|
"going out to an audience withdrawn into their mother boards, nestled in their silicon bosoms, meeting nightly with oedipus online - this hits a spot not too distant to bjork's hermetic 'vespertine'. [...] |
|
Absorb review. Not that much of an article but more impressions the author had when listening to 'Westernization Completed'. |
|
"[...] Laub ist nicht vergleichbar. Wirklich nicht. Der Versuch, Laub und das Berliner Pop-Duo Paula in einem Atemzug zu nennen, scheitert. Der Versuch Laub und digitalen Postpop in einem Atemzug zu nennen scheitert. [...] |
|
Fact sheet and (so called) biography, 'Filesharing' era. |
|
"Laub, a thoroughly 21st-century band in Berlin, creates starkly beautiful music that has one foot in pop music and the other in the future, unshackling emotions without recycling musical ideas from the past. [...]" |
|
'Intuition' era article about Laub and it's members. |
|
"Es ist allzu leicht, Antye Greie etwas vorzuhalten: dass ihre Texte verschwurbelt seien, dass die von ihr programmierten Beats den Takt nicht halten können und nicht zuletzt, dass die Schreibweise ihres Vornamens so prätentiös ist wie ihre Musik klingt. Nun kann man sagen, dass alle diese Vorwürfe zutreffen. Dann allerdings muss man auch erwähnen, dass Greie als eine der wenigen in der elektronischen Musik, ein Wagnis eingeht. [...]" |
|
Online version of an article in German paper taz. |
|
"[...] The fabulous Antye Greie-Fuchs leads Laub, a young Berlin outfit which in '99 laid down a fine long player unter anderen bedingungen als liebe (under different conditions than love). Laub have absorbed much of what is good from the European electronic tradition, Bjork and the US post-rockers against a distinct, musical Germanic bleakness. I can't quite put my finger on it, but perhaps it's the German vocals. [...]" |
|
Article about Krautrock, including Laub (sic!). |
|
"[...] their dalliances with the abstract-electro community and its
influence herein leading their third album to be titled Filesharing. As the rec
works its voice/clicks/cuts axis to a minimal, circumspect end, it's notable how
restrained AGF's vocals are [...]" |
|
Review on the album 'Filesharing'. |
|
"Ich schreibe hier Tagebuch, weil man mich nett gebeten hat. weils netz ist. und ich eh den ganzen tag vorm rechner haenge. produzieren von datenmuell macht mich neugierig und mitteilsam sowieso. und ich liebe das internet. [...] |
|
Antye did an online diary in 2002. German. |
|
"It’s not easy for any average artist to release two albums in the span of four months, much less do so while collaborating on several other people’s projects, playing festivals and working at a label. Berlin’s Antye Greie-Fuchs has done this and more, and her delicate, intricate and uncompromising laptop computer music currently enjoys its highest profile worldwide. [...] |
|
Interview with Antye Greie-Fuchs, 'Head Slash Bauch' / 'Filesharing' era. |