thomas brinkman s&d

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he's giving some of the best interviews around .I appreciated soul center 1&2 and "rosa ". what do you think of him?

― francesco, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

I think he's aces. Obviously you've got his best work already (the Soul Center's), but search out the original Max Ernst 12"s, merely for their objet d'art beauty (all those hand-scored scratches and patterns.) Also worth a look: his "remixes" of Mike Ink's Profan series and Ritchie Hawtin's Concept(s).

― Jess, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Also he spins a mighty fierce, stripped down and bangin DJ set.

― Jess, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

is "klick" any good? I saw him live but it' was not a dj set , he was doing his stuff,very good.

― francesco, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Klick is *I think* his only record I haven't heard. But I have heard that it's not his best. A little too austere. I was saddened to hear that Soul Center was "in the past" (or something similar.) He could spin out endless variations on that until the day I die, and I'd be a very happy shlub indeed.

― Jess, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Klick is great in the right setting -- you haveta really blast it. Well, I do at least.

Between the Soul Center discs and Super_Collider's Head On, you really have some screwed-up funk.

― Andy, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Like everything by Brinkmann I've heard, but am esp. fond of 'Totes Rennen', an alb he recorded under the name Ester Brinkmann (his dead sister I think) which features a German philosopher type mumbling over some of TB's finest clicks and cuts. Super hypnotic, if not exactly clubtastic.

― Andrew L, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

_totes rennen_ - i have to second that. the music's beautiful, including some great, strange percussion sounds. don't care a whole lot about the vocal samples, but the music he creates with a fairly limited palette is pretty sweet. he also did a 12" around the same time that has one of the longer tracks (voran?) from the cd, a weird and kind of bad trip-hoppy track, and a cool, warped dancey track with weird spoken word ("lament for the death of my cock," anyone?).

i really enjoyed the orange series up to around E/F; after that it started getting too friendly for my tastes, a little too dance- oriented and lacking the more abrasive quality i liked in the earlier stuff. but i bought it long enough to buy the x100 12". ain't i a sucker.

― your null fame, Friday, 17 August 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

six years pass...

i really enjoyed the orange series up to around E/F

this. those first ones are so alien.

do people still listen to these? I finally tracked down "Ulla/Vera" and digitized them all onto 4 CDs. One of the best arguments for records as an essentially visual/tactile thing is to hand somebody one of these.

Unfortunately I just looked through 22 pages of GIS and nobody has taken a decent photo of the actual record surfaces, which refract with weird etched patterns in the grooves like nothing else I have really ever seen.

― sleeve, Wednesday, 14 November 2007 02:23 (sixteen years ago) link

four years pass...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXFxM-yj6u8&

singular

― Cashmere Combabe, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:20 (twelve years ago) link

oopsie i meant this one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8uCC7eBtyY

― Cashmere Combabe, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 13:21 (twelve years ago) link

Love these:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5N6jexPAwQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI3vAFYeMUo

There are others, but it's been a while and I can't think of them now.

― matt2, Tuesday, 10 January 2012 18:19 (twelve years ago) link

five years pass...

Listening to Karin/Lotte now and some random Profan and Concept 1 variations on Youtube earlier. K/L definitely a little more funky (delightfully shitty bassline on Lotte 2!) and "present" than earlier letters and even has some vocal samples but still enjoyable.

Was surprised to learn the Ernst series actually completed the alphabet and am contemplating downloading all of them as an unnecessary life project.

― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 October 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link

Oops that bassline's on Lotte 1

DJ segue I would like to try but am probably not bold enough for in public: Lotte 1 into Shriekback "Sexthinkone"

― The Fortnightly Intruder (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 13 October 2017 08:53 (six years ago) link

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