Mit seiner ersten Single ’Graustadt’ bringt Fantom Schmerz dunklen Wind in die Neue Neue Deutsche Welle Bewegung – über treibende Arpeggios und schwebende Synthesizerflächen singt der Newcomer aus Leipzig von Provinzsehnsüchten und Schattenseiten der Großstadt.
(Neue Dunkle Welle / NNDW / Leipzig)
Credits:
Video by Jonas Wehner + Nea Gumprecht
Mixed and Produced by Fantom Schmerz + Konrad Jackisch
Recorded by Christian Döpping @ Haunted Haus, Leipzig
Warm Graves’ Jonas Wehner delivers two sophisticated new approaches to LSSNS’ „Gemini“, a straight-forward remix, and a brittle and broken, but all the more haunting rework version. Wehner details his approach:
“Patrick and I used to play in a band before I started Warm Graves. We’re still very good friends, so when he asked me if I could do a remix for ‘Gemini,’ it felt like a nice way to reconnect musically.
When I do remixes, I usually provoke accidents by creating chaos first and then reshaping it by recording new tracks on top. That’s how I ended up with two very different versions: with the rework, I stayed closer to the original, mostly bending its structure and adding new harmonies. The remix, on the other hand, turned out to be a wholly new tune that hardly resembles the original track.”
Leipzig, Germany based producer and composer Warm Graves (real name Jonas Wehner) is dropping the new single ‘Owe (The Others)’ today via Fuzz Club. Arriving following last year’s ‘Ease’ double album, the track is a dark, hazy synthwave cut released in support of upcoming Germany/Poland shows with French ‘80s New Wave legends Martin Dupont and Berlin artist Jennifer Touch (the latter also helming mixing duties on the new single.)
On ‘Owe (The Others)’, which sees retro-futurist synth lines set against a minimal drum machine beat and Wehner’s melancholy vocal, Wehner says: “I don’t wanna give away too much about this song, but one aspect it is dealing with is leaving your comfort zone and taking risks in order to evolve - no matter what the outcome might be.”
Written and produced by Warm Graves / Jonas Wehner Additional guitar by Timm Völker Mixed by Jennifer Touch Mastered by Niklas Kraft Fuzz Club, 2023