Gudrun Gut (born 20 May 1957) is a German

electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroa ...

ian, DJ, presenter,

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and founder of the

Monika Enterprise Monika Enterprises is a Berlin, Germany-based independent record label. In 2001, Wallpaper magazine described the label's musical style as " cupying a twilight zone between electronic pop, easy listening and bedsit angst" and " earheading a new g ...

. She grew up in the Lüneburger Heide and moved to

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in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the

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from 1978 to 1984. She was an early member of

Einstürzende Neubauten (, 'Collapsing New Buildings') is a German experimental music group, formed in West Berlin in 1980. The group is currently composed of founding members Blixa Bargeld (lead vocals; guitar; keyboard) and N.U. Unruh ( custom-made instruments; p ...

and a founding member of music groups Mania D, Malaria! and

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. She is the head of the labels

and Moabit Musik. She co-presented the Oceanclub weekly radio program in Berlin with Thomas Fehlmann. Her debut solo album, ''I Put a Record On'' was released on 5 February 2007. Music critics saluted the openness and approachability of the music on the record. According to ''

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'' magazine's April 2008 issue, which featured Gudrun Gut on the cover, "this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years".

Works

Selected discography

* 1980: ''White Christmas'' 7″ (with Tabea Blumenschein, Frieder Butzmann and Bettina Köster) * 1996: ''YadiYAdi'' maxi single (with

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) * 1996: ''Die Sonne'' maxi single (with Blixa Bargeld) * 1996: ''Members of The Ocean Club'' CD (v. a. with Anita Lane,

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, Blixa Bargeld, Jovanka von Willsdorf, Jayney Klimek, Inga Humpe, Myra Davies, Katharina Franck and Manon P. Duursma) * 1996: ''Firething'' maxi single (with Anita Lane) * 2004: ''Members of The Ocean Club'' double CD (reissue with a remix CD containing mixes from

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, Thomas Fehlmann, Effective Force,

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, Spinout and CoBra) * 2005: ''Move Me'' 7″ * 2007: ''I Put A Record On'' CD * 2007: ''In Pieces'' 12″ (remixes from Burger/Voigt, Pole, Dntel) * 2007: ''Pleasure Train'' 7″ * 2008: ''Apples, Pears and Deer in Poland'' EP * 2010: ''Baustelle'' CD (with AGF as Greie Gut Fraktion) * 2011: ''Rekonstruktion'' CD (remix CD of the Baustelle record) * 2012: ''Wildlife'' CD * 2012: ''500m'' CD (with Jochen Irmler as Gut Und Irlmler) * 2016: ''Vogelmixe – Gudrun Gut Remixes Heimatlieder aus Deutschland Berlin / Augsburg'' CD / Vinyl * 2017: ''Instrumentals For "Sirens"'' LP (with Beate Bartel) *2018: ''Moment'' CD / vinyl / digital

Filmography

* 1988: ''Dandy'' – directed by

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* 1995: ''Girls Bite Back'' – directed by Wolfgang Büld * 2005: '' Verschwende deine Jugend'' – directed by Benjamin Quabeck * 2015: '' B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989'', documentary with

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Radio drama music

* 1991: Paul Zech: ''Das Trunkene Schiff'' – directed by Wolfgang Rindfleisch (Radio drama – Funkhaus Berlin)

Bibliography

* ''Marke B, Berliner Labels''. Verbrecher Verlag ed., Berlin 2002. (with Thomas Fehlmann and Daniel Meteo).

References

External links

*
Gudrun Gut: Memory Podcast
(

, April 2008)
the Ocean Club
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gut, Gudrun Living people German electronic musicians German DJs Einstürzende Neubauten members 1957 births Women in electronic music Women new wave singers Feminist musicians Electronic dance music DJs