CARD refers to almost 10 years of Cologne Techno history. Its 4-to-the-floor rhythm structure is delicately embraced by an airy pop arrangement and vocals. THE MOVEMENT starts like an ambient track, spiced here and there with guitar sounds and bass sequences until the beat slowly starts to support the track's dramaturgy. THE SMALLEST PART offers elegiac and transcendental moments: Everything the eye cannot see and the ear cannot hear can be found in this track. LOVE is soft and easy, personal and lofty. The album ends with STORM and FEMBERG and its open identity. Maybe SURROUNDED BY WEATHER is the perfect combination of 70s Kraut-Glam and 90s Techno feeling and will make both shining bright again! Yet in a NEW way!

Coloma - Love's Recurring Dream 13,99 €

We are very happy to announce the release of COLOMA's new album, Love's Recurring Dream, on ITALIC. After years of friendship and mutual admiration, we have seized this chance to work together. Alongside ITALIC's great affinity for electronic dance music in its multitude of forms, from techno to house to disco, we have always harboured a love for pop (attitudes), as exemplified by the likes of PREFAB SPROUT, STEELY DAN, ORANGE JUICE, SCRITTI POLITTI, JAPAN, PULP or SCOTT WALKER. The new COLOMA album follows in this tradition and is an opportunity for us to reveal this aspect of our passion. We invite you to share in this world of perfect pop with us. COLOMA is the collaboration between singer/lyricist Rob Taylor and producer/composer Alex Paulick. Though originally from England, the two spent a period of musical education and discovery in Cologne, Germany, where Taylor is still based. Paulick flits between Berlin, the UK and his teenage hometown in California (a few miles from the Gold Rush town of Coloma). This geographical caprice is without doubt one key to the Coloma sound. The fourth COLOMA album is a song cycle with recurring harmonic and rhythmic themes. Lyrically, Love's Recurring Dream is a narrative chronicling the phases of a romance, which symbolically runs over the course of a year. In the twelve songs, singer Rob Taylor follows the progress of the seasons from spring, summer and autumn to winter, with the implicit promise that a new spring will follow. For the recording, a group of musicians was assembled in San Francisco for improvisational sessions that make up the body of the album. Precise editing by producer Alex Paulick brings coherence to these spontaneous takes, with performances ebbing and flowing between rather loose and artificially tight. Under the influence of co-producer Bacchus Marteau, female backing vocals, harpsichords and vibraphones were added to the fold. Pristine mixes by Marcus Schmickler (Pluramon) ensure that this ambitious contrast of sounds remains delicately balanced. Min Stiller's cover sculpture mirrors the cyclical nature of Love's Recurring Dream, evoking the paradoxical tension that holds lovers together, yet threatens to unravel them. In its entirety, Love's Recurring Dream is a modern concept album featuring classic song writing and bold production, combined to create profound popular music.

Antonelli - Acid Oscillations 7,49 €

On his new 12 inch vinyl Acid Oscillations, Antonelli aka Stefan Schwander from Düsseldorf presents two new warehouse movers with raw old-school power. With its core electronic squelch sounds synthesized through experimental use of analog sequencers and the machine-like drums surrounded by swinging basslines, Acid Oscillations revels in a repetitive and hypnotic style. The Groove Of All Grooves differs from the emerging styles of today’s house music in that it is starkly personal. Very sparing arranged around a typical Chicago bassline and generally rougher sounding than the mainstream, it was created in conjunction with the more underground and specialized club scene. Turn up the bass!

Von Spar - HyBoLT 7,49 €

VON SPAR is a four piece pop group from Cologne, Germany who have already released several 12”s and two highly acclaimed albums on label such as Output, Tomlab and L’age D’or. For their new single "HyBoLT" (Hypersonic Boundary Layer Transition), VON SPAR draw inspiration from the Krautrock of the 1970s and take their love of experimentation to the dance floor with a real disco happening, all refracted psychedelic colour and fluid dreams. Musically, VON SPAR's policy of ecstasy has produced a brilliant piece of prog-disco, one that tells of cosmic pop science and combines Can's spirit of discovery with the dance-floor instinct of Giorgio Moroder. But the result is no sentimental reconstruction of musical styles of the past; instead, "HyBoLT" is a contemporary amalgam from the musical molecular kitchen. As guest and remixer for their new single, VON SPAR invited Norwegian new-disco king PRINS THOMAS (Full Pupp, Internasjonal, Oslo) on board. In his interpretation, Afro-disco percussion meets the melodic grace and dreaminess of La Düsseldorf. On a journey lasting almost 14 minutes, PRINS THOMAS leads the music through a broad spectrum of aesthetic and stylistic positions and combines them into an electrifying whole: an intoxicated disco trip. The new single "HyBoLT" also serves as a first peek into VON SPAR's new album, whose release has been announced for 2010.

Kreidler - Mosaik 2014 13,99 €

Mosaik 2014 – that's how it is meant to sound. Arrangements that feel right, without me being able to map them out because all of the lines are woven together so intricately, and because the album was recorded mainly in a week of live sessions. Above all, this record has more. More rhythm, drums, percussion. More keyboards, better yet synthesizers that are immediate and cannot be turned away, sounds that demand something and yet retain great mystery. More off-kilter loops and more electrical storms. But it is all there to serve the same purpose: to make this the best Kreidler album of all Kreidler albums. There is a directness, and things come to the point while still leaving enough free space. There is longing, solace, fulfillment. In other words, big emotions.Mosaik 2014 – the record to put on before going out; the record to get you euphoric in anticipation of things to come. Then in the club, a surprise, the DJ plays Impressions d'Afrique. That whistle is new. The dance, a fury of drums, is bathed in sweat. At 5 a.m. in the taxi: please turn it up a little, I know this track. It's Mosaik, that melancholy feeling after the party, the slight intoxication, memories of the glances and the contact on the dance floor, as if by chance. The rattling accompanies me through the staircase and to the door. The night is somewhat restless. Luminous Procuress. A séance. Tableaus are carried past. It is not really threatening, but unsettling nonetheless. WHAT IS HAPPENING TO ME? Les lettres du blanc... [...sur les bandes du vieux b/pillard]. Doom Boys is evil, but not the overt, obvious kind of evil – this is not a Michael Moore record. It's about the cusp, the swell, the hidden, and forbidden, that which we do not know, but suspect, and the erotic. Borroughs, Brus, Crowley, Cronenberg – perhaps here we might agree on Kenneth Anger for fear and Lovecraft for love. European Grey and Marauder are the type of disco that got an entire continent swinging, from northern Italy via Marseille to West Germany. It is another idea of Europe, one which David Lynch would so much have liked to present to his American audiences. Zero – the set, gravity, tolerance. Griffith, von Sternberg, Morrow. Which culture was it again that founded algebra? And don't I finally have to mention André Breton? Awaken – Brass Cannon, the brass colliery that sounds the alarm and blows fanfares. The Chase. In hot pursuit through the streets of San Francisco, not by coincidence with the initials SF: Heinlein lights the fuse. Dystopia – there are so many independence days. Which ones should we forget about? Where should we start? And while we're here, only somewhat further south is High Wichita. It's not yacht rock, but it might be Los Angeles. I climb into the elevator from Venusia to Mercury Station. Mosaik 2014 – Music which ignores the 21st century. Music that simply glides from the 20th to the 22nd century. Music in the here and now. And for tomorrow. (Text written by: V. Luxemburgo / Translation: Alexander Paulick)

Von Spar - Foreigner 13,99 €

VON SPAR is an artist collective from Germany consisting of Sebastian Blume, Jan Philipp Janzen, Phillip Tielsch and Christopher Marquez. On their third album, VON SPAR have once again put themselves to the task of juxtaposing seemingly disparate musical spheres. The spectrum ranges from electrified pop and krautrock elements to fusion experiments to clubby electro tracks. Based in Cologne and Berlin, the four musicians celebrate an elaborately constructed disorder. Like their previous releases, it defies categorization. The quartet left the planet entirely for the duration of the album production in Cologne in late 2009, smoldering with a psychedelic heat before combusting into light-flooded cosmic haze - full of warm bass and rolling rhythms. All around, cosmic melodies shimmer clearly, aimed straight into the future. And even when the percussive patterns spread earthy rhythms, there is still a synthetic sound buzzing around somewhere, telling of the vastness of the universe. The multi-layered vocal-parts which appear in well-dosed intervals work as anchors on this colored trip: The single "trOOps" - with remixes by Prince Language (DFA, Editions Disco) & Rebolledo (Cómeme) - combines almost R&B-ish vocals with a krauty disco groove. This contrasts with the calmness of the nautically inspired album opener "Scotch & Chablis" or cosmic space-mantra odes like "Lambda". "Foreigner" is a science-fiction album chock full of trippy pop, which tumbles through unexplored terrain without forgetting to look in the rearview mirror and allowing the listeners enough room to use their own imagination.