{"id":1505,"date":"2021-04-14T06:08:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:08:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/zhark-recordings-archives-uberlin\/"},"modified":"2021-04-14T06:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-14T06:08:28","slug":"zhark-recordings-archives-uberlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uberlin.co.uk\/zhark-recordings-archives-uberlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Zhark Recordings Archives – \u00fcberlin"},"content":{"rendered":"
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February 27, 2012<\/abbr><\/h5>\n
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Music Montag: Kareem<\/a><\/h3>\n

by James Glazebrook<\/span><\/h4>\n
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\"Kareem<\/a><\/p>\n

Mysterious Berlin producer Kareem<\/a><\/strong> popped up on my radar last week, when Boomkat dedicated their 14 Tracks selection to him. I can’t decide if I prefer their description of the Zhark Recordings chief…<\/p>\n

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Since 1996 Berlin’s Kareem has forged a steely, blackened body of work spanning Industrial Techno, Hip Hop and Drone\u2026 minimal and broodingly cinematic feel\u2026 girder-strength, pneumatic pounders\u2026 set his sound with a resolutely gloomy and dystopian mood<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

…or his own…<\/p>\n

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the Zharkesthetic lies in conveying a claustrophobic state > an atmosphere of threatening sound architecture and almost static soundwalls<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Whichever way you slice it, this isn’t easy listening. Kareem’s hip hop work is scowling and downcast, his industrial productions suitably hard-line, and his techno tunnels deep<\/em>. But while his back catalogue drills seams between the Tresor old school and Berghain’s new breed (Emika, Tommy Four Seven), his experiments with different styles are too varied to ever feel like actual punishment.<\/p>\n

Check out this Zhark video – which must date back to the label’s early days – and, if you’re feeling brave, visit Boomkat to download 14 Tracks: The Unheimlich Manoeuvres of Kareem<\/a>. Stay strong.<\/p>\n

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