PNFA  Total Plays: 327666


Loud silence, high depth, simple difficulty, right leftism, dirty spruceness, standing speed, dark brightness, huge midget, cold boiling, dry waterfall, familiar alien, hard fleeciness, colourful shade of grey, even odds, cyclic deadbeat, bitter sweets, jagged smoothness, blind sight, raising meteroid, popular pariah, baneful flower, anorexic collosus, lame millipede, exciting tedium, soppy fire, yellowish blue...PNFA knots anything together.

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 Artist History
  posted by: PNFAposted: 01/05/04 11:27:42  


PNFA is the creative audio output of Wolfram Gruss's mind. He was born on July 07.07.1980 in Wasserlos, Bavaria, Germany which is an insignificant 3000 inhabitants village near Frankfurt - the financial centre of Europe and also the place where a person called Andreas Tomalla invented in 1982 the word techno to describe a couple of electronic music styles while working and sorting vinyls in a record store. Right when techno slowly developed into the type of independent music, that it still is these days, Wolfram became incredibly obsessed by the thought of creating his own compositions, after hearing the first releases on the radio. At the age of nine he started taping every bit of electronic music and created his own remixes just with a double cassette recorder. Meanwhile Andreas Tomalla became Talla 2XLC and together with Tillmann Uhrmacher he lead through the Mainz based radio show "Maximal" which was a pioneer project in Germany and the only source for him to listen to this new, exciting underground music. Wolfram spent uncountable hours of listening and taping and labelling the tapes and anxiously waiting for the following Friday evening when the next volume was aired. The only way he could do his own music was by playing on the piano in the house as well as on a half finished organ his dad constructed himself. He loved the sound of it because it just had saw tooth waves and some filter switches which made it almost sound like the rhythmic noises that were aired so rarely at that time. This way he also taught himself how to play the keys.
The popularity of techno increased dramatically soon and it became a fashion to split it up into sub categories like trance or ridiculous sub sub categories like piano trance which is when in 1992 he bought a used Commodore Amiga 500 from a friend for 400 Deutschmarks and on one of the hundreds of 3,5 software inch disks labelled "Amiga Apetizers" a simple composing software was stored. This finally opened up a real possibility for Wolfram to let out the so long collected ideas. His first attempts disappointed him massively though. On the one hand it was of course the fault of 8 bit sound quality and only two stereo channels which he used as 4 mono channels, the limited choice of sounds and the dullness of the software, but on the other hand he would have never expected that it is so much work and so difficult to produce music. Instead of giving it up he became even more crazy about it and bought himself a tiny sound cartridge for his Amiga that allowed him to record his own samples and switched to a tracker software called "Pro Tracker". That was a highly complicated thing because it was only numbers and hexadecimal codes, since these kind of tools were originally created for programmers to add music to computer games. His strong will helped him with ideas of how to get really the best possible sound out of the still little possibilities and soon the first tracks that did not have to hide behind professional productions were recorded on cassettes and spread among his friends as well as given to the DJ of the only disco in the area.



Still being kind of isolated by living in the country, he was 14 when he first learned about affordable real studio equipment. He started working as a paperboy for a whole year saving every penny until he was able to afford his first synthesizer, a Yamaha CS1x - a machine made for techno. Again the limited polyphony and especially the fact that it did not sound like a Roland TB 303 - it was the acid wave at that time - were not quite satisfying. This for he kept going and tweaking and combined it with the beats of his Amiga software creating a huge amount of trance tracks that still do not have to hide.
At the same time techno became too popular and this for nothing special anymore and bored him. Since all of a sudden there was Prodigy and the Chemical Brothers he began experimenting with break- and hiphop beats. After having worked as an assistant gardener in the local hospital during school holidays he also was able to afford a professional Sampler - the Yamaha A3000. It did not have a hard drive so he worked with 3,5 HD disks which was a lot of pain.
In these days he read the novel "Virtual Light" by William Gibson. In some chapter of the book a form of future art is mentioned which is called "Popular Nightmare Folk Art". It depicts all kind of corny sculptures and accessories, that were made of old human corpses. Wolfram suffered at that time from a severe depression of finding his identity and was fascinated by dark stuff anyway. So he adapted this name as his artist name because he thought it totally reflects the darkness and at the same time beauty of his music.
He started painting like a madman at that time, too, which was a way to let out his frustration about feeling misunderstood by friends, who were mostly into Heavy Metal and played in cover bands giving Wolfram the feeling they were superior, because they made music by playing real instruments. So he taught all himself guitar, drums, bass and flutes just to prove a point and continued producing his tracks until the first PNFA album "The Urban Music Box" was born.



To his surprise the track "Past Perfect" became kind of cult in the abandoned contractor's shed that was converted into a meeting point by him and his friends. Naively Wolfram sent out tape demos with handwritten letters to his favourite labels, but never got an answer. In 1997 Grooverider came to Germany and played a drum'n'bass set on the radio that included almost the whole album colours by Adam F. This was as new and exciting to him as techno was back in the early nineties and it just sounded right as the kind of music that should be stamped with PNFA. He began experimenting and producing and the two albums Popular Nightmare Folk Art and Blaustich were born, including custom self made cover artworks which he sold in local second hand record stores and among his friends. He continued using a Commodore Amiga - meanwhile an A1200 equipped with another tracker- software called Octamed 5.4 Professional which had 64 midi tracks - until the year 2001 when he did his year of civil service in Bonn, Germany.
The quality he got out of his still simple setup was surprising to everyone since the producers he learned to know in that time all switched to IBM's and "real" production software and machines. So finally he bought himself a PC, too and together with it a copy of Fruity Loops 3. That blew him away. Suddenly there was no more limitation in track numbers, no more latency, no more limitation in sound quality. He was also heavily influenced by Kruder and Dorfmeister as well as Portishead, which is why he tried himself as triphop artist.
"Le Temps Perdu" was born and with it the diversity of styles that can be found on the later album "Meter Fusion".
Suddenly he also had internet and there was mp3.com. Without thinking he would gain any recognition, he just published a couple of tracks. A year later he found himself with almost 100.000 downloads/plays, several first and second prizes for remix contests and on two world wide sold compilations next to artists like Sofa Surfers and Badmarsh and Shri. He published his tracks on more and more portals and sold CDs over them as well as continuing in the local music stores.



In 2001 Wolfram also began his three year apprenticeship for photography in Aschaffenburg, Germany where he met DJ Organi, Flashbaxx and T.Patton among which he also played his first real live gigs in the local youth center Jukuz. After several years of making people move on festivals and in clubs they founded in 2005 the "Sonic Soul Divison" which became a very popular live act always featuring guest instrumentalists, and singers as well as often pairing up with the percussion duo Royal Opposition.
Even though Wolfram meanwhile tried almost every professional studio software, such as Cubase or Emagic Logic he always found his way back to Fruity Loops. Probably that is because it was a tracker itself in the beginning of its development. He taught himself everything about dynamics beginning 2003 which gave him lots of new ideas and lead to the album Popular Abandoned Correspondency, which was a collaboration with the bass player S|C of Konstrux.de. He became obsessed by tangible frequencies and by creating his own virtual instruments and sounds, always in search for the richest but still clear arrangements.
In 2004 he started studying Media Production in Darmstadt and since he was always a very visual person, too he now focuses a lot on design and film making, but still continues publishing tracks on mp3 portals, compilations and works for labels like Fiberlineaudio.com, MYX Records, Merging Records and D'lectable. He already made tons of remixes and worked out soundtracks for theater plays as well as for the fashion company René Lezard since a couple of years. Page hits and song plays reached 7 digit numbers already and PNFA can be found almost everywhere in the internet. Meanwhile there is no limitation in the genre of electronic music, even though it is mainly aimed for the clubs with a focus on house, nu jazz, breakbeats, triphop and drum'n'bass. Still the PNFA trademark is a deep, brilliant and very often dark sound. To be continued...


 You and Me Remix EP
  posted by: PNFAposted: 10/28/06 11:28:43  



You and Me is an experimental open source remix project, aimed to produce an online worldwide collaboration EP which features the finest talents of underground electronica. It has been a blast of an experience to get all these incredible musicians together to make their personal version and add their style to the project. The tracks are available for free and are displayed in the order they were handed in. Please visit http://www.pnfa.net for more information.

17. Tyrezz Project Remix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
16. Kay Grove Dub | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
15. Bubblelawn Uneedme Remix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
14. Deymare Remix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
13. Plain and Simple Remix by Odd One Out | hifi prev | lofi prev. | download | info
12. Hue N Mi Glix R3mix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
11. Tektonik's Dringender Bedarf Mix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
10. Soulbrother's Paradice Super Strut Mix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
09. Synthetic Movements Remix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
08. Jotch's I Need You Remix | hifi prev | lofi prev. | download | info
07. Flesh Eating Foundation Remix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download| info
06. Soul Brother's Paradice Nighttime Dub | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
05. Brenz CAB Ride | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
04. Saigon Project's Dryout Remix | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
03. You and Me (Down Together) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
02. You and Me (Lost Each Other in the Club) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info
01. You and Me (Original) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download | info


 Videos
  posted by: PNFAposted: 08/15/07 16:30:17  
PNFA - Seize (2007)

This is a music video for the track "Seize", that is the title track of an upcoming 4 track EP, which was released by the Frankfurt, Germany based house label Deepwise (see http://www.deepwise.de for more information). The EP is available for free download. The music has a light summer feel to it, but also a longing athmosphere. That is why I picked the theme "beach" for it and created it in a way, that the style reminds of nostalgic super 8 video material. Yet since this is electronic club music, the editing style is fast and modern.



PNFA and Japanese Seizure Robots - Crushed by Velvet (2007)

This video was made for the track Crushed by Velvet which is a collaboration between PNFA and Japanese Seizure Robots. The whole clip was produced with Adobe After FX and Adobe Photoshop using still photography and paintings, that were animated and put into a virtual 3D room.



 PNFA albums sale
  posted by: PNFAposted: 08/08/07 10:06:41  
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Buy PNFA - Vogue_03 on CD

PNFA - Vogue_03
(c) 2007 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-018
Genre: Triphop, Electro, House, Lounge

Vogue_03 is the third compilation album with PNFA tracks that have been originally produced for the fashion company René Lezard. The mixture reaches from purely danceable, minimalistic electro club tracks like I'm not a Poet over wonderfully energetic and driving melodic arrangements like Mind No Gap to relaxing, oriental chillout music like A Break in the Clouds. This album is a quite wild bunch of different styles but it certainly does not lack a homogeneous sound that sticks it together. It is relaxing and energizing at the same time but also does not lack a sense of humour.


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Buy PNFA - Vogue_02 on CD

PNFA - Vogue_02
(c) 2006 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-017
Genre: Triphop, Nu-Jazz, House, Big Beat, Lounge

Vogue_02 is the second compilation album with PNFA tracks that have been originally produced for several promotions by the fashion company René Lezard. This is at home in the club and in your living room at the same time. Clearly forward going rhythms accompany beautiful melodies and vibes. Sometimes the music shows a relaxing, mellow side in tracks like Underground River or Tumble Weed, sometimes it just kicks your behind with uplifting sounds and wild basslines in tracks like Maria and 111. Also the jazzy numbers Get it on or Close to You play an important role to fullfill a sound picture of variety which is yet in a distinctive colour scheme.

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Buy PNFA - Vogue_01 on CD

PNFA - Vogue_01
(c) 2005 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-016
Genre: Lounge, Bossa Nova, Latin


Vogue_01 is the first compilation album with PNFA tracks that have been originally produced for several fashion promotions by the company René Lezard. It is probably the lightest album coming out of the house and totally leaves the Nightmare in PNFA behind. Easy, light mellow vibes, all kinds of acoustic and amplified instruments among athmospheric percussion and vocals. A lot of jazz elements are embedded, especially in tracks like Jo-Jo Player but also this is the first time to receive funk from this sender like Fiberfunk or Theme for a Lazy Sunday. Still a bit dark in some sequences this perfectly establishes in any lounge or living room.

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Buy PNFA/S|C - Popular Abandoned Correspondency on CD

PNFA / S|C - Popular Abandoned Correspondency
(c) 2003 Wolfram Gruss / Ingo Schiffner/ Giftzwergwerk/ K|o|n|s|t|r|u|x
GZW-012
Genre: Triphop, Tribal

Popular Abandoned Correspondency is the 6th PNFA studio album. It delivers quite a different style compared to previous works, what certainly comes from the influence of Ingo Schiffner /S|C of K|O|N|S|T|R|U|X ( http://www.konstrux.de ) who has delivered the basslines for the tracks. It opens up dark but also beautiful places in the listeners mind. It is epic and not without tails and claws. Each track runs deep with subtle melodies among huge athmospheric rooms, sometimes tribal percussion and haunting voices in unknown languages. You will never really know what comes around the corner. People who listened to the CD often compared it to Massive Attack and Future Sounds of London and there are certainly a lot of similarities in the way of musical expression, but still it has its own unique and distinctive sound. Tracks like Blinded Glass Breaks Better Ways and Headlights Flashing made it to the top ten of numerous mp3 download sites despite their huge length and edgeyness.

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Buy PNFA - Meterfusion on CD

PNFA - Meter Fusion
(c) 2002 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-011
Genre: Triphop, Drum'n'Bass, Lounge

Meter Fusion is the logical sequel to Le Temps Perdu as it comes along in a lazy, loungey style, but not without a lot of further developement. Partly it continues the dark, crawling triphop style, but also tracks like Taxidriving and Urgent Message add an uplifting upspeed jungle experience. 53 Meter nach unten marks a little revolution in PNFA history as it was the first track with pure electro and idm influences among acoustic guitar melodies. A very complex and beautiful track. Also experiments with a 3/4 step in LittleShoe are perfectly integrated. Huge, athmospheric rooms and haunting voices in Neather Limited build the bridge towards the following longplayer Popular Abandoned Correspondency. With 13 tracks and a running time of almost 74 minutes it is the longest PNFA album ever. Meter Fusion can also be found as opener track of Swear Head Vol. 1 (Swearhead UK) among artists like Sofa Surfers or Ulver.

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02. Drop | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
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04. 53 Meter nach unten | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
05. Fadeaway | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
06. My Parents are not at Home | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
07. Destrict | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
08. Little Shoe | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
09. Urgent Message | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
10. Lemon Sky | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
11. Different Village | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
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Buy PNFA - Le Temps Perdu on CD

PNFA - Le Temps Perdu
(c) 2001 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-008
Genre: Triphop

Le Temps Perdu was a little revolution regarding the work of PNFA. Unlike the first three heavy and fast drum and bass and big beat albums The Urban Music Box, Popular Nightmare Folk Art and Blaustich this longplayer opens up a whole new world of athmospheric downtempo and triphop tracks with a loungey, sometimes dark and melancholic athmosphere. Going down to even 60 bpm and with a lot of nu jazz and dub influences this is a little pleasant and never boring sound adventure. Tracks like Veeb and Mana Madeire already stayed on top of several download charts for months (Veeb was #1 for over three months in the dub charts at mp3.com before it went commercial and Mana Madeire was the most downloaded track in the triphop charts at mp3.com.au for over 5 months) while Lanetama got a release on several chillout compilations.

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04. Rue de Moi | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
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06. 2:46 pm | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
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08. Terra Negra | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | buy for 0,99 Eur
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 PNFA albums - free download
  posted by: PNFAposted: 08/09/07 14:21:47  


PNFA - Blaustich
(c) 2000 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-009
Genre: Drum'n'Bass,Techstep

Blaustich is a pure killer. This album goes straight forward with an previously unheard massive set of wicked basslines, nasty sounds and ultra fast breakbeats. It goes right where it is supposed to go:in your feet and your b...ehind. Energizing, aggressive, dark but not missing melodies and athmosphere. Tracks like Blaustich or Godlike Child add their distinctive color to the drum'n'bass and tech step canvas. Sometimes it works through complex drum programming in the opener Assassin for example, sometimes through pure simplicity with hard beats and basses like in Causes. The whole album was programmed on an Amiga 1200 using an uncomfortable tracker software with just a Yamaha A3000 sampling unit and a Yamaha CS1x connected to it long before software synthesis made everything easy.

01. Assassin | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
02. Causes | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
03. Blaustich | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
04. Necrosum | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
05. Tiefpunkt | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
06. Exit(Invading Another Dimension) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
07. Godlike Child | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
08. Aus einer anderen Welt | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
09. Blaustich(Outro) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download




PNFA - Popular Nightmare Folk Art
(c) 1999 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-007
Genre: Drum'n'Bass,Techstep

Popular Nightmare Folk Art was the first excursion into the drum'n'bass world in the history of PNFA. The dark but energizing athmosphere that was discovered during the production soon became one of the trademarks of Wolfram Gruss which is why artist name and album name are the same. The album mixes rather relaxing jungle styles that can be heard in the tracks Taifun and While Your Head Sleeps based upon melodic vibes and not that fast rhythms with driving, purely dark and fast tech step beats like in No Song For Jill or Driven by Instinct. The music works perfectly on the dancefloor but it never lacks a deeper going vibe. The whole album was programmed on an Amiga 1200 using an uncomfortable tracker software with just a Yamaha A3000 sampling unit and a Yamaha CS1x connected to it long before software synthesis made everything easy.

01. Lama | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
02. Taifun | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
03. Driven by Instinct | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
04. Subspace | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
05. Box With Open End | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
06. Pneumonia | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
07. NoSong For Jill | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
08. While Your Head Sleeps | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
09. Box With Open End | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download




PNFA - The Urban Music Box
(c) 1997 Wolfram Gruss / Giftzwergwerk
GZW-004
Genre: Big Beat, Triphop

The Urban Music Box is the first more widely published PNFA album (after the trance album Somewhere Safe that is not going to be republished anymore). Sticking basically to a driving and dark Prodigy-like style this longplayer combines jungle and breakbeat elements with straight forward going basslines but not lacking a good load of athmospheric mellow vibes and beautiful clear melodies. Sometimes it is fast right going into the listeners body, sometimes it even moves into a more loungey triphop athmosphere for the mind - never being shy and open to experiments with vocals and sound programming. A complete and homogeneous work from the beginning to the end.

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02. Permanent | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
03. Several Thousand Lamps | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
04. New York Fairytale | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
05. Got Stuck in a Mortuary | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
06. Powederhead | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
07. Joker | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
08. Sublevel | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
09. Past Perfect (The Urban Music Box) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download
10. To Be Fair | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | free download



 Remixes and collaborations
  posted by: PNFAposted: 08/17/07 09:49:45  
Remixes and Collaborations

Here's a couple of non-commercial remixes and collaborations Imade for/with and some which were made by other artists for me. Commercial remixes are only available on the corresponding releases / label/ artist websites.


Remixes for other artists

Beat Milk Juggs - Caxap (PNFARemix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev.
Sunburn in Cyprus - Out of Sight (PNFARemix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Sunburn in Cyprus - Now the Wind (PNFASquare Dub Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev.

Sunburn in Cyprus - Busy Day on the Beach (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev.
Kay Grove - Brothers (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Dachstube - Wenn du mich fragst (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
joTch - Children of God (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Flesh Eating Foundation - Deepest Cut (and Paste) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
DBRO - Why? (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
DBRO - Are you Crazy? (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Coco Street - Cosmic Butterfly (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Digital Beat - Electronichan (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Modo Azul - Moon Dawn (PNFA Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download

Remixes by other artists

Blinded Glass Breaks Better... (Beat Milk JugsRmx) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Around the Plate (JoTch's Ice Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Around the Plate (Sunburn in Cyprus Remix) | hifi prev. | lofi prev.


Collaborations

Crushed by Velvet with Japanese Seizure Robots | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
Outside with Japanese Seizure Robots, Moon Car | hifi prev. | lofi prev. | download
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 Reviews
  posted by: PNFAposted: 01/05/04 11:45:23  

Review by Laura J. Bollé and Chris Kalessin:


I just had to post having just received and listened to PNFA's album "Le Temps Perdu" ...

Now, the first thing to say is that this is something that Wolfram did a while ago, and that he has moved on and has covered many different styles and directions with his work. But this album is a fine example of work by someone who I consider one the finest production talents here or anywhere ... we have listened and enjoyed all his work since coming online last year, and to put it bluntly we are rather in awe of him musically ...

The reference to William Gibson is well made. Like the cyberpunk sci-fi movement of which Gibson is a leader, this music challenges established boundaries and expectations while attempting to redefine communication in an utterly modern context ; yet the same time, the universal standards are there - compositional balance, structural integrity, meaning, a sense of spontaneity, elegance and technical skill (craft) ...

I would summarise the amazing music of PNFA with three words - Imagination :: Clarity :: Resonance ::...

Imagination. Just listen to the innovative mix of textures and rhythms on his work - in "Schwarzes Eis" there are a number of progressions, from one rhythmic segment to another, linked by a deep and sinister ambience ... each part of the work is full of ideas and sounds, riffs and orchestrations ... yet as each passage fades away that distant haunting ambience remains, the binding force until for example, the dynamic drum roll and mute trumpet licks scatter your senses with excitement and movement. Across the piece, the repeated motifs act as a kind of loosely structured narrative, almost like the Wagnerian method of identifying an entrance or presence with a melodic theme, and this is no random rollercoaster ride, no trusting to luck or letting the program do the work. This is the creative force of PNFA - making what the mind conceives into a reality - a shimmering, dynamic hyper-reality ... now that's imagination

Clarity - this is more than just a technical issue. In production terms the use of sounds, frequencies and effects is so polished and clinical that every piece seems to sparkle ... listen to "Taxi Driving" as a great example - a mixture of seemingly acoustic chimes against pulsing ambient chords and a distant bass rumble ... yet each sound is not quite identifiable, there is something mysterious and mediated, and yet everything is crystal clear. The beat meshes perfectly with the vibrant mix of sounds, particularly in the second phase, where the percussive loop matches the other sounds for elegance and modernity ... the ability to create and mix such a range of sounds and flavours, which are so perfectly clear and delicately placed, is a true talent - no matter how many layers of the track there are, you can still hear each individual sound, and focus on it, and see that it follows a particular and designed path, yet remains part of the whole. This becomes a hypnotic and almost transcendent experience ... and this is clarity

Resonance. You can take this both ways - as a quality of the sound or sounds, and a depth (or power) in the work of PNFA. As an example, check out "The Symbiot". An almost Eastern percussive break throbs distantly, but the musical landscape is dominated by echoes and phasing noise, dripping with reverb and atmosphere ... like a post-apocalyptic cyber-chamber in which all distances are magnified, a darkly evolved perception which sees every path and conjunction through to it's most distant point ... and even as the industrial breakbeat returns and takes centre stage for a while, behind it other loops and sounds cross and fade in stereo patterns, and behind that fades, filters and flavours maintain the depth and haunting space. And as with all the songs, there are breaks and changes, builds and fills, until the loop itself is dipped in reverb and atmosphere, there are distant vocal sounds - and despite having no obvious melodic or harmonic progressions the piece becomes a cinematic experience, a blurred and exciting skyline ride into artificial, unreachable, scary yet beautiful horizons ... this music resonates

And, to hear all of these qualities in one recent piece, take a trip to the amazing "Wet Floors" radio edit ... uplifting jazzy chords, a catchy beat, and yet still that indefinable strangeness, a mediation by technology, an ambiguity and distance ... "and the rain comes down" ... all the memorable and personality traits are there - different rhythmic and texture "sets" within one piece, linked by haunting falling-aways or crescendos of ambient noise ; moments of complex drum loopery, crossing rhythms and exciting fills, hints of latin and eastern percussive influences ; atonality and filters upon filters to create a sense of the unreal ; deep jazzy chords, delicate chops or fills ; clean and bright production, effortless excellence - in short, what you always get from PNFA, it's expected - the unexpected. And it's brilliant.

All of PNFA's work is distinguished by the presence of these musical attributes, and others, and his product is truly outstanding. Le Temps Perdu and other nu-jazz work shows his innate musicality, rhythm and an ability to capture poignancy though delicate chords and glimpsed melodies, but that's another review, and I wanted to comment on his recent work. He is also a modest and friendly presence. But it's the music ... man, this music is amazing!!! - So full of depth, space, and executed with such craft. Beatifully constructed, gleaming artefacts of sound created by a truly impressive talent - Wolfram Gruss.



Review of the PNFA album "Le Temps Perdu" by Alastair Brown a.k.a North Cape:

"I listen to a lot of music online and much of it sounds superficially similar to PNFA's album 'Le Temps Perdu' - that is- drums, baseline and synthesized atmospheres. However this album shows yet again that theres a whole lot more to electronic music than just having the right sounds. The skill is knowing where to use them- and knowing where NOT to use them. This is something that PNFA excels at. Deep, understated and superbly chilled, every track on this album is poised and balanced, with every element serving its purpose and the resulting structures forming images in the listener's mind. The percussion is fascinating and the baselines are sublime. Its hard to pick a favorite track, and thats because theres no 'filler' here. However, if I had to, I might well go for '2 UHR 46', despite the distinctly uncatchy title! The synths provide the listener with plenty of good frequencies, but its the baseline thats nothing short of classic. Its not the only great baseline on this album though... 'Somata' is a close second, with the amazing bass backed up by fascinating Latin percussion and a deep chiming melody. The opening track 'Mana Madere' is another favourite- a perfect example of well applied minimalism, superficially very simple but with something very different about the percussion that keeps your interest, along with the deep dubby feel to the rest of the track. 'Veeb' is in fact dub reggae! I'm increasingly a fan of this genre and it fits seamlessly onto the album, which works perfectly as an impressively coherent whole. 'Terra Negra' is deeper still and washes over the listener like a wave far overhead. The overall effect of 'Le Temps Perdu' is hypnotic. Amazing stuff and a purchase I should have made much earlier!"



 Licensing
  posted by: PNFAposted: 08/16/07 10:49:23  
The music of PNFA is available for licensing for all possible purposes such as background music for any media, releasing on compilations, singles or albums, or other types of public exposure. A debateable fee is required for any commercial use. Non-commercial use might be cost free depending on the case. Internet/ air radio and netlabel mixes do not require a license at any time if they are non-commercial. If you are interested in using any PNFA music or other content for your purposes, please send an e-mail to: pnfa@gmx.de and ask for prices.

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 "Seize (Video Edit)"  
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 "Keating"  
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 "Radiate"  
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 "Seize (Original Version)"  
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 "Again"  
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 "Push It (Seance)"  
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 "Soul Fly"  
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 "Again (Vanilla Spiller)"  
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 "Climb Flight"  
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