Kobermann – Unterland on A.T.C. Records

The A.T.C. Records imprint continues its run with “Unterland” from Kobermann — 6 tracks of pure electronica, available in lossless formats. Spanning 81–141 BPM across its 6 tracks, this release gives DJs flexible tempo options for different set moments.

Unterland: 6-Track Electronica Release

Behind the Electronica : Release Notes

With his seventh full-length release, Unterland, Austrian composer and sound artist Kobermann (Johannes Piller) presents a meditative counterpoint to a culture spinning ever faster one where the next reel, the next drop, and the next dopamine hit scream for attention. Unterland withdraws from this dynamic, offering instead a deep, slow-burning exploration of repetition, space, and sonic ritual. Created primarily using modular synthesizers, field recordings, and minimal post-processing, the album moves between ambient, dub, and avant-garde minimalism, drawing influence from early New Age cassettes, contemporary drone practices, and tape-saturated club ghosts. But more than genre, Unterland is a terrain an imagined topography where each track marks a physical and emotional waypoint. The 60-minute journey begins with Waves, where blurred field recordings and gently detuned drones wash over the listener like fog over a valley. A childs voice introduces the piece, speaking of huge waves a fitting metaphor for the undulating nature of what follows. The 23-minute Hokus Pokus becomes the albums gravitational core. Its less a composition than a space to inhabit: modular sequences, feedback loops, and noise textures evolve gradually, encouraging listeners to surrender to a slower sense of time. Its an invitation to recalibrate to listen in a way modern life rarely allows. Alebrijes follows as a surreal, protective presence: ghostly rhythms, laugh-like tones, and deconstructed dub pulses drift through the mix like dream-guardians. The B-side opens with Strobe Pad, where shimmering pads, panned percussion, and reverb-drenched harmonics suggest a moment of clarity a brief emergence from the murk. The track serves as a light source before the final descent into abstraction. Small Cases and Unfold mark a psychological ascent: from the minimalist weightlessness of travel into the oxygen-thin air of revelation. Granular textures and filtered drones evoke both euphoria and disorientation the moment after a summit, when the world reshapes itself around your breath. The closing track, Future Schmelz, places the listener at a glacial edge, where crumbling drums and filtered sequences collapse into a dance of entropy. Delayed hats, decaying Moog DFAM sequences, and feedback bursts create a post-dub atmosphere as if memory itself were dissolving. All seven pieces were composed and recorded between February 2024 and February 2025 using a modular system, recorded and arranged in Ableton Live.

Download ‘Unterland’ in MP3, FLAC, and AIFF Formats

Tracklist and Tempos

1. Kobermann – Unfold Original Mix

   On A.T.C. Records | Nov 10, 2026 | Electronica | 124 BPM | E Major | 6:32

2. Kobermann – Strobe Pad Original Mix

   On A.T.C. Records | Nov 10, 2026 | Electronica | 118 BPM | F Major | 9:42

3. Kobermann – Small Cases Original Mix

   On A.T.C. Records | Nov 10, 2026 | Electronica | 81 BPM | C Major | 9:54

4. Kobermann – Future Schmelz Original Mix

   On A.T.C. Records | Nov 10, 2026 | Downtempo | 102 BPM | A Minor | 4:18

5. Kobermann – Alebrijes Original Mix

   On A.T.C. Records | Nov 10, 2026 | Electronica | 114 BPM | D Major | 2:18

6. Kobermann – Waves Original Mix

   On A.T.C. Records | Nov 10, 2026 | Electronica | 141 BPM | B Major | 3:18