Cel Five Minutes To Self Destruct

On this EP, Schlagwerk motorist Hubert Zemler and Schaltwerk operator Felix Kubin unflinchingly follow the guidelines for syncopated sequencer escalation: ‘Pulsate - Vibrate - Alternate’. The German-Polish duo have filtered out five previously unreleased tracks from numerous live recordings, which have been remixed by Warsaw sound engineer Jan Wroński.

The expressiveness of these recordings is evident not only in their unbridled live energy, which can hardly be reproduced in the studio, but also in a musical nervousness that sets itself apart from the current wellness folklore of the modular community. The pieces gather in their DNA the paranoid plasma of cultural unease, chaos and upheaval.

‘Krakenwaltz’ is a polyrhythmically twitching 5/8 dance, “Eskalacja” a gameboy punk piece, “Blauer Dunst” an atmospheric soundtrack from the incubator of the epidemic darkroom. The equivalent can be found at the end of the B-side: ‘Five minutes to self-destruct’, a quote from the sci-fi classic ‘The Andromeda Strain’, describes a research team's fight for survival against an accidentally triggered self-destruct mechanism, underpinned by trigger impulses and increasing panic. In comparison, the snappy ‘Neustart Generation’ stands out with its chanting slogans (see below), which are a speciality in the oeuvre of the instrumental group CEL.

The cover of the record was designed by multi-talented artist Macio Moretti.