Thinner (netlabel)

Thinner is a netlabel founded by Thomas Jaldemark and today operated by Sebastian Redenz and Ole Schulte as leading parts of an international team. Based in Frankfurt, Germany, Thinner is one of the most consistent and successful netlabels of recent years. Thinner’s catalogue includes releases from artists such as Digitalverein, Marko Fürstenberg, Benfay, Pheek, krill.minima, Christian Bloch and many others. As of September 2006, Thinner productions had accumulated over two million MP3 downloads.

Infobox record label
name = Thinner


image_bg = white
parent =
founded = 1998
founder = Thomas Jaldemark
Directors = Sebastian Redenz, Ole Schulte
Staff = 13 contributors
defunct =
distributor =
genre = Dub Techno
Minimal House
Ambient
country = Sweden
location = Frankfurt, Germany
url = http://www.thinner.cc/

Labelsound

Randomly select an available release from the extensive Thinner discography and there’s a very high probability that the sounds on that album can be broadly described as “dub-inspired” i.e. some permutation of a fusion of dub with house, techno, or even ambient music. It’s also quite possible that the album could be further redefined as belonging to the sound departments of either “dubby Techhouse“ or “intelligent Dub”, and, if not one of these, the more evasive aesthetic referred to as “Minimalism” is an increasingly more likely descriptor. An alternate categorization can also classify the music as either soft and mellifluous or hard and edgy.

Although dub-influences are clearly the predominant inspiration behind the general flavor of the thinner sound, even a cursory sampling of its catalog quickly reveals that thinner is not a static label. During the time period 2001 - 2006, Thinner has grown and evolved to encompass a wider variety of sounds and to make available a more diverse palette of releases from which interested listeners can make their selections. The early steady stream of signature dub-inspired techno/house music for which Thinner initially became recognized still make their appearances but, as time has progressed and tastes have changed, new sounds have found their way into the Thinner discography. while many of early Thinner virtual releases were clearly efforts to emulate styles/genres similar to those offered by popular physical labels (eg. Basic Channel), later albums demonstrate innovative efforts to offer new sounds and/or interesting hybrids of existing ones.

Notable Artists from past and present

Releases

ee also

* List of record labels
* List of electronic music record labels
* Electronic music
* Techno
* House

External links

* [http://www.thinner.cc/ Official site]
* [http://www.last.fm/label/Thinner Thinner at Last.fm]
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* [ftp://ftp.scene.org/pub/music/groups/thinner Official MP3 Archive at Scene.org]
* [http://solipsisticnation.com/?p=117 solipsistic NATION No. 66: NetLabels] Podcast. Interviews and music from the Konfort Records, Thinner and Monotonik electronic music netlabels.