Thies Mynther

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Thies Mynther (born February 26, 1968 in Bamberg ) is a German producer, lyricist and composer.

Life

Thies Mynther, birth name Thies Münther , was born as the son of Hanne-Martje and Hartmut Münther. He has a brother, Jan, and a sister, Julia. He lives and works in Hamburg , Berlin and temporarily on Hiddensee .

pop

After the first small publications in the punk-influenced cassette scene of the late 1980s, he founded the small collective Die Allwissende Billardkugel in Essen in 1990 and joined the rock band Die Government . After moving to Hamburg in 1991, he played various keyboard instruments as a guest on Huah! , the stars , Bernd Begemann , the Five Friends and Tocotronic . In the mid-1990s, Mynther became a member and author of the emerging bands Stella and Superpunk . The Imperial studio built with Mense Reents and Jimi Siebels became a busy place. In 1997 he produced the second album El Niño by Daniel Puente Encina 's punk rock band Niños con Bombas . He played concerts with Erobique under the name Platinum Flavor and made regular remixes, including a. for Peter Licht or Phonoboy . In 1999 he formed Phantom / Ghost together with Dirk von Lowtzow and became an affiliate member and producer of Das Bierbeben . With all the formations he released albums and went on extensive tours.

Under the team name Glove, he and the DJ Tobi Neumann produced albums by Chicks on Speed and Miss Kittin , and a few maxis and various remixes etc. appeared on Playhouse and Cocoon . a. for Ladytron , Human League , 2raumwohnung and The KLF . In 2011 he worked with Tamer Fahri Özgönenc and Dillon on their first album This Silence Kills and in 2014 part of the follow-up The Unknown.

Movie

Mynther composed film music e.g. B. for the films The Caller (2007) and The Course of Things (2006) . He works regularly with the filmmaker Sandra Trostel as a sound designer , composer and dramaturgical consultant, most recently on the documentaries Utopia Ltd. and Everybody's Cage.

theatre

Since 2009 he has been working as a composer, musician and musical director a. a. with Nicolas Stemann , Sebastian Baumgarten , Bastian Kraft , Brit Bartkowiak, Ulrich Matthes and Josua Rösing, as well as in free forms with groups such as Showcase Beat Le Mot or in a kind of joint performative work exhibition by Phantom Ghost and Cosima von Bonin called Retrospectres in the Haus der Berliner Festival / Kampnagel HH / Mumok Vienna. He was u. a. guest at the Schauspielhaus and at Kampnagel in Hamburg, the Deutsches Theater , the Akademie der Künste and the Hebbel am Ufer in Berlin and the state theaters in Mainz, Oldenburg and Bratislava.

In 2014 Mynther published a music book with 22 selected compositions by the Phantom Ghost group at the Buchholz Gallery . In 2016 he developed and produced the play I Know It When I See It, a music-theatrical examination of pornography, with Jason Danino Holt as part of the International Summer Festival at Kampnagel .

Plays

  • 2009: Saint Joan of the slaughterhouses
  • 2010: 1534
  • 2012: Mother tongue Mameloschn
  • 2013: Wastwater
  • 2013: Yellow Line
  • 2013: Deportation Cast
  • 2014: The Ballad of the Flying Dutchman
  • 2014: The visit of the old lady
  • 2014: Phantom Ghost Retrospectres
  • 2014: The Land of First Things / Bludičky
  • 2014: Lilli / Heiner
  • 2014: Parzival
  • 2015: Whore / Raful and the Sea
  • 2015: Feelings I
  • 2016: The lightship
  • 2016: I Know it When I see It
  • 2016: Feelings in the Great Hall
  • 2017: Lehman Brothers
  • 2017: The winter journey
  • 2017: Showcase Beat Le Mot show feelings

Discography (selection)

Thies Mynther And Fee Kuerten:

"Let's Become Pornography" (Digital Release / Bloody Hands 2017)

Dillon:

"The Unknown" (CD / 12 Inches-BPitch Recordings 2014)

"This Silence Kills" (CD / 12 Inches-BPitch Recordings 2011)

Chicks on Speed:

"Will save us all" (LP / CD, Chicks On Speed ​​Records, 2000)

"99 Cents" (LP / CD, Chicks On Speed ​​Records / Labels, 2003)

Miss Kittin:

"I.com" (CD + 2x12 "+ 6x7", labels, 2004)

Phantom / Ghost:

"Phantom / Ghost" (CD, Ladomat, 2000)

"To Damascus" (CD / LP, Ladomat / Mute, 2003)

"Three" (CD / LP, Lado / Dial, 2006)

"Thrown out of drama school" (CD / LP, Dial 2009)

"Pardon My English" (CD / LP, Dial 2012)

Superpunk:

"A little something is always possible" (LP / CD L'Age d'Or / Fidel Bastro, 1999)

"Water March" (LP / CD L'Age d'Or, 2001)

"One time superpunk, please!" (LP / CD, L'Age d'Or, 2004)

"Why not?" (CD / LP, Wallpaper Records 2007)

"The human soul under superpunk" (CD / LP Wallpaper Records, 2009)

Stella:

"Stella EP" (12 inches, L'age d'Or, 1996)

"Extralife" (CD / LP, L'age d'Or, 1998)

"Finger on the trigger for the years to come" (CD / LP, L'age d'Or, 2000)

"Better Days Sounds Great" (CD / LP, L'age d'Or, 2004)

"Fukui" (CD / LP, Clouds Hill Recordings 2010)

The beer quake:

"No Future No Past" (Do-LP / CD, Shitkatapult, 2004)

"Everything falls" (Do-LP / CD, Shitkatapult, 2006)

Glove:

"Wonderful" (12 Inch, Playhouse, 2003)

"Drug Control" (12 Inch + Sampler, Cocoon Records, 2001)

The Y2ks:

"Sydney Harbor Bridge" (12 ″ / CD on L'Age d'Or Compilation 1999, also on 12 ″ / CD, Monza Compilation, 2001)

The government:

"So Drauf" (CD / LP, L'Age d'Or, 1992)

"Below" (CD / LP, L'Age d'Or, 1994)

Huah:

"Shit Capitalism" (CD / LP, 1992)

The stars:

"Important" (CD / LP, 1993)

"Where is here" (CD / LP, 1999)

Platinum Flavor:

"Brenner" - "Various Artists - Y01" (12 Inch, L'Age d'Or, 2000)

"Winter Gospel" - "Operation Poodle 2001" (CD / 12 Inch, L'Age d'Or, 2001)

The 5 friends:

"Aggro" (CD / LP, East West, 1994)

Ninos con Bombas:

"El Nino" (CD, WEA, 1998)

Various artists:

"Camp Imperial" (CD / LP, L'Age d'Or, 1996)

Remixes:

"Sundeck" - Peter Licht

"C'est ma vie" - Phonoboy

"Cold Clear Water" - Chicks On Speed ​​(with DJ Koze)

"Dance like it is ok" - Martini Brös (with DJ Koze)

"Rippin Kittin" - Golden Boy with Miss Kittin (with Glove)

"Playgirl" - Ladytron (with Glove)

"Here comes the night" - Ego Express (with Glove)

"Build A Fire" - KLF (with Glove), 2003

"That little bit better" - Die Sterne (with Glove), 1999

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ January Münther , Twitter (accessed August 4, 2014).
  2. ↑ 1990 as Thies Münther in Die Allwissende Billardkugel (" Geräusche für Die 90er"): Leben In Sonnenflecken - Cf. also "Real Name": Thies Münther , whereby names used alternatively for Thies Mynther are also listed: Mies Thynter, Mynther, T. Mynther, T. Wynther, Tease Mynther, Teeezzzz, Th. Mynther, Thies, Thies My, Thies MyNtHer, Thys Mynter, Thys Mynther, Tys Mynther .
  3. ^ Camp Imperial Sampler. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  4. ↑ Platinum Flavor - indiepedia.de. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  5. ↑ Cocoon website: recordings | Tobi Neumann | Drug control | cocoon.net. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; Retrieved June 20, 2017 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.cocoon.net  
  6. ↑ Discogs Link: Vinyl Release. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  7. ↑ Homepage. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
  8. ^ Sandra Trostel: Utopia Ltd. Homepage. Sandra Trostel, accessed June 20, 2017 .
  9. ^ Retrospectres. Kampnagel, accessed June 25, 2017 .
  10. ↑ Kampnagel homepage. Retrieved June 20, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Mynther, Thies
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Münther, Thies
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German producer, lyricist and composer
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Bamberg