Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a German record producer from

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. He is the founder of the record label Max Ernst.

Biography

Brinkmann began experimenting with records in the early eighties and released re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and

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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 Traum Schallplatten,

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(under the Soul Center alias). In 2010, he contributed a cover of

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's song "Diamonds, Furcoats, Champagne" for the '' Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series''. In 2017, he performed his collaboration with Derek Piotr "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 '' John & Jane'' by

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Discography

Studio albums

* ''Tokyo + 1'' (2004) * ''Lucky Hands'' (2005) * ''When Horses Die'' (2008) * ''What You Hear (Is What You Hear)'' (2015) * ''A 1000 Keys'' (2016) * ''A Certain Degree of Stasis'' (2016)

References

External links

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