Today, Thomas Brinkmann is seen as one of the leaders of the German minimal electronic music scene. But back in 1996, Brinkmann was simply another high-minded artistic type with no pedigree, playing around with material in his home studio. Brinkmann would carve his own grooves into the vinyl with a razor, resulting in endless, jittering loops, cracks, and pops, which he would then run through various filters to achieve sounds totally different from what was actually encoded on the record. More relevant to this essay, however, was the invention of his famous dual-armed turntable, which when played on long, dubbed-out techno pieces from the likes of Basic Channel crew and Wolfgang Voigt would result in whole new levels of musical hypnosis.The results are quite different than you might expect. The dual-arms and left-right separation of the mutated turntable create whole new rhythms and riffs even more dubbed-out than the originals, with a built-in phase thanks to the delay between the arms. Even the surface noises and pressing variations from the records themselves are taken in, adding a gritty edge to the proceedings.
Get this great o.o.p. recording here (it's reupped):
Thomas Brinkmann - Studio 1 Variationen (160 Kbps)
PS: Brinkmann explains his technique in his own words in the comments.
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Thomas Brinkmann: "I used a self-made turntable with 30 kilo plate, and two SME 309 Tone Arms utilizing both Ortofon and Van den Hul moving-coil pickups. The interventions with the actual vinyl are few: I slowed down the speed of the record and used the left pickup (arm) for the left channel, and the right pickup (arm) for the right channel. I found out that the use of different pickup systems for both channels is important for the sound. It's possible to hear a melodic displacement between the channels. With a little intervention and displacement of elements, the Concepts are sounding different. The same information they had before, but two times present. Like the idea of cloning and twins: still Richie's DNA with a little mutation. A different groove."
link dead. please re-up. thanks.
there you are !
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