release date: may 9, 2025

With C’ant see the Rebel we celebrate the first release by R. Schappert on KOMPAKT DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION in spring 2025. The album will be released on the project label r-ecords. r-ecords was founded in 2022 and launched in the same year with ROUTE 1 (LP and digital) and ROUTE 2 (double LP and digital). A lot has happened in the meantime. The new album is not just a set of six tracks, but a cohesive work of sound that feels like a familiar dream that you can’t quite remember, but can’t forget either. It’s an album that doesn’t force itself on you – it drags you in. Right from the start, there is this interplay of movement and introspection. A fluid clarity that lays over the listener in waves, carried by a bass that not only provides structure but also creates confidence. And floating above it all are sounds that are not simply melodious, but seem like fragments of a collective consciousness – memories of moments that may never have happened, but still feel real. Between playful sparkling moments and clear rhythmic paths, a soundscape unfolds that takes its listeners seriously. Not as consumers, but as travel companions.

With C'ant see the Rebel we celebrate the first release by R. Schappert on KOMPAKT DIGITAL DISTRIBUTION in spring 2025. The album will be released on the project label r-ecords. r-ecords was founded in 2022 and launched in the same year with ROUTE 1 (LP and digital) and ROUTE 2 (double LP and digital). A lot has happened in the meantime. The new album is not just a set of six tracks, but a cohesive work of sound that feels like a familiar dream that you can't quite remember, but can't forget either. It's an album that doesn't force itself on you - it drags you in. Right from the start, there is this interplay of movement and introspection. A fluid clarity that lays over the listener in waves, carried by a bass that not only provides structure but also creates confidence. And floating above it all are sounds that are not simply melodious, but seem like fragments of a collective consciousness - memories of moments that may never have happened, but still feel real. Between playful sparkling moments and clear rhythmic paths, a soundscape unfolds that takes its listeners seriously. Not as consumers, but as travel companions.

This album is full of departures without ever arriving. There are doors that open briefly - the view into a club where the light flickers. The music pulsates - suddenly the doors close. Are we outside or inside? The tracks make you feel what it's like when sounds dance - not only on the floor, but also around your head, inside, in the space between sensation and reflection.

At a time when everything seems to be getting faster, louder, brighter, this album takes the freedom to take a stand and pause for a moment. It opens up where others hold tight. It thinks in circles instead of structures - and that is precisely why it seems so present. R. Schappert calls this organic digitality. Perhaps this is its greatest strength: it is a soundtrack for the uncertain, for the as yet undecided. For the moment before something begins - or ends. In the best moments, something arises that has become rare in electronic music: a feeling of sincerity. Not a pose, not a quote - but expression. An album like looking through a half-opened door. Behind it: Space. Potential. Sound. And the invitation to linger, to dance, to dream.

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C'ant see the Rebel

is the title track of the album and unfolds like a sparkling moment between daydream and dance floor. A pearly, melodic sound composition that works with a clear structure and playful lightness – as if you were looking through an opening club door for a moment, only to be immediately drawn back into an inner world. The track combines a dreamy lightness with a booming depth that immediately gets under your skin. Like champagne on the tongue: the highs dance around your head, the synths float like petals in the spring wind. The bass provides support time and again, guiding you through dazzling sound chambers, opening up spaces that seem larger than they probably are. Between head trip and physical flow. C’ant see the Rebel appeals to both the body and the heart.

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