Name: Aubrite
Brand: Thomas Koner

Bonus disc

Bonus disc: No

Catalogue number

MP34CD

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Download code: No

Rough Trade Exclusive

Rough Trade Exclusive: No

Extended format

Extended format: No

Format detail

With Two Bonus Tracks.

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Format Music GB

Limited edition

Release date

2021-09-24

Signed copies

Signed copies: No

Supplier GB

Tax rate GB

Standard:20

UPC / Barcode

4251804126601

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Total Cap

1 / CD / Extended format: No / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No

MP34LP

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Black

First Ever Vinyl Issue. With Two Bonus Tracks.

4251804126595

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2 / Extended format: No / LP / Rough Trade Exclusive: No / Signed copies: No / black

Artist

Thomas Koner

Genre GB

Modern Composition

Label GB

Mille Plateaux

Mille Plateaux is a label for experimental electronic music and electronic arts. It has had a significant influence on genres such as Clickhop, Glitch, Clicks & Cuts, and Minimal. The name "Mille Plateaux" comes from a concept and principal work co-authored by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, French psychoanalyst and philosopher respectively. Founded in 1993 by Achim Szepanski, the label was initially a sublabel of Force Inc. Music Works until 2004. After being temporarily revived as MillePlateauxMedia in 2004 by Achim Szepanski, it was later run by Disco Inc. Ltd in 2006 and Marcus Gabler in 2008. In 2018, the label Mille Plateaux was launched again by Achim Szepanski.

Thomas Köner is one of the most influential modernist minimal composers. His music is often defined as dark ambient or drone, because of the use of low frequencies, material from gongs,shadowy resonances and boreal ambience, but at the same time its sound with constant fluctuation and vulnerability of sonic events, what makes it organic, human and almost comforting.

Köners soundscapes are no longer simply dark, the question now is that of a profound blackness. Such is the generic darkness of the abyss, the void and vacuum, the darkness of more than silence, of catastrophe and cataclysm, but also the soundscapes have utopian moments. It is a cosmological blackness, the black of nonbeing.

The more subtractive, the blacker the sound synthesis, Köner writes. Such blackness is non-music. Music will never be music until it ceases to represent and begins to sound like non-music or monochrome.

"Whoever hears the distortion of all sounds, will soon become Ultrablack. Whoever listens to this world, but has no affection for any of its sites, even to the place of Black Noise, may soon reach Ultrablack." Thomas Köner 

Aubrite was first released 1995 on the label Barooni. Roland Speckle helped with production of the album. Aubrite is the name of a group of meteorites named for Aubres, a small achondrite meteorite that fell near Nyons in 1836.