Tag: sound

In 2012, V’s raw demos—born in Berlin’s damp undercarriage of artist squats and sleepless nights—collided with Adrienne Teicher’s penchant for lavish synthery, and emerged as fever-drip alchemy. What began as punk’s feral heartbeat pulsed into gothic darkwave circuitry: synths like oil-slick rain, vocals pitched between a serenade and a snarl. The original cassette was released via Adrienne’s Freudian Slit Records and was remastered in 2023 for a limited edition vinyl on Le Petit Signal.

The core of the album crystallised in three days, after V asked Adrienne to join her for a last minute gig. Armed with a folder of drum machine samples, and a couple of VSTs poached from a friend, Adrienne set about transmuting V’s punk palette into the neo-synthwave era. Having a limited set of sounds and no time to second guess any decision, Adrienne’s synth mastery feels integrated, raw and immediate, while V’s voice and words are honest, desolate and heart-breaking.

Now Le Petit Signal has re-released the album on vinyl: a transmission from Berlin 10 years ago, a city in the dying embers of a post-war era that lasted more than 60 years, when there were more squats than start-ups; and know-nothing upstarts could sit in their rooms making music all day and night, for little to no money simply because they wanted to, because it helped them feel alive.

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