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Xynn Show 1979

Xynn ( spelling XYNN ) is the music project and pseudonym of the German multimedia artist Michael Winter (1949–2018).

In 1978 Winter conceived a show in which he combined music, text, light, film projections, pantomime and theater fragments with masks and costumes, from 1980 with videos as background projection for his live shows.

In 1980 Vertigo Records released the first LP Dreams About Reality (arrangement Kristian Schultze ). The album was presented in the program Pop nach Acht (Bayern 3). In 1981 the second Vertigo LP Computed Man and two singles were released. TV appearances followed and a. on Okay (ORF, 1981) and Pop Stop (ARD / BR, 1982). Winter released other albums, samplers and videos on his own label Xynn-Factory .

In 1995, Winter brought a compilation of his shows from the 1980s to the stage in the "Mund + Art" theater he founded in Ringelai as the XYNN revival show , which he performed in 2002 at the Funky Kitchen club in Munich .

In 2016 Cleopatra Records released the double CD XYNN - The Complete Anthology 1979–1983 .

Discography

  • 1980: Dreams About Reality , Vertigo (Vinyl 12 "/ album), with Evert Van Der Wal, Wally Warning , Kristian Schultze , Thomas Molin, Giuseppe Solera, Bobby Stern , Billy Lang and Wesley Plass. New edition: 1995, Xynn-Factory ( CD)
  • 1981: Computed Man , Vertigo (vinyl 12 "/ album) with Kristian Schultze, Curt Cress , Benny Gebauer and others. New edition: 1995, Xynn-Factory (CD)
    releases:
    Schooldays , Vertigo (vinyl 7" / single)
    Jet-Set -Honey , Vertigo (vinyl 12 "/ maxi single)
  • 1983: Lost In Space , Xynn-Factory (CD / album), English and German version
  • 1995: XYNN , Xynn-Factory (CD / sampler)
  • 1996: XYNN-Videos , Xynn-Factory (DVD / Music-Videos 1980–1983)
  • 2016: XYNN - The Complete Anthology 1979–1983 , Cleopatra Records (double CD)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tireless caller for creativity: Michael "Pele" Winter is dead on hogn.de, March 20, 2018
  2. ↑ Warning of doom. In: Maestro Music , June 1983
  3. ↑ -cp-: XYNN: attack on all senses. In: Passauer Neue Presse , December 11, 1995
  4. ↑ Revival show in the Funky Kitchen ( Memento from February 21, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ XYNN - The Complete Anthology 1979-1983 on cleorecs.com

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