Mark Ernestus

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Ernestus performing (2010)
Ernestus (right) and von Oswald (left) performing as Rhythm & Sound in Montreal (2007)

Mark Ernestus (* 1963 ) is a German musician , record producer and record label owner . He became known in particular through the projects he founded with Moritz von Oswald such as Basic Channel , Chain Reaction , Main Street and Rhythm & Sound .

Life

Mark Ernestus has lived in Berlin again since 1983. He was a master student of Wolfgang Ramsbott, among others . As a final thesis at what was then the University of the Arts , he opened the Kumpelnest 3000 on May 1, 1987 .

In December 1989, Ernestus also opened the influential Berlin record store Hard Wax .

From the early 1990s he produced electronic music with Moritz von Oswald under numerous project names. The techno labels Basic Channel and Chain Reaction , founded by Ernestus and Oswald, became known to a wider public . Basic Channel in particular is one of the most important German techno labels of the 1990s. The label's releases have all achieved cult status and are considered rarities, especially in North America. The pieces were mostly characterized by the targeted use of reverb and noise effects . The noise in particular is a characteristic style element of their productions, with an unusually high recognition value for the genre .

With each new creative period von Oswald and Ernestus founded further labels, for example Main Street for Vocal House . The releases of this label surprised critics and fans. Instead of the minimalist techno sound, the first release I'm your brother was a classic house song with vocals by British Andy Caine and had a certain pop appeal due to the catchy chorus.

In the further course of Oswald and Ernestus made more reference to dub music , and produced other pieces on Main Street in collaboration with the Dominican Paul St. Hilaire ( Tikiman ). Since then they have consistently continued this development and founded the Burial Mix and Rhythm & Sound labels . Especially the releases as Rhythm & Sound show a clear influence of the reggae production method. Since 1998, the producer duo has been working with different Jamaican singers on every record. The highlight of this collaboration is the one riddim album See Mi Yah , released in 2005 , on which a single minimalist riddim , which essentially consists of only two repetitive bars, by individual vocalists such as Willi Williams , Sugar Minott , Ras Donovan or Paul St. Hilaire is interpreted differently.

With the founding of the labels Imbalance (1993) and Chain Reaction (1995), both also offered other artists such as the Finn Vladislav Delay a platform for the publication of experimental techno pieces.

Since performing with Tikiman in Senegal in 2008 , Ernestus has been interested in the African music genre Mbalax . He has been running the Ndagga label since 2012 , on which mainly the releases of the band Jeri-Jeri appeared.

Discography (selection)

Note: for the works published together with Moritz von Oswald, see Basic Channel - Discography

  • 2013: Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri - 800% Ndagga (Ndagga)
  • 2013: Mark Ernestus presents Jeri-Jeri - Ndagga Versions (Ndagga)
  • 2016: Mark Ernestus' Ndagga Rhythm Force - Yermande (Ndagga)

Web links

Commons : Mark Ernestus  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Celebrities, Trümmertunten und Zickereien at sueddeutsche.de, accessed on April 10, 2015
  2. ↑ Mark Ernestus on the Senegal sound at taz.de, accessed on April 10, 2015
  3. ↑ Mark Ernestus' & Jeri-Jeri's crazy rhythms ( memento of the original from December 29, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spex.de, accessed on April 10, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
  4. ↑ Mark Ernestus & Jeri-Jeri ( Memento of the original from April 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at spex.de, accessed on April 10, 2015 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.spex.de
personal data
SURNAME Ernestus, Mark
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician, music producer and label operator
DATE OF BIRTH 1963