futuring in music – electroclash post-punk improv duo

About


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selteneerden is a music duo based in Berlin

electroclash post-punk improv, minimal, hypno, noise

PS – keyboards, drumbox, voc      

RA – bass, voc

We like the energy of electro clash, the freedom of harmolodics and prog rock’s melodic spectrum. We use composition and improvisation, analogue and digital instruments. We are inspired by duos like 39 clocks, Air, DAF, Daft Punk, Les Rita Mitsouko, Silver Apples, Suicide, The White Stripes, T. Rex… also CAN, King Crimson, Kraftwerk, Magma, Material, Moondog, PIL, The Golden Palominos.

 

Listen!

Mittagsmaschine (10:14 min)
PS: polysix, mellotron (violin, cello, choir), drumbox, voc
RA: bass
guest: NF (voc looper)

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Vogelgezwitscher (5:24)
PS: polysix, groove box
RA: bass

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Musicians

RA (left) plays bass and is a composer of classical music
RA is the co-founder of the prog rock group »plastac« (2003). He also composes modern classical music, lately a cycle of cantatas (since 2013). New works are performed once a year in Saarbrücken. His bass heroes are Charlie Haden and Nic »Mozart« Potter. RA studied musical composition in Essen, Karlsruhe and Bournemouth/UK in the late 1980s and early 1990s.

PS (right) plays keyboards and drum machines with a focus on vintage instruments
PS is the co-founder of the bands Zatopek (New Wave/Jazz Punk 1982/83)  and Mint (Noise, Avantgarde 1984-89), recording for Polydor, Constrictor, Überschall and Vielklang (see/hear Soundcloud and Discogs). His keyboard heroes are Thelonious Monk, Sun Ra, and Hanns Dieter Hüsch. PS studied at the Creative Music Studio in Woodstock, NY/USA in the early 1980ties.

Guests
Occasionally we invite guests like french vocalist NF.

Album

Album »besser in fütür«
will be released in 2026


Shows

New shows in preparation for 2026…

Last shows


February 2, 2020
KuKuNa Atelier, Hünefeldstraße 52c, 42285 Wuppertal


CHAIR CLUB, Shanghai, China November 22, 2018
Guest appearance by PS jamming with the Space Lord


US-tour October 2013

Cameo appearances in New York City, Woodstock, Big Indian, see Photos.

Press

What the critics say:

»Seltene Erden aus Berlin: Elektro-Odyssee durch die Soundschichten der Jahrzehnte und Tiefenschürfungen am Puls der Maschine – mit schwerem Gerät und leichtem Besteck.«

Andreas Höll, MDR Kultur

»This hardcore minimalism became a trademark with grumpy, sluggish bass and relentlessly circling keyboards.«

Wolfgang Schneider, critic for Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, DeutschlandRadio, Tagesspiegel Berlin

Photos

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Rock in Opposition Festival
near Albi/France, September 2016

We were thankful witnesses to Christian Vander‘s MAGMA

US-Tour October 2013

Wasser Freiheit CentralPark Radio

Shanghai November 2018

our mission: futuring in music

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Foto: Jochem Schröder

Contact

contact

info@selteneerden.berlin

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