Bernd Friedmann (also Burnt Friedman) (born 1965 in

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, Germany) is a German musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of

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, dub and

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. Friedmann was raised in

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, where he studied painting, performance and video at the

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from 1984 to 1990. His first recordings of found and self-built instruments, done with Wolfram ''Der Spyra'' from 1978 to 1982, were released under the name TOXH in 1989. Since then his projects have included: : Some More Crime (1990-1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez) : Drome (1991-1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez) : Nonplace Urban Field (1992-1997) :

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(1999-present, Friedmann and

Atom Heart Uwe H. Schmidt (born 27 August 1968), also known as Atom™, Atom Heart, or Señor Coconut, is a German composer, musician and producer of electronic music. He is often regarded as the father of electrolatino, electrogospel, and aciton musi ...

) :

Nine Horses Nine Horses was a musical collaboration between singer/instrumentalist David Sylvian, his brother and frequent collaborator drummer Steve Jansen, and electronic composer/remixer Burnt Friedman. They released the album ''Snow Borne Sorrow'' in O ...

(2005-present, Friedmann and

David Sylvian David Sylvian (born David Alan Batt, 23 February 1958) is an English musician, singer and songwriter who came to prominence in the late 1970s as frontman and principal songwriter of the band Japan. The band's androgynous look and increasingly ...

) Friedmann's instruments include ambient noise and speech samples, analog

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s and organs, as well as

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, and

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. Since 2000 Friedmann runs his own "nonplace" label. He lives in

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Selected discography

* Drome - ''Anachronism'' (1992) *SMC (Some More Crime) - ''Another Domestic Drama in a Suburban Hell'' (1993) * Drome - ''The Final Corporate Colonization Of The Unconscious'' (1993) * Drome - ''The Final Corporate Remix of the Unconscious'' (1993) * Drome - ''Once While Busy Counting the Virtues'' - a

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session in two parts, 30 minutes (BBC, Radio One, 1994) * Nonplace Urban Field - ''N.U.F Said'' (1994) * SMC (Some More Crime) - ''Fuzzysets'' (1995) * Drome - ''Dromed'' (1995) * Nonplace Urban Field - ''Nonplace Urban Field'' (1995) * Nonplace Urban Field - ''Raum Für Notizen'' (1996) * Nonplace Urban Field - ''Golden Star'' (1996) (Remix) *

- ''Templates'' (1997) * Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - ''Just Landed'' (1999) * Burnt Friedman - ''Plays Love Songs'' (1999) * Flanger - ''Midnight Sound'' (1999) * Burnt Friedman - ''Con Ritmo'' (2000) *

- ''Inner Space/Outer Space'' (2001) * ''Replicant Rumba Rockers'' (2002) (Friedmann's Remix of Atom Heart-Material) * Burnt Friedman &

Jaki Liebezeit Jaki Liebezeit (born Hans Liebezeit; 26 May 1938 – 22 January 2017) was a German drummer, best known as a founding member of experimental rock band Can. He was called "one of the few drummers to convincingly meld the funky and the cerebral". ...

- ''Playing Secret Rhythms'' (2002) * Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - ''Can't Cool'' (2003) *

- ''Spirituals'' (2005) * Nine Horses - ''Snow Borne Sorrow'' (2005) (with David Sylvian and Steve Jansen) * Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - ''Secret Rhythms II'' (2005) * Nine Horses - ''Money For All'' (2007) (with David Sylvian and Steve Jansen) *

- ''Nuclear Jazz'' (2007) * Burnt Friedman - ''First Night Forever'' (2007) * Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - ''Secret Rhythms III'' (2008) * Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - ''Secret Rhythms IV'' (2011) * Burnt Friedman - ''Zokuhen'' (2012) * Burnt Friedman - ''Bokoboko'' (2012) * Cyclopean - ''Cyclopean'' (2012) * Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - ''Secret Rhythms V'' (2013) * Tohuwabohu - ''Tohuwabohu'' (2013) * Burnt Friedman & Daniel Dodd-Ellis – ''Cease To Matter'' (2014) *

- ''Lollopy Dripper'' (2015) * Burnt Friedman - ''The Pestle'' (2017) * Burnt Friedman - ''Dead Saints Chronicles'' (2017) * Burnt Friedman & Mohammad Reza Mortazavi – ''Yek'' (2017) * Burnt Friedman - ''Anthology (1980-2017)'' (2017) *Burnt Friedman - ''Musical traditions in Central Europe: Explorer Series Vol. 4'' (2019) *Burnt Friedman - ''Potential For Havoc'' (2020) *Jaki Liebezeit & Burnt Friedman/Burnt Friedman & João Pais - ''Eurydike EP'' (2020) *Mohammad Reza Mortazavi & Burnt Friedman - ''Yek 2'' (2020) *Burnt Friedman & João Pais Filipe - ''Automatic Music Vol.1: Mechanics Of Waving'' (2022)

External links

Bernd Friedmann's Homepage with several interviews

Nonplace-Label

Complete Friedmann-Discography

Friedmann biography
at ''Resident Advisor'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Friedmann, Bernd 1965 births Living people German male musicians German electronic musicians Intelligent dance musicians German record producers Samadhi Sound artists