sonig is an independent music label for experimental, electronic and non genre specific music. the artist roster is international and features bands, solo artists and art related music projects. sonig is based in cologne and shares offices with a-musik, the specialist shop, distributor and label for all kinds of outsider music. sonig is also running a mail order service and alternatively offers products through online stores such as itunes or amazon. sonig is run by frank dommert, jan st werner and andi toma.
A&E
"æ” (now a&e) is a musical outfit consisting of Andrew Sharpley on electronics (Stock, Hausen & Walkman, Dummy Run, Mami Chan band a.o.) and Emiko Ota on drums and percussion (Urban Sax, Mami Chan Band, etc.). Formed in 1998 , the group started as a kind of trash electro-punk duo with shouting.
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For those who can recall the anarchic elektro-punk approach of the predecessor “Bootleg”, A&E’s new album “Oi!” will come as a surprise – and that’s putting it mildly. The rest – i.e. those who’ve never heard a single note of the duo’s music and do not know anything about the protagonists’
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Aelters
Aelters is a deserter of the French laptop quartet "Dat Politics". This means the grooviest deconstruction of pop since granular synthesis! Two hundred sounds per second! Aelters spends too much of his time on micro-surgical cut up, integrated is own errors, somewhere between DSP & L/R channels.
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"Who knows on which foot to dance to Aelters' music?" Aelters, Frenchman and ex-member of Dat Politics, prevails once again. Essentially, his music seems to have remained unchanged since his last record "Ardchilds' com.undo", released on sonig in 2003. It "gently mutates", is how the artist
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Audiogarde
More like a man and a half, Oslo’s Audiogarde is half italio-disco hit machine, half troubadour, and half techno rocker. He’s invented this entirely new but thoroughly retro sound that will surely be featured in every teen magazine from Stockholm to Vancouver. His album has been a long time in the
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C-Schulz
C-Schulz's new solo-outing 5. FLICKER TUNES is on a par with C-Schulz & Hajsch as far as economy of means and musical depth are concerned. The Cologne-based composer grants himself as well as his listeners the luxury of taking one's time to embark on a journey through his "concrete" sounds and
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C-Schulz & F.X. Randomiz
Electro-acoustic composition based on train sounds. Das Ohr Am Gleis is a great high end listening experience, and first collaborative release by cologne composers Randomiz & Schulz. F.X.Randomiz first release since
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C-Schulz & Hajsch
About a decade ago, well before the "Sound of Cologne" reached public acclaim, Carsten Schulz (C-Schulz) und Hans-Juergen Schunk (Hajsch) formed the nucleus of a small scene which, although based in Cologne, was already operating on an international level. They had teamed up with various
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Candie Hank
First release by Candie Hank (i.e. Patrik Catani) on Sonig, after his highly acclaimed albums on Wwilko and Gagarin (sold out). Brilliant, once again very entertaining MLP (nine tracks, total playing time 30 min.). His most burlesque work to date, featuring Angie Reed and MC Shade. Strictly limited
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Candie Hank (the mischievous alter ego of Patric Catani) has been messing up the musical landscape from Tokyo to Sao Paolo for some time now. It all started with a cover of France Gall’s ‘Les Sucettes’ in collaboration with Hanayo, followed by the albums Kimouchi on Gagarin Records, Brandy Cramps
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DJ Elephant Power
Nicolas Baudoux aka DJ ELEPHANT POWER is the one responsible for the "Scratch" in "Scratch Pet Land": While being an extremely nimble turntablist, he's also the personified antithesis of what one would normally call a perfectionist. His name stands for a turntablism void of battle-attitudes or
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DJ Elephant Power is the perfect anti-perfectionist. Live as well as in a studio environment he always performs on the verge of a complete loss of control. His tracks are anything but tight, yet they groove like hell. Anyone who has ever had the luck and the pleasure of witnessing one of his
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Du
7" (!) album by jan st.werner & f.x.randomiz; 6 tracks; 14 minutes an unusual remix project: werner produced a cdr with various tracks of sounds and noises he recorded and edited without using any digital tools. he called this selection "16 times easily produced complicated music". randomiz
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Fan Club Orchestra
The Fan Club Orchestra is a side project of Scratch Pet Land with more or less 10 people involved. They play percussion, guitar, harmonica, gameboys, mouth organs, trombone, turntables and lots of other instruments and devices. Everything depends on the energy of the group and their ability to
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New limited edition release in sonigs' generic sleeve by Belgium's super futuristic band, the Fan Club Orchestra featuring Laurent Baudoux aka Sun OK Papi K.O.: (Electronic director), Quentin Hanon (Scratch Pet Land): Electric Guitar & Sage Ann: Game Boy Guitar, Ukulele.
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Fanal
Kai Althoff, better known for his internationally renowned work in fine arts and his band "Workshop" (releases for labels like sonig, Ladomat, L'age D'or, Captain Trip and Finlayson) has released his second soloalbum under the pseudonym "Fanal".
"The second Fanal album is released. It ....
Hajsch
The combination of experimental-electronic, electro-acoustic and serious music is ideally revealed and realised in Hajsch's music. Now after a ten year period the compositions released in 1992 on his own label "Quiet Artworks" can be heard on CD. Originally these recording were only available as
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Jason Forrest
Jason Forrest aka DONNA SUMMER has been a celebrity among electronic artists ever since. Featured by magazines all around the world, he releases one 7", split 12" and full 12" and what have you after the other - and now he presents us with his new longplayer on sonig. Forrest is the most
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In 2004 Jason Forrest (aka Donna Summer) made heads turn with his third album and first release on Sonig, The Unrelenting Songs of the 1979 Post Disco Crash, a musical rollercoaster ripping through genres like an amphetamine crazed hobo. It received rave reviews from a respected array of
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Lithops
Since 1997 Jan St. Werner has additionally published under the alias Lithops. The record Scrypt, released in 2003, impresses with its non-linear compositional structures and density in organic sound complexity that until the release of Scrypt had been hard to find in electronic music. It is a very
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"Elevations above Sea Level" is the second Mound Magnet part from Lithops aka Jan St Werner, 1/2 of the prolific duo Mouse on Mars, 1/3 of last year's surprise collaboration "Von Südenfed" with the Fall's Mark E Smith and 1/2 of the dsp group Microstoria. Though he is a prolific producer he
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Michel Waisvisz
In Tune is waisvisz’s first album since 1978. it is comprised of live recordings made between 1977 and 2000. none of these recodings have lost any of their relevance to the present. moving to and from between serious and light music, michel waisvisz, director of the STEIM (studio for
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Microstoria
Microstoria 1999 live album, features tracks from _snd and model 3, step 2. "Excellent release by Microstoria, which is the project of Jan St-Werner (Mouse on Mars and Lithops) and Markus Popp (Oval). This record consists of live improvisations and reworkings of the second album in addition to two
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Mouse On Mars
"Live 04" the first live album by mouse on mars out on sonig in europe in september, northamerica in october 2005. CD with 20 paged booklet and limited edition vinyl. live versions of tracks like frosch, wts, disdusk, actionist respoke and others, mainly recorded during extensive 2004
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Nathan Michel
In collaboration with dat poltics' label skipp nathan michel's third album "The Beast" (sonig 46CD). after two brilliant albums on tigerbeat6, nathan michel is coming back with an even more great album on which he is playing all instruments himself. his beautiful music is supported on some
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Schlammpeitziger
Schlammpeitziger, master of the Casio and inventor of almost unending song-titles, is back. After interim-activities such as remixing Depeche Mode, a "Best of Schlammpeitziger"-release ("Collected Simplesongs Of My Temporary Past") on Domino Tokuma & Thrill Jockey and appearances at several
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Ever since the release of his first cassette on the renowned and legendary Cologne-based label Entenpfuhl in 1993, Jo Zimmermann aka Schlammpeitziger grants an international audience insights into his private cosmos. The musician, graphic artist and tireless inventor of increasingly strange song
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Scratch Pet Land
Belgium superrockers dj crol & sun o.k. papi k.o.'s first mini-lp on source preceeded the big success of francostyle music - a perfect collection of idiosyncratic beats, melodies and noisy manipulations. but instead of following the easy path scratch pet land turned their attention to even more
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Sun OK Papi K.O.
Two tracks from the album "Orchestre Philharmonok" (sonig 53CD) + an edit + two exclusive tracks. Featuring the incredible japanese MC Illreme and Quentin Hanon on
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SUN OK PAPI K.O. creates his music as a genius dilettante, a professed non-virtuoso. Only with the innocent attitude of the enthusiast can music be created so free from any desire to repeat or to sound like something else. We would like to stress this point especially since this debut invites
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Uske Orchestra
Out now (jaunuary 2006) - just imagine the sound track to ‘the Matrix’, performed by a hyperactive brass band from the Balkans or Mexico. If there is a connection between music and language, then a babbling mess is prevalent with Uské Orchestra. Sometimes it sounds to us as if ballads, bluegrass,
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Various Artists
"There must be something in Cologne's water--cologne, perhaps? Whatever it is, that city is still the white-hot epicenter of current electronic music. And this strong survey of local talent is from the Sonig label, a project of Mouse On Mars and Frank Dommert. 9 tracks, all of them exclusive to
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".ilation" brings together twenty-two musicians from five countries with eighteen tracks covering the whole gamut from the avant-garde to out-and-out pop hits. All exclusive tracks by wevie de crepon, æ, scratch pet land, mouse on mars, aelters, f.x.randomiz, vert, schlammpeitziger, workshop,
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Vert
vert's interpretation and total deconstruction of keith jarret's 70's piano-classic. a continous yet diverse cuts'n pieces epic.
"Packaged in some of the niftiest layered translucent CD sleeve designs seen in a long time, the album consist of five parts, the second and fifth of which are
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"rich in imagery, sure in dialogue, profound in characterization, dazzling in its descriptive powers and constantly haunting with its celtic rhythms and its bold, elegant design." (the times) "Vert never loses sight of the fact that a strong melody is the foundation of any solid song. In the
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Adam Butler, the British exile and resident of Cologne by choice, has long since made a name for himself internationally, a name which has itself become a byword for complex grooves and multi-layered arrangements. The piano has become a sort of trademark for him, and one he is constantly
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Some Beans & an Octopus is joyful, rampant surge through the whole history and geography of popular music, taking in the afore-mentioned ragtime as well as R&B, flamenco (Step Under the Bulbshine), ska (Words), Turkish wedding music (This One) and so much more. But this isn't just a genre-checking
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Workshop
'It is indeed the future in the present, and it seems: there is a good deal that is possible'
Workshop have completed their sixth album, their most personal and most political to date. This band resembles a dragon breathing saviours, exhorters, seditionists, anarchists, levellers and ....
"It seems as if these 20 tracks are separated from our world by a membrane. Through it's pores, fine particles of the original music have seeped. In the parallel universe on the other side of this membrane, these particles have developed growths and rhizomes, which strive to replicate the form of
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