Watch Rex The Dog’s Video “Teufelsberg”:
UK producer Jake Williams releases music under the name Rex the Dog, and on September 9th he returns to Kompakt with his Teufelsberg EP. In recent years the musician has really developed his interest in modular synthesizers, building his own hardware for studio and live use–as can be seen in this rad new video for the EP’s title track. Williams also explains that this track was inspired by a former Cold War spy station in Germany. Discussing “Teufelsberg” with Mixmag, the musician had this to say:
“I’ve been spending time in Berlin recently and one of my obsessions there is the former US/British listening station at Teufelsberg. It was basically a spy station during the cold war, with a load of giant radar type equipment aimed at intercepting transmissions from Russia. It’s been pretty much abandoned since the early 90s but the giant geodesic spheres are still there, and you can occasionally get into the place and explore. I went there with a friend one Saturday morning and recorded a set of sounds. Inside the giant spheres, you get the most amazing reverbs and it just takes someone to make an innocuous sound, or the wind whistling, and you get a kind of ghostly chaos. When I got back to the studio I loaded up the sounds into my sampler and made a track which became “Teufelsberg””.
The video for the track is an intriguing look at Williams’ modular set-up, tricked out with a nifty light show, and though only one long shot, there’s plenty going on between the colored bulbs, complex programming, and Williams nimble pitch bending!
