Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a German producer of experimental

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music. He began experimenting with records in the early eighties and released re-workings of material by fellow artists

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in the second half of the 1990s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm. Brinkmann later founded the ''Ernst'' record label and introduced his own productions on a series of 12" records taking their titles from female names. He has also produced for labels such as

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(under the Soul Center alias). In 2010, he contributed a cover of Suicide's song "Diamonds, Furcoats, Champagne" for the ''

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''. In 2017, he performed his collaboration with

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"Absolute Grey", at ISSUE Project Room in NYC. In 2018, he contributed the piece "Wiener" to Stephan Mathieu's SCALE project. Thomas Brinkmann’s tracks ''Olga Al'' and ''Sym'' feature on the soundtrack of the film ''

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References

External links

Official Site

Discogs: Thomas Brinkmann

Resident Advisor: Thomas Brinkmann

''Klick Revolution'' album review

Review of Tokyo + 1 at Grooves Magazine
1959 births German techno musicians Living people {{Germany-musician-stub