New release: The Hohmann Transfer
Posted on April 29, 2020
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New full length CD by Martijn Hohmann released on De Fabriek records and tapes. A total of eight tracks make up this release which is a ‘free association between the various forms of leaving earth’ Traveling to the moon, losing one’s consciousness or the end of life itself, with the Hohmann family name as a starting point and guiding theme. Experty Mastered by Jos Smolders at EARLabs.
Released in a luxury spot varnished 6 panel digipack. Limited to 200 numbered copies, each containing a small unique signed artwork.
Available for only 15,- EUR a copy.
Orders can be placed by sending an email to orders@universaal.nl.
Shipping within the Netherlands is 3,-. Europe is 7,50, World depends on your location..
You can also order through Bandcamp or Discogs if you so prefer.
The Box
A special edition is also available.
A stamped and pasted 7″ reel-to reel box containing the CD, a giant 840 x 960mm poster, an art-print, a unique signed and numbered artwork and various undisclosed theme related artifacts.
Limited to 25 copies only.
This Boxed edition is now SOLD OUT
Reviews:
Frans de Waard – Vital Weekly may 5th 2020
MARTIJN HOHMANN – THE HOHMANN TRANSFER (CD by De Fabriek Records & Tapes)
The first thing to notice here is this released by De Fabriek Records & Tapes, a label usually reserved for releases by De Fabriek, even when in ancient history they released music by Mark Lane, RTC, Gen Ken Montgomery and The Force Dimension. However, Hohmann belongs to the current rotating cast of members of De Fabriek and helps them out with the design of covers. So, that might explain this. Martijn Hohmann works as a visual and audio artist in Breda, The Netherlands,
and over the years he didn’t release that much as a solo artist. His last one was a limited run 3″CDR, Yunus’ (Vital Weekly 1114), which I enjoyed quite a bit, even when it was all way too brief. This time, Hohmann went to town. ‘The Hohmann Transfer’ is released in two editions. One is a standard digipack, with spot varnish and ‘teacup’ print inside, while the other is a box, about 7″ sized and it contains bigger printed cards, “giant 840 x 960mm poster, an art print, a unique signed and numbered artwork and various undisclosed theme-related artefacts”, which I am still not sure what they are. This is an edition of twenty-copies. The poster contains a map of the moon and that is what this release is about; transfers to the moon. The fateful mission of Apollo 10 and the death of Hohmann’s father; both travel towards the moon, the end of life. And, it is also the end of the line of the name Hohmann, so I am told. What is not said here, on the cover or otherwise, is what kind of
instruments Hohmann is using. Before he was interested in using vinyl as sources, but I would think this is replaced by the use of synthesizers, modular, analogue or software-based (I am not the sort of expert to say anything sensible about that), along with found sound from NASA (well, duh!), field recordings and an ancient recording from 1860 of ‘Au Claire De La Lune’. Throughout the music is slow and peaceful; it is like being a slow spaceship moving through a vast empty and dark night, destination moon, but maybe also destination unknown. It is heavy on the drone side but it is not exclusively just that. In ‘Deemesterhede’ there is some sort of pulse to be noted, next to crackles and drones, that reminded me of Pan Sonic and in ‘Au Claire De Lune’, lots static, vinyl crackles and transmissions. Sometimes the music is all-dark but, again, also not something that he does all over the place. ‘Morphin’ is a ray of light, despite the heavy-handed title. Here we have eight pieces,
sixty-three minutes of pure sonic bliss. If I had such a thing, this would be my pick of the week. (FdW)
Gonzo Circus Juli-augustus 2020
MARTIJN HOHMANN – THE HOHMANN TRANSFER, De Fabriek
Toevallig draagt deze Nederlandse multimedia artiest dezelfde familienaam als de uitvinder van een spiraalvormige baan voor ruimtereizen. Dit gecombineerd met de dood (Alzheimer) van zijn vader maakt van dit album een verrassend concept rond het thema loslaten. Na enkele vinylreleases (verpakt in pizzadozen) is het de eerste cd voor Hohmann, die dit keer wel moeite doet om in een speciale verpakking te voorzien. Tweehonderd exemplaren komen in een gelakt digipack met als bijlage een individuele print. Een editie van vijfentwintig reist in een box met uniek artwork, en bijlagen waaronder een kaart van maankraters. De muziek werkt veelal met drones, afgewisseld met NASAsamples (Apollo 11), omgevingsgeluiden en radiosignalen. Maar diep verborgen zitten bassen, die af en toe krachtig tot ontploffing komen. Hoewel hij natuurlijk andere uitgangspunten heeft, zal deze cd zeker fans van Lustmord of Inade bevallen. Een bijzondere track vormt ‘lch Habe Mich Sozusagen Verloren’ met een verwarde stem (van zijn vader veronderstellen we) tegen een achtergrond van gedreun. Er komen (te) veel drone-cd’s op ons pad, maar dit is een juweeltje. (pv)
De Fabriek – Remixes Vol.1
Posted on September 1, 2019
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The final instalment of the Remix series CD’s by De Fabriek has just ben released.
It features reworked music from, among others, Martijn Hohmann.
De Fabriek Remixes Vol. 1
Music By – R. van Dellen, F. de Waard, K. Mons, M. Hohmann, A. Eker P. Ehrmann, R. Hemmes, P. van Vliet.
Remix – P. Ehrmann
De Fabriek – Archaic released
Posted on April 14, 2019
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ΔE ΦABPIEK – APXHAIX – FABPROD 26 2CD
Out now!
(Containing a tiny wee bit of source material from Martijn)
New design for De Fabriek’s Made In Spain Reissue
Posted on October 26, 2018
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B.F.E records released a reissue of the 1986 burlap packaged LP by The Fabriek ‘Made in Spain’
New design by Universaal kunst.
Order your copy here.
Bandcamp
Posted on April 2, 2018
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I’ll be putting some stuff on Bandcamp too..
Yunus CDR
Posted on January 9, 2018
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Yunus is still available as a burn-to-order miniCDR in a seaweed packaging at Eur 7,50 without shipping.
Review by Frans de Waard in Vital weekly 1114
MARTIJN HOHMANN – YUNUS (3”CDR, private)
When I reviewed De Fabriek’s ‘Remixes Vol. 3’ in Vital Weekly 1112, I wondered what the individual contributions would sound like, seeing as some of these members (workers De Fabriek calls them) never meet up, and if they could recognize their music in a finished piece; I know I didn’t. Martijn Hohmann send me his contributions, four sketches of sound indeed, of whispering voices and electronic processed sounds from a market. However one of these sketches was already becoming it’s own finished piece of music, which Hohmann has available (or not) as a 3”CDR. It is called ‘Yunus’, the Arabic version of Jona in the whale, which he made seeing a Dutch documentary about migration (by Bram Vermeulen), and Hohmann uses sounds from ‘De Drenkeling’ (the drowning man). I still haven’t seen that episode, but I am sure Hohmann captures the feeling of people on rafts, fleeing their homeland in search of a safer heaven pretty well. There are water sounds, a bit of talking, and some excellent drones that sound beautifully claustrophobic as well as pretty nautical. This is some excellent music that works as it’s own documentary I guess. Just under ten minutes, which is the saddest thing, as the main portion of the piece, the sea sounds, raft and drones could have easily lasted twice as long as far as I am concerned. It’s not on his website but bug him for a copy! (FdW)
De Fabriek Remixes Vol. 3
Posted on December 4, 2017
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The next instalment of the Remixes series by De Fabriek features reworked music from, among others, Martijn Hohmann.
De Fabriek Remixes Vol. 3
Music By – C. van Dellen, F. de Waard, K. Mons, M. Hohmann, R. Paes, R. van Dellen
Remix – K. Mons
Supervised By – R. van Dellen
New albumdesign for De Fabriek
Posted on October 1, 2017
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Tonefloat has released the first album in over a decade by De Fabriek entitled Terugkeren.
Art and design for the album are by Martijn Hohmann / Universaal Kunst.
Pressed on 180 grams vinyl, limited to 300 numbered copies in a triple-fold-out heavyweight posterlike sleeve with insert.
Yunus
Posted on April 12, 2017
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Single track Burn-to-order mini-CDR in a Nori seaweed sleeve.
The story of Jona intertwined with the reality of current migration.
soon..
Visual Vinyl book release
Posted on March 24, 2017
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Two Universaal Kunst release have been included in the lovely book VISUAL VINYL
“Visual Vinyl Collects some of the most visually stunning and evocative album covers from the 20th Century Features homages to numerous important designers and artists, such as Andy Warhol, Damien Hirst, Yoko Ono and Raymond Pettibon. This book is the first-ever comprehensive introduction to these resplendent album covers.”
“They have been taken from the extensive archive of the Dutch record collector Jan van Toorn (not to be confused with the graphic designer who happens to have the same name), one of the most active collectors and a leading expert in the field. The book includes surrealist designs by Salvador Dali; covers by famous pop artists such as Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg and Jean-Michel Basquiat; works by the Vienna-based group ‘Wiener Aktionismus’; and contemporary designs by Jeff Koons, Damien Hirst, Banksy, and Ai Weiwei.”
The Trendel LP by Martijn Hohmann and Marc Heijmans is included in the book with lovely photographs.
Equivocal Generation is included as textual reference.
Visual Vinyl
Hardcover book 22 × 22 cm, 232 pages
Released by Ke
ttler Verlag, Dortmund
Edited by SCHUNCK*, Heerlen
Get one while you can:
www.verlag-kettler.de
www.bol.com
– Atlas – prints for sale
Posted on February 12, 2017
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A limited edition reproduction of the original woodcut as high quality xerographic prints.
Edition of 23 copies on 300 grs. snowwhite paper.
Measuring 930 x 300 mm, each numbered and signed, unframed.
price EUR 23,- each.
The last of the original Triptych Woodcut ATLAS as shown below is still available.
Edition of only 3 sets each consisting of three prints measuring 750 x 950 mm
Handprinted on high quality paper, signed and numbered. Unframed.
Last set: 2300,-
The Standards Issue
Posted on September 20, 2016
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