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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.

 

LITHOPS - SCRYPT (CD)

"Minute edits of offtime slamming grainsounds, feedback tips, guitar bursts and bass flange accelerations conspire with harmonic distortions, burbling forth melodic excentricities and sudden harmonic changes, occasionally introducing brass arrangements. Blast-punctured ...
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SONIG31CD | SONIG
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SONIG30LP | SONIG
""small pieces loosely joined" comprises both flirty come-ons in pop's direction as well as short sketches, reminiscent of its title. Using accordion, Rhodes, lots of piano of course and a dense tissue of electronica, the tracks tentatively approach something akin to ...
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SONIG30CD | SONIG
"Wevie de Crepon is a contractually obliged pseudonym of Wevie Stonder (skam records). This band attacks suffocating city life of the 21st century and its media noise overload with bare-knuckled passion, heroic conviction and a love for sampling and deconstructing ...
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SONIG25CD | SONIG
last copies, covers are little used, records are new "Wevie de Crepon (Wevie Stonder / SKAM), Vert, Oval, Microstoria, F.X. Randomiz, A&E, Aelters, Scratch Pet Land, Dü, Mouse On Mars, So, Workshop, C-Schulz, Hajsch & Noise, Fan Club Orchestra, all tracks exclusive ...
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SONIG26LP | SONIG

V.A. - ILATION (CD)

"Wevie de Crepon (Wevie Stonder / SKAM), Vert, Oval, Microstoria, F.X. Randomiz, A&E, Aelters, Scratch Pet Land, Dü, Mouse On Mars, So, Workshop, C-Schulz, Hajsch & Noise, Fan Club Orchestra, all tracks exclusive plus vinyl only bonus track: F.X.Randomiz & Joseph ...
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SONIG26CD | SONIG

HAJSCH - 1992 (CD)

"About ten years ago the Cologne school of experimental electronic music was taken over by new generation of young musicians. Hajsch was "Now after a ten year period the compositions released in 1992 on his own label "Quiet Artworks" can be heard on CD. Originally these ...
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SONIG24 | SONIG
In Vert's "Nine Types of Ambiguity" the noises have liberated themselves and no longer merely annoy; rather, they enhance the tonal body comprising melody, nostalgic evocations of disrupted beats and the ornament of clef symbols. Every noise is capable of being music, ...
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SONIG17CD | SONIG
"Comp. has collected artists, with F.X.Randomiz, Microstoria, Lithops, Mouse on Mars but also C-Schulz & Hajsch, who work on expanding the concept of electronic music and who thereby precisely and easily infiltrate the border genres between pop and avant-garde. Even ...
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SONIG11CD | SONIG
"Dü are cologne electronica irregularities F.X.Randomiz (Holosud) and Jan St.Werner (Mouse on Mars, Microstoria, Lithops). They first gained attantion with their CD debut "Slow" which The Wire magazine praised as "an unsung electronic masterpiece, an outstanding ...
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SONIG23 | SONIG
"The Fan Club Orchestra is a side project of Scratch Pet Land with more or less 10 people involved. They play percussion, guitar, harmonica, gameboys, mouth organs, trombone, turntables and lots of other instruments and devices. Everything depends on the energy of the ...
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SONIG22 | SONIG
Special offer ! "First new studio album since the highly acclaimed "_snd" from 1996. Consider it dsp-music, avant something or digital hipshit. Nine tracks featuring the highlights of various excessive sessions of recording and processing. Carefully edited and arranged. ...
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SONIG15LP | SONIG
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SONIG12LP | SONIG
"Vert is a musical chameleon. He is capable of vibing-up an audience when supporting label-mates Mouse on Mars on their live shows, but is at the same time equally liable to play inventively experimental sets on modified piano. Lightness and profundity co-exist in his ...
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SONIG06 | SONIG
"About a decade ago, well before the "Sound of Cologne" reached public acclaim, Carsten Schulz (C-Schulz) und Hans-Jürgen Schunk (Hajsch) formed the nucleus of a small scene which, altough based in Cologne, was already operating on an international level. They had ...
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SONIG13CD | SONIG
"about a decade ago, well before the "sound of cologne" reached public acclaim, carsten schulz (c-schulz) und hans-jürgen schunk (hajsch) formed the nucleus of a small scene which, altough based in cologne, was already operating on an international level. they had ...
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SONIG13LP | SONIG
"The seventh album of the band Workshop (comprised of Kai Althoff and Stephan Abry) is an extreme. Workshop's pictures of the outside world aren't postmodern reinterpretations - but then neither are they trying to be realistic in an empirical way. They do not value ...
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SONIG19LP | SONIG
"Workshop's record, "Es liebt Dich und Deine Koerperlichkeit ein Ausgeflippter", is mysterious, deep, wandering, folksy music, played on a basketwork base of freely-flowing guitars, with dreamy, slightly absurd and pointed lyrics in German. Kai Althoff seems to stand to ...
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SONIG19CD | SONIG
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SONIG17LP | SONIG
special offer - 2001 album "from punk glitch breakbeat techno, to digi surfsongs, to orchestral swoon, spoken word philosophising, and the sound of cutlery being thrown down a lift shaft, this is either brilliant or mental, and probably both. whatever your concept of ...
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SONIG18CD | SONIG
"Two brothers (Laurent & Nicolas Baudoux) making improvised music that opens head and heart. their first mini-LP on the french label Source preceeded the big success of francostyle music - a perfect collection of idiosyncratic beats, melodies and noisy manipulations. ...
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SONIG14CD | SONIG
""The Köln Konzert" was directly inspired by Keith Jarrett's recording of the same name. recorded live at the White Noise Bar, Köln on May 6th 1999 and edited at Yrs Truly, London. "The Köln Konzert was written to celebrate the launch of "Mewantemooseic" (sonig 06), ...
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SONIG12CD | SONIG
special offer "CD version of the first ever sonig release from 1997. 7 tracks displaying MoM's more experimental and subtle side. The vinyl version was a big success for sonig and now, as all those real music lovers and vinyl fans have got their copies, the digital ...
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SONIG01CD | SONIG
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SONIG14LP | SONIG
"Improvisers" features alternative versions and reconsiderations of "Per Formal", "Quit not save", "Feld 1" and "Endless Summer Namm" from Microstoria's 96' album "_snd" and the two new tracks "Mem.brand" and "Glocky Bit". Microstoria present evergreens and favourites ...
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SONIG10 | SONIG