Sun Electric are a German

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group, hailing from

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. Their first release was the single "O'Locco" on the

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label in 1990, with numerous subsequent releases on the R&S / Apollo labels throughout the following decade. According to Philipp Sherburne, Sun Electric initially released "straight-ahead Frankfurt trance, but by the mid '90s they were masters of elastic rhythms and silvery leads. Their albums Present and Via Nostra ..are underrated masterpieces of late-'90s electronica." The band has been influential within

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

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, ambient and intelligent dance music (IDM) genres. Principal members of the band are Tom Thiel and Max Loderbauer, with

Thomas Fehlmann Thomas Fehlmann (born 1957) is a Swiss composer/producer who lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been active in electronic music since the 1980s. He is currently active on the Kompakt record label based in Germany. Fehlmann is an on-and-off member ...

acting as executive producer on all their releases. Notable releases include ''Kitchen'' (1993), ''Aaah!'' (1994), ''30.7.94 Live'' (1994), ''

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'' (1996), and ''Via Nostra'' (1999). The band have also recorded under the name S.E. Berlin. The band has worked with graphic artist and videographer

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on their

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s, and their video "Meccano" was created for and the first video to be played on the

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series

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References

External links

Sun Electric Tech-Talk
Interview (ca. 2001)
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discography at Discogs *
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