Hypnotic drums and synths! On their brand-new album "Ha Ha Ha" Didi Kern (drums) and Philipp Quehenberger (keyboards) send expressive soundscapes drawing from Pop, Ambient and Psychedelic out into the universe. Didi Kern and Philipp Quehenberger are without a doubt two of the most restless and well known musicians in Vienna's underground scene. Their gigs in which they unleash a thunderstorm of sound, usually with no interruption, put the audiences into a trancelike state, their shows are a kind of luxurious sensory overload. Viennas best music-nerd music! Didi Kern is the drummer of Austria's best known Noise-Rock bands Bulbul and Fuckhead and is also a member of the pop singer Gustav's band and has worked and recorded with big-time Avantgarde-Jazz names like Caspar Brötzmann, Ken Vandermark, Mats Gustafsson and Walter Weasel (The Flying Luttenbachers). Quehenberger has released several solo records and on the legendary Avantgarde-Electronica label Editions Mego and on the Viennese underground techno labels Cheap and Minimal Soul and is an explorer of the stylistic realms between electronic music and free improvisation. For their album "Ha Ha Ha" they have crafted unconventional but catchy pieces, derived from improvisations and songsketches, that effortlessly transcend the limitations of "Sound" and "Popular Music" in an almost scientific exploration of the simple means of drums and synths. The album also features sonic contributions from their similarly genre-defying colleagues Noid (cello) and Fennesz (synth). "Didi Kern and Philipp Quehenberger's new album is a big new step in the Viennese duos development and highlights fresh aspects of their continuous work together. From the very first track on, the listener is pulled into a maelstrom of post-psychedelic synth lines and glowing drums that exudes an ever increasing sense of stoic eccentricity and existential unease. The synths and drums work together seamlessly through swirling build-ups and breaks, and with the deep Spacefunk of "Zoning Out" or the wonky Electro of "Hopfunhouse" the album also shows that even at lower speeds the music loses none of its otherworldly appeal. Carefully circling patterns create hypnotic atmospheres, only to fall apart and reconfigure ambiguously and ever more seductively throughout the tracks. The title track "Ha Ha Ha", featuring vocals by Didi Kern leads into brilliant Disco territory, reminiscent of Dinosaur L`s Postpunk futurism. "What About Tomorrow" reminds us that you can always count on these two guy`s knack for energetic, technoid goings-on. They display a sense of control on "Ha Ha Ha" that makes the record very compact, and while offering new repertoire, remain as eclectic and visionary as ever." (Christian Egger)