After Denseland's two last releases Chunk (Mosz 2009) and Like, Likes, Like (m=minimal 2013) Denseland’s new album Disco Dictionary straddles the borders between funk and post punk, experimental avant-garde and fractured down tempo techno, electronica and minimalist industrial. Formed in 2008 by long time Berlin musician's bassist Hannes Strobl, percussionist Hanno Leichtmann and avant-garde vocalist David Moss, Denseland as a three headed ensemble jumps genres, timbres and times.

Listening evokes shades of bygone music's and not: rhythm emulations of Joy Division, the B 52´s and ESG, the extended vocal madness of Roy Hart and Laurie Anderson, the distortions of the early Contortions, reduced basslines of Grandmaster Flash and John Carpenter.

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arbitrary06 (aux series, 01) | September 2017
C30 tape (silver) + DL
1st edition of 150, includes download code

All music by Denseland, 2017
David Moss
Hannes Strobl
Hanno Leichtmann

Mastered by Mads Emil Nielsen


1: Technology
2: Rack It
3: Red Grains
4: Disco Dictionary
5: Alchemy
6: Like Wind

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Available via:
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Boomkat (DL)



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Photo by Michael Tewes, Berlin

Cover artwork by Hanno Leichtmann