Thomas Brinkmann (musician)

Thomas Brinkmann (2004)

Thomas Brinkmann (* 1959 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German techno musician and DJ . He publishes under his real name and pseudonyms such as CUT , Ester Brinkmann , Jim Ingram , Max.Ernst , Soul Center and Tom Assman . Brinkmann is the operator of the record label Max Ernst , Ernst and Max .

Life

Brinkmann was initially musically influenced by bands such as Tangerine Dream , Ash Ra Tempel and Kraftwerk . Funk, soul and rare grooves had a major influence on his later works.

Brinkmann learned to play drums from Can musician Jaki Liebezeit . At the same time he tinkered with his own electronic musical instruments. In 1978 he had the idea of converting records into manually programmable sequencers . To do this, he made notches in the endless groove on a record with a knife .

Brinkmann then worked in design in the second half of the 1980s. From 1989 he lived for a long time in France and Italy, where he increasingly turned to art. Brinkmann then went back to Germany, where he initially studied as a guest student and later regularly at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Jannis Kounellis and Oswald Wiener . He was expelled from the academy in 1996, resulting in a long-running legal battle.

He attracted attention in the techno scene from 1997 with his " Variations " of Wolfgang Voigt's Studio 1 series, which he created with a modified record player with a dual tonearm . Brinkmann played the Studio 1 records very slowly with the dual tonearm player and recorded these reworkings. Voigt liked the result and released two EPs and one album on his Profan label .

Brinkmann then visited Richie Hawtin in Windsor, Canada in February 1998 to show him the variations on his Concept I record . The result of the recordings then appeared as Concept 1 - 96: VR .

He then published two albums on Supposé as Ester Brinkmann , on which he reworked with voice recordings. For example, samples from Blixa Bargeld , Michel Foucault , Hannes Böhringer and Heinz von Foerster appear on Totes Rennen (1998) . On White Nights (1999) Brinkmann processed an interview by Emil Cioran .

In 1999 the first album was released under the pseudonym Soul Center , on which he combined minimal techno with funk and soul elements. In 2000 and 2001 further albums followed as Soul Center , based on the compilation Wattstax Vol. 1 & 2 of the soul label Stax Records from 1972/73.

Brinkmann had already presented his idea for an album made of machined endless grooves to the Mille Plateaux operator Achim Szepanski in 1996 . Szepanski could not decide to release it at short notice, just like in 1998 Wolfgang Voigt could not release the album immediately. Brinkmann then founded his label Max Ernst in 2000 , on which the album Klick appeared as the first release . Klick consisted of 10 pieces that Brinkmann had produced with two record players, a mixer and a few effects devices, with the starting material essentially consisting of 15 endless grooves machined with a knife and a few voice samples. The loops were created between 1978 and 2000.

For Raster-Noton's series 20 'to 2000 - twelve releases about the cutting edge of the millennium , Brinkmann contributed a publication entitled |||||. | .... / 20' To 2000. July in July 1999 appeared.

A series of records was also released on the Ernst subsidiary label from 1999 onwards, whereby Brinkmann named the records after female first names.

In 2006 Brinkmann worked with the musician Natalie Beridze (TBA) and together with her published the album Stupid Rotation on Max Ernst under the project name Tba Empty * . After several albums as Thomas Brinkmann, General Eclectics was released in 2010 as a new album as Soul Center.

Discography (selection)

Albums

• 1997: Thomas Brinkmann - Studio 1 - Variations (Profane)
• 1998: Ester Brinkmann - Dead Race (Supposé)
• 1999: Ester Brinkmann - White Nights (Supposé)
• 1999: Soul Center - I (WvB Enterprises)
• 2000: Soul Center - Soul Center * (WvB Enterprises)
• 2000: Thomas Brinkmann - Click (Max Ernst)
• 2001: Soul Center - III (NovaMute)
• 2001: Ester Brinkmann - The Translator - Il Traduttore (Supposé)
• 2002: Thomas Brinkmann - Rōw (Compilation; Max Ernst)
• 2004: Thomas Brinkmann - Tokyo + I (Max Ernst)
• 2004: Thomas Brinkmann - Tour De Traum (DJ mix, dream records )
• 2005: Thomas Brinkmann - Lucky Hands (Max Ernst)
• 2008: Thomas Brinkmann - When Horses Die ... (Max Ernst)
• 2010: Soul Center - General Eclectics ( Shitkatapult )
• 2016: Thomas Brinkmann - A 1000 Keys (Editions Mego)
• 2016: Thomas Brinkmann - A Certain Degree Of Stasis (Frozen Reeds)
• 2019: Thomas Brinkmann - caterpillar track (Editions Mego)

Singles and EPs

• 1997: Thomas Brinkmann - Studio 1 - Variations (Profane)
• 1997: Thomas Brinkmann - Studio 1 - Variations 2 (Profane)
• 1998: Ester Brinkmann - Voran (Supposé)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Axel / Bernd (Max)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Anna / Beate (Ernst)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Clara / Doris (Ernst)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Inge / Jutta (Max)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Erika / Frauke (Ernst)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Ekkehart / Friedrich (Ernst)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Gisela / Heidi (Ernst)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - X100 (Supposé)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Max Ernst & Friends (Max Ernst)
• 1998: Thomas Brinkmann - Susi / Trixi (Ernst)
• 1999: Brinkmann / Scanner - Adria / Blind ( Force Inc. Music Works )
• 1999: Thomas Brinkmann - Karin / Lotte (Ernst)
• 1999: Thomas Brinkmann - Olga / Petra (Ernst)
• 1999: Thomas Brinkmann - Monika / Nicola (Ernst)
• 1999: Soul Center - JB / Groovin (WvB Enterprises)
• 2000: Ester Brinkmann - |||||. | .... / 20 'To 2000. July ( Raster-Noton )
• 2000: Thomas Brinkmann - Ulla / Vera (Ernst)
• 2000: Thomas Brinkmann - Wanda / Xenia (Ernst)
• 2000: Thomas Brinkmann - Yvette / Zora (Ernst)
• 2000: Thomas Brinkmann - Click (Max Ernst)
• 2000: Thomas Brinkmann - Loplop (Max Ernst)
• 2001: Thomas Brinkmann + Marcus Schmickler - Chevrolet Corvette (Max Ernst)
• 2001: Thomas Brinkmann - 46 Valentino EP (Max Ernst)
• 2001: Soul Center - Roses (WvB Enterprises)
• 2002: Thomas Brinkmann & Heiko Laux - Tyranids (Art Of Perception)
• 2002: Thomas Brinkmann - Orange Green (Max Ernst)
• 2002: Pile / Thomas Brinkmann & Markus Nikolai - The Spirit / Florida ( Perlon )
• 2002: Ester Brinkmann - Untitled (Supposé)
• 2003: Thomas Brinkmann - Tina / Argo (Max Ernst)
• 2003: Thomas Brinkmann - 4 trackers (Max Ernst)
• 2004: Thomas Brinkmann - Lovesong / Hatesong (Max Ernst)
• 2006: Thomas Brinkmann / Alex Under - Naranja Monje (Cmyk Music)
• 2006: Thomas Brinkmann - Diamonds, Furcoat, Champagne / Touch Me (max.i)
• 2009: Thomas Brinkmann - Isch (Petite)
• 2010: Gavin Friday & Dave Ball / Thomas Brinkmann / Alan Vega - Ghostrider (Blast First Petite)
• 2010: Soul Center - GE01 (Shitkatapult)
• 2010: Soul Center - GE02 (Shitkatapult)
• 2010: Soul Center - Switch It (Curle Recordings)
• 2013: Brinkmann - Guy Martin EP (Third Ear Recordings)
• 2015: Thomas Brinkmann - When The Music ... EP (Third Ear Recordings)
• 2018: Thomas Brinkmann - Retrospective EP (Third Ear Recordings)
• 2018: Thomas Brinkmann - Retrospective 2 EP (Third Ear Recordings)
• 2018: Thomas Brinkmann - Retrospective 3 EP (Third Ear Recordings)
• 2019: Thomas Brinkmann - Retrospective 4 EP (Third Ear Recordings)

Web links

• max-ernst.de website of his label
• Thomas Brinkmann at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Thomas Brinkmann at laut.de , accessed on October 9, 2011
2. ↑ ^{a b c d e f} The ass shaking that I had in my head - Thomas Brinkmann ( Memento of the original from June 11, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at jazzthetik.de, accessed on October 9, 2011 
3. ↑ ^{a b} Thomas Brinkmann at de-bug.de, accessed on October 9, 2011
4. ↑ Thomas Brinkmann: Studio 1 - Variationen / Concept 1: 96: VR at stylusmagazine.com, accessed on October 9, 2011
5. ↑ Concept 1 - Concept 1 - 96: VR at discogs.com, accessed October 9, 2011