Artist: To Rococo Rot
Genre(s):
Other
Industrial
Discography:
Hotel Morgen
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Cosimo
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Kolner Brett
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
To Rococo Rot is a mostly Berlin-based post-rock trio whose combination of electronic and acoustic elements places them in close propinquity to American groups such as Tortoise, Trans Am, and Rome, as comfortably as European artists Circle, Stereolab, and Fridge. Composed of bassist Stefan Schneider (besides of similar-sounding Dusseldorf mathematical group Kreidler) and brothers Robert (guitar, electronics) and Ronald Lippok (drums, personal effects), To Rococo Rot were in the first place among a modern breed of German electronic experimentalists working more often within the circumstance of hauptkunst digital graphics and multimedia installation (prior to encounter Schneider the Lippoks were slow a contrive of this form called Ornament und Verbrechen). With TRR, however, the group take described their act upon as an overt attempt to reconnect the art school proclivities of melodious experimentalism with the approachability and "use-value" of pop, a goal understandably evident both in their name and their recorded output to date. The group's debut arrived in 1996 in the form of an ungentle film phonograph recording (after reissued on CD by Kitty Yo), with the more than widely distributed Veiculo (released by UK indie City Slang) appearing the following twelvemonth. Embraced by rock and electronica audiences alike, the group experience (like Tortoise et al) already begun to roleplay an important, transitional office in eating away some of the barriers that let typically separated the deuce (particularly in the U.S.). Working long, mesmerizing grooves augmented by eccentric, often subtly interlinking electronics and sample sequences, TRR besides owe a clear debt to '60s Krautrock groups such as Neu!, Can, and Amon Duul, among others, and in some respects are reorienting the abstract deconstructions of man/machine those groups outset sketched. In 1997, the mathematical group recorded an album's worth of material with producer David Moufang (Deep Space Network, Source Records). Following a go to Mute Records, the ring released The Amateur View in 1999, Music Is a Hungry Ghost in 2001, and Hotel Morgen in 2004. Ronald Lippok has besides gained praise for his work in Tarwater.
