Spider Web by Emotional Ketchup Burst (EKB)

EKB was a short-lived band project Alex Kruger and Henrik Frenzel, accompanied by vocalist Nadine Hemme, worked on from 1996 until 1998. They played a few gigs in Berlin and only released a single piece, a remix for a tune Alex and Nadine did as Korsakow & Nadine on BCC. The three had each a very different musical background that let to a wild mixture of New Wave, Jungle & Breaks, Triphop, Industrial & EBM, Techno and Ambient, Emo and Hardcore and Punk in general. Since their focus was to play live, they didn’t get much stuff ready to be released and when they prepared to do so, they realised that they didn’t fit together very well. Afterwards Alex and Nadine founded the Echobox project that led to the release of two albums and a 12“ and several other collaborations and Henrik started to work on radio plays and copyright free music.

In the end of 1996, Alex and Henrik did a few sessions to find their own sound. Amongst these recordings were Mysterious Fireballs and Spider Web.
Both tracks are raw and break-oriented, while Spider Web being rather uptempo, driving with an obvious influence by a certain UK sound of that time.
Trivia: Mysterious Fireballs contains a very similar synth sequence as Korsakow’s. ‚Deep In Space‘, originally released on Müller in 2007 and already re-released on Forms & Figures a few years ago. The two tracks were both recorded within a week.

To release these pieces such a long time after their very spontaneous and semiprofessional production, we used an AI program to separate the drums and bass from the rest of the music and then mixed everything back together again with a few additional, modern studio tricks. They do not sound 100% perfect and maybe in ten or twenty years we might be able to get them to sound better but for the moment it is highly satisfying for us to be able to share with you. They have a high personal and historical value for us that we can’t allow to rot in our vaults.

Re-construction mix by Stefan Janson in Berlin.
Mastered by Salz Mastering in Cologne.

Tracklist

1.	Spider Web	5:58

2.	Mysterious Fireballs	6:17

Credits

released October 27, 2023

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