Christoph de Babalon
Vale
*100 copies limited edition* Ever since Christoph de Babalon’s now classic 90’s ambient jungle breakbeat manifesto “If You’re Into It, I’m Out Of It” reemerged 5 years ago via a vinyl reissue on Babalon’s own CFET imprint, a new wave of fans arose to greet the work with heralding praise. After cultivating his own sound for over 30 years, de Babalon has continually expanded his sonic trajectory throughout the last few years via a series of noteworthy release on labels such as Alter, A Colorful St…
If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It
*2023 repress* Christoph De Babalon was a key member of Digital Hardcore, the mutant Berlin-based splintercell who fused UK rave music with more experimental, Teutonic techno, Ambient and hardedgepolitics to brutal effect during the mid-late ‘90s. CDB was always somehow on another level tomost of his peers and labelmates at DHR, less interested in purely aggy breakbeat energy, his was asound that also embraced windswept, ice-cold ambient atmospherics and a bleak sort of romancethat was at odds w…
Teyas
*100 copies limited edition* Archaic Vaults presents Teyas. Recorded live at Cafe Oto, London September 27, 2018 Performed by Christoph de Babalon & WIDT Recorded by Shaun Crook Mixed and mastered by Owen Pratt Image by Mila Nowacka / WIDT Design by Severin Black
Pro-dubbed, unmarked clear cassette.
044 (Hilf Dir Selbst!)
The follow-up to Christoph De Babalon’s ‘Teyas’ collaboration with WIDT picks up in equally bleak and dramatic terrain, following his instincts for a sort of theatrical breakcore style comparable with early Venetian Snares on Zhark. There’s nowt like a bit of German opera to get the blood up, as with the scene setting chorale that gives way to gnashing breaks in ‘Kein Bild Machen’, while ‘Hung on a String’ comms with pebbledash drums and deathly, keening strings beside the bone-clacking breakbe…
Exquisite Angst
If you're gonna go out, go out like a muthaf*cker". A Colourful Storm presents Exquisite Angst, a collection of Christoph de Babalon's most hardcore, abyssal and mutant creations of his haunting past. A blown-apart, mangled depiction of muck, grime and breakbeat-drone, its tracks parallel the timespan and isolated madness of the If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It (CFET 016LP, 2018) recording sessions. Bleeding, darkside breakcore/jungle reconstructions that draw no comparison; there's a reason why…
Hectic Shakes
Alter follow on from the bilingual dark ambient theatricals of Liberez with this four track EP from veteran Hamburg producer Christoph De Babalon. As an affiliate of Digital Hardcore, Fat Cat and the recently founded V I S, CDB has tirelessly explored the intersections of breakcore, illbient and drum and bass. His work is at once uncompromising yet stylish – broken, punishing rhythms collide with dreary, doom-laden melodies and those eerie in-between spaces of vintage Unit Moebius or Deutsch Nep…
Teyas
Limited edition blue vinyl LP, 250 copies. Christoph de Babalon places his revered sound design skills at the service of dread-filled dramaturgy in ‘Teyas’, an abstract opera written in collaboration with Warsaw sisters Antonina Nowacka and Bogumila Piotrowska, a.k.a. Widt. Reframing De Babalon’s patented palette of diaphanous atmospheres and blood-dripping jungle breaks with a more theatrical purpose, ‘Teyas’ is a logical extension of his interests in macabre and gothic themes. Working in the s…