Sonic Subjunkies was a German Digital Hardcore

Digital hardcore

Digital hardcore is a subgenre of hardcore punk incorporating influences from electronic music. Digital hardcore fuses elements of hardcore punk with various forms of electronic music...

 band based in Berlin, best known for releasing records on Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings

Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...

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History

Formed in the autumn of 1992, The band consisted of vocalist Holger Phrack, programmer Rob Marvin and producer/programmer Thaddi Herrmann

Thaddi Herrmann

Thaddeus Herrmann is the editor for de:bug, a German magazine that focuses on the electronica and post-rock genres of music. The magazine is regarded as the nation's premier magazine for music in the aforementioned genres...

.The trio would later go on to release two limited edition albums and a handful of singles on Digital Hardcore, before defecting to the label Iris Light in 1998 for the release of their album Molotov Lounge.

In later years Thaddi also contributed to other projects such as Herrmann & Kleine

Herrmann & Kleine

Herrmann & Kleine was a plinkerpop duo that formed circa 1997 and featured veteran DJ Christian Kleine and City Centre Offices label manager, Thaddi Herrmann. In addition to releasing a pair of EP recordings, the duo also provided remixes to tracks by various notable bands, including His Name Is...

, but was also DJ for radio KISS FM Berlin and went on to be editor of the German music magazine de:bug. No new SSJ material has surfaced since 1998, but a re-released vinyl version of Molotov Lounge was bought out on Lux Nigra in 2004.

Discography

• Suburban Soundtracks Pt.1 (12", EP) Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) 1994
• Sounds From The City Of Quartz (Cass) Midi War 1995
• Turntable Terrorist E.P. (12", EP) Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) 1995
• Live At The Suicide Club 8 - 7 - 95 (CD) Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) 1998
• Molotov Lounge (CD) Iris Light Records 1999, re-released on Lux Nigra in 2004
• With A Little Love / Sonic Junior (7", Pur) Irritant 2000

External links

• Discogs Page Sonic Subjunkies on Discogs
  Discogs
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