Kreidler (Band)
Kreidler is a German band from Dusseldorf, which was founded in 1994. It combines electronic with analog instruments, and is characterized by the critics, depending on the publication as techno, pop, avant-garde, post-rock, Ambient or Electronica.
Kreidler the lettering was on a t -shirt that Andreas Reihse wore on the day when the band Deux Baleines Blanches was looking for a new name. It was interpreted as a consequence as a kind of anagram of small, Reihse, Schneider, Weinrich.
- 4.1 albums
- 4.2 Eps, Singles, Maxi Singles
- 4.3 Assignments 4.3.1 remixes
- 4.3.2 Cover Versions
- 4.3.3 Film Music
- 7.1 Music Samples
Band History
The Early Period
In 1993 initiated Andreas Reihse and Stefan Schneider from Dusseldorf band Deux Baleines Blanches (Klein, Reihse, Schneider) together with Cor Gout of the Hague band Trespassers W the project punt. (Dot). , A German - Dutch collaboration with the blazing right -wing populism and right-wing extremism in both countries. They organized concerts, staged readings, and released a single and a newspaper that deals with forms and possibilities of artistic (musical) intervention in politics dealt (contributions, among other things: Günther Jacob & Welfare Committee Hamburg, Attila the Stockbroker, Mayo Thompson, Erinna King Dr. Ralf Bohn, Didi de Paris, Michel Sauer, Achim Greser, FW Bernstein, BüroBert, anarchist Academy, Henk Oosterling, Andrea Zeitler ).
In spring 1994, they organized a spoken-word evening in Dusseldorf with Celestine Raalte, Eddie Kagie, Attila the Stockbroker, Harald Sack Ziegler, Willem Jacobs and Cor Gout. There they spoke to the poet Stan Lafleur, if the band was complete with him an appearance. At the same time they learned Detlef Weinrich know, hung up the plates as a DJ sports during the tour at the Dusseldorf Art Academy.
The first appearance of Kreidler feat. DJ Sport ( with Stan Lafleur ) was held in a bar Düsseldorf's Old Town on 29 March 1994.
1994 - 1996
The first year of Kreidler was marked by the confrontation with Spoken Word Poetry. The band played instrumental music that was influenced by dub and electronica, but also of the ' Düsseldorf schools ' seventies ( Kraftwerk, Neu! , La Dusseldorf ) and early Eighties ( New Wave, New German Wave, Ratingen yard ). In summer 1994, the first album Riva was released on the French label A Contresens. Where Riva nor was half pieces with ( spoken ) texts that recorded in Matthew Arfmanns studio in Hamburg in spring 1995 and was succeeded by purely instrumental. The seven pieces comprehensive untitled mini album was released on the Cologne label Finlayson.
With this record Kreidler were assigned by the press on the one hand the Chicago post-rock school to Tortoise, on the other hand, the evoked Krautrock revival. What the one on her - at that time deemed remarkable - combination of analog and digital instruments and sounds based, but on the other hand the fact that the band live based their pieces on variable pattern and this varied. Clearly rooted in these worlds were the side projects of individual members: Reihse and at times even small working since 1996 with former Kraftwerk, NEU, La Dusseldorf mastermind Klaus Dinger in the formation la NEW, while Schneider with To Rococo Rot, the possibilities of post- Rocks! ? explored. Kreidler's next release, the single Kookaï was a surprisingly melodic song, which reminded the Spex at " nighttime driving by Düsseldorf's city center and the effect of deserted shopping arcades ".
1996
In autumn 1996, published Kreidler on the label KiffSM the album Weekend. With this record, they were chosen by the readers of Spex in the Annual Review 1996 Newcomer of the Year. "Just homogeneity of means, flexibility of structures and the development of the album to be made out of ' Weekend' an independent and pleasant weekend ." The time wrote " avant-garde, which is fun at first ." Internationally, the album received good reviews. And especially other musicians of the band proved their appreciation, as David Bowie, Arto Lindsay, Momus, Ken Ishi, Pavement, Stereolab or Nicolette.
1997
In 1997, the success of Weekend the band on a tour through France and their first performances in London. After they released the maxi-single fencer, which was named from the Melody Maker for Single of the Week: "The three songs are the most precise exercises in exponential electronics I've heard since power station hall of mirrors, and just as danceable ". In the same month appeared on the EP stewardess Resport with remixes by Pyrolator, Erik (MMM ), L @ n and Robert Lippok.
1998 - 1999
The sequel to Weekend Kreidler produced in the studio of Mouse on Mars. In May 1998, the album Appearance and The Park appeared. One of the aesthetic ideas of the album was to make it clear that the band members ( Anglo-American ) New Wave had grown up, and not with the German rock music of the 70s. So even the cover art seems cold, model adhesive, synthetic, it builds The Park in the title to the Park Photograph on the cover of the previous album. In the plays you can clearly hear the Roland Juno synthesizer as a lead instrument out, the bass lines are reminiscent of the music label Factory Records, sound effects on post-punk and sequencer to the synth pop of the 80s. The first single Au Pair connected these elements into an epic pop anthem. The video for the track was awarded at the 1999 video awards at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen with a second place.
In the summer of 1998, the Ep Coldness appeared since 1994, the first piece of Kreidler with singing. Remixes came from Shantel and Daniel Miller, founder of Mute Records and producer of Depeche Mode, the band had met in their first appearances in London in 1997. Now he mixed them a piece of synthpop. The American Forced Exposure wrote: " Kreidler 's most accessible outlandlishly moment, in a synth -electro style did is totally captivating. " Later in the year, the band went on their first festival tour. So they played, among others, in Brighton ( The Fringe ) and Roskilde. End of 1998, Kreidler and Stefan Schneider, who made his previous side project To Rococo Rot main thing parted. On bass, the band found reinforcement in Alex Paulick, the songwriter of Coloma. In the spring of 1999 they toured in this occupation by Britain and together with Tarwater through France and Switzerland. In addition, Kreidler separated this year in a lawsuit from the record company Play it again Sam, after earlier, her A & R and label manager Jutta Kiffsm Bächner had quit.
2000 - 2001
1999 moved the band rooms in a vacant post office building behind the Düsseldorf Train Station, as part of the " inner city mainstream eV " - alongside, among others, the club of electronic music projects EGO, the artist collective hobbypopMUSEUM, the musicians L @ N, Antonelli Electr, The Bad. Examples or Background Records. In early 2000 they began expanding their studios there and then with the recordings for a new album. Kreidler appeared on Jutta Bächners newly founded label Wonder. The music sounded cleaner, digital, but with a warmth that was clearly different from the model-like cold of the previous album. Also, the songwriting was unique, the pieces on Kreidler possessed clear pop song - like structures. Three songs were with voice / song, one with the British musician Momus and another with Argentinian Leo Garcia.
In February 2001, Kreidler played for the first time in New York. In addition to a gig at the Knitting Factory the real reason was an invitation from the Düsseldorf photographer Andreas Gursky: he wished that the band with a concert of his retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art opened. November 2001 was released an EP with the Chicks on Speed . In addition to three original compositions, they also included a cover version of Nick Cave Kylie Minogue duet Where the Wild Roses Grow. Here, however, the roles were reversed. The production garnered et al 5 stars in the De: Bug and shows in the intro, hymns of praise in The Face, Wire, NME, and found himself repeatedly in the John Peel Playlists. Detlef Weinrich turned three video clips to the album.
2002 - 2004
In early February, 2002, Kreidler at Kunstverein Dusseldorf first glimpse of the new album Kreidler Eve Future, which varies topics from the band's history in a seemingly baroque gown. Detlef Weinrich created for six short films that will be presented in an installation with live music. The video for La Casa was in April, the final round of the Muvi clip Awards at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. In the summer of 2003 Kreidler was invited by the Goethe -Institut to an occurrence number to Southeast Asia - eight concerts and a seminar in Singapore, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Manila, Hanoi and Bangkok. What should show effects on the published the following year album Eve Future Recall: "With almost mathematical exactitude Kreidler percussive pop gems have recorded that build on Japanese folklore, but also to the xylophone music from Bali. This Kreidler make an extraordinary transfer: You rezipieren the new music reception of non-European music and turn them into pop, "Martin wrote penitent.
2005 - 2008
In the following years it became quiet around Kreidler. With the exception of composed of small and Reihse soundtracks to Alexandra Sell Movie transit country between 2005 and occasional concerts, the individual members joined more by her side projects in appearance. In 2008, however, small, Reihse and Weinrich had come together for a new album production.
2009 - 2012
In October 2009, the album Kreidler Mosaic appeared in 2014. On 4 March 2011, the album was released tank with a total of six titles at Bureau B. In October 2012 appeared the album Den.
Projects
Thomas Klein called " Clyne ", " Solyst " and with his partner Petra Bosch fauna. Andreas Reihse and Detlef Weinrich produced techno as Binford, an April Seasons & they remixed edge, with Alex Paulick and Rob Taylor they called Dark Park. Detlef Weinrich's DJ alias is sports, solo he published as Toulouse Low Track a slow, rhythmic kind of club music that relates to old-school electro. He is also responsible for the artistic / musical program of the Düsseldorf Bar ' Salon des Amateurs'. Andreas Reihses pseudonym is April, when it comes to electronic / dance music, he published under his own name, as Hercules Duo two-speed automatic with Thomas Brinkmann and as ' BadFrench ' with Kiki Moorse. In addition Reihse and small worked with Klaus Dinger in the project la! NEW? .
Guest musicians
Occasionally work Kreidler along with guest musicians. So plays on two tracks of the album Weekend today's edge bassist Florian Dürrmann aka Flo Metzger guitar; Kreidler to sing the British singer-songwriter Momus and the Argentine pop star Leo Garcia, on Eve Future Petra Bosch, and the piece from Valerie on Eve Future Recall speaks Valerie Sajdik a text. At concerts Kreidler improvised pieces together with Tarwater, Momus or Add N to (X). In the first year of its existence, accompanied them regularly spoken word artists such as Stan Lafleur, Mithu or Zappo.
Discography
Albums
Eps, Singles, Maxi Singles
Contract work
Remixes
Cover versions
Film Music
- 2005: Alexandra Sell - Durchfahrtsland