Ekkehard Ehlers
Full Swing Edits
2001 release ** A collection of reworks made from source material by various artists produced between Summer 1999 and Autumn 2001, featuring: Laub, Kit Clayton, Antenne, Autopoieses, Raumgestaltung Eins, Ekkehard Ehlers, Monolake, Yo La Tengo, Akira Rabelais. "I had quite the steep learning curve with digital audio and in 1998 got in charge of an traditional electronic music studio in France, just across the border from where I lived. Apart from setting up their collection of analog synths and g…
Plays (2LP)
** Edition of 500 copies, gatefold sleeve, incl. download ** Ekkehard Ehlers' seminal plays series was originally released on three 12inches (Staubgold) and two 7inches (Bottrop-Boy) in very limited runs. The entire series was previously only available as a CD compilation or digitally. Keplar finally presents it on double vinyl for the first time, featuring a new cover artwork.
Domestic ethnology: Ekkehard Ehlers plays. ‘Play’ is a word in English with many meanings attached. Each one sends you …
Heroin
Recorded by Stephan Mathieu and Ekkehard Ehlers over the single week between Christmas 2000 and New Year 2001, and originally issued that same year on the Dutch imprint Brombron, Heroin remains one of the great curiosities of early-laptop electronic music: a record that arrived bearing an ambivalent, faintly transgressive title and contained almost the opposite of what that title implied.
The album sits at a precise moment in both composers' arcs. Mathieu, originally a drummer and a co-founder o…