Air Liquide (band)
| Air Liquide | |
|---|---|
 Cem Oral and Ingmar Koch aka Air Liquide |
|
| General information | |
| Genre (s) | Acid techno , techno |
| founding | 1991, 2012 |
| resolution | 2005 |
| Website | www.multicolor-recordings.de/airliquide/ |
| Founding members | |
| Cem Oral | |
| Ingmar Koch | |
| former members | |
| Mary S. Applegate | |
Air Liquide is a German techno formation, consisting of Ingmar Koch ("Dr. Walker") and Cem Oral ("Jammin 'Unit", later founder of the Ultrahigh project ) that was founded in 1991. Koch and Oral released other records under the pseudonyms Madonna 303 and Jammin 'Unit & Walker .
history
Oral and Koch met in 1991 in a recording studio in Frankfurt am Main . After a large number of jam sessions in Koch's studio, the duo's first EP, Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule , was released in 1992 on the Cologne record label Blue, which Koch and Oral had founded together with the musician Jörg Burger . Oral and Koch founded the acid techno label Structure in 1991 with Burger and Wolfgang Voigt .
Koch's former friend Mary Susan Applegate contributed lyrics and vocals for some pieces of music .
Air Liquide were particularly known for their live acts in the mid-1990s. The band broke up in 2005 after the previous album Let Your Ears Be the Receiver was released.
Since 2012 the group has performed live again at various festivals.
Discography
Albums
- 1993: Air Liquide (Blue)
- 1994: The Increased Difficulty of Concentration (Sm:) e Communications)
- 1995: Abuse Your Illusions ( Harvest )
- 1995: Red (Sm:) e Communications)
- 1995: Black (Sm:) e Communications)
- 1995: Sonic Weather Machine (Rising High Records)
- 1997: Reissued: Liquid Air (1992) & Mandragora (1993) (Harvest)
- 1999: Anybody Home? (Harvest)
- 1999: Superfreaky (Harvest)
- 2001: X (Proof! /: Chlodwig musik)
- 2001: Best Of Air Liquide 1991 - 2001 (Müller Records)
- 2002: Music is a Virus (Blue 2)
- 2004: Let Your Ears Be the Receiver (Multicolor Recordings)
Singles and EPs
- 1992: New Frankfurt Electronics School (Blue)
- 1992: Liquid Air EP (Blue)
- 1993: If There Was No Gravity (Blue)
- 1994: Nephology - The New Religion (Blue)
- 1994: Robot Wars (Sm:) e Communications)
- 1995: Stroboplastics (Harvest)
- 1997: Homicidal Diary (Harvest)
- 2001: Space Brothers (Proof! /: Chlodwig musik)
- 2005: So Much Love (Multicolor Recordings)
Web links
- Air Liquide at Multicolor Recordings
- Air Liquide at Discogs (English)
- Air Liquide at laut.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Madonna 303 Discography at Discogs.com, accessed January 9, 2010
- ↑ Jammin 'Unit & Walker Discography at Discogs.com, accessed January 9, 2010
- ^ Robert Klanten : Localizer 1.0 . Die Gestalten , Berlin, 1995, ISBN 3-931-12600-5
- ↑ Blue Discography at Discogs.com, accessed January 9, 2010
- ^ Structure Discography at Discogs.com, accessed January 9, 2010