KVB
Mauerstadt begins with Reeder’s songwriting collaboration with
The KVB an English duo living in Berlin. The KVB have been enjoying well-deserved
international success and recently Reeder remixed their song White Walls
off their acclaimed album Of Desire for their Fixation EP. In
sight is a dark and threatening synthpop track with a haunting message.
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EKKOES
used to be called Echoes, They added a female vocalist and changed their name.
Reeder debuted this synth-pop band on his Five Point One album.
Ekkoes recently attracted a lot of heartfelt attention as the support act
for The Human League on their European Tour. Mauerstadt features two
new electrifying songs, both mixed in Reeder’s familiar style. website
QUEEN OF HEARTS, is a project fronted by amazing vocalist Elisabeth Morphew.
Liz has already worked with Reeder who remixed her song Neon, He originally
wrote these two songs with her for QoH first highly sort-after album Cocoon,
These versions are special reworkings of Suicide and United.
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MAJA PIERRO Heartbreaker Maja Pierro is the Swedish wife of Italian synthmaster
Mario Pierro of Raiders of the Lost ARP. The two songs featured on Mauerstadt
reveal her emotional poppy vocal style, that almost anyone can sing along
to it. If you don’t love it tonight, you will love it tomorrow. website
MFU
(also known as Modern Family Unit). Their mutual friend and former Hacienda
DJ Dave Haslam, brought them together for this extraordinary remix. Reeder
added his mysterious touch and a belting groove to it.
One of Manchester’s most popular rave-age bands are represented with
You’re so good to me, This is probably the final song of The Inspiral
Carpets with their drummer Craig Gill who recently passed away. This is Reeder’s
punchy remix with plenty of attitude. website
Finally,
the most anticipated of all the tracks on this album are probably the two
versions of Academic and The Game by New Order.
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The vinyl versions of New Order's Academic and The Game and the mix of Mauerstadt are different versions to the CD release.
Mauerstadt means walled city and Berlin was the original mauerstadt. Berlin is also the home and workplace of Mark Reeder. Throughout the latter half of the 20th century, Berlins notorious wall was seen as the ultimate symbol of division and intolerance. Yet within that wall, a creative force existed which brought many artistic people together. This album draws attention to the subject of collaboration, not division.
Mauerstadt reflects the retro-modern times in which we live. The dark and the light. While it becomes apparent under the current political climate that there are nations and people who are building walls - maybe not actual physical walls either, but mental barriers, dividing people, gender, nations and religions. The aim of this album is to draw your attention towards openmindedness and the need to break down the walls inside your head. Mauerstadt is about bringing creative people together through a mixture of musical styles and ideas, which depict Reeder's ability to move over different musical terrain, while remaining within a similar sonic framework.
After the international success of B-Movie (Lust & Sound in West Berlin) and his previous Dolby Surround Sound album Five Point One, Mark Reeder returns with another collection of songs he's created with both new and established artists, The KVB, Queen of Hearts, Maja Pierro, Ekkoes, MFU, The Inspiral Carpets and New Order. Mauerstadt is an album to break down barriers to.
Music producer and musician Mark Reeder was born in Manchester. He travelled to Berlin in the late seventies just to buy a few records, and never left. Before all that, he studied graphic design, worked in a small Virgin record shop in Manchester and played in The Frantic Elevators with Mick Hucknall.
After announcing his relocation to West-Berlin, he was designated 'Factory Records German representative', by Tony Wilson and Rob Gretton, which basically meant he promoted Joy Division to an uninterested German media. During the eighties, he managed all-girl, German avant-garde band Malaria! and also played in his own band Die Unbekannten. Towards the mid eighties, they changed their name to Shark Vegas and their musical style to high energy electronic rock disco.
At the very end of the 80s, Mark appeared in a couple of Joerg Buttgereits notorious movies, dabbled with acid house and techno and he produced the last album of communist East Germany for the state owned record label AMIGA, with a band called Die Vision, finishing their album literally days before the fall of the Berlin wall.
After the fall of the Berlin Wall, he formed the record label Masterminded For Success (MFS) in East Berlin, releasing music by Cosmic Baby, Dr Motte, Ellen Allien and Paul van Dyk.
He is also known for his numerous remixes for such prestegious artists as New Order, Depeche Mode, Blank & Jones, John Foxx, Anne Clark, Robert Smith or The KVB.
His life in the Mauerstadt was recently documented in the film 'B-Movie (Lust & Sound in West-Berlin)'
B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin (1979-1989) - Official Trailer from scenes from on Vimeo.
Mark Reeder's other projects,
recommendations and partnerships can be found here.
Mark Reeder's remixes remastered and re-mixed in crystal clear dolby digital 5.1 surround sound. website
The wild west Berlin of the 80s Movie with music, art & chaos website
Mark Reeders remixes album for the reactivated Factory Benelux label featuring lots of tracks with New Order's Bernard Sumner incl. the original version of Crystal website
Mark Reeders reworking of all Blank&Jones trance tracks into synthpop songs. Features Robert Smith, Bernard Sumner and Anne Clark. website
the latest album by Mark Reeder featuring New Order, The Inspiral Carpets, The KVB, Queen of Hearts and more