Roboterwerke Supersempfft SKU: BB442LP Barcode: 4015698114249 30.00 £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Bureau B Released Date: 9th August 2024 Buying Format: 1LP Out of stock Back Order Add to your Wishlist Description Product Info After introducing us to the techno-tropical pop of Supersempfft via an essential reissue of their stargazing sophomore LP ‘Metaluna’, those surefooted folks at Hamburg’s Bureau B beam back a couple of years to bring us the Hessen outfit’s outrageous debut. The collaborative vehicle careers through the cosmos like a high performance clown car, disguising daring chord progressions, technical innovation and a heap of hooks behind its cartoon chassis, and taking us lucky listeners along for the joyride. ++++++++++++ Operating at the unlikely nexus between creative studio and sixth form common room, and fusing all the expertise of the former with commercial disinterest of the latter, Supersempfft served as the multidisciplinary moniker for a trio of childhood friends whose separate skills combined perfectly for their high-concept high jinks. The prodigious musical talent of Dieter Kolb, augmented and elevated by Franz Knüttel’s electronic innovation, provided the ideal medium for Franz Aumüller’s wacky world building, which made up the lyrical thrust and visual flair of the project. ‘Roboterwerke’, both the name of this 1979 LP and the revolutionary drum machine created by Knüttel, tells the story of a mellow tuba-toting frog (apparently an avatar of Kolb), who is technologically transformed by a mad scientist (a Professor Knüttels, as it happens) into a star surfing superhero. So far, so far out – especially considering the lurid, lysergic lunacy of the comic book cover art – but this slapstick silliness also serves as sleight of hand, a daft disguise to keep these sublime sounds away from the squares. The titular opener offers an astral ascent, its cinematic sequences sweeping between Berlin School technique and an electronic apache, setting the scene in a galaxy far far away. It’s always cocktail hour somewhere in the cosmos, and “We Found Out” finds our heroes lounging on a Venusian beach, tapping their toes to a bobbing bassline and indulging in interplanetary exotica ideally zoot-suited for the YMO crowd. Supersempfft serve their third style in as many songs with two-part tone poem “Fantasia & Pipedreams On A Lilypad”, a pastoral idyll which echoes gently across a lake. Anchored by Ali Schadeberg’s lyrical acoustic fretwork, the piece drifts between the softer fringes of prog and the psychedelic folk of Shuggie Otis, celebrating amphibian autonomy on a sunny day. This calm comes to an abrupt end via the hydraulic funk of “Let’s Beam Him Up”, an oddball pop masterpiece turbo-powered by the wild and wonky rhythms of Roboterwerke. Frazzled circuitry fizzes and pops beneath an exuberant vocoder before the pitch shifted soul vocals push the big red button marked anthem. The B-side opens with the widescreen synth-pop of “I’m Gonna Make You Big”, a sky-scraping combination of rubberised bass, electronic gurgle, and open-hearted croon which makes the following year’s ‘McCartney II’ sound ordinary. Its modulating vocals soon segue into the seesawing sequences and rolling robo-funk of “Be A Man You Frog”, a digital dreamscape that gradually unspools into the heart of a wormhole. Giddy and glorious, space age calypso “Supersempfft” foreshadows the group’s follow-up LP, while “Out Of Time” is a delirious disco hustle about intergalactic flight on a giant butterfly. All of which leads to the tuba-infused “The Best Thing Is To Get High”, an impish ode to altered states that brings this journey to a perfectly playful close. Don’t be misled, there’s no amount of sensory boosts, terrestrial or otherwise, which can compete with the creative talent oozing through these grooves. Artist Supersempfft Genre Electronica Label Bureau B Buying Options 1LP Format 1LP Condition New Country UK Track Listings Roboterwerke We Found It Out Fantasia Pipedreams On A Lilypad Let's Beam Him Up I'm Gonna Make You Big Be A Man You Frog Supersempfft Out Of Time The Best Thing Is To Get High Share this On Facebook On Twitter Via Email More from Electronica View Product Quick View Trisomie 21 Million Lights Electronica | Play It Again Sam | 1LP Released 22nd September 2023 £22.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Trisomie 21 Million Lights £22.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Play It Again Sam SKU: BIAS76 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Future Sound Of London, The Environment Volume 6 Electronica | Jumpin & Pumpin | 1LP Released 28th October 2016 £17.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Future Sound Of London, The Environment Volume 6 £17.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Jumpin & Pumpin SKU: LPTOT70 Formats: 1LP Released Date: 28th October 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Colleen Le jour et la nuit du réel Electronica | Thrill Jockey | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 22nd September 2023 £34.00 - £37.00 Select options Colleen Le jour et la nuit du réel £34.00 - £37.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Thrill Jockey Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 22nd September 2023 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Sega Bodega Dennis Electronica | Ambient Tweets | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 26th April 2024 £25.00 - £28.00 Select options Sega Bodega Dennis £25.00 - £28.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Ambient Tweets Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 26th April 2024 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Tiefschwarz Left Electronica | Word & Sound | 2LP Released 1st June 2015 £18.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Tiefschwarz Left £18.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Word & Sound SKU: WGA002LP Formats: 2LP Released Date: 1st June 2015 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Divide and Dissolve Systemic Electronica | Invada | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 30th June 2023 £23.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Divide and Dissolve Systemic £23.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Invada SKU: INV299LP Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 30th June 2023 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Mr. Scruff Friendly Bacteria Downtempo | Ninja Tune | 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released 14th May 2014 £19.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Mr. Scruff Friendly Bacteria £19.00 Genre: Downtempo Label: Ninja Tune SKU: ZEN209 Formats: 180g, 2LP, Gatefold Sleeve, Includes Download Code Released Date: 14th May 2014 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View Global Underground Global Underground: Select #9 Electronica | Global Underground | 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 23rd February 2024 £30.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Global Underground Global Underground: Select #9 £30.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Global Underground SKU: 5054197790843 Formats: 2LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 23rd February 2024 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders View Product Quick View John Foxx Church Electronica | Metamatic Records | 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released 15th October 2021 £21.00 Select options John Foxx Church £21.00 Genre: Electronica Label: Metamatic Records Formats: 1LP, Coloured Vinyl Released Date: 15th October 2021 Read More Select options View Product Quick View Chemical Brothers, The Push The Button Electronica | UMC | 180g, 2LP Released 18th November 2016 £24.00 Back Order View Pre/Back Orders Chemical Brothers, The Push The Button £24.00 Genre: Electronica Label: UMC SKU: 5633021 Formats: 180g, 2LP Released Date: 18th November 2016 Read More Back Order View Pre/Back Orders See more in Electronica Start again
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