Seppuku is the sound of uneasy futurism...
11/04/2025
https://seppukurecords.bandcamp.com/album/notes-from-reuterkiez
After several years of travelling between Sydney and Berlin in the early 2000s, I resettled in Pflügerstraße, Neukölln (Reuterkiez) in 2010.
At the time this felt like a kind of homecoming, marked by an extraordinarily prolific period of production, touring and personal change. Djing and performing live at clubs and festivals across Germany to some of the darker corners of Eastern Europe and North America, I’m not sure I’ll ever recover from this whirlwind period.
But then again, ‘recovery’ is never really part of such gambits, right?
The close friendships forged during this period in Berlin (musically, professionally and otherwise) have continued to form an indelible part of who I am, and inform my current music trajectory - even as so many of us ‘second wave’ Berlin transplants are now scattered again across the globe.
This EP of tracks released prior and subsequently to my 2012 album ‘Neukölln Burning’ pays special homage to Noah Pred, whose friendship and creative vision of Thoughtless Music enabled and encouraged many of us to make work during a truly breathless time.
Additionally, these tracks were mastered (and now remastered) by the ever gracious Jay “Jedi Mastering” Hodgson, who’s voice-notes from the time I still have peppered across my laptop and phone! Jay’s work as a mastering engineer is matched only by his warmth as a human being, and additionally by his stunning work as a collage artist, which you see displayed here in the EP artwork “Dancing Sunyata”. Thank you Jay. You remain a fundamental part of this ongoing cultural experiment to me.
Finally, his first collection of ‘notes’ closes with a remix from friend and light amidst the shadows of Berlin, Alland Byallo. Appearing here as “Wietone”, Alland’s friendship, generosity and luminosity reflect so brightly this spectacular moment for so many of us in Berlin, when we knew just enough to dream of collective possibilities we have still never relinquished. You are deeply missed by all of us.
My hope is that these re-mastered tracks, now all well over a decade old, might still speak to collective possibility and unwritten, better futures.
7 track album
