Diamond Version - Diamond Version Boxset

"Diamond Version is a collaborative project between two of the most groundbreaking, experimental and forward thinking creators in modern music, Byetone and Alva Noto."

"As joint heads of the German-based label Raster-Noton, and with solo projects Alva Noto (Carsten Nicolai) and Byetone (Olaf Bender), they have been releasing work that spectacularly blurs the lines between the visceral and the conceptual, bridging the gap between gallery and dancefloor. The release will be supported by audio-visual live performances with featured special guests and the premiere of Diamond Version TV, at Sónar 2012 on Saturday 16 June will feature Atsuhiro Ito."

"Opening the EP series is Technology At The Speed Of Life / Empowering Change. The combined effect of these tracks’ crisp, synthetic surfaces and the slogans hyperreal imagery is twofold, drawing attention to the sinister utopias the titles suggest, while also hinting at their inherent absurdity."

“Diamond Version is a project born out of a live situation. We occasionally performed encores together after our solo sets. These spontaneous and improvised tracks always had a kind of “special energy” which we missed in our solo works.”

“Diamond Version tries to capture this energy and combines it with conceptual ideas: every day we are exposed to the Daily Short Message Information Culture (DSMC), the aesthetic of this information system became a strong topic and a Blueprint of the visual identity of the Diamond Version project.” explains Diamond Version.
Diamond Version’s aesthetic is charged with surreal and subversive humour, drawing titles and iconography from a host of corporate slogans which are used as track titles across the releases. “We both are obsessed with company logos,” says Nicolai. “We collected these slogans and started reading them, without knowing the companies. In this amount and concentration they become absurd.”

The duo have known one another since they were teenagers growing up in Germany. A common ground proved intuitively easy to tap into. “Carsten and I share a strong interest in rhythmic music. We also share an idea of general aesthetic, as in design, and prefer even in music, more and more roughness. With Diamond Version we will follow this rough rhythmic direction, we are not DJs and we’re less interested in delivering a functional music to a social situation,” Bender explains, though he’s keen to emphasise that despite its very powerful presence, Diamond Version is not simply a project aimed at club floors. “It’s a bit harsh, and a bit more noisy [than our solo projects], but this is not the main focus.”

http://mute.com/diam...-23rd-july-2012

Trailer for EP1, sounds pretty promising to me

I'm excited about this. They are playing their second live show at Sonar tonight.

Diamond Version official website here.

  On 6/16/2012 at 9:48 PM, LbbHGiKq said:

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Trailer for EP1, sounds pretty promising to me

oh my, i'll take some of that

  On 6/16/2012 at 10:13 PM, Redruth said:

oh my, i'll take some of that

YUM! I've seen some clips of their previous live collabs and they sounded great.

Just sawthe Sonar setyesyerday. Quite impressive andvery forward thinking. Can´t wait for this

review of live sónar http://www.raster-noton.net/main.php?action=newsdetail&dat=312

videos from sonar

So, there's no sign of this yet? I'm keen to give it a listen...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fTWS7WBKgA&

Preorder the EP here

I've been waiting for the thread to appear on the new Diamond Version subscription series of 5 EPs and a double LP but it's no been forthcoming (unless I missed it). More details here:

https://bleep.com/release/38920-diamond-version-diamond-version-boxset-subscription

Alva Noto and Byetone in a danceable configuration? Yes please.... though I suspect I would go for the deliver all at once and save on shipping option and make do with the digital downloads in the meantime.

ep2 http://mute.com/diamond-version/ep-2

Ep 4 http://www.dazeddigital.com/music/article/16008/1/diamond-version-ep4

bought this today. thought i'd missed the boat back in October last year.

Catch them live if you can. I did and I'm damn lucky

Okay, so now the box set has completely disappeared from not only Bleep's site, but also Mute's site. Like, no fucking trace of it whatsoever.

I placed money down on this just over a year ago. According to this thread, the box set started to be available almost two years ago.

Been hoping for a CD set of it eventually. Curious that the box has disappeared!

  On 5/1/2014 at 2:59 AM, Mellow U said:

Been hoping for a CD set of it eventually. Curious that the box has disappeared!

There's a 2-CD set available through the Raster-Noton website. It contains all five EPs and a Martin Gore remix.:

https://shop.raster-noton.net/

  On 5/1/2014 at 3:26 AM, peanoot3 said:

 

  On 5/1/2014 at 2:59 AM, Mellow U said:

Been hoping for a CD set of it eventually. Curious that the box has disappeared!

 

There's a 2-CD set available through the Raster-Noton website. It contains all five EPs and a Martin Gore remix.:

 

https://shop.raster-noton.net/

 

WHOA

!!

[watmm CD club]

just got an email from Bleep Support, letting me know that the album, along with the Boxset casing, signed Diamond Version print, and sticker, will be shipping on 9th June