News | Markus Guentner - Doppelgaenger OUT NOW

Ben Sheppee made an awesome video for the beloved Kettel oldie Pinch of Peer. Here it is!



This song was released exactly 5 (!) years ago, on Through Friendly Waters. Out of stock, but still available on E-orbs of course!

ORDER here. Wanna get a taste first? check our MICROSITE here

Press release:
At Sending Orbs we are always happy to find fellow-travellers on our path going the same way. So when Markus Guentner's album hit our headquarters we were unanimously for adding it to our little wall of love.

Guentner is mostly known for his techno work on the Kompakt label, but what he has done for us here is nothing alike.

"Doppelgaenger" is like a field-trip into minimal ambientland. Once you've dove into it, there's neither a beginning nor an end, there are just these endless waves of pads, synth figures and drones that sit in your brain and watch you closely while your mind wanders off.

Think Yagya or Gas in terms of hypnotic. Think a musical veteran that masters every aspect of the job in terms of productional value.

No, this is not the new, dense, clubsmashing dubstep monster out there; this here is musical gold that isn't trying to please, but will prove itself in the long run for the ears that are willing to take the time to think out of the box. We think this is an album you'll be coming home to, over and over again.

ORDER here. Wanna get a taste first? check our MICROSITE here

We're very proud to announce Markus Guentner signed up for a full album release on Sending Orbs titled "Doppelgaenger". Guentner is known for his releases on Kompakt ("In Moll", "1981") and Ware ("Audio Island", "Lovely Society"). "Doppelgaenger" is an ambient album that satisfies our never-ending thirst for good music. The German album title means double/lookalike/dead ringer.

We are aware of our broad and varied fan base so here's a cautious attempt to manage expectations: position Doppelgaenger between Blamstrain's Disfold and Secede's Tryshasla, add to this a touch of Yagya's beatless soundscapes, and you get very compassionate ambient that opens up your dream world once again. Guentner's impressive bio can be found here.

Instead of our usual procedure of releasing music, i.e. we announce stuff and then we let you wait (for a long time), we have kept this news under cover for a while. Jeroen Advocaat is painting his last brush strokes on a new cover art masterpiece as we speak, which means we will send Doppelgaenger to the pressing plant soon. The expected release date is somewhere in November.

This is not all folks. Five years ago, three guys met to discuss the idea of starting a small label. We started small by releasing a handful of Through Friendly Waters copies of our brother and dear friend Kettel in January 2005. Now, 12 releases and more than 20.000 physical copies sold world-wide later, we can announce our 5th anniversary. Expect a number of really nice *things* just after the turn of the year.

September 12th, Utrecht NL, Stekker Festival. Outdoor! We're sending 4 of our soldiers out to the front: the Funckarma brothers (who are hosting their own "Funckarma stage" this year, ill!), our miracleboy Secede and our very own Duke Nukem imposter Kettel. Click here for full lineup and info. Looks like a good day of music with Plaid and 030303 also there.

You can now listen to Myam James 2 sound clips on the MJ2 microsite and/or order MJ2 in our web shop.

We offer the complete Myam James series (Myam James 1 and Myam James 2) for a special price. Use one of the links below to make your choice.

It's raining Rigning reviews on them internets... residentadvisor.net: 4.5/5! Check a selection of reviews here.

Yagya - Rigning is out!

If you haven't ordered the CD or 2LP yet, please pay a visit to the SO webshop by using the links below. We've also launched the Rigning microsite with soundbites and additional release info.

• Go here to purchase the CD
• The 2LP can be purchased here

MP3s and FLACs of the album are available in our download store E-ORBS.

Lastly, we had to update our 5 year old CD-price. 'De Baars' (the guy that is DUI'ing on the MJ1 cover) told us to do so. What can you do about it? The prices of our previous releases remain unaffected. The 2LP costs € 13,99.

Let's first start with the bad: there will be no Myam James 2 this year. We realize we've raised expectations and put schedules in front of your eyes that were all wrong; please accept our apologies. The reasons for sending those crippled horses out to race are legion. There is scheduling, money, life, momentum and more. These inevitable influences make our schemes volatile, but our output realistically more personal. We think. We are looking at the extremely early 2009 for the new MJ2 releasedate. In the meanwhile you can enjoy the great new Yagya. On both vinyl and cd this will be a gem that will vaporize all the sorrow.

On another positive note: for those longing for Myam James 2 previews or just the most recent liveset Kettel has done, in excellent mp3, here it is Kettel live in Rotterdam 11-15-2008.

Dear followers, we're sorry, but have no choice to announce that both the Yagya and Kettel releases will be delayed by approx. one month.
We are putting a lot of our (ever-so-limited) time and resources into these releases, and feel our listeners don't deserve anything less than the best we can do. As we are not a fullblown and fulltime releasemachine, these things can happen (and do happen, and happened before, and unfortunately will happen again). The only thing we can hope for is that you bear with us, and keep supporting us, so that the word 'delay' will someday dissapear from our menu!
When ready for production, this news section right here will display everything you need to know about these two upcoming releases. (Have we mentioned that they're both really good?)