âDonât you lie awake at night wishing that Philip K Dick had written music to accompany his vision of dystopia? All that time he was working in a music store and we only get books⊠Well luckily, Mr. Boris Hauf has supplied us with the next best thing: The great anti-anti-utopia is here.â
– Mark McLaren
CLARK is solo project, made for collaboration. CLARK is a unity of three levels: a metaphysical, a transient and a phenomenologically interactive one. It makes use of processual repetition, the imaginary and calculated potential of iteration, disintegration, delay and modulation. Thematically, it deals with various aspects of our earthly present and inklings of an extraterrestrial future; with the ‘digital natives’, with the collapse of the climate, with a world of automation in which we voluntarily give up control to avoid work, and with fantasies of extraterrestrial pasts.
Originally a 2005 solo release for UK label Sijis – CLARK was re-issued 2017 on vinyl for Shameless. Fun fact – track #6 is called âCoronaâ.
CLARK2 was released in April 2020. The film Island Destinity was made in 2021.
– Boris Hauf
CLARK3
new sounds (2024)
CLARK2
(SHAMELESS, 2020)
2 white LPs, gatefold, reverse print, limited edition 200
âAdmirable excursion that contemplates half a century of electronics of terrestrial and sidereal environments in eighty minutesâ
– BlowUpMagazine
“If time looked like music, it could be close to Boris Hauf’s new album, CLARK2. The 12 titles are an immersion in a space suspended from the celestial arches of a universe larger than our imagination.”
– Roland Torres
“All this scratchinâ is making me glitch.”
-Kevin Press
“Itâs rare that a single album in one style can justify and maintain an 80-minute duration, especially one with such a minimalist approach as this has at times- but itâs a testament to the balance and control thatâs been put into this that it really is worthy of it. Itâs filmic and grandiose, yet never over the top. Brace yourself for a beautiful musical deep space science fiction adventure on this one.”
– Stuart Bruce
“I don’t know, it makes my eyes hurt.”
– Naima
CLARK
(Sijis, 2005 & Shameless RE-ISSUE, 2017)
180gram black vinyl, limited edition 300
âThe Syncopated Molecules in Microwave Meals will Finally Understandâ
– Carnage News / Riccardo Goron
âthe re-issue on vinyl makes a lot of sense. It has a great quality and doesnât sound dated at all, unlike some of the computer music that appeared a few years before that, the technoid music of Hauf still sounds remarkable fresh; to me it seems like a wise decision to re-issue this.â
– Vital Weekly 1069 / Frans de Waard re the 2017 Vinyl reissue
âa seriously deep set of tracks that sound like minimal techno thatâs been disassembled, then rebuilt in a slightly different order with half a dozen of the pieces missing⊠âClarkâ is perhaps as far removed from techno as itâs possible to be whilst still being able to justify labelling it as techno, which I will, but this is an extremely deep, insular journey that benefits from focussed headphone listening. Releases like this have been appearing more frequently lately but for a 2005 release this was well ahead of the curve and its release is certainly justified.â
– Chain D.L.K. / Stuart Bruce
âdry and cutting edge electronics, post-industrial techno and minimalâ
– Rockerilla / Roberto Mandolini
âClark makes wonderful use of intelligence and sensations. Itâs a majestic EP of conciseness and relevance, combining the multiple facets of todayâs music to propel them towards a future with exciting modulations.â
– Silence and Sound / Roland Torres
âClark is rising in my estimation with every playâ
– Include Me Out / Robin Tomens
âpost industrial minimal musicâ
– Digital in Berlin / piradio
âa fine bunch of microsounding glitch ambient or whatever you call it, [âŠ] here on âClarkâ he comes up with something that sidesteps that: his own version of techno music. Stripped bare of all unnecessary elements, adding his own sometimes creepy sounds,â
– Vital Weekly / Frans de Waard re the original 2005 CDR release
âFragments of techno juxtaposed with modernist contemporary experimentation make it liable to pique the interest of many an electronic music connoisseur.â
– Furthernosie / Alex Young
âMinimal and elegant electronic music for Boris Hauf, everything is quasi essential during the listening. The sound choice is accurate and the mastering done by Todd Carter in Chicago pushes everything at the right place.â
– Chain DLK / Andrea Ferraris