First released in February 2002 as a limited edition CDr, Mike Schommer’s mythical album as Von Schommer has been remastered and pressed on double white vinyl via Deepchord Records for the first time ever.
Consisting of eleven untitled tracks, ‘dc15‘ dives deep into grainy ambient and dub techno music, resulting in an album that joins the dots between La Monte Young, King Tubby & Luigi Russolo and that occupies the same foggy spaces as legendary projects from Richie Hawtin’s ‘Concept 1’ and Wolfgang Voigt’s ‘Studio 1‘.
“I mixed this full-length project at the Crown Motel on Woodward/McNichols in Detroit. This motel was a class A dump! The only people that were crazy enough to rent rooms from the Crown were prostitutes, drug addicts, and dub techno musicians. After talking with the attendant, Rod and I drove into the courtyard to find hookers and various drug dealings taking place. At that point, I knew it was the perfect place to mix my project. It took us about thirty minutes to haul my PS3100 and a pile of esoteric equipment into a ground level motel room. I was concerned with all that gear going back and forth between the car and room, but most people were bewildered as to what was going on. They probably thought we were hauling in antique telephone equipment or something (until the windows started to rattle!) With all of my gear spread out over the nasty stained up motel bed (patch cables running everywhere), I flung open the heavy drapes and overlooked the magnificent Crown Motel courtyard, cranked the speakers, and began mixing the depressing grit and grime of the transient life that was before my eyes. As I was recording, the environment became impregnated into the music much like the stains in the permanently soiled carpets of the motel room floor.” – Mike Schommer
‘dc15’ is scheduled for release on 16 September via Deepchord Records. Order a vinyl copy from Inverted Audio Record Store.
TRACKLIST
A1. untitled 1
A2. untitled 2
B1. untitled 3
B2. untitled 4
B3. untitled 5
C1. untitled 6
C2. untitled 7
C3. untitled 8
C4. untitled 9
D1. untitled 10
D2. untitled 11