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After several EPs and edit-compilations M.RUX (@mrux) releases his first full-length album called "Vermonische Melodien". You can listen to the album & get it here: mrux.bandcamp.com/album/vermonische-melodien

"𝙒𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙖𝙣 𝙪𝙣𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙘𝙤𝙧𝙙 𝙈.𝙍𝙐𝙓’𝙨 𝙑𝙚𝙧𝙢𝙤𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙈𝙚𝙡𝙤𝙙𝙞𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 [...] 𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙗𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙩 𝙈.𝙍𝙐𝙓’𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙝𝙚𝙨𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙖𝙧𝙧𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙦𝙪𝙞𝙥𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙖 𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙠𝙞𝙩𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙞𝙛𝙞𝙚𝙙 𝙠𝙤𝙨𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙘𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙘𝙪𝙧𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙡𝙮 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙜. ‘𝘽𝙖𝙠𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙩’ 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙙𝙨 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝘿𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙖 𝘿𝙚𝙧𝙗𝙮𝙨𝙝𝙞𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙮𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙢𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙢𝙪𝙨𝙞𝙘 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙥𝙞𝙨𝙤𝙙𝙚 𝙤𝙛 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙧𝙨 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮 𝙩𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙞𝙥 𝙩𝙤 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙥𝙡𝙖𝙘𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙧𝙢." – Bleep

Vermonische Melodien is a collection of compositions by DJ-producer M.RUX, made with old VERMONA machines from Eastern Germany. The nine Electronica tracks can’t conceal their influences of Exotica records from the 1960s as well as their fondness for vintage music technology. We hear voices singing lullabies ("Magische Time"), mumbling chopped up syllables ("Seelnatrax") or reciting a Shakespeare quote ("Bakelit") - are they real? Yes! But they are mostly generated by the world’s first speech synthesis hardware, the IBM 704 from 1954, and processed into off-key melodic beauty with vocoders.

"I’ve always been especially curious about musical visions from the 1970s", says M.RUX about his inspiration for Vermonische Melodien. "Those nifty Vermona machines can today be seen as future machines from the 1970s, they seem almost mystical to me like relics from an epoch long ago… and I wanted to find out how music from that time could have sounded." On the album M.RUX uses, above all, equipment by Vermona, a brand from Eastern Germany manufacturing electronic musical instruments until 1990. The company was founded as VEB Klingenthaler Harmonikawerke in the 1950s, who also produced home-organs under the Weltmeister tag before the name Vermona was finally established in 1972. The drum machine VERMONA ER-9 (1976) was not only the first instrument which M.RUX ever possessed (or does it possess him?), it also forms the rhythmical backbone of M.RUX’s studio on this record. The melodies on the other hand have mainly been played on a Vermona Formation-1, a suitcase synthesizer from 1980. Although these two machines are joined by countless other instruments and effect units from all over the planet, their particular soft sound is present in every single moment of this soothing album.
"I also take a deep bow to „Lacky“ Reinhard Lakomy who passed away 6 years ago", M.RUX adds. "His releases were the first electronic instrumental records on the Amiga label which has been a huge influence for my work in general and this record in particular."

M.RUX has appeared as a solo producer with his EP "In the Hold" (2016) on his own YNFND imprint. Before that he was especially famous for his edits which gently transform songs by Nina Simone, Townes Van Zandt, Tom Zé and many more into slow, dancefloor-ready gems.

Pingipung is proud to present this first full-length album by M.RUX. He is not only a talented multi-instrumentalist and original producer but also a skillful remixer - as he has shown twice already to the Pingipung audience in the last two years with his touches on Umeko Ando’s Ainu folklore songs.