Browse by Artist: BRINKMANN, THOMAS

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Isch
Label:	CURLE RECORDINGS (BELGIUM)
Format:	12"
Price:	$12.00
Catalog #:	CURLE 003P-EP

A rare release from one of minimal house and techno's most respected icons, Thomas Brinkmann. "Isch" is a much sought-after track taken from a record that has been out of print for many years, originally made for the Mutek festival in 2002. Mr. Brinkmann chose the remixer, Soulphiction, whose turnout is nothing short of a future classic -- perhaps even his best rework to date. An essential release in a limited pressing of 500 copies, pressed on blue-colored vinyl.

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Rosa
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	ERNST CD001

First compilation of tracks that was issued by Germany's Thomas Brinkmann, original released in 2000. This CD compiled many of the legendary Ernst 12" series, partly with new mixes and versions. That series of classic late 90s orange sleeved/labeled 12"'s, featured all German-ish female names for tracks (aka Anna/Beate, Clara/Doris, Erika/Frauke, Gisela/Heidi, Inge/Jutta, Monika/Nicola, Petra/Olga, Susi/Trixi, Ulla/Vera, Wilma/Xenia, Yvette/Zora). Ultra-minimal, cutting, Brinkmann-esque. Some of the most riveting electronic music of the last decade and self-defining. With one bonus previously unreleased track.

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Rock With Me/I Can't Help It
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	MAX.I 001EP

Yet another Brinkmann-related concept cover EP devoted to the Michael Jackson chart breakers "Rock With Me" and "I Can't Help It." Nikakoi wrote the new string arrangements, while Brinkmann/Schmickler are responsible for the rest. The A-side R'n'B version of "Rock With Me" is a stomper followed by an extra sweet house version of the same track. "I Can't Help It" is a straight house version followed by a very soft broken beat version. The last tracks on both sides are the pure string arrangements. The sleeve is not about porno, it's about gene technology.

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Klick
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 001CD

2009 repress of this year 2001 release. Brinkmann's compilation of his classic "cut" (with a knife) techno tracks on the Max Ernst label. "And in fact a 'cut' in many senses. 10 tracks cut with a knife into the final loop of old records. 2 decks, a mixer, an isolator and a multieffect processor had been necessary to play the cut`n`scratch loops you´ll find on this CD The whole project is based on a loop which was done in the 70s on a 'Tamla Motown' record by Thelma Houston. While the needle was going round and round, the idea arose to take a cutter and scratch directly into the vinyl, into the last groove, the locked groove. you´ll hear one of these first experiments on track 7 with an additional loop. The strong ground noise is a result of about more than 1000 revolvings of this loop to be found on 'Feran Loop' (suppose 07) but less noisy. The two tracks (1+10) with vocals are done with two decks as well and there is no post production at all except the mastering of Lu-Sky-D. Some tracks are done without effects like the third or nineth and purely made with the help of the Vestax Isolator. Great machine! And by the way thanks to Japanese engineering and Christian Marclay." -- Thomas Brinkmann

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Row
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 003CD

2002 release. Brilliant Brinkmann compilation, featuring a selection of tracks from the MaxErnst vinyl back catalog (many in new versions), plus other obscure tracks and one brand new unreleased track. Repetitive, euphoric, Brinkmann's best music is far better than heroin and this CD is fine reminder of his importance in the world of contemporary music after a relatively quiet period in his release schedule. Track listing: "Corvette" (from max.E.10), "N.M.Q.P. (from Fragmente, Swiss vinyl), "maxE.3" (new version), "max.E.3" (another new version), "max.E.4" (new version), "isch" (from the limited Oral CDR), "Loplop" (from max.E.6), "Mexico" (from max.E.8), "'ribosom" (from Supposé 170), "toothpaste" (unreleased). Brinkmann on music: ""The same structures can often be found behind different media -- music, architecture, stone, paint, whatever. If you strip the surface, you'll often find the same underlying structures in different artistic fields. Take architecture from ancient Greece, for example. It reminds me of a good techno track. You have the columns -- these are the hookline -- then there's the roof, the stairway that leads you into a large room. A good track has a room as well, though much more virtual. The structure which is working on you is in a way not so different from this architecture. People like the simple structure of architecture, precise styles, and in this sense it's the same for both architecture and music."

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Tokyo + 1
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 006CD

"Sound can be a strongest narrator. All-medium-integrated lens, channeled to all organs and senses. As soon as it enters us, it starts to be controlled by our predisposed notions and somewhat familiar projections, that link to all kinds of data in our unconscious. It leads to forsake the roots and toughest DNA programs running in us by touching so called untouchable and inviolable areas of our being with its huge emotional input, hypnotizing by bouncing algorithms, translating thousand bodies into one whole, determining our emotional and intellectual oscillation flow. And yet, there are certain tones that our ears are not able to perceive as specialties that are worth capturing and analyzing. Analyzing, because those sounds are the very basics of our brain machineries. Without ever knowing, just like millions of unnoticeable smells, the most ordinary sounds control our unconscious much more then any other music on tape or perfume in a bottle. Often we find ourselves frustrated and we fail to realize that this condition is due to the bad soundtrack that assisted us during the day. And even if we realize it, we're unable to mute it. The only thing we can do is to explore it, just like any musical piece or movie and track it's input through us. The more we're completely integrated into this sounds, the more alienated we become while encountering them in the closed room, where all this same noises gain gravity and become one concrete sequence. Our brain starts to resist the resemblance of these noise with the musical tunes. [Tokyo + 1] is compiled of the aforementioned sounds, recorded in Japan and Greece. As we thoroughly listen to 9 tracks, we first find ourselves in a certain maze of discouragement, which is derived from incapacity of finding the similarity and comparison. Shortly this illogical puzzle vanishes along with the walls and geographical borders and we find ourselves in the middle of the unknown culture and location. This virtual traveling becomes in fact most factual in next moment, bringing our entire body into motion, moving through the places where the sounds have been initially captured. But even after this point, the sounds accelerate our expectations, by their earsplitting level, unnaturally sharpening the picture and our motion through it. Usually blurred environment around us becomes as concrete as never before, converting into close-up and giving each infinitesimal detail its' exceptional meaning. This is a concrete tour that initiates in Tokyo and rounds up in Ikaria, where the music ends and motion and sound around us return to their usual level of display and perception with one definite note: we can loose ourselves and repeat this tour over and over again."

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Lucky Hands
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 009CD

Germany's legendary label-owner, remixer and experimentalist Thomas Brinkmann returns with his lucky number 13 -- another full-length release of unmatchable, patented isolationist dub-inspired techno. Lucky Hands is the culmination of action, will, coincidence and two lucky hands. With its easily charming appeal and intellectually-accessible funkiness, this release is both frivolous and heavy, and one of the best semi-pop productions of the nearest past. "Maschine" is a very diverse clash of light and murk that summons both Kraftwerk and Rammstein, sliding from straight dance to melodic vocal dub, then marching into the dark German woods. But sometimes even Mr. Morrissey can be heavier, as in "The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get," the Smiths tune here augmented and darkened by lovely vocals from Tusia Beridze (aka TBA). Even "Lucky Hands" stumbles upon Talking Heads skronky angularity better than the band itself. The album finishes with a stunning contribution from Marco Palmieri, who combined some of the drums taken from "isch/ROW" with the optimistic and timeless sounds from '20s swing and gypsy jazz musician Django Reinhard. Truly, it is not only luck, but experience and talent that make things happen for Mr. Brinkmann.

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Klick Revolution
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 011CD

Germany's legendary label-owner, remixer and prolific experimentalist Thomas Brinkmann offers a tribute to the pinball machine, on Klick Revolution. These tracks deal with the concept of the locked box with the inclined plane, as the player ponders his "questionary about luck, the slide of the things into the logic of decline," as Brinkmann states. This is a new game with turntables -- not unlike the 2001 conceptual Klick release, but this time the player is trying to turn the fixed medium of the locked box into a landscape where the klicks are sounds from the past, confronting and reacting against bumpers, ramps and logs. These implements become symbols of the obstacle of ideas in music -- the sound of Sisyphus playing pinball with a rolling stone, in the ultimate expression of the tragedy of fun. These klick revolutions are based on live sets performed during the last two years, and the variations within the live context are apparent: each track builds on a theme, with different sideways escape routes using various locked-groove records as tools (the specific records Brinkmann used for these sets can be found in the 18-page booklet in poster-format accompanying this release). A pinball machine is a locked box filled with structured, confronted noises and endless thematic possibility: start the game of Klick Revolution now.

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	When Horses Die
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$17.00
Catalog #:	MAXE 016CD

Germany's legendary label-owner, remixer and prolific experimentalist Thomas Brinkmann presents the follow-up to Klick Revolution. Please note: there is NO TECHNO on this album. The source of inspiration is a strange mix between Suicide, Trent Reznor, Joy Division, old Tuxedomoon, and Another Day On Earth-era Brian Eno. Ten tracks start up with piano and the broken arrangement between distorted guitars and bass -- no drums, no beats, just lyrics from Tuxedomoon's Winston Tong. "Spiral" is also without drums and is an adaptation of artist Robert Smithson's "Spiral Jetty" earthwork in Utah's Great Salt Lake, elucidating the endings and beginnings between two people in love. "Birth & Death" twists out into heavier territory with drums and plenty of distorted guitars and "Meadow" is enhanced with lyrics by the Russian poet and essayist, Joseph Brodsky. "Souls" is a funky little number with lyrics by poet Marina Tsvetaeva and "2 Suns" is a heavy 100bpm stomper with Japanese lyrics, yet is totally unusable on 128bpm dancefloors. "Uselessness" is a dark, ambient, spoken-word track also based on the powerful metaphors of Robert Smithson. "It's Just" softly rocks right into the tune of "When Horses Die..." -- a Velimir Chlebnikov poem mixed with Brodsky and a hint of the Mamas & The Papas. The album finishes as it began, but without words and nothing left to say. Just piano, cello and a distorted guitar.

Artist:	BRINKMANN, THOMAS
Title:	Lucky Hands
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	3LP
Price:	$18.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 019LP

Triple vinyl version. Germany's legendary label-owner, remixer and experimentalist Thomas Brinkmann returns with his lucky number 13 -- another full-length release of unmatchable, patented isolationist dub-inspired techno. Lucky Hands is the culmination of action, will, coincidence and two lucky hands. With its easily charming appeal and intellectually-accessible funkiness, this release is both frivolous and heavy, and one of the best semi-pop productions of the nearest past.

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