Felsmann + Tiley (Dominik Felsmann and Patrick Tiley) have shared new single “Warnung.” The track is off the German duo’s forthcoming album Protomensch, available February 13 via Mute records.

Speaking on the track the band say: “This episode exposes the Protomensch’s brutal transformation from builder to breaker, creator turned annihilator. Nietzsche nailed it 140 years ago: “If a temple is to be erected, a temple must be destroyed: that is the law.” We conjure the siren of doom. Then we put on our noise-cancelling headphones and drive straight off that cliff.”

Having met by happenstance in 2003 on a German music production forum called MyOwnMusic.de, Felsmann + Tiley soon discovered they shared a lot more than their hometown of Stuttgart. “We were attracted to the depth and melancholy of trance pads and breakdowns that always had a certain darkness to them.” Their 12-inch Ghosts under an alias Kamui was followed by a string of blistering belters by five other aliases released on different labels, all linked by thick and heavy club sound. “And then from 2006 onwards we also started touring and doing DJ gigs all around the world.”

It was the sixth alias Felsmann + Tiley formed in 2017 that stuck. “We were having a conversation over the phone and said: Let’s mix what we like about dance music. Melancholy with reduced neoclassic bits focused on melodies and the film epicness,” they remember. What started off as a pitch deck full of big ideas and even bigger visions would take eight years to grow into an ambitious, all-out artistic vision involving immersive live experiences and a social commentary on the current state of the world.

One of the duo’s early tracks “October” off their debut album Tempora (2018), a 21st century take on Vivaldi’s cyclical Four Seasons, was featured on the late Andrew Weatherall’s final radio show for NTS Radio and Michel Gaubert’s set for the Swedish fashion house Acne Studios. The album also caught the attention of DEF, the management agency of Moby, Robyn, Fever Ray, and Röyksopp.

Felsmann + Tiley
Protomensch
Track listing:
Mute Records

1. Open Fields (ft. The Kite String Tangle)
2. Memory
3. Opioid (ft. Pet Deaths)
4. Reset
5. Always You (ft. Woodes0
6. Seeker
7. Warnung
8. Gabriel
9. Kind
10. God Is Lonelier (ft. Lais)
11. Warum
12. Neuzeit

pre-order Protomensch by Felsmann + Tiley HERE