Hauntologists are Stefan Schneider and Jay Ahern.


"[…] the Hauntologists imprint garnered plenty of interest and, naturally, speculation. The only concrete information provided was that the EP was recorded in Berlin and Düsseldorf, and that it was linked to Berlin’s Hardwax record store. The colonialism-chic of the the hand silk-screened record sleeve teased hints of African drumming from the reduced rhythms (for instance, the opening track), and of course there was that name, “Hauntologists.” […]
What was self-evident, though, was cerebral music that felt like live-in-studio rough cuts, but whose tripping rhythms and light funk adapted neatly to a club setting. The melodies […] drone on unrelentingly as though building to all-out psych freak-out, but were kept in check by measured zaps of acid bass. The plinking rhythms, meanwhile, had airs of clinical IDM and unabashed house, as well as the aforementioned African echoes. […]"
littlewhiteearbuds.com
Chris Burkhalter | September 3rd, 2009



"[…] Der Berliner Produzent Jay Ahern und Stefan Schneider, bekannt von der Band To Rococo Rot, überraschten mit zwei EPs voll gestrengem Roboterfunk. Im Sound weniger Maschinen fühlt man sich ins vordigitale Zeitalter zurückversetzt. Dichte Rhythmusschachteleien in permanenter Mutation, leise Beschwörungen von alten House-Geistern."
taz.die tageszeitung, 21.12.2009
Rückwärts in die Zukunft – die House- und Techno-Alben des Jahres

Hauntologists are Stefan Schneider and Jay Ahern.


"[…] the Hauntologists imprint garnered plenty of interest and, naturally, speculation. The only concrete information provided was that the EP was recorded in Berlin and Düsseldorf, and that it was linked to Berlin’s Hardwax record store. The colonialism-chic of the the hand silk-screened record sleeve teased hints of African drumming from the reduced rhythms (for instance, the opening track), and of course there was that name, “Hauntologists.” […]
What was self-evident, though, was cerebral music that felt like live-in-studio rough cuts, but whose tripping rhythms and light funk adapted neatly to a club setting. The melodies […] drone on unrelentingly as though building to all-out psych freak-out, but were kept in check by measured zaps of acid bass. The plinking rhythms, meanwhile, had airs of clinical IDM and unabashed house, as well as the aforementioned African echoes. […]"
littlewhiteearbuds.com
Chris Burkhalter | September 3rd, 2009



"[…] Der Berliner Produzent Jay Ahern und Stefan Schneider, bekannt von der Band To Rococo Rot, überraschten mit zwei EPs voll gestrengem Roboterfunk. Im Sound weniger Maschinen fühlt man sich ins vordigitale Zeitalter zurückversetzt. Dichte Rhythmusschachteleien in permanenter Mutation, leise Beschwörungen von alten House-Geistern."
taz.die tageszeitung, 21.12.2009
Rückwärts in die Zukunft – die House- und Techno-Alben des Jahres