DRNTTCKS

Starting off with guitar drones in 2010, DRNTTCKS have refined their sound throughout the years embracing influences from noise, doom, kraut / kosmische musik, dub, experimental. DRNTTCKS is a two member project committed to live improvisations. Endure Freeform.

// News //

BAD NEWS:
Our much beloved homebase, Nuremberg's experimental tape label power house Otomatik Muziek will discontinue business and cease to be on March 21st, 2024. Over the last eight years, the Otomatik Muziek team was a perfect partner in crime supporting us with reliable tape productions, thoughtful and artistic designs and a broad distribution network. A BIG THANK YOU OTOMATIK MUZIEK!

GOOD NEWS:
We are proud and honoured that DRNTTCKS has been chosen for Otomatik Muziek's final release with our brand new release "Dunkelfelder" available on tape and via download from March 21st, 2024 onwards.

DUNKELFELDER is another entry in our ongoing series of directly recorded live jams – after tapes on Bulgaria's Beach Buddies, Austrian Feathered Coyote, german noise institution Grisaille and Britain's Industrial Coast, we return to their home turf Otomatik Muziek for the label’s last release.

As all other entries in this series, DUNKELFELDER was improvised on the spot and recorded in one take. It's a very much loop-based duo improvisation around cassette voices, flittering tape-echoing guitar and very minimal synth structures. An interplay with very few ingedrients, always reassembling themselves into new amorphous forms - part ambiguity, part uncertainty, DRNTTCKS hit the sweet dark spot that gets lost in translation otherwise - circling around the blank spaces of things hard to communicate.

When assembling the session, news were that german nazi party AFD won yet another regional election, and tbh, things are getting more & more sinister around here. Maybe there is a cause & effect at work with more and more underground joints closing down and that far-right wind blowing through the empty streets. Places of disobedience, they disappear. So DUNKELFELDER is an attempt to manifest such a place. It will never be a soundtrack to activism, but always a noise in opposition, clearly antifascist, queered up working class drone. DRNTTCKS will never do a call to arms, but if they did, this might be as close as it can get. DUNKELFELDER is a direct look into the Deutsche Seele, into dark times (Dunkelzeit) and dark digits (Dunkelziffer). Fuck you, Dunkeldeutschland.

// Releases //

DRNTTCKS releases can be found on tape via Otomatik Muziek, Beach Buddies Records, Feathered Coyote Records, Grisaille Records and Industrial Coast as well as digitally on iTunes, Spotify and Bandcamp.

2024

"Dunkelfelder" / Tape / Otomatik Muziek #36

<a href="https://otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/dunkelfelder" target="_blank">Dunkelfelder by DRNTTCKS</a>

Freiform ertragen / "XDR" / Tape Compilation / VERYDEEPRECORDS #60

2023

"Erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen" / Tape / Beach Buddies Records #34

<a href="https://beach-buddies-records.bandcamp.com/album/erst-die-arbeit-dann-das-vergn-gen" target="_blank">Erst die Arbeit, dann das Vergnügen by DRNTTCKS</a>

Caspar Melchior Baphomet / Signal Weltfunk (SW001) / Compilation / Signal Weltfunk

"OKBOOMER!" / Tape / FEATHERED COYOTE RECORDS #65

<a href="https://featheredcoyoterecords.bandcamp.com/album/okboomer" target="_blank">OKBOOMER! by DRNTTCKS</a>

2022

прекратить войну / For The Lack Of Better Words - A Compilation In Solidarity With The People Of Ukraine / Digital Album / Otomatik Muziek

Mama Was A White Birch, Daddy Was A German Oak / Tape / Grisaille Records #57 / SOLD OUT

<a href="https://grisaille.bandcamp.com/album/mama-was-a-white-birch-daddy-was-a-german-oak">Mama was a White Birch, Daddy was a German Oak by DRNTTCKS</a>

Existenz ist ein Traum den man nicht zu sehr beleuchten darf / Various Artists - "Blurred" / Tape / Grisaille Records #50 / SOLD OUT

<a href="https://grisaille.bandcamp.com/album/blurred" target="_blank">Various Artists - "Blurred"</a>

2021

Nein + Nein / Tape / Otomatik Muziek #27 / SOLD OUT

<a href="http://otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/nein-nein">Nein + Nein by DRNTTCKS</a>

2019

White Gaze / Tape / Industrial Coast / SOLD OUT

<a href="http://drnttcks.bandcamp.com/album/white-gaze">White Gaze by DRNTTCKS</a>

2017

Es ist alles so schön / Tape / Otomatik Muziek #4 / SOLD OUT

<a href="http://otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/es-ist-alles-so-sch-n">Es Ist Alles So Schön by DRNTTCKS</a>

2016

Mitten / Tape / Otomatik Muziek #2 / SOLD OUT

<a href="http://otomatikmuziek.bandcamp.com/album/mitten">Mitten by DRNTTCKS</a>

Rat-À-Tête / FFFF / Tape / Magnetic Purely #6

2014

Lichtschacht / Shoobie go home! / Digital Album / doubledotdash!?
Mass Gainer / We wrecked this city / Tape / Magnetic Purely #2

2012

dis|play / CD-R / Fake #2 / SOLD OUT

<a href="http://drnttcks.bandcamp.com/album/dis-play">dis|play by drnttcks</a>

White Static / 2x CD-R / Fake #1 / SOLD OUT

<a href="http://drnttcks.bandcamp.com/album/white-static">white static by drnttcks</a>

// Video //

"Ibuprofane Existence" (Nein+Nein / 2021)

The video for the track "Ibuprofane Existence" from album "Nein+Nein" was drafted and executed by digital artist Martin Müller aka Dicey Studios. Thanks to I-Chieh Pan.