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mm-013 CD + DLP + Download

release date 09.07.2012

“empty your pockets – unzip your soul – move your assets”

Nicholas Bussmann has shed his skin once again, now transforming into Nicholas Desamory to release “like you” – a House album of such warmth and rough elegance, it will leave the scene all excited. House has always been an open genre, allowing to sample, adapt and incorporate other styles. On “like you” however, each of the 7 tracks opens a new window, one leading to Bollywood, another one to Bernhard Herrmann, and the next time it might be Morton Feldmann. It’s the reduced string and vocal arrangements that lead to this album’s specific sound – the warmth – and evoke the great Norman Whitfield. But all of the sudden the sound changes direction again to make us realize: It is 2012! And this is how House music has to be in 2012!

In recent years, Nicholas Bussmann has brought manifold works into being. His last release was a cooperational album with Chico Mello: Telebossa – a mélange of Brazilian songwriting, precise electronics and minimal music, receiving rave reviews and gaining nominations for many rankings of the year. In addition, together with drummer Martin Brandlmayer (Radian) Nicholas Bussmann released two complementary electro-acoustic albums: Kapital Band 1 “2 CD” and “Playing by Numbers” and in 2010, he brought to stage a concept for a modernized opera with Barnes Dance.

Hence it is not surprising to find several illustrious guests on his new record: Hanno Leichtmann, Florina Speth and Todosch support as instrumentalists. And alongside Nicholas Desamory, Charles Ndubisi, Yusuf Ergün and notably Lucile Desamory lend their voices to the album.

www.nicholasdesamory.net

Conrad Schnitzlers last work received great reviews.

Boomkat.com wrote:

If this is your first encounter with Schnitzler, it’s as good an introduction you could hope for, and should potentially inspire you to cycle backwards/forwards through his near infinite, inimitable soundsphere. And even if you’re au fait with Konrad, this will surely measure up as one of the most crucial, coherent episodes in his forty-plus year career. Highly Recommended.

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Endtime is a journey through all the phases of Conrad Schnitzler’s career. This is a career that opened up the possibilities for so many other musicians who would take this work, and torque it in slightly different directions. It combines the most sublime of melody with the cybernetic stack of complex music more difficult to track.

German Musikexpress:

Conrad Schnitzler streckt hier ein letztes Mal seinen Mittelfinger dem musikalischen Establishment entgegen, indem er sich aktuellen Referenzsystemen verweigert. Schnitzler klingt nicht „wie“, sondern nur nach Schnitzler.

also this record was one of the records of the week in april.

We had a technical problem with our last 2 releases. The download coupons were not included into Ernstalbrecht Stiebler & Conrad Schnitzler – Endtime.

So we offer to all buyers of the vinyl edition of this record, if you send us a picture with you and your record we send you a download code. please send a mail to info@m-minimal.com

All m=minimal fans are invited to come to the video premiere of  “Sundance” from the J.R. Plankton Album – Neon

The show starts at 21 p.m at HBC / Berlin – Karl-Liebknecht-Str. 9 / 10187 Berlin

Jens Strüver will be at the turntables at 22 pm.

See more details here

mm-012lp + cd + download

The Works of Conrad Schnitzler will always be important. Not only for m=minimal. Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer were so fascinated by the „Zug“ that they immediatly accepted to deliver two reshapes of this milestone of electronic music. (We already released Zug on vinyl – mm-001lp)

Max Loderbauer is a veteran of the Berlin “techno” scene, who became known with his project “Sun Electric”. For his current project NSI and as a member of the “Moritz von Oswald Trio” Max Loderbauer enjoys a worldwide reputation. His great cooperation with Ricardo Villalobos, for the legendary ECM label, appears in many “Best of 2011″ lists.

Richardo Villalobos is one of the leading techno DJ / producer / musicians. He influenced the scene for more than 15 years.

The “Aktion” mix targets with 100 percent certainty on the dance floor, but is also suited to wake you up in the morning. DJs need this twenty minute mix as a tool. Burner.

The “Sorgenkind” mix is not for the mainfloor but for fans of the broken beats. Everybody who enjoyed the RE-ECM work of the two will love this 15 minutes mix.

Schnitzler / Loderbauer / Villalobos = Dreamteam

 mm-011lp

release date: 14.05.2012

„The rebirth of cool“

 m=minimal is pleased to release a masterpiece of the early 21^st century on vinyl.

“Till the old world´s blown up and a new one is created” is an outstanding work of reductionism and minimalism.

Martin Brandlmyar ( Radian / Trapist / Kapitalband 1 ), Werner Dafeldecker ( Polwechsel, David Sylvian, Autistic Daughters) and Christian Fennesz ( Touch / Mego / Thrill Jockey ) on this record created a new kind of Cool Jazz coupled with a big portion of New York School ( Cage, Feldman, Brown und Wolff).

It’s hard to describe the music with words. This work reveals his secrets only after listening to it a couple of times. It grows with each time you listen to it.

In this work, silence and noise are never used as an end in itself. As equal parameters they stand in the composition that also has space for some tonal “flowers”. Our recommended listening time is – round about midnight.

The cd version is available on mosz.

mm-004CD

release date 18.06.2012

Many asked for a CD version of this release so we decided to make a special edition with liner notes and a special bonus track with the original tracks of Zug. It contains the original red cassette, the left channel containing the rhythm track and the right channel the synth track.

We also decided to give this release his old name back. This record is known as “Con” and under that name the CD will be released again.

the LA Times wrote about Conrad Schnitzler:

“An early member of the essential Tangerine Dream, his work on the group’s debut, “Electronic Meditation,” pulled from free jazz, found sounds and Stockhausen (his onetime teacher) to make an alternately violent, lulling and haunting environment — without which there would be no Brian Eno or Radiohead.”

read more here: latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2011/10/in-rotation-conrad-schnitzlers-ballet-statique.html

on march 28th Jens Struever is studio guest at “elektro beats” on german radioeins.

radioeins “elektro beats”  mit olaf zimmermann mi., 28.03. 23.00 – 01.00 Uhr    wdh., fr., 30.03. 01.00 – 03.00 h
studiogast jens strüver  -  m=minimal- labelspecial plus dj-set & cd-/-vinyl-verlose

livestream via www.radioeins.de

We started a bit slow this year, but will increase speed now.

Soon there will be a vinyl version of “Till the old world’s blow up and a new one is created” – a great piece by Werner Dafeldecker, Martin Brandlmayr and Christian Fennesz. Andreas Reihse defines Con-Struct his way. The CD edition of “Ballet Statique” comes with the original tracks of the “red cassette” and Ricardo Villalobos and Max Loderbauer reshaped “Zug” making 2 completly different versions.

borngräber & strüver will be back with the new album “clouds” a trip into ambient and minimalistic compositions. They also will release a recording they produced some years ago. Electric Counterpoint of Steve Reich will celebrate 25 years of existence this year. The guitarist Olaf Scharpf says happy birthday with an accoustic version.

Also we have been asked sometimes for t-shirts with the m=minimal logo. Please write us if you would like to wear one too!

More to follow soon.

the m=minimal team.

  mm-010 CD + DLP + Download

release date: 09.04.2012

It’s a great honour for us to be able to present Conrad Schnitzler’s last work.
Endtime will be released as DLP, CD and download. Only a few days before he passed away last August, he created this unique, almost 70 minutes long work. 36 parts mixed into each other creating a walk through his entire work. This record is not only for fans of Conrad Schnitzler. It’s like a trip through 40 years of electronic music.

Conrad Schnitzler once more shows how strong his influence has marked young artists like Emeralds and Oneohtrix Point Never.
Without his solo works and his projects Kluster, Tangerine Dream and Eruption electronic music wouldn’t be the same. The tracks on the vinyl edition are in the order sides A,C,B,D. This allows you to make your own mix of this big work.