Published
Mon, Dec 4, 2006, 09:00
- Latest album from German minimal pioneer Thomas Brinkmann is a tribute to the humble pinball machine.
Latest release from German minimal pioneer Thomas Brinkmann is a tribute to the humble pinball machine. ‘Klick Revolution’ is out this week.
Brinkmann has a long career of turntable experimentalism stretching back into the nineties. These days people slap the label “minimal” on the biggest of big club tunes, but Brinkmann is the real deal: his early dub techno singles on Profan were as stripped down as Wolfgang Voigt, though more glitchy than gliding, while his reworkings of Plastikman in 1996 took out even more sound than they put in, if such a thing is possible.
His releases are often wrapped up in a conceptual framework, whether it be manipulating Japanese sounds on ‘Tokyo +1’ or deconstructing soul music as Soul Center. This time around the concept is the pinball machine, with trademark Brinkmann record player manipulations and loops interrupted by bursts of panicky electronic noises that aim to replicate the arcade experience in sound. The concept? Like the titles state, “It’s questionary about luck, the slide of the things into the logic of decline," says Brinkmann.
The tracks are based on live sets performed over the last two years. The specific records Brinkmann used for these turntable performances are listed in the eighteen-page booklet accompanying the release.
‘Klick Revolution’ tracklist
01. Locked Box
02. Questionary About Luck
03. Inclined Plane
04. Slide Of The Things
05. Logic Of Decline
06. Tilt
‘Klick Revolution’ by Thomas Brinkmann is out on Maxernst on December 5th, 2006.