DIAL 50
Various Artists - 2010 (I)
(A)
Isoleé - Black Lodge
(B)
Efdemin - Time
Lawrence - Treacle Mine
DIAL 51
Various Artists - 2010 (II)
(A)
Carsten Jost - Days Gone By
(B)
Kassian Troyer - Tourist
Rndm - No Beginning
DIAL 52
Various Artists - 2010 (III)
(A)
Pigon - Koto / John Roberts - Lines
(B)
Christian Naujoks - New Heaven & Earth
Pantha Du Prince - Fountain Drive
DIAL CD 20
Various Artists - 2010
Phantom Ghost - My Secret Europe
John Roberts - Lines
Efdemin - Time
Lawrence - Treacle Mine
Kassian Troyer - Tourist
Isolée - Black Lodge
Rndm - No Beginning
Christian Naujoks - New Heaven & Earth
Pigon - Koto
Pantha Du Prince - Fountain Drive
Carsten Jost - Days Gone By
Dominique - ...He Said
DIAL LP 21 / CD 21
Efdemin - Chicago
Cowbell
Shoeshine
Oh My God
There Will Be Singing
Night Train
Le Grand Voyage
Wonderland (The Race For Space)
Oh My God (Reprise)
NEWS 01.03.2010
Three floors up in small-town Switzerland is a guy in the apartment on the opposite side of the deadly boring street. His lights are bright and beckoning. It's much too early to think about heading out, even if there were a venue here worthy of squeaky new trainers - but there's not. He's got his favourite pullover on - the open-necked, red one, some kind of chain and jogging shorts and house shoes. He's dancing. His arms go up, he claps, turns and struts, makes repetitive shapes in the air. These are signs for absent friends. Sometimes he stops to answer his charging phone or just gets distracted, posing with one hand on his hip. Occasionally his moves take him out of the window frame. Every time he reappears, like a faint superstar in an empty corner of my universe, I feel a sense of relief. He is still at it. He doesn't need anybody else's encouragement. He looks like he wishes he were home alone but in the next window I can see a family in the slow strobe light of television. Maybe he's a cheeky thief, or the lover of someone in the family. Perhaps their relationship is one in which the mutual trust although coming and going like a hat stealing breeze, has resulted in his own set of keys. Maybe he is both. He's listening to music, making it his own in a room that's become a club for one. It would be odder than me watching him, and you reading this, if his music was the same as what I am listening to while writing, especially because it's music that hasn't been released yet. (For the record - it's DIAL's new compilation album, with new tracks and some new artists - it's their 20th release in 10 years, scheduled for now - January 2010 - things have a way of adding up.) But in the near future, he could be and I think he would like it, that guy above the ground across the way. He would go up and down with it. He would be happy with its sonic panorama with lots of space for him and beats as incentives to move. He would feel needed on the sonic horizon but he wouldn't feel too much, or anything too directly.
-Dominic Eichler
NEWS 04.19.2010
After a decade of production, this year Dial presents a birthday to celebrate the music. The compilation "2010" points into the future, rather than being just a nostalgic retrospective, but ten years of Dial does not only stand for ten years of records it also means tangible fashioning in all sorts of forms. The attempt of converting the physical reference of this practice into a space was previously realized in the 2005 exhibition “No Competitive Offers” in Den Bosch. Now this idea is picked up again in the form of a retail shop in Berlin. For a short period of time, this specially designed Dial Shop will exhibit and offer music, record cover designs, editions, multiples and works by: Carsten Jost, Amelie von Wulffen, Pantha du Prince, Michaela Meise, Kassian Troyer, Hanna Schwarz, Phantom Ghost, Nina Koenneman, Lawrence, David Lieske, Jakoenigja, Anna Moeller, Julian Goethe, Dominique, Michaela Eichwald, John Roberts, Manuel Räder, Rndm, Karl Orton, Pigon, Nick Mauss, Christian Naujoks, Hinda Weiss, Laid, Nairy Baghramian, Sten, Jan Timme, Arises, Momus, Heji Shin, Dirk von Lowtzow, Isolée, Annette Kelm, Roman Flügel, Diamantenraeuber, Stefan Thater, Mense Reents, Pawel, Fionn McCann, Nike Boredom, Sergej Jensen, Efdemin, Cosima von Bonin, Matthias Schaufler, Thomas Eggerer, Michael Hakimi, Josephine Pryde, Christian Doering, Claudia Riedel, Markus Selg, Birgit Megerle, Hendrik Weber, Nightshift, Nora Schultz, Christian Flamm, Dirk Stewen, John Stezaker, and Isabelle Graw.
The exhibition shop will feature all previously released Dial records and cds, many of them still in print. Additionally, there will be two new Dial products on offer. First, there's a collaboration between Michaela Meise and \David Lieske, who designed an edition of 15 record boxes, each uniquely painted and lined. Secondly, the shop will offer a proposal for a dial wallpaper designed by the artist Julian Goethe, who was responsible for the design of the last Dominique album.
We are open on Friday the 23rd and Saturday the 24th from noon to evening. Dial Shop Grolmannstrasse 46, West Berlin
For further information email dialshop@dial-rec.de or call +4917662860791.
*Additional dates added: Thursday May 6th through Saturday May 8th from noon to evening.