The debut album by the German duo borngräber & strüver, condenses their musical passion into a concentrated sermon, accessing club DJ Strüver's impressive record archive, neatly ordered by categories like Neue Musik, Kraftwerk, Jazz, Hip-Hop or atonal - more records than he can actually fit into his smoked out DJ studio in Berlin-Kreuzberg. Borngräber, on the other hand, remembers notes. A lot of them. Some of the tracks recorded in his home-studio in Berlin-Friedenau are based on chord progressions by Bach or Fauré. Of course, listening to Kraftwerk's 'MenschMaschine' and 'Autobahn' or Moondog hundreds of times like Strüver has audible results - but none of the samples or quotes 'transcontinental' incorporates can be clearly traced back to its origin. 'transcontinental' is an original itself, a patchwork of subtle references, leaving a lot of space open for associations, making you hear things, that, physically, aren't present. They started working in 1999. The resulting album 'transcontinental' is devised to be listened to as a whole rather than focussing on a club track format. Five years of low life with the head up high have become a complete expression.
