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In July, 2020, blockstudio closed its doors on site in the city of Berlin. We will go on someday.

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As a preferred example for her beautiful work I put up the second track and third video of Valeska Rautenberg‘s EP “Aerial Minds” which I highly recommend. Myself being an apprentice of her vocal coaching mastership I followed her musical path for quite some time now. Now that path came to it’s latest climax. Or in her own words: “Aerial Minds is the first of a cycle of four EPs: Each dedicated to one of the four elements. They are like parts of an equation, like puzzle pieces to me. Every song is a facet. An element. But whole on their own.” Please have listen, it’s out there on all kind of platforms.

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We’re alive and well but still busy running the house and rebuilding the studio. This spider is from Italy and remained there as far as I know. For infos about renting rooms and getting in contact with us please read the previous article down here.

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This awesome video teasers a future album release by Apollo Static called “Flowers of Despair” (so this will be the title track then) via his label Ketzerpop from Leipzig / Germany. You can preorder the album via the artist’s homepage. We mastered the video edit version using plug-ins from independent developers like Klanghelm, TDR, Fielding DSP and Sknote. There is really no reason to go for dongle-secured big package software which used to dominate the professional market for so long. We even consider to leave Cubase behind and go Reaper because it’s so streamlined and fast.

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blockview

That’s the look from our studio’s window before sunset. Inside it’s more like drums and guitars and microphones but moody vibes as well. All we need and all we got is some time to develop our style. The rest will be history?

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Der Krieg würde nicht müde werden, sich als Friede zu verkleiden.

War never tires of disguising itself as peace.

On a quote by Stephan Hermlin: Some 25 years ago it was a commonplace that war on a global scale would be a realistic thread to everybody everywhere. Curiously the more concrete and immediate certain events evoke bloody scenes – like terror and regional conflicts – the mistier and further away the real thing would seem. But our problems aren’t terror and minor battlefields for they are only distractions from a consciousness, an awareness for the man next door, your very neighbor. Will he go to battle or will he refuse?

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Regie_Neu_2

In order to keep you updated: We have some mixing jobs in the pipeline, among them new material from Jacob Korn, Jogging House, The Cold View and even more projects produced by ourselves. The latter including in-house recordings of all kind – hopefully on new drums and different guitars which we ‘d like to acquire during the next months. Having a better sound to put in something better most often comes out of it, that’s why.

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TCV-WOWWOW-CD

One of those moments when all the efforts finally pay off – The Cold View releases the two of his albums at once via different labels as Digipack-CDs. Endless Winter takes care of the newest strike “Wires of Woe, Ways of Waste” while GS Productions re-releases the “Weeping Winter” including a bonus track which left our mixing facility some weeks ago. Although pretty anachronistic in terms of distribution discs are a perfect supplement for download sales. It makes a difference you can grab by hand. The physical presence nevertheless works in a mere symbolic way, a CD cannot sound better or even different. So what it does is looking good. If that’s all you need then come and get it. Any help with the decision? Just read this review here and here

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Maybe our earliest approach on serious music production whatsoever – my colaboration with beat mate Oliver Wicke and lovely voice Viola Manigk. The fundamental elements (samples, guitars and synths) came together already 10 years ago and were complemented time after time by additional recordings namely drums, strings and keys. And of course – the voice – being the point where it all started to make sense. Also Oliver created fine video clips for some of the songs (see track information). Because we never knew how to take up the thread again we decided to just put it on Bandcamp in the realm of the blockstudio. So here you have it, please enjoy!

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Welcome Goodbye

We happily announce the premiere of “Welcome Goodbye” a film directed by Nana A. T. Rebhan. Mainly a documentary this film includes fictional passages to trigger certain facettes of Berlin’s touristic life. Our studio was responsible for OFF-text editing and the main mix. And it was our first full-length film project so far. So the opening night will take place at the 28th of May at the Moviemento in Berlin. We hope for massive attendings!

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