Name: A 1000 Keys
Brand: Thomas Brinkmann

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emego224lp

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2016-09-09

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Thomas Brinkmann

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Editions Mego

Editions Mego was founded on January 1st, 2006 by Peter Rehberg. The label's main goal is to preserve the legacy and catalog of the now defunct Mego label, while also releasing new and innovative works.
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Whether you're a long-time fan or just discovering their unique offerings, Editions Mego offers a diverse range of releases that will captivate and challenge your musical sensibilities.

Cologne-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.

After 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.

Thomas 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,

How 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

A 1000 Keys

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