James Din A4 - Never Look Back

Format: 12" Vinyl
Catalogue No.: PLAYRJC126
Barcode: 4250101483493
Release Date: 27 Jun 2025
Genre: Minimal House/Techno

No Desire To Please. By Miss Rosen.

Dennis Busch definitely entertains a distinct and twisted vision. The German artist, graphic designer, and musician showcases on his website a striking display of nihilistic collage art, absurdist sculpture, abstracted photographs, and a hand-printed clothing line. There's little creative work around nowadays which is uncomfortable. This artist has no desire to please. His aesthetics are unsettling. And therefore relevant.

From an apple with rotten teeth to a black-and-white photograph of a policeman doing battle with a giant pink penis painted over the image, Busch's provocative iconography is at once awkward, edgy, aggressive, sexy, silly, and sometimes even a little sentimental. Like his art, Busch does not ask simple questions or offer easy answers. His enigmatic gothic air is matched by his amusing, albeit perplexing, interpretations of their meaning. 

Busch's unconventional approach to creating art takes him beyond the boundaries of content, narrative, message, or medium. By fusing and confusing function and form, Busch's aesthetic missives offer themselves to almost any form of interpretation. Their insistently meaningless appearance, their daft and disposable nature, changes depending on the viewer's perspective. There is a sense of equality between images that conflates the great with the inadequate, making us question Busch's intentions altogether. Is Made With Hate a vomitorium for the artistic impulse, and if it is, is that in and of itself a worthwhile endeavor?

HOW DENNIS BUSCH AND I FINALLY MET - by Paul David Rollmann:  I came upon Dennis Busch at a music and art fair in Köln. Known at that time as "James Din A4," his music was incredible. It was here that I first witnessed his complete power of expression. We then met, and I discovered his visual artwork, which was fantastic as well. Coincidentally, he had been a longtime fan of my design label, Airbag Craftworks, so we were thrilled to finally collaborate. He has continually created beautiful limited-edition print designs for us. Delivering amazing work time and time again, it soon became obvious that we had to create a book for him to showcase his distinctive way of seeing.

A1    James Din A4    Total Eclipse    00:05:32
A2    James Din A4    Never Look Back    00:04:22
A3    James Din A4    Das Portal    00:02:01
B1    James Din A4    Stand-Up Ecstatic    00:05:14
B2    James Din A4    Totally Eclipsed    00:06:25