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Founded by Frank Dommert, Jan Werner and Andi Thoma in 1997, this Cologne-based label is one the most important electronica-meets-experimentalisms labels around. The huge label roster includes Mouse on Mars, Schlammpeitziger, Workshop and the Dhirty6 Cru, DJ Elephant Power, Sun OK Papi KO, Jason Forrest and Kevin Blechdom - and countless others.

 
"God knows enough has been written about Workshop. Surely you haven't read it, but this group has been around since 1985, and what they did was this: musically quite limited, they made the music they wanted to hear, but in an ingenious way. Some played the instruments ...
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SONIG96 | SONIG

"In spring 1994 Mouse on Mars contributed an exclusive piece to Sähkö Recordings' ambient radio project, a one-week public radio program that was aired citywide in Helsinki, Finland. Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner recorded sounds in and around their studio in ...
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SONIG93LP | SONIG

special offer "Apart from a limited 7" and various quietly tolerated bootleg CD-Rs there's never been anything released that had not been painstakingly assembled and galvanized by the band in their studio. But now they bring you the highlights of extensive touring in ...
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SONIG47LP | SONIG

"Aber mich macht's traurig? (But it makes me sad) is Kai Althoffs first regular release after several records as Fanal and before with his band Workshop. The music for the double album was recorded by Kai Althoff between 2016 and 2019 with numerous instruments - ...
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SONIG92 | SONIG

special offer - 7 cd package with scratch pet land - solo soli iiiii, fan club orchestra vol. 1&2, sun ok papi k.o. - orchestre philharmonok, dj elephant power - no si ni so, dj elephant power - scratch the hulu, baleine 3000 - tour manager, uske orchestra - niko et la ...
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"ACID DECEIT is the debut album of Noisemashinetapes. Conceived as a cassette tape, ACID DECEIT features one hour of collages and sound pieces composed by Jan St. Werner between 2011 and 2015. The artwork was compiled by Paul McDevitt and uses images from St. Werner's ...
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SONIG91 | SONIG

"The story of Kai Althoff's music is a deeply personal and richly complex one - but that's not to say that it's ever too late to immerse yourself. Fanal 4 strikes the listener as a document of Althoff giving in to various impulses - fleeting, fugitive, often inchoate ...
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special offer "Schlammpeitziger always brilliantly managed to augment his melodious tracks with subtle layers of noise. Many of the tracks on "Everything..." have an ambiguous quality that's hard to grasp. Let's say that his arrangements are shot through less with a ...
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SONIG32CD | SONIG

"'The use of music and sound are so great - the film shows how important music might be to someone who is blind' (Lorna Boschman) It's no secret that the Fan Club Orchestra has always been one of the favourite acts of the Sonig crew. Since their formation in 1999 the ...
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SONIG85LP | SONIG

"Saddle Bomb is the first longplayer by The Allophons - and it's about time, because the two sound nerds, C-Schulz and F.X.Randomiz, have already proven through their many live sets over the last few years what the true soundtrack to creativity sounds like. Through and ...
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SONIG87CD | SONIG

"Founded in 1997 by pop-experimentalist Frank Dommert and Andi Toma and Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, Sonig soon became the home to internationally revered artists such as Workshop, Microstoria, Mouse on Mars, F.X.Randomiz, Kevin Blechdom, Uské Orchestra, ...
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SONIG83 | SONIG

"Schlammpeitziger has released nine albums in the 18 years he's been making music. He has grown together with his home town of Cologne just as he has with his use of the synthesizer, the only tone-generator used on the new album. Schlammpeitziger is loved for his ...
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SONIG86LP | SONIG

"Schlammpeitziger has released nine albums in the 18 years he's been making music. He has grown together with his home town of Cologne just as he has with his use of the synthesizer, the only tone-generator used on the new album. Schlammpeitziger is loved for his ...
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SONIG86CD | SONIG

"Baleine 3000 is a band with three members: DJ Afrojaws from designgroup Qubo Gas in Lille/France, MC Illreme from Tokyo/Japan and producer Laurent Baudoux from Brussels/Belgium. The Tour Manager CD compiles former vinyl-only releases, new tracks and, as a bonus, the ...
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SONIG84CD | SONIG

"With his fourth release on sonig, "Elepha In Da Flash", DJ ELEPHANT POWER runs danger of jeopardizing reputation as an anti-perfectionist, because he (again) does it all totally different. Anyone who has ever experienced Nicolas Baudoux as a DJ will have fallen in love ...
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SONIG80LP | SONIG

"Being a one man band is not enough for Uske Orchestra. For his last album "Palpelpin" he has designed 200 unique covers with old arabesques patterns and frenetic colorful drawings, a crazy mosaic of 200 objects. After an exhibition at Käämer 12 in Bruxelles the ...
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SONIG72 | SONIG

"The D6 Cru, top score in the rhyme lottery, are back! And they've packed a solid album with 20 massive tracks full of untouchable beats and rhymes. With their debut "Die Wichtigkeit" (trans. Importance) ILL-TILL, TIGER, DER RICHTER, TRETBOTE, KNOCHENBLUT and DJ ...
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SONIG79CD | SONIG

"After an edition of approximately 28 slash-up albums regurgitating the entire 20th century of music and beyond, The Allophons present their first E.P. of non-sampled material. All of the trademark Allophons elements are present - the gorgeous vocal swells, understated ...
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SONIG73 | SONIG

"Sonig is proud to present the debut album of dogr, a young, New-York-based American artist who is skilled with instrumental expertise, artistic conceptualism, and an unworldly vocal virtuosity. The production of Mouse on Mars' Andi Toma adds an analogue thrill to the ...
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SONIG77CD | SONIG

Limited edition of 260 + 40 copies.
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SONIG78LP | SONIG

"The lemniscate is, fundamentally a mechanism for the infinite. A lemniscus or "ribbon" that chases itself in a figure of eight describes the repeated and unending journey of the unbounded. Jorinde Voigt draws structures energised by real and imagined possibilities to ...
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SONIG78CD | SONIG

"From Tallahassee to Berlin to Tallahassee to Berlin - Kevin Blechdom and Sonig team up to release an acoustic album chock full of palpitating love songs. Kevin Blechdom plays piano and sings. The album is lyrical, lush, and direct, with emotion of epic proportion. ...
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SONIG76CD | SONIG

REPRESSED !!! "Baleine 3000 is a big sound system, big as a whale. Baleine 3000 is a dangerous crew, a whale that will swallow you. Baleine 3000 has an MC Illreme (Japan, Tokyo), honestly the best japanese MC of this decade. The only guy who risks a stage dive at a two ...
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SONIG75 | SONIG