Live dubs, illbient, breakbeats
Live dubs 98-00
Released in 2025
This release contains live dubs of Rope, a Berlin-based project active from 1996 into the early 2000s. Rope released two albums on Alec Empire’s Geist Records (1999 + 2000), which you can find on https://rope.bandcamp.com
Rope were bridging gaps between song writing, analog-electronic beats, noise, glitch, jazz, illbient, dub and sometimes involving avantgarde-typical ambient and electro-acoustic approaches during their often self-remixing half-improvisations -> “standup track writing”.
Recordings compiled here originate from four different live occasions (see below) and were found on a bulk of archived live DAT tapes in autumn 2025.
credits
released December 23, 2025
Live musicians
Rob Cummings, drums, sampler (1, 2, 5)
Nico Lippolis, drums (3, 4)
Bob Ruthman, steel cello (4, r.i.p.)
Carsten Wegener, bass, harmonica (1, 2, 5)
jayrope, synths, drum machine, vox, travel guitar, electronics (1-5)
Locations
1 + 5 recorded at Postfuhramt, Berlin, 1998 or 99
2 recorded at Jubez, Karlsruhe, 28.09.1998
3 recorded at Ex & Pop, Berlin ,19.08.2000
4 recorded at Roter Salon, Berlin, 22.10.1999
Credits
All tracks written by Rope/jayrope, except
3.1 intro contains Sol Hoʻopiʻi – title unknown, from cassette, remixed
3.2 intro contains Carlos Gardel – La Cumparsita, from cassette to original collage
3.3 “If” by David Hidalgo
4 “Waka Waka” lyrics reportedly by Fred Bremmer and Steve Kroese, a coder poem found online ~1996
Produced by jayrope
Mastered by Ian Kristof at Echo Coordinate, 12/2025
Cover by Ropinsky
Thank you!
nkls, Rob Cummings