Browse by Label: MAXERNST (GERMANY)

Artist:	WIDMER, ROLI
Title:	Sali Sali/Tschau Tschau
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	7"
Price:	$5.00
Catalog #:	MAXF 00?EP

A split release with A-Musik. "Right. A plunderphonicized cut-up based on the words 'hello' and 'goodby' in the Swiss language, a bit of Les Baxter, possibly Sam Butera, snatches of (almost) Brinkmann-esque techno, Red Cross logo on the label, familiar Gramofonove Zavody cut, hmm... Oh yes, ART! Perhaps a conceptual link to sound-poetry, collage, god-knows-what. Infintely awkward." -- Hrvatski. Information via Brinkmann: "Roland Widmer is a Swiss guy from Zürich where he is spinning records under the name Bang Goes. 'Sali Sali' means 'Hello Hello' and 'Tschau Tschau means 'Good By Good Buy'. "

Artist:	MAX ERNST & FREUNDE (THOMAS BRINKMANN)
Title:	Loplop
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MAXF 006EP

"Sixth installment of one Thomas Brinkmann' s cryptic series' of singles, and oddly to these ears this one sounds a lot like one of the "orange sleeved named after women" records, instead of having the smudgy, rolling kind of seasick sound of the first five Maxernst 12"s. Not a bad thing mind you, but searching for a narrative embedded somewhere in this guys releases is temptation easy to succumb to -- Brinkmann tracks sometimes sound like someone trying to solve a differential equation more than anything else. Still, a damn solid four tracker whether you know the math or not, especially the first track with it's squirrely sequencer sequence, and the third with it's pseudo organ vamping a la Grant Green. As an added bonus, the label depicts what could be one of those classic confrontations between Jerry West and Oscar Robertson, an epic struggle that meant so much to so many, and who wouldn't want to own a little piece of history?" -- Billy Kiely

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:	SUICIDE VS. BRINKMANN
Title:	Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne/Touch Me
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$8.50
Catalog #:	MAX.I 002EP

Max.i. is Brinkmann's new label for special releases. These Suicide remixes are based on two Suicide tracks from the early '80s album Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne. Brinkmann accepted the Suicide remix challenge, and the result is a straight, rockin 2-track 12" with an additional loop. The project was fully supported by Suicide, Mute and Blast First, who already used one of the tracks on a limited CD edition.

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

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:	LUCIANO
Title:	Live At Weetamix
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 002CD

The 2nd CD release on Thomas Brinkmann's MaxErnst label, from the Swiss producer Luciano (previous 12" releases on Mental Grooves, Bruchstucke, Klang Elektronik). Beautiful Q-tip cover artwork. "This outstandingly good Weetamix session from Mental Groove's Luciano has hit us like a bolt out the blue on this fine Summer afternoon. For those of you in need of enlightenment, Mental Groove is Switzerland's answer to Berlin's Bpitch Control -- a house of discoid madness and futuristic electronic exploration. This, however, offers us something a little different from the impossibly cool Luciano. 9 tracks mixed in from start to finish, the aroma here is one of pure innovation, sounds culled from an archive of musical inspiration that makes constant audio reference to Atom Heart, Akufen, Autechre and Brinkmann himself, tracks intricately pieced together from an array of found sounds, layer upon layer of tweaked samples and loops that come together in one giant impressive stretch of beats and cuts. As live sets go, it really doesn't get much better than this."

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:	TBA A.K.A. TUSIA BERIDZE
Title:	TBA
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 005CD

"24 year old female music producer from Tbilisi / Georgia, also known as a member of Goslab, a Georgian art laboratory. Her academic education in political and media sciences at American Institutes went in radically different direction from art and music. but it constantly appeared to be a strong challenge surrounding around her, starting from her family, ending with friends and people she worked with, such as Nikakoi (WFM Rec.) Erast (Laboratory instinct) and Gogi Dzodzuashvili, who used Tusias' vocals and lyrics in most of their songs. Tusia grew up within a space, which is something like an erratic mixture of controversial and at the same time logical records, which leads to a mixed Georgian, Russian and European production. It initiated in childhood under the tunes of The Smiths, Lou Reed, Weather Report, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Jeff Mills, Autechre, Kraftwerk, Georgian folk music and much more, which came out transformed from the rough speakers of Soviet production in the tiny studio space of Goslab, which appeared to be a shelter and a medium for translating brutal external reality into the means to survive within it. This was the soundtrack of the political and social transformations in Georgia. From Georgian monarchs to Russian ones, from the collapse of Soviet colonial blockade to the undermined democracy, independence in poverty and finally to 'satin revolution' of the transmitting forcelines. The 21 tracks from the TBA album are precise and straight sketches of the background between such different cultural influences, from the edge, between Asia, Russia and the so called western world. Music from the geographical top (Kaukasus) and very end of Europe in the south east, where despite the whole external chaos, it rounds up with one clear sentence: Georgia is like a spiritual Tokyo."

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:	POST INDUSTRIAL BOYS
Title:	Post Industrial Boys
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 007CD

"Post Industrial Boys is the debut album by Gogi Ge.Org aka George Dzodzuashvili. Seven different voices are found on Post Industrial Boys. All share an affinity to Goslab, a group of artists from Tbilisi, Georgia (including TBA/Natalie Beridze, Nikakoi, Gio + Maya Sumbadze...). Goslab is a phantom, which manifests itself as a culture through the performances of individual members and their various projects. In this sense, Goslab is somewhat like Georgia. Georgia is a post-communist phantom -- a pipeline in Off-Europe. A projection screen. There is a 5-hour time difference between London and Tbilisi. Tbilisi starts singing while America and Western Europe are still asleep. Post-industrial: The fifth Kondratieff wave will see the transition from hardware to software. Marx is on the finish line, somewhere between the greater and smaller Caucasus. Oil is entropy, ashes. 'Reproduction of what cannot be transformed' (Paul Valéry). Survival in global capitalism. Post-industrial joys. Streams. Sounds."

Artist:	TBA A.K.A. TUSIA BERIDZE
Title:	Annule
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 008CD

"TBA aka Tusia Beridze 25 year old female music producer from Tbilisi / Georgia (also known as a member of Goslab, a Georgian art laboratory, where she contributed with her video works) returns with her second album on max.Ernst. Not until two years before she started producing music on her own has she had a straight connection to it, because her academic education in political and media sciences at American Institutes went in radically different direction from art and music. But it constantly appeared to be a strong challenging surrounding around her, starting from her family, ending with friends and people she worked with, such as Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi, (wmf rec.) Erast ( Laboratory instinct) and Gogi Dzodzuashvili (aka Post Industrial Boys), who used Tusias' vocals and lyrics in most of their songs. Tusia grew up within a space, which is something like an erratic mixture of controversial and at the same time logical record, which is a mixed Georgian, Russian and European production. It initiated in childhood under the tunes of The Smiths, Lou Reed, Weather Report, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Bjork, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Jeff Mills, Autechre, Kraftwerk, Georgian folk music and much more, which came out transformed from the rough speakers of Soviet production in the tiny studio space of Goslab, which appeared to be a shelter and a medium for translating brutal external reality into the means to survive within it. This was the soundtrack of the political and social transformations in Georgia. From Georgian monarchs to Russian ones, from the collapse of Soviet colonial blockade to the undermined democracy, independence in poverty and finally to 'satin revolution' of the transmitting forcelines."

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:	TBA EMPTY
Title:	Stupid Rotation
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 010CD

TBA Empty is Tbilisi, Georgia-based Goslab member Natalie Beridze, and this is her fourth full-length release on the Max Ernst label. Without a doubt, this new TBA Empty album is about the bass drum and absolute dance. This full-length release follows the Stupid Rotation 12"s, produced in collaboration with Thomas Brinkmann. This CD version includes all tracks previously available on the 12"s, plus tracks never-before released. Starting up with smooth 125 bpm and the voice of Winston Tong on "Tour" from his The Next Best Thing To Death (Is Resurrection), the next three tracks follow this theme up until "33 Pharell," the most "pop" track on the disc. Stupid Rotation then becomes more and more psychedelic due to Beridze's echoing voice. "Brain Is Gone" is THE representation of club culture at its best. "Stupid Rotation" celebrates rococo breaks and repetition for repetition's sake. The last track "Rocks" circles back to the beginning. Stupid Rotation is a delirious ride.

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:	POST INDUSTRIAL BOYS
Title:	Post Industrial Trauma
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 012CD

Tbilisi-based Goslab initiate Gogi Dzozuashvili (Gogi.Ge.org), together with more Goslab members make up Post Industrial Boys, and this is their second album for Thomas Brinkmann's max.Ernst. It took over two years to collect all the snapshots and blueprints that finally assembled the Post Industrial Boys experience. This project is infused with deep drama, which sometimes sounds on the verge of fatalism and decadence, with Gogi channeling and directing the post-trauma with six different vocalists and other lyricists spread out over twenty tracks. The beginning of the Post Industrial Boys project began with the track "Benzilina" -- from the first solo Gogi project, recorded in the beginning of the '90s, somewhere in a Tbilisi squatted studio. This project was also probably the very beginning of the mutual playground and collaboration which later formed into the group Goslab. Post Industrial Trauma is a reflection of Gogi's collaborative spirit, embodying a collection of many different stories and dramas with one story blending into the next, creating a nice fusion. Amusing, easy-listening melodies and lyrics blend with a palpable modest sadness, creating a post traumatic carpet. This record is big on drama, like a movie based on a true story. Features songs from the likes of Thomas Brinkmann, Lou Reed (cover of "Walk On the Wild Side") and Kurt Vonnegut. Sophisticated and smoked out electronic crossover pop that will speak to fans of Mum, Gentle People, Saint Etienne, Farben, Stereolab. etc.

Artist:	TBA A.K.A. TUSIA BERIDZE
Title:	Size and Tears
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	2CD
Price:	$18.00
Catalog #:	MAXE 014CD

TBA is Tbilisi, Georgia-based Goslab member Natalie Beridze, and this is her third full-length release on the Max Ernst label. Size and Tears is an ambitious double CD that runs for over 2 hours, describing an entire arc of a whole universe. This is a journey through the looking glass -- a private trip where raves meet molecular subordination and conditional solutions. It rather stands on the side of Proust, who once said, "...the earth, draped in its verdant cloak, makes as little impression upon me as a ghost. It is living and ceasing to live which are imaginary solutions." Sometimes one gets sick of the cultivated level of mediocracy of the modern product, from the peace it brings, from its boring cosmopolitan suitability, and fulfilling of expectations. Opposed to it, Size and Tears is maybe too wrong and too dreamy, but there is no other way to make it comprehensive. It's like landing in Rio in extremely stormy conditions, without knowing if you will land safely or not. This project is just another moment of intimacy from which one blushes, an easy rider of the vulgarly divine utopia. Produced in collaboration with Thomas Brinkmann.

Artist:	TBA A.K.A. TUSIA BERIDZE
Title:	The Other
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	MAXE 015CD

Natalie Beridze, also known as Tusia Beridze or TBA, is a female music producer from Tbilisi, Georgia. She is also known as a member of Goslab -- a Georgian art laboratory, where she creates video works. The marriage of visual art and music eventually proved to be a strong influence on her releases on Maxernst, starting with her family and ending with friends and people she has worked with, such as Nika Machaidze aka Nikakoi, Erast and Gogi Dzodzuashvili, who have used Tusia's vocals and lyrics in most of their songs. Beridze embraces an eclectic mix of influences, including The Smiths, Lou Reed, Weather Report, David Bowie, Cocteau Twins, Björk, Aphex Twin, Squarepusher, Stravinsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Jeff Mills, Autechre, Kraftwerk, Georgian folk music and much more, which came out transformed from the rough speakers of Soviet production in the tiny studio space of Goslab. The Other is released at the same time as Size and Tears as a mature counterpoint away from the former's childhood references. "Break," which was originally written for Ryuichi Sakamoto's Chain Music, made Mr. Sakamoto cry. "Hero" is quite brutal and dark, but then it all turns around again with the tenderness of "Father." Guest vocals also appear on the track "Beam Plaster" by Marcus Schmickler. The Other shows Tusia at her strongest and most committed. These tracks are love letters, not just summer kisses.

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.

Artist:	TBA A.K.A. TUSIA BERIDZE
Title:	Georgia Is Like Spiritual Tokyo
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	LP
Price:	$13.00
Catalog #:	MAXF 015LP

"TBA is Georgian and means 'lake'. TBA is 24 years old Natalie or Tusja Beridze from Tbilisi/Georgia. 6 new tracks + 3 from the CD + one remix from Nikakoi/Georgia, known from his works for WMF Rec.. The record is part of soundtrack for a movie from Georgien director Salome Machaidze. Some of their activities are based on ideas of 'goslab', a foundation for cultural movements out of the ex Russian nowhere land, in between contradictions such as Europe and Asia. Georgia -- a pipeline ... from the silkroad to oil, to gas. Music like gas: fugitive, narcotic, incomprehensible. a pipeline to hidden sounds. The voice of Tusja is part of this electronic soundscapes. The music may remind of works from Björk or Richard D. James. It's gentle and inconspicuous, nevertheless decided and clear and it has it's address: Georgia Is like spiritual Tokyo..."

Artist:	SOUL CENTER (THOMAS BRINKMANN)
Title:	*
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WVB 001CD

First of three Thomas Brinkmann releases under the aegis of "Soul Center" (followed by the 2nd, untitled, album [WVB 004] and III, released by Novamute). Originally issued in 1999. "Slowly reveals itself as a series of 'variationen' on themes from classic (i.e. Stax/Curtom era) soul CHARTERS, barely recontextualized and completely discernable to any student of the genre (hence previous/intended paranoia). If it's any consolation, Brinkmann is thanked [alongside J(ürgen) Paape, G(eorge) Clinton, Theo Parrish, (the) U(ndisputed) Truth, D(an) Bell, F(our) Tops, R.R.R., etc]... Spherical." -- Hrvatski.

Artist:	SOUL CENTER (THOMAS BRINKMANN)
Title:
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	CD
Price:	$15.50
Catalog #:	WVB 004CD

Year 2000 release. The second Soul Center album from Thomas Brinkmann dives into the minutae of sampled groove like nothing previously known to man. Utilizing source music via the likes of "Anne", "S. Tax", "H. Hancock", "E. Floyd", "St. Singers", "R. Thomas", "C. Thomas", "G. Clinton", "B. Kays", "U. Finger", "C. Morgenstern", & "R. Powder", this album mainlines the concept of musical euphoria and achieves instant classic status. Official hype: "Can I ask you one question, ain't I clean? What you're doin? 29 years later the new bastard: Soul Center based on Wattstax... Are you ready for this, Artur? A psycho set with respect. Boy...big stuff... who in the funk do you think you are? You'll never be a morning star. Cause there are no stars in the sky, they're all on the ground. 'You may call it soul with hot sauce. We call it the African truthjuice...the sperm of the sun." (Jim Ingram). Figure it out!"

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Artist:	FISHER, NATE
Title:	DoNotEatOnLSD
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$10.00
Catalog #:	MAXE 022EP

Artist:	HARDING, JOHN
Title:	Marbat EP
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MAXF 009EP

Artist:	C.H. & ME
Title:	Orangegreen
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MAXF 011EP

Artist:	PLAGIA/BODY COMBAT
Title:	Max. Ernst # 14
Label:	MAXERNST (GERMANY)
Format:	12"
Price:	$9.00
Catalog #:	MAXF 014EP