Thomas Fehlmann
Thomas Fehlmann (* 1957 in Zurich ) is a Swiss electronics musician and producer .
Life and work
From 1976 to 1980 he studied art at the Hamburg Art School . In 1979 he met Robert Fripp and began experimenting with synthesizers . The following year he founded the NDW band Palais Schaumburg with Holger Hiller , which stayed together until 1984. After their separation, Fehlmann moved to Berlin and built a professional home studio . Fehlmann published his first self-produced maxi in 1985 under the name Ready Made on British Mute Records - sub-label Rhythm King .
To promote the newly emerging electronic music, Fehlmann founded the record label Teutonic Beats in 1988 , on which Moritz von Oswald , Wolfgang Voigt and Westbam , among others , published.
In 1990 he started working (as a floating member ) with The Orb . He also became increasingly known as a producer, remixer and DJ . He became a fixture in the Berlin techno club Tresor and also with the affiliated label Tresor Records . Under the project name 3MB, he worked with Juan Atkins , Blake Baxter , Eddie Flashin 'Fowlkes and other techno greats from Detroit .
From 1995, Fehlmann and Gudrun Gut developed the Ocean Club DJ project and, from 1997, the Ocean Club Radio program . This was followed by productions and remixes a. a. for Erasure and Klaus Schulze , as well as own albums: 1998 Good Fridge , 1999 Overflow 99 (both on R&S Records ), 2002 Visions Of Blah on Kompakt , 2004 Low Flow (on Plug Research in Los Angeles), 2007 Honey Pump (on Kompakt) and Manual (21st Records) and 2010 Gute Luft (Compact).
In 2011 Fehlmann took part in the reunion of Palais Schaumburg .
Fehlmann, along with other members of the “Friends of Uckermark eV” association, is one of the organizers of the biennial UM festival for contemporary art, music and literature in the Uckermark .
Web links
- Thomas Fehlmann at Discogs (English)
- Teutonic Beats at Discogs
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: Free and outside. In: Der Spiegel. August 26, 2014, accessed June 29, 2020 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Fehlmann, Thomas |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ready made; 3MB |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss electronics musician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Zurich , Switzerland |