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Kick Me!

by Loik

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Leading Motive Happy to have gotten the cassette. Nicely weird tracks, with vocals charmingly off at times. Very creative stuff for active listening, not for background playback. Despite this being an older release, I find myself coming back to it. Favorite track: Kick Me!.
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  • Streaming + Download

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.

    Download includes an extensive 33 page PDF booklet with artwork & collages by Claudius Loik PLUS all lyrics
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Black C-60-tape, copied by the artist himself at home with his Denon DRW-850-Tapedeck. Comes in transparent trays with foldout inlay, high qualitiy solid glossy paper, printed on both sides. Only 15 copies available!

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Limited to 15 copies. Contains the original album CDr and a Bonus Disc (each in vinyl look!) with 10 exclusive bonus tracks. Handcrafted sleeve with two inner sleeves for each CDr. Designed by CLAUDIUS LOIK. Each version contains a high glossy photo card with one of ten motives.

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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Handcrafted sleeve. CDr with vinyl look. Each copy contains a different glossy inlay card. Artwork by C. Loik.

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  • Get the "KICK ME!" cassette PLUS three (!) items of our choice from the FROH & MUNTER label catalogue!

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kick Me! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Compact Disc (CD) + Digital Album

    Contains the cassette tape and the Deluxe Double CDr.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kick Me! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Cassette + Digital Album

    Contains the cassette tape and the regular CDr.

    Includes unlimited streaming of Kick Me! via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality download in MP3, FLAC and more.
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  • Full Digital Discography

    Get all 37 Loik releases available on Bandcamp and save 35%.

    Includes unlimited streaming via the free Bandcamp app, plus high-quality downloads of Wish, Ich Kann Nicht, NPC, Gestern Wieder In Die Oversharing-Falle Geraten, Hale-Bopp, 10 Lieder Über Weitestgehend Unangenehme Umstände Und Vorkommnisse / Some Remixes, Alles Stirbt ep, 10 Lieder Über Weitestgehend Unangenehme Umstände Und Vorkommnisse, and 29 more. , and , .

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Intro 02:02
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Wahnsinn 02:57
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Interlude 1 01:58
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#notjustsad 03:42
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Kick Me! 06:56
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Luft Nur 04:00
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Interlude 2 03:35
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Hikikomori² 05:38
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Nur Mut! 04:06
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released via FROH & MUNTER Records (www.facebook.com/Froh-Munter-Records-208263805888918/timeline/?ref=hl) - this is FM022

credits

released November 9, 2015

all tracks written, performed, recorded & produced by Claudius Loik @ home studio, Berlin-Kreuzberg & garden studio, Berlin-Köpenick 2014-15

all instruments, vocals, sampling, sequencing...: Claudius Loik

mastering by Claudius Loik @home studio; Berlin-Kreuzberg

concept & art direction: Claudius Loik

DU SCHAFFST ES NICHT video: youtu.be/2BFFcqoaYX8

WAHNSINN video: youtu.be/U5UXyRSvUok

REVIEW from RAISED BY GYPSIES:
"[...] This cassette by Claudius Loik begins with electronics and drum machines which somehow make me think of a chopped up version of New Edition. Then it begins to take a turn into a song with vocals and synth steps. I can consider it synthwave on some levels because there is synth and it feels like something out of the 1980's or early 1990's. There is also that NKOTB feel musically, which I never have a problem with but always kind of relate to in the percussion simply because I heard NKOTB for the first time on cassette as a kid and still have their cassettes, which are still pretty badass to me. Through some more melodies I begin to hear a song such as Duran Duran's "Hungry Like The Wolf" and this then comes with a little bit of disco rock too, the type of sound my parents might have heard while rollerskating in the 1980's before I was old enough to do so myself.

Other influences which come out on "Kick Me!" include some mashed up talking and music, Lou Reed's "Perfect Day" when it slows down some, lasers, a Breakfast Club feel but you can dance to it and even a little bit of Radiohead meets pianos. You know, as a kid growing up and listening to cassettes I find it hard to imagine a style of music which doesn't belong on cassette (because it's just how I feel I should listen to everything), but the music of Claudius Loik is true to the form of cassette. I would put him somewhere between Talking Heads and Simple Minds in my cassette collection simply because he feels more like he is from that time then from this modern era of music. And that really is fine by me because when you think of music which sounds as if it should be experienced on cassette, well, that is among some of the best in my book."

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Loik Berlin, Germany

forming member of DIAMETRAL (diametral.bandcamp.com)
several (semi-official) releases 1997-now

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