Kareem - PORTRAIT#1 Mix Album

Tracklist

1	–Cyanide	Boo
2	–Imminent Starvation	Lost Highway (Exit)
3	–Huren	Begin Tipplezone (Remix)
4	–Huren	Ajerbajan
5	–ZymOsiZ	Stompers
6	–Caustic Window	The Garden Of Linmiri
7	–Surgeon	Prowler
8	–Continuous Mode	Running Status
9	–Current 909	Hospitalism
10	–Modulator	Untitled
11	–Converter	Denogginizer
12	–Kareem	Stalker
13	–I-f	I Do Because I Couldn't Care Less
14	–Huren	Liebes Cocktail
15	–Welcome Monster Lover	Raptus!
16	–Panasonic	Murto
17	–Unit Moebius	Millenium
18	–Iesope Drift	Tuljhän
19	–Orphx	Nullity v 22

Credits

• DJ Mix – Kareem
• Graphics – Cristina Ruggieri

Notes

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MORE ON: www.paynomindtous.it / mixcloud

Last Genuary we closed the THREATS series with the wonderful mix by Francesco Baudazzi aka Diana Berti / Violet Poison. This month, and for many others further on, our mixes will go together with a very in-deepth interview to the artist involved. The aim is to provide something similiar to a portrait of the musician, which is actually self-drawn through the music chosen to be in the mix and the answers to our questions. We've been asking to use just tracks produced by the artist himself, remixes, pieces fundamental for his/her background, or even entire sets recovered from old archives. The artwork, instead, is an actual drawing, featuring his/her very face. Hence, the name of the series, PORTRAITS: PORTRAIT#1 can be listened by pushing play right below.

Our guest for this month is Patrick Stottrop, aka Kareem, the founder of the very influential label Zhark Recordings, on which some of the most violent and relentless electronic music ever was released (check its catalogue to get a very quick idea). Though Patrick is from Berlin, the label moved its first steps in NY after the journey he took in the first years of the 90s. There, in the spring of 1996, he founded together with Rachel Kozak (aka Hecate, and many other aliases) the Zhark label, on which two records were out, produced by the dangerous duo Hecate & Kareem themselves. As reported by the webpage www.zhark.org, "Zhark was started [..] as an answer to the lack of dark or experimental electronics within the techno scenes of New York and Detroit". The Payback and In the Bush developed an ever-expanding, dubbed piece of electronic music, noisy and cadenced at the same time. After Zhark 00002, the duo split since Patrick went back to Germany, and so, from that moment, the label was divided in Zhark Recordings, Berlin-based and run by Kareem, and Zhark International (after a brief period in which it went under the name Zhark London), directed by Hecate. Going on quoting zhark.org, "although [the labels] are two seperate entities, they still continue the original spirit of releasing harsh and abrasive takes on the myriad of dancefloor rhythms out there."

Focusing on Zhark Berlin, Crusader by Patrick himself was released on it. Next, the label managed to gather different artists such as Zymosiz, Harsh, Le Talium, Nathan Siter, MES and Huren, aka David Foster from the legendary Teste (it will be possible to read few informations about him too in the interview, and some pictures too), most of whom kept evolving in many different directions a basic 4/4 kick drum pattern. Killer releases appeared on Zhark in the following years, just to name a few: Kaltbrüchig Acideath (Huren), Black September (Kareem), Boxed Meat Revolution (Huren), Tripods (Harsh) and Druids (Kareem). Simultaneously, Patrick addressed his interest in producing beats (and his love for hip hop music) giving birth to Ramadan, in April 2001. Reporting another passage appearing on zhark.de, 'this imprint deals solely with deep, kafkaesque!! Hip Hop breaks, minimal loop science & abstract rap'. The inspiration for its development came from the process of deconstruction ('dekonstrukkt') some raw idea featured on Zhark 06, Mikoyan by Kareem & Mes. Worth checking and listening are all the Ramadan releases, so give it a shot here.

As will be explained further in this reading by Kareem himself, in the years between 2004 and 2012 only few records came out both on Zhark and Ramadan: Run on the former, and the incredible Irreparable Damage (Kareem & Shadow Huntaz, 2007) together with a couple records by Mattr. & Rushya on the latter. A renewed interest in the musical production of the artist surfaced in 2012 thanks to Amélie Ravalec and Fondation Sonore, on which a split Kareem / Ancient Methods was released. [Well known and very interesting are the two documentaries directed by her, called PARIS/BERLIN: 20 YEARS OF UNDERGROUND TECHNO] and INDUSTRIAL SOUNDTRACK FOR THE URBAN DECAY] (2015, together with her partner Travis Collins). A key role for the present electronic / techno scene in re-discovering Patrick and his labels' productions was played by the 14-tracks compilation on Boomkat called 'The Unheimlich Manoeuvres Of Kareem'. From that moment, Kareem received offers from labels such as The Death of Rave - we strongly recommend you go check the first 12'' on it - and Overdraw, leading to his first non-Zhark records since Caspian Gold was released on Possible Music back in 2004.

Also Zhark and Ramadan started back their full-time activity. Casual Violence was added to the roaster through the Anabiosis 12'' (Zhark 026, 2015), and Ramadan developed a little bit further its take on laptop-hip hop music putting out the latest Patrick's experiments on beats, joined by Jaeda Glasgow MC on The Bonk (September 2015).

Following the link you can find the answers to our questions. Our goal has been to provide a close insight on the producer, in addition to the (pretty amazing, we gotta say) mix Kareem did for our mixcloud channel. The tracklist can be found at the end of the interview, together the correct timestamp - in case you would retrieve the exact piece - plus the release-date, which is very important (as stated by Patrick himself), 'since it shows that the set does not sound oldschool even though it is oldschool!'. Have a good read!

Short intro

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