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CLOINC (Sellwell - Burghausen / Germany)
ELECTRIC SHEEP (Musik Aus Strom - Burghausen / Germany)
ANDRÉ ESTERMANN (Musik Aus Strom - Burghausen / Germany)
info : Cloinc :
Live-Act:
PowerBooks, Synthies, optional Vocals
Style:
Bleep-House, Click-Beats, Pixel-Funk
Discography:
Sellwell SW009, Cloinc "Poky Playground - part one" 12"
Sellwell SWLP003, Cloinc "Lonely Bits" CD / LP
Band members
Jan Bruhnke, aka Electric Sheep, Burghausen
André Estermann, Burghausen
CLOINC ROMANZE
The duo Cloinc, that is André Estermann and Jan Bruhnke aka Electric
Sheep, was formed one year ago at the beginning of the new millenium.
Ten years before, neither of the artists would have dreamt of teaming up
with the other.
In those days of Smiley shirts and funny Disco pills when House and
Techno were still in their infancy, Jan and André set out for their
voyage. The predilections of older sisters and gay hairdressers -
Depeche Mode, Human League, Kraftwerk, Wham, EBM and Acid House - left
their imprints on a passion now deeply rooted in their souls. Both
started their careers with the typical Roland Beat and Bass Box Groove
classics, staging illegal Techno parties in humid basements where they
squirted their musical acid and wallowed in the blissful bathtub of
analogue bubbles.
Cables, sync interfaces, knobs, controls and consoles plus the General
Midi become their best friends. The old Joysticks and the 5" floppies of
the home-computing era soon fall prey to oblivion in dusty corners of
former children´s rooms which are now converted into musical
headquarters. Tender electomagnetic fields and the diminutive lightshow
of LED displays on pattern sequencers become part of their vital
functions. They are born to programme - and they understand, there is no
music without the machine.
André Estermann is lucky. Thanks to the dutch label "Djax up Beats", his
first project, "Analogical", finds a vinyl glide path to Disco heaven.
André´s records are on the shelves of Jan´s friends and the country
clubs resound with the clatter of his electronic delights, but still
they haven´t met.
Only when both of them are signed to the label "Musik aus Strom", run by
Michael Fakesch and Chris de Luca of "Funkstörung"-fame, they have come
full circle and are united under the cloak of modern Electronica.
Influenced by english labels like Skam, Warp and Reflex, in Germany too
a little family of young men full of creative impulse emerges, willing
to break up the same old grooves of Electronica and move on towards IDM
(Intelligent Dance Music). Jan Bruhnke´s "Locust Lunch EP" is put forth
and André Estermann sweetens the air with "Musik aus Strom No. 6".
André and Jan have found a home with "Musik aus Strom", where they move
in high circles. With artists like Freeform, Boards of Canada and Crunch
it´s a pleasure to rewrite a chapter of musical history. Apart from
that, André starts a project named AEMIC (André Estermann - Michael
Fakesch) on the same label, while Jan meets new friends in Ulm, where
his records come out on Bernd Karner´s label "Heimelektro Ulm".
The two electrominds meet for the first time in 1998, in an inferno of
cloudburst, mud and deluge called the Sunflower-Festival. Like Atlantis,
the central Ambient area goes down in the flood and the crème de la
crème of the german-british IDM-scene goes SOS. Jega, Mike Paradinas,
Autechere and Boards of Canada melt into The Swamp-Thing rushing to
rescue its equipment, and Electric Sheep drags a less weatherproof André
Estermann on slippery Converse Chucks out of divers mudholes. After
that, they become electronic blood brothers forever.
In 1999, at the "Musik aus Strom Nacht" during the Interference Festival
at the Berlin Love Parade, the two electronic handymen are reunited ten
meters from the last relics of the Berlin Wall. Here they beget baby
Cloinc. The Munich-Essen-route between their hometowns is soon an
everyday experience, and before long the first Cloinc EP comes out on
the young Munich label "Sellwell".
André´s and Jan´s musical styles blend to a motley lucky bag filled with
complex kaput beats, bucking, prancing and dying like an animal
creation; a tongue-in-cheek break beat rendezvous, weird structures iced
with honey pop-tunes - a keepsake from the olden times of cosy computer
games. Cloinc´s songs don´t always follow the rules of musical
composition, but nevertheless André and Jan stick to structure; no
nameless tracks are created but stories are told. Vocal scraps and
samples loosen up their songs and make way for imagination. It´s evident
that both artists still belong to the pre-laptop musicians´ guild and
that they make a point of celebrating the joy of synth even in today´s
plug-in jungle. On the other hand, they use latest technology to create
their own plug-ins - to go where no man ever listened before. Cloinc´s
first LP, "Lonely Bits" is due October 2001 (Sellwell Productions,
Munich).
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