DESCRIPTION:
Device Control EP - Fragile003
Release Date: 19.08.2016

Available at:
Whatpeopleplay http://bit.ly/2bRj17K

Device Control EP, the second release by Wolfgang Tillmans, is a double Aside 12'' and digital release, featuring two new songs and three remixes of his debut Make It Up As You Go Along. One remix is by legendary US band, Salem, the other two by Berlin based American/French producerDJs, Daniel Wang & J.E.E.P.

The title track Device Control opens with a stunning kaleidoscope of synths by Kyle Combs (New York) leading into the bouncing, hypnotic main body of this 134 bpm dance track, which Tillmans worked on with Tim Knapp at Trixx Studios Berlin. Additional live drums are by Rosie Slater of New York band, New Myths. The lyrics are made up of faux smartphone adverts about the supposed possibilities of streaming one's life. The song was written and recorded in one take with an iPhone voice recorder followed by
various stages of production in Berlin and New York.

The EP was recorded and mixed this spring/summer in Berlin, New York, and Louisiana, possibly capturing a sense of time and place of where we are.

Credits:
Vocals, lyrics, melody by Wolfgang Tillmans
Keyboards, harmonies, arrangement and drum programming by Tim Knapp at Trixx Studios, Berlin
Intro: all instruments and production by Kyle Combs, New York
Live drums by Rosie Slater recorded at Studio G, Brooklyn
Additonal arrangement by Kyle Combs, Jay Pluck and Wolfgang Tillmans
iPhone voice recording at Keithstrasse, Berlin and book binding machinery recording at Grafica Maiaduoro, Porto by Wolfgang Tillmans
Mixed by Alexis Berthelot at Studio G, Brooklyn
Mastered by Klaus Knapp at Trixx Studios, Berlin
Written and produced by Wolfgang Tillmans, 2016
Record sleeve and inner sleeve designed by Wolfgang Tillmans.
Video directed by Wolfgang Tillmans