Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a German electronic record producer from Mönchengladbach. He is the founder of the record label Max Ernst.
Brinkmann began experimenting with records in the early eighties and released re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin in the second half of the 1990s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm.
Brinkmann later founded the Ernst record label and introduced his own productions on a series of 12" records taking their titles from female names. He has also produced for labels such as Traum Schallplatten, Raster-Noton and Mute Records(under the Soul Center alias). In 2010, he contributed a cover of Suicide's song "Diamonds, Furcoats, Champagne" for the Alan Vega 70th Birthday Limited Edition EP Series. In 2017, he performed his collaboration with Derek Piotr "Absolute Grey", at ISSUE Project Room in NYC. In 2018, he contributed the piece "Wiener" to Stephan Mathieu's SCALE project.
Thomas Brinkmann's tracks Olga Al and Sym feature on the soundtrack of the film John & Jane by Ashim Ahluwalia.
Links to Peel[]
Peel played tracks from Thomas Brinkmann on his radio programmes between the late 90's and early 00's, including his alias names of Soul Center and Ester Brinkmann, who the latter is named after his sister.
Brinkmann under the name of Soul Center had his self titled album as one of Peel's favourite records of the month for February 2002 (Peel's Record Box) and the German DJ did a live performance at Fabric nightclub, which was broadcast on Peel's show on 09 April 2002.
Shows Played[]
- 23 November 1998 (BFBS): 'Paris Texas (12"-Max.Ernst & Freunde)' (Max Ernst)
- 22 December 1998: 'Paris Texas (12 inch-Max. Ernst & Freunde)' (Max Ernst)
- 03 January 1999 (BFBS): 'Paris Texas (12"-Max.Ernst & Freunde)' (Max Ernst)
- 03 December 2002: 'Tyranids vs. Space Wolves Pt.1 (12 inch)' (Art Of Perception)
- 12 December 2002 (Radio Eins): 'Tyranids vs. Space Wolves Pt.1 (12 inch)' (Art Of Perception)
- December 2002 (FSK): Frauke (12" - Erika / Frauke) Ernst
- 15 April 2004: 'Mit Sugar' (LP – Tokyo + 1) (Max.Ernst)
- Ester Brinkmann
- 26 February 1998: Mimesis (album - Totes Rennen) Supposé
- 11 March 1998: Se Mouvoir (album - Totes Rennen) Supposé
- 10 April 2002: Immer Anders (LP - Der Übersetzer - Il Traduttore) Supposé
- 14 February 2002: A Good One (LP - III) NovaMute
- 21 February 2002: Lopster (LP – III) NovaMute
- 26 February 2002: Funky Sterling (2x12" - III) NovaMute
- 06 March 2002 (BBC World Service): Funky Sterling (LP - III) NovaMute
- 21 March 2002 (Radio Eins): Funky Sterling (12" - Roses) W.v.B. Enterprises
- 21 March 2002 (Radio Mafia): Lopster (2x12" - III) NovaMute
- 09 April 2002: Recorded live at Fabric