Den (album)

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Den
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Studio album by Kreidler
Released 2012
Recorded

February–March 2012 (at LowSwing Studios Berlin)

Additional recordings: June 2010 (Festsaal Kreuzberg Berlin), December 2011–March 2012 (Paulick-Saal Berlin, Spreepark Studios Berlin, and Klyne Düsseldorf)
Genre Electronic
Length39:21
Label Bureau-B
Producer Kreidler
Kreidler chronology
Mars Chronicles
(2011)
Den
(2012)
ABC
(2014)
Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
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Den is an album by electronica group Kreidler, released in 2012.

Album collection of recorded music, words, sounds

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Contents

Cover artwork

The cover artwork is by Italian artist Enrico David. Analogously to the preceding Kreidler album Tank, there is an art piece on the front cover, and another one on the inner sleeve (vinyl version); the CD is packed in a jewel case with the artwork on two changeable cardboards. [2]

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Track listing

No.TitleLength
1."Sun"5:32
2."Deadwringer"6:17
3."Rote Wüste"8:06
4."Cascade"5:32
5."Moth Race"3:54
6."Celtic Ghosts"1:32
7."Winter"8:02

Music videos

The album is accompanied by a collaboration between film director Heinz Emigholz and Kreidler, with Emigholz contributing clips to all the songs on Den. [3] [4] The videos contain alternate song versions, most remarkable "Rote Wüste", where the video, at 21:12, runs nearly three times longer than the album version.

Heinz Emigholz is a film-maker, actor, artist, writer and producer. He lives and works in Berlin and Malta. Emigholz has produced a comprehensive filmic and artistic oeuvre and has also done performance art and acted in other directors’ films.

The readers of German magazine Spex voted "Rote Wüste" as favorite video No. 7 in the top ten for 2012. [5] "Moth Race" won the 15th MuVi Award for "Best German Music Video" [6] at the 59th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen in May 2013. The production company Filmgalerie 451 lists "Sun", "Rote Wüste" and "Moth Race" as trailers for Heinz Emigholz' film The Airstrip - Decampment of Modernism . [7] [8]

<i>Spex</i> (magazine) German rock and pop culture magazine

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Released videos
  1. "Rote Wüste" – 21:12 (September 2012). [9]
  2. "Cascade" – 5:52 (October 2012). [10]
  3. "Sun" – 5:54 (November 2012). [11]
  4. "Deadwringer" – 6:37 (December 2012). [12]
  5. "Moth Race" – 3:55 (February 2013). [13]
  6. "Celtic Ghosts" – 3:31 (May 2013). [14]
  7. "Winter" – 8:02 (June 2013). [15]

Personnel

Kreidler
Technical personnel

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Reception

Den holds a score of 61 out of 100 ("generally favorable") based on 7 reviews on review-aggregating website Metacritic. [16]

Metacritic is a website that aggregates reviews of media products: films, TV shows, music albums, video games, and formerly, books. For each product, the scores from each review are averaged. Metacritic was created by Jason Dietz, Marc Doyle, and Julie Doyle Roberts in 1999. The site provides an excerpt from each review and hyperlinks to its source. A color of green, yellow or red summarizes the critics' recommendations. It has been described as the video game industry's "premier" review aggregator.

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References

  1. James Allen (2012-10-23). "Den - Kreidler | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards". AllMusic. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  2. "DEN". Ikreidler.de. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  3. ... The classic example this year is Heinz Emigholz, the experimental filmmaker, who has a film in the MuVi prize which features his visuals to an entire Kreidler album. I find that really exciting because normally you’d say, “Come on, Heinz Emigholz and music videos, give me a break” Jessica Manstetten, organizer MuVi award, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  4. "Heinz Emigholz | KREIDLER - DEN". YouTube. 2012-03-21. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  5. "Kreidler | 2012 Spex Readers Poll: KREIDLER Rote Wüste video". Kreidler.tumblr.com. 2012-12-09. Archived from the original on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  6. 15th MuVi Award
  7. www.filmgalerie451.de
  8. www.pym.de
  9. "KREIDLER - Rote Wüste VIDEO-EDIT (official video HD)". YouTube. 2012-09-10. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  10. "KREIDLER - Cascade (official video HD)". YouTube. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  11. "KREIDLER - Sun (official video HD)". YouTube. 2012-11-12. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  12. "KREIDLER - Deadwringer (official video HD)". YouTube. 2012-12-21. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  13. "KREIDLER - Moth Race (official video HD)". YouTube. 2013-02-21. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  14. "KREIDLER - Celtic Ghosts VIDEO-EDIT (official video HD)". YouTube. Retrieved 2013-11-11.
  15. "KREIDLER - Winter (official video HD)". YouTube. Retrieved 2014-04-25.
  16. Metacritic