{"title":"Thomas Brinkmann","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCologne-based Thomas Brinkmann is a German producer of minimal music. Renowned for his audio works that hover amongst forms such as techno, dub or ambient, Brinkmann has made a significant impact on the music scene. Influenced by bands like Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel, and Kraftwerk, he also drew inspiration from funk, soul, and rare grooves. In addition to his musical talents, Brinkmann is a skilled drummer who learned from Can's Jaki Liebezeit. He began experimenting with converting records into manually programmable sequencers in 1978.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAfter working in design during the late 1980s, Brinkmann lived in France and Italy before returning to Germany to study at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. However, he was expelled from the academy in 1996 after a legal dispute. It was in 1997 that Brinkmann gained attention in the techno scene with his innovative use of a modified record player with a dual tonearm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThomas Brinkmann's unique sound has garnered him comparisons to artists such as Farben, Thomas Fehlmann, Akufen, burger\/ink, Vladislav Delay, Soul Center and many others. With his distinct approach to minimal music production and his extensive body of work spanning various genres within electronic music,\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"a-1000-keys","title":"A 1000 Keys","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow many can get a personal sound out of a fucking piano?! Lee Konitz. Thomas Brinkmann takes his seductive reductionism to the next level. A harsh meditation on the expressive qualities of digital sound production. In translating the timbre of a grande piano into binary codes, thus rebuilding its corpus with 0 and 1s, Brinkmann subverts the sensual qualities of this proto-romantic instrument in a sardonic way. Replacing the musician with a mathematically precise series of frenetic repetition and intriguingly dissonant difference, the result sounds at times like a violent ride through the brains of Schönberg or Webern, drained in amphetamines, at others like Feldman's ephemeral sketches or Russolo's futurist outburst. Brinkmann's conceptual framework is resonating in the tracktitles. Using shortcuts of international airports, he refers to non-places that establish their own space-and-time continuum, while lacking individual identity and history. These functional scenarios are steril passages for anonymous, objectified masses, at the same time there's hardly a better place to grasp the very subjective character of time. »A 1000 KEYS« is a fatal hommage to minimalism and a consequent denial of virtuosity and the idea of creative genius. Paraphrasing the romantic idea of human perfection, Brinkmann found a way to create sonic algorithms of tenderness and brutality, establishing dramatic expressiveness in his constructivist analytics. The result is of radical beauty. Dedicated to Conlon Nancarrow Design \/ Thomas Brinkmann \/ David Hilbert\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Editions Mego","offers":[{"title":"LP","offer_id":50435971088715,"sku":"406195","price":24.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0867\/1120\/6219\/files\/3d5e90a7-e4c6-4323-a812-e3d9dc69d8c9_thumbnail_4096.jpg?v=1726910431"},{"product_id":"gute-luft-ost-from-the-24h-berlin-documentary","title":"Gute Luft","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eGute Luft\u003c\/i\u003e is the result of months of work scoring the hit German TV film 24h Berlin - the longest documentary film in history which featured 80 camera teams following the lives of berliners over a 24 hour period. Obviously a huge challenge for Fehlmann, beyond the scope of the project and hours of music involved in a 24 hour film, there was dealing with the decision making process that went with working with such a large production team. As he shared scoring duties with another musician (separately), inevitably a lot of his music ended up not making the final cut. 'Gute Luft' is about re-tweaking and editing material from the countless hours of recording he had created. 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A departure from his recent dance floor-friendly album \u003ci\u003eLos Lagos\u003c\/i\u003e released inSeptember on Kompakt, Thomas Fehlmann's \u003ci\u003e1929 - Das Jahr Babylon\u003c\/i\u003e is a film soundtrack from the documentary that aired on ARD network.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFehlmann's composition for \u003ci\u003e1929\u003c\/i\u003e consists of sample material taken from the era and thwarts the exaggerated lust for life with threatening undertones that anticipate the dawn of mankind's darkest chapter so far. Although all the sounds breathe yesterday's atmosphere this soundtrack bursts with modernity. 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The title nods to Rehberg’s PITA trilogy, \u003ci\u003eGet Out\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eGet In\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eGet On\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eDeveloped from a live performance at the label’s 30th anniversary in Berlin, this is a dark, side-long study in silence, extraction and perception. Drawing on Günther Anders’ “negative music” and \u003cb\u003eHeinrich Böll\u003c\/b\u003e’s “collected silence,” pauses become part of the structure rather than empty space.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe two long pieces carry traces of both artists’ logic, fused into something ghostly and hallucinatory. It’s an album where absence and presence hold equal weight, and where Rehberg’s influence still resonates across the radical experimental electronic avant garde. 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