In-Store: markmechanik (vierundvierzig)

Big thanks to markmechanik for coming all the way from Salzburg to play at the record store — a proper leftfield house and experimental electronics set, all vinyl, all dug from his own collection. Not many DJs make that trip for a Saturday afternoon in Peckham.

markmechanik is one part of vierundvierzig, a non-profit "Klubkulturklub" run collectively out of Salzburg and set up to support contemporary music culture, with a particular focus on local, young and creative artists, and on nurturing and developing alternative and electronic music from the ground up. It's a label with a genuine community mission behind it, and it shows in the music it puts out.

The collective also includes Alex Mild, anders, Fu Vk, joanesk, Juergen Vonbank, Mad Rider, Nurah, p.run, Rova, Sam Pelroc, Schüchner, UnschuldigVerdorben and X tin.

Earlier this year vierundvierzig released markmechanik's own album, Invest in Rest — a record we've been playing in the shop since it landed and one we reviewed on the site back in March. It's a collage-like, plunderphonic listen that moves between bass music, house and experimental electronics, built from dusty samples and dubby grooves that make it feel like it was lifted straight off an old record rather than made on a laptop.

Opening pieces "Acirfa" and "a Little bit of recording" set out its collage credentials with woozy vocal samples, "Borderland" folds in velvety bass, dub and a hint of '90s TV drama, and "1984" layers drums and keys into something dense and, in the end, hopeful. It takes some sharp stylistic left turns along the way — echoes of early Eno and krautrock creep in too — but stays accessible throughout, and we reckon it's one of the more vinyl-appropriate records to come out this year. Copies are in stock at the shop now.

For this in-store, markmechanik steps behind the decks for an all-vinyl set, so expect a proper dig through his own collection rather than a rundown of the album. Come down, have a free beer from Orbit Beer, and hear what one of Salzburg's own actually plays when he's not making his own records.

When: Saturday 12th September, 18:00 – 21:00
Where: Inverted Audio Record Store, Holdrons Arcade, 135a Rye Lane, SE15 4ST
Drinks: Free beer courtesy of Orbit Beers
Free Entry!

→ RSVP ON RESIDENT ADVISOR
→ READ REVIEW BY RYAN PIVOVAR
→ BUY INVEST IN REST (VINYL) LP

TRACKLIST

1. Romanthony - the wanderer (temple Vox mix)
2. SnP 500 - Dus
3. Dresvn - Godzilla
4. CiM - By A River
5. Vesu’s - Dracaena Guianensis (Area Remix)
6. Acid Trax B (All Alkalis Are Bases But All Bases Are Not Alkalis)
7. False - Externalism 03
8. Ruutu Poiss - untitled
9. Homesoon - Muster
10. Dj QU - Liquid Beats
11. Even Tuell - Sharp And Shallow
12. Club No-No & SVN - Untitled A
13. Moritz von Oswald - Watamu Beach
14. Martinou - safe- / - sound
15. Atol 4 - Side A
16. Ruutu Poiss - Sahinad
17. Vegyn - Mushroom Abolitionis
18. Dj QU - No Poetry
19. ex_libris - #32 (walrus) 
20. Budde & Osti's Experimental Playground From The Trash - 36
21. Homesoon - Citta
22. Leif - Number 13
23. Tasku - Din Nou
24. Black Jazz Consortium - God’s Promise
25. Moodymann – Just Anotha Black Sunday Morning With Grandma
26. Dj QU - Prayer
27. Cousin - Wake the Town
28. Doctors Pepper - Sgt. Pepper
29. Kino-Moderno - Eclipse Live Mix (Extended Re-Edit)
30. Kyle Hall - Crushed
31. Dj QU - The Zones
32. SnPLO - Pin-3 A
33. C3D-E – The Perfect Memory A2
34. As far as I know - Reality of the unreal
35. LNS & DJ Sotofett - Mixed Connection (Club Mix)