Monika Enterprise

Monika Enterprise
Active years	since 1997
founder	Gudrun Good
Seat	Berlin
Website	http://www.monika-enterprise.de/
distribution	indigo
Genre (s)	Electronica

Monika Enterprise is an independent label from Berlin. It was founded in 1997 by Gudrun Gut . The label is distributed in Germany by Indigo .

Label history

According to Gudrun Gut, she named the label after one of her two goldfish who committed suicide:

"Once upon a time I had two goldfishes. The suicide of one of them inspired me to call my label 'Monika Enterprise' - in memoriam to my beloved goldfish 'Monika' ... "

- Gudrun Good

The published music ranges between electronic and industrial and is pop- affine, mostly by women. The first release was quarks limited to 500 copies 7 "single again Come / Knocked . The piece quickly became a hit in the indie scene and was re-released in a Japanese version two years later as Kikyo . The label's first long player followed in October of the same year with the Quarks album Heimat .

The piece Kaltes Klares Wasser , das Gut 1981 with their band Malaria! recorded, was released in 2000 by Monika Enterprise in a remix of Chicks on Speed and reached the German Top 20.

Other albums were released by Barbara Morgenstern ( Fjords , 2000), Masha Qrella ( Luck , 2002), Contriva ( If You Had Stayed ... , 2003), Cobra Killer ( 76/77 , 2004) and James Figurine ( Mistake Mistake Mistake Mistake , 2006).

In 2007 Gudrun Gut's album I Put A Record On was released , which received positive reviews.

Under the name “Monika Werkstatt”, the label organizes workshops and discussions across Europe. The focus is on interaction with the audience; current works are presented as “work in progress”. A sampler of the same name was released in 2017 for the 20th anniversary of the label: For this, artists first worked together in Gudrun Gut's guest house and then completed the tracks individually.

Artist (selection)

Chica And The Folder Cobra killer Figurine Gudrun Good

Komëit Michaela Melián Milena song Barbara Morgenstern

Masha Qrella Quarks Robert Lippok

Compilations

Music for the living room Santa Monika

Spaceship Monika Monika Force

4 Women No Cry Vol.1 4 Women No Cry Vol.2

Web links

• Homepage
• Monika Enterprise at Discogs
• Monika Enterprise: Offbeat Electronic , article at xlr8r.com (2008)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Indigo label program: Monika Enterprise , accessed on May 1, 2010
2. ↑ Monika Enterprise at last.fm , accessed on May 1, 2010
3. ↑ Jenni Zylka, Bernd Lechler: 20 years Monika Enterprise - “I do the women's niche”. In: Deutschlandfunk. June 17, 2017, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Quarks - Wiederkomm / Klopft at discogs.com, accessed May 1, 2010
5. ↑ Quarks at laut.de, accessed on May 1, 2010
6. ↑ Quarks - Kikyo at discogs.com, accessed May 1, 2010
7. ↑ Quarks - Home at discogs.com, accessed May 1, 2010
8. ↑ Jenni Zylka, Bernd Lechler: 20 years Monika Enterprise - “I do the women's niche”. In: Deutschlandfunk. June 17, 2017, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
9. ^ Jürgen Laarmann : Music trends: Latest Deutsche Welle. In: Der Spiegel. April 13, 2001, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
10. ^ I Put A Record On - Gudrun Gut ( Memento from May 18, 2016 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on May 24, 2020
11. ↑ Monika workshop - Monika Enterprise. In: www.monika-enterprise.de. Monika Enterprise, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
12. ↑ "Monika Workshop". In: House of Art. 2016, accessed May 24, 2020 . 
13. ↑ Diviam Hoffmann: punky birds, hypnotic sequencer. In: taz: The daily newspaper. May 28, 2017, accessed May 24, 2020 .