hd 95-98, by Sad Rockets

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1.	Idris 04:52		buy track
2.	New Art 03:20	info	buy track
3.	Western Spaghetti 02:58		buy track
4.	Zerkalo 03:42		buy track
5.	Sad 02:09		buy track
6.	Girl From Nußloch 04:36		buy track
7.	Get Poor Quick Scheme 02:47		buy track
8.	Desert 05:29		buy track
9.	Cold Curry 02:54	info	buy track
10.	Sandman 02:27	info	buy track
11.	Turkish And American Blend 01:31		buy track
12.	Summer 01:58		buy track
13.	It's Not A Crime (I'm Guilty) 03:20		buy track
14.	Last Call 03:02		buy track

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A selection of tracks that first appeared on the 7" "Music for Mixtapes" and on the albums "Plays" (Source, 1997) and "Once Upon A Time Called Now" (Morbid, 1998).

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Having somehow passed the language test required for entry, I arrived in Heidelberg in September 1995 to begin my studies at the university there. Having nether self-discipline not tuition fees to pay, I very soon began spending most of my time in my one-room student flat with my 4-track cassette recorder trying to integrate all the new influences I was absorbing through the sweet part-time job I had somehow landed at Vinyl Only – one of the perhaps half dozen record shops that were doing business in Heidelberg at the time.

The record shop, being a social space, quickly brought me into contact with a loose circle of semi-slacker students who, like me, were mostly interested in listening to and making music. It was through them that I was exposed to all kinds of music that I had never heard, or even heard of, before. Although roughly same age as me, my new friends had had a rather different musical socialization to my late 80s / early 90s provincial American teen diet of classic rock, thrash metal, hip hop, punk, and indie (also known as “college rock” back then). The crew in Heidelberg had grown up with all of that too, but crucially they’d also been exposed to acid house, techno, breakbeat / jungle / drum & bass, ambient / chill-out, and all their various off-shoots at formative age.

The milk! club (which I think had just recently closed down) in nearby Mannheim was often mentioned as the place where everyone had experienced electronic music for the first time and David Moufang and Jonas Grossman's Source Records was spoken of as having somehow emerged from that same scene.

I'm not actually sure how exactly, but one of the tapes of four-track experiments under the name Sad Rockets that I'd been passing around to my circle of friends found its way to David and Jonas who got in touch and offered to put out some of the material on Source. I was thrilled, to say the least, as this was the first time I'd ever had the chance to release some of my own music.

Many thanks to David and Jonas, plus everyone else who offered their help and encouragement back in the day: Steffen Neuert, Katja Stier, Thomas Ecke, Alex Wimmer, Anne Vortisch, Henning Stünitz, Kyros Khoschlessan, Millie Baker, Ben Morgan, Andi Neuert, Karin Pelte, Magnus Miller, Kiwi Menrath.

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released December 6, 2019

All music written and recorded by Andrew Pekler on 4-track cassette between October 95 and June 98. "Zerkalo" and "New Art" written by Steffen Neuert and Andrew Pekler.

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Andrew Pekler composes with samples, field recordings, electronic and acoustic instruments.

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