Topic: New Album by AARDVARCK on Eat Concrete (24 sept '09)
Eat Concrete Proudly Presents:
AARDVARCK - 'TITI' (digital album release 24 sept '09)
LABEL: Eat Concrete Records
CAT.NO: EAT-DIG-013
ARTIST: Aardvarck
TITLE: Titi
FORMAT: Album, Digital
REL.DATE: 24 September 2009
release notes
Mike Kivits aka Aardvarck swings many ways, but for this album he returns to the root of them all. 'Titi' is only Aardvarck's second full length solo release. As the unofficial follow-up to his much acclaimed album 'Find the Cow', released in 2002 for Delsin Records, 'Titi' continues to reveal the world of music that dominates Aardvarck's mind always.
Detroit techno, acid house, ambient, broken-beat, dubstep and hip hop, Aardvarck's influences are numerous. The material on this album has thick references to 90's acts such as Carl Craig, B12, and Black Dog as well as the broken-beat sound from around the turn of the century.
The music for this project was conceived during the late 90's / early 2000's, a period of major shifts in Aardvarck's personal life. From there, his first full length album 'Find The Cow' was released, confirming his reputation as a producer next to his already blooming dj career. The music for 'Titi' was laid out during this same period and has been a work-in-progress ever since, forming sketches, ideas and spheres rather than songs. 'Titi' stands in sharp contrast to much of Aardvarck's later work; as an album it revokes an overlaying mood, slightly dark, desolate and contemplative.
'Titi' is not a collection of temporary music. It is a capture of music you'd hear inside Varke's head, and much rather a demonstration of Aardvarck's abilities as a musician beyond contemporary movements and styles. With 'Titi', Aardvarck opens up his cabinet of arts and dishes up some pieces to savour. Eat Concrete is proud to welcome Aardvarck back to the label for such an occasion.
artist profile
Aardvarck (Mike Kivits) has been a rebel and a pioneer in the Dutch music scene for decades. Over the years he built up a solid reputation of uncompromising quality and versatility, both underground and above. He was involved in the early acid house movement of the late 80's and has been in the avant garde of all major dance styles from then onwards. Starting out as a DJ he eventually released his first record in 1993.
Aardvarck has released music for more than twenty labels by now; DJAX, Delsin, Rush Hour, Kindred Spirits, Signum, Bloom, Eat Concrete etc. He founded his own label 'Music for Speakers' in 2000, together with fellow pioneers and audiophiles David Caron, Madcap, Sandor Caron & Sonar Lodge and is also an active member of Rednose Distrikt (together with Steven de Peven).
