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As a member of Kompakt since the early 90s, Reinhard Voigt has been a key player in the development and subsequent success of this legendary Cologne-based record label. Taking early notes from his infamous older brother Wolfgang Voigt (aka Mike Ink), Reinhard has refined and re-tooled his sound in a direction that has become unmistakeably his own in it's dirty, subversive (yet charming) minimal techno pop. His latest releases on Kompakt's "Speicher" project have been highly sought, and have helped bring a more radical dancefloor sound to the typical Kompakt releases, which also sell out around the globe. Everyone has...

Reinhard Lakomy is successful pianist, studied piano and composition, was famous as a singer of his songs, composed over 200 film, stage and ballet music. In 1977 he married the dancer Monika Ehrhardt, who had already during their studies at the Berlin State Ballet School her first public appearances with his own texts, and soon wrote her first plays. A lucky star was on the meeting of these two artists, both because of special talent was a symbiosis, the result of creative fashion change and the passage of time, survived. Already in 1978 appeared the first SONGS STORIES production. .

Reinhardt Wagner, born April 26, 1956 in Paris, is a French composer of film music. He began his studies at the Conservatoire d'Orléans at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris (Music History, Aesthetics and musical analysis). In parallel, he studied harmony and counterpoint under the direction of Yvonne Desportes, Grand Prix de Rome and composer. .

Drawing from traditions of 20th century instrumental synthesizer music, Jonas Reinhardt represents a love affair between analog electronics, sweeping atmospherics, and driving motorik beats. Combined together, these elements bring the album's 13 pieces into focus as the soundtrack for an inner-eyelid space epic that never was. Inspired in equal measure by the natural beauty of his California coastal surroundings, continental European art-rock experimentation, and the freewheeling punk aesthetic of contemporary home studio recording, Jonas Reinhardt's music transcends it's influences to bring into being a work that's wholly new while referencing a celebrated aesthetic of the past. Armed with a battery...