Thomas Brinkmann
Thomas Brinkmann ( born in 1959 in Mönchengladbach ) is a German techno musician and DJ. He published 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 record label, Max Ernst, Ernst and Max
Life
Was coined Musically Brinkmann initially by bands such as Tangerine Dream, Ash Ra Tempel and Kraftwerk. Great influence on his later works had then but especially Funk, Soul and Rare Grooves.
From Can- musician Jaki Liebezeit Brinkmann learned to play the drums. At the same time he was working on own electronic musical instruments. In 1978 he had the idea to change the function of records to manually programmable sequencers. To this end, he scratched with a knife on a record scores in the endless groove one.
Brinkmann then worked in the second half of the 1980s in the design area. From 1989 he lived longer time in France and Italy, where he turned more to the art. Brinkmann went back to Germany, where he studied in Vienna as a guest student and later regularly at the Art Academy Dusseldorf at Jannis Could Ellis and Oswald. In 1996 he was expelled from the Academy, which led to a protracted litigation.
Attention in the techno scene he attracted in 1997 with his " Variations" by Wolfgang Voigt's Studio 1 series, which he created with a modified record player with a dual- tone arm. Brinkmann played the Studio -1 - plates with the dual tonearm player very slowly and took on these revisions. Voigt liked the result and released two EPs and an album on his label profane.
Brinkmann then visited in February 1998 Richie Hawtin in Windsor, Canada, to show him the variations of the plate I Concept. The result of the recordings then appeared as a concept 1-96: VR.
He then published as an ester Brinkmann two albums Suppose, on which he re- edited with voice recordings. So dive in, among other samples of Blixa Bargeld, Michel Foucault, Hannes Böhringer and Heinz von Foerster on Dead Heat (1998). In White Nights (1999), Brinkmann processed an interview of Emil Cioran.
In 1999, then the first album released under the pseudonym Soul Center, where he combined minimal techno with funk and soul elements. 2000 and 2001, followed by further albums as Soul Center, based on the compilation Wattstax Vol 1 & 2 of the Soul label Stax Records from the years 1972/73.
Brinkmann had already in 1996 the Mille Plateaux - operators Achim Szepanski presented his idea for an album of worked endless grooves. Szepanski could not bring himself to release the short term, just as in 1998, Wolfgang Voigt was able to release the album immediately. Brinkmann then founded his label in 2000, Max Ernst, on the first publication of the album click appeared. Click consisted of 10 pieces, the Brinkmann had produced with two turntables, a mixer and some effects devices, wherein the starting material essentially consisted of 15 machined with a knife endless grooves and some speech samples. The loops were created between 1978 and 2000.
For Raster Noton series 20 'to 2000 - twelve releases about the cutting edge of the millennium Brinkmann contributed a publication in which, under the title | | | | | | .... / 20. ' To July 2000 in July 1999. appeared.
On the subsidiary label Ernst also appeared in 1999 then a series of plates, Brinkmann called the plates after female name.
In 2006, Brinkmann collaborated with musician Natalie Beridze (TBA ) and published together with her under the project name TBA * Empty the album Stupid rotation on Max Ernst. After several albums as Thomas Brinkmann was published in 2010 with a new album General Eclectics as Soul Center.