Bernd Friedmann

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Name = Bernd Friedmann
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Background = non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth_name = Bernd Friedmann
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Born = 1965
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Origin = Coburg, Germany
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Genre = Electronic music Glitch IDM Techno Experimental
Occupation = producer
Years_active = 1978 to Present
Label = various
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Bernd Friedmann (also Burnt Friedman) (born 1965 in Coburg, Germany) is a german musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of Electronica, Dub und Jazz.

Friedmann was raised in Kassel where he studied painting, performance and video at the Kunsthochschule from 1984 to 1990. His first recordings of found and self-built instruments, done with Wolfram "Der Spyra" from 1978 to 1982, have been released under the name TOXH in 1989. Since then the ever-growing list of projects includes:: Some More Crime (1990 - 1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez): Drome (1991 - 1995, Friedmann and Frank Hernandez): Nonplace Urban Field (1992 - 1997): Flanger (1999 - , Friedmann and Atom Heart): Nine Horses (2005 - , Friedmann and David Sylvian)

Friedmann's music defies easy categorisation. His instruments include ambient noise and speech samples, analogue synthesizers and organs, as well as toy piano, steeldrum, kalimba, vibraphone or Melodica. Over the years his trademark sound became easily recognizable even in his remix work for other artists. Often complex polyrhythmic patterns stand beside long passages without audible drums.

Since 2000 Friedmann runs his own "nonplace" label. He lives in Cologne.

elected Discography

* Drome - "Anachronism" (1992)
* Drome - "The Final Corporate Colonization Of The Unconscious" (1993)
* Nonplace Urban Field - "N.U.F Said" (1994)
* SMC (Some More Crime) - "Fuzzysets" (1995)
* Drome - "Dromed" (1995)
* Nonplace Urban Field - "Nonplace Urban Field" (1995)
* Nonplace Urban Field - "Raum Für Notizen" (1996)
* Nonplace Urban Field - "Golden Star" (1996) (Remix)
* Flanger - "Templates" (1997)
* Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - "Just Landed" (1999)
* Burnt Friedman - "Plays Love Songs" (1999)
* Flanger - "Midnight Sound" (1999)
* Burnt Friedman - "Con Ritmo" (2000)
* Beige - "Ein Königreich Für Eine Handgranate" (2001)
* Flanger - "Inner Space/Outer Space" (2001)
* "Replicant Rumba Rockers" (2002) (Friedmann's Remix of Atom Heart-Material)
* Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - "Playing Secret Rhythms" (2002)
* Burnt Friedman & The Nu Dub Players - "Can't Cool" (2003)
* Flanger - "Spirituals" (2005)
* Nine Horses - "Snow Borne Sorrow" (2005) (with David Sylvian)
* Burnt Friedman & Jaki Liebezeit - "Secret Rhythms II" (2005)
* Nine Horses - "Money For All" (2007) (with David Sylvian)
* Flanger - "Nuclear Jazz" (2007)
* Burnt Friedman - "First Night Forever" (2007)

External links

* [http://www.burntfriedman.com/ Bernd Friedmann's Homepage with several interviews]
* [http://nonplace.de/ Nonplace-Label]
* [http://mitglied.lycos.de/ralfrothberger/#burntfriedman Complete Friedmann-Discography]
* [http://www.ninehorses.com/texts/burnt_friedman_information.html Friedmann bei Nine Horses]
* [http://www.humanworkshop.com/forum/modules.php?name=Downloads&d_op=getit&lid=169 Nine Horses - The Banality of Evil / Hello Neighbour (B-Film remix of Burnt Friedman's remix)]