Felix Kubin is an electronic music

Electronic music

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ian. He has been involved with music since he was 8 years old, when he studied piano

Piano

The piano is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. It is one of the most popular instruments in the world. Widely used in classical and jazz music for solo performances, ensemble use, chamber music and accompaniment, the piano is also very popular as an aid to composing and rehearsal...

, organ

Organ (music)

The organ , is a keyboard instrument of one or more divisions, each played with its own keyboard operated either with the hands or with the feet. The organ is a relatively old musical instrument in the Western musical tradition, dating from the time of Ctesibius of Alexandria who is credited with...

 and glockenspiel

Glockenspiel

A glockenspiel is a percussion instrument composed of a set of tuned keys arranged in the fashion of the keyboard of a piano. In this way, it is similar to the xylophone; however, the xylophone's bars are made of wood, while the glockenspiel's are metal plates or tubes, and making it a metallophone...

. His youthful experiments really took off in 1980 when he got a Korg MS-20

Korg MS-20

The Korg MS-20 is a patchable semi-modular monophonic synthesizer which Korg released in 1978 and which was in production until 1983. It was part of Korg's MS series of instruments, which also included the single oscillator MS-10, the keyboardless MS-50 module, and the SQ-10 sequencer...

 synthesizer

Synthesizer

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. His early works have been released under the title The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin. During this time he also played in a punk

Punk rock

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 band Die Egozentrischen 2. In 1987 Felix Kubin co-founded an experimental noise

Noise music

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 group Klangkrieg with Tim Buhre. His first solo album Filmmusik was released in 1998 by Gagarin Records, Felix's own label founded in the same year.

Kubin regularly collaborates on theatric and animation productions, writes radio plays

Radio drama

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 and is a self-described dada

Dada

Dada or Dadaism is a cultural movement that began in Zurich, Switzerland, during World War I and peaked from 1916 to 1922. The movement primarily involved visual arts, literature—poetry, art manifestoes, art theory—theatre, and graphic design, and concentrated its anti-war politics through a...

ist. His musical influences include contemporary classics

Contemporary classical music

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 such as Karlheinz Stockhausen

Karlheinz Stockhausen

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 and György Ligeti

György Ligeti

György Sándor Ligeti was a composer of contemporary classical music. Born in a Hungarian Jewish family in Transylvania, Romania, he briefly lived in Hungary before becoming an Austrian citizen.-Early life:...

, as well as groups such as Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk

Kraftwerk is an influential electronic music band from Düsseldorf, Germany. The group was formed by Ralf Hütter and Florian Schneider in 1970, and was fronted by them until Schneider's departure in 2008...

 and DAF

Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft or D.A.F. is an influential German electropunk/NDW band from Düsseldorf, formed in 1978 featuring Gabriel "Gabi" Delgado-López , Robert Görl , Kurt "Pyrolator" Dahlke , Michael Kemner and Wolfgang Spelmans...

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Discography

• Antarktis Slow Rock - 7", Meeuw Muzak (1998)
• Filmmusik - LP/CD, Gagarin Records, A-Musik (1998)
• Die Pein vom Haupt entfernen - LP/zootrope object, Rund um den Watzmann (1999)
• Jane B. ertrinkt mit den Pferden - 10", Diskono (2000)
• Tesla's Aquarium (with singer Pia Burnette) - LP, Storage (2000)
• Schnitzler - 7", pop'eclectic (2000)
• Ipsomat Legrand (with Reznicek, Mark Mancha) - 10", Disaster Area (2001)
• Jetlag Disco - EP/3"CD, A-Musik (2001)
• Superlake Beat (with Aavikko) - 7", Diskono (2001)
• The Tetchy Teenage Tapes of Felix Kubin 1981-85 - LP/CD, A-Musik, Skipp (2002)
• I hate art galleries - 7", Meeuw Muzak (2003)
• Die kulturelle Revolution - 7", A-Musik (2003)
• Matki Wandalki - LP/CD, A-Musik (2004)
• Der Aufstand der Chemiker (die Egozentrischen 2) - LP, Was soll das? Schallplatten (2004)
• Idiotenmusik - 7", Ultraeczema (2005)
• Territerrortorium (with Wojtek Kucharczyk) - 7", Gagarin Rec. + Mik.Musik (2005)
• Anaerobic Robots (with Mark Boombastik, Jake Basker) - EP, Gagarin Records (2005)
• Atoma Exi Mono (Best of FK) - CD, Solnze (2006)
• There is a garden (with Coolhaven) - 7", A-Musik (2006)
• Suppe für die Nacht (with Coolhaven) - CD, Kormplastics (2006)
• House of National Dog (with Mariola Brillowska) - CD, A-Musik (2007)
• Detached from all objects (with Pia Burnette) - LP/CD, Gagarin Records + Stora (2007)
• The Pataphysical Tape Club (Split-LP with IFCO) - LP/art mag., BIGMAG#2 (2007)
• Axolotl Lullabies - CD/LP, Oral (2007)
• Felix Kubin & das Mineralorchester: music for theatre and radio play - CD/LP, Dekorder (2008)
• Die Inhaberin des Chlorophyllmandats überwacht den Ausgleich von Licht und Schatten - Audio Cassette, ALKU (2008)
• Felix Kubin compilation - CD, Nuevos Ricos (2009)

External links

• http://gagarinrecords.com/ Gagarin Records
• http://www.felixkubin.com/ (last update: 2005)
• Felix Kubin at Acetone Magazine (English-Spanish)
• Parasol Elektroniczny. Rumours from the Eastern Underground Podcast series on the underground sound production in Eastern Europe, curated by Felix Kubin for Ràdio Web MACBA
• Deutsche Kassettentäter. The rise of the German home-recording tape scene Podcast series on the Neue Deutsche Welle, curated by Felix Kubin for Ràdio Web MACBA