Monstranz by Strotter Inst.

After the LP „Schlepper“ and some tracks on compilations, the time has come for „Monstranz“- the first full length Strotter Inst. CD.
The concept album offers a journey through the audible world of Strotter Inst. All sounds are generated by manipulated and modified Lenco-turntables without the use of any prepared samples.

The CD starts with a low-fi rumple to change into concrete clicks and scrapes followed by epic drones, multilayered broken beats to fall back in tricky bass-meditations.
The bridge between the archaic and the contemporary is also represented in the concept of the CD cover: The first track is embossed in the digipack – only playable on a turntable and the last track can only be downloaded from the net. In between the aforementioned two tracks, eleven tracks are arranged around a central 33-minutes long polyrhythmic Strotter Inst. composition.

After more than ten years of making music with turntables, tapes and loops the swiss based musician, artist, performer and architect Christoph Hess started in 1998 the project Strotter Inst. to concentrate just on the manipulation of turntables not using any records or sounds made by someone or something else.