The Berlin-based composer and electronic music producer Andrea Taeggi is readying his Zimní Král 12″ for release via the experimental London label SM-LL. Taeggi is one half of the electro-acoustic duo Lumisokea with the Belgian musician Koenraad Ecker. In addition, the artist works under the moniker Gondwana having released the 2017 effort Miccaotli and 2015’s Aum via Stephen Bishop’s Opal Tapes. Producing music under his own name, Taeggi put out 2018’s Noméri—Tere via Präsens Editionen and 2015’s Mama Matrix Most Mysterious on Type. After the 2017 2-track 12″ Batch 0006, Zimní Král marks the musician’s return to SM-LL–a minimalist electronic label whose tag phrase is: “Reduction. Repetition. Reference.” Zimní Král means “Winter King” in Czech and it was the epithet given to the Bohemian king Frederick V Elector Palatine–a monarch who actively promoted the study of alchemy.
“Dinergy” is the lead track on Taeggi’s upcoming EP. The music on the record was recorded using all analog equipment at Holland’s Willem-Twee synthesis studio. Built with Milan’s Studio di Fonologia RAI as it’s blueprint, Willem-Twee is a research facility, education center, and performance space dedicated to the production of electronic and electro-acoustic music. Zimní Král marks the first official release made using the equipment at the Holland institute, and, in particular, it finds Taeggi composing with the Analog Computer. Rarely employed as a musical instrument, the computer has been mostly used as a flight simulator, as well as a measuring tool for civil engineers and the army during the Cold War. “Dinergy” features the Analog Computer functioning mostly as a rhythmic device, and the track’s rippling beat structures, sub frequencies, and chilly tones are staunchly minimal and exceedingly hypnotic.
