Four Ears - From ∞ To ?

Описание: Originally released in 2000, Four Ears’ second album „Love Is Faster Than Light“ returns in 2026, remastered and reintroduced for a new generation of listeners ready to rediscover its forward-thinking spirit.

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Release: Love Is Faster Than Light
Release Date: 13.02.26
Cat.-No.: CPT675-3
Format: Digital

Produced and mixed entirely in the band’s own studio, this album captures Four Ears at a pivotal moment of sound exploration, freely crossing boundaries between electronica, drum and bass, and jazz. Beats collide with improvisation, textures evolve unpredictably, and rhythm becomes both structure and experiment.The album features a distinctive collaboration with the singer „Chi Chi“, adding a human voice to an otherwise cinematic sonic landscape. Expect one track that stands apart, while the rest of the record is built on all original compositions, reflecting the band’s uncompromising creative vision.Scattered throughout the album are quotes from movies, used not as decoration but as narrative fragments - echoes of dialogue that blur the line between music and film, memory and motion.

Twenty-six years after its first appearance, this re-release reaffirms Four Ears’ second album as a bold, genre-defying statement - restless, curious, and still resonating far beyond its time.
Four Ears are Bym Stempka and Curt Nolte, both children of Berlins underground scene! Bym has had great influence on Germany’s music history. He was the founder of Flucht Nach Vorn (well known New Wave Underground outfit from the early eighties!) Since 1984 he has been DJing in Berlin’s famous clubs like ChaCha, Metropol, Glückstein, Tresor, Globus, WMF and many others. Bym is one of Germany’s most respected underground hiphop, drum & bass DJs. From 1981 until 1983 he played the bass for Toten Piloten (dead pilots) - an underground band, with two other well known and impressive German techno-house-pioneers „Spaceteddy“ Dr. Motte and Jonzon. In 1988 Bym wrote and produced four singles under the pseudonym 2 Kut together with John Caffrey and Nainz Watts for Virgin.

Between 1985 and 1990 he was a member of Mad Romeo (Phonogram Rec.) Under this pseudonym he has done several remixes! (Tony Cook, Froon, a.o.) From 1988 until 1994 he worked together with Colin Favor, Tim Westwood, Bam Bam, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and others.
Next to his work with Four Ears, Curt Nolte has also created the following film soundtracks: „Zeitgeister (director: Barbara Teufel, 1991), „Die Insel“ (director: Folke Kerkhoff, 1992), „Ein Haus Stellt Sich Vor“ (director: Axel Hollman, 1994), „Berndt In Brooklyn“ (director: Evelyn Rüsseler, 1994) and „Männer In Öl“ (director: Barbara Teufel, 1996). “11 und 12” (director: Till Harms, 1999). “Zoe” (director: Maren-Kea Freese), Die Ritterinnen (director: Barbara Teufel, 2003). Music for the play „Karussell” (Regie: Bernd Mottl, 2002). His latest project together with his Four Ears fellow Bym was „Dragon“ for East West. They also contributed the track „There’s A Trumpet In My Soul“ (CD/LP) for Yo Mama Records, and an EP „Original Dragon Music“. Curt Nolte is the technological mastermind behind Four Ears, he has studied Culture Science & Art. In the early, wilder days of the 80s he was singing and playing guitar and sax in different groups like Bermuda Dreieck (New Wave) and Jalta & Die Teilung Europas (Punk). In the mid-80s he worked as a music journalist and as synthesizer-keyboard specialist in some experimental groups. Curt Nolte was also part of strange and futuristic multimedia happenings and big spectacles like „West Wurst“ with author Felicitas Hoppe.


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