Mille Plateaux is an influential electronica record label founded 1993 by Achim Szepanski in Frankfurt, Germany. They are known for mostly releasing Minimal Techno, Glitch Music and other experimental electronic music.
Some artists released on the label: Alec Empire, Kid 606, Akufen,Alva Noto, Frank Bretschneider, Twerk, Thomas Koener, Donnacha Costello, .snd, Terre Thaemlitz, Porter Ricks, Stewart Walker, Ultra-red, Cristian Vogel, Wolfgang Voigt (best known as Gas), Oval and Microstoria.
In 2000, to take advantage of the popularity of glitch music in the electronic music scene, Mille Plateaux released their Clicks & Cuts Series, which showed both Mille Plateaux and non-Mille Plateaux glitch music luminaries exploring the genre.
In early 2004, Mille Plateaux parent company Force Inc. Music Works went bankrupt due to the collapse of Germany's main independent music distributor, EFA-Medien. Mille Plateaux and other Force Inc. Music Works associated labels were folded at that time. The label was revived briefly in late 2004 under the name MillePlateauxMedia, with 4 releases. In 2005, 2 Releases were made by RAI STREUBEL MUSIC S.L. on the label Supralinear with the note "by Mille Plateaux".
In 2006, Mille Plateaux (along with the other former Force Inc. Music Works labels Force Inc. and Force Tracks) was taken over by the Berlin based company Disco Inc. Ltd., who only released 2 CD Albums.
In March 2008, Mille Plateaux was acquired by TOTAL RECALL, an online store and distributor for used and new music. With owner Marcus Gabler, known as singer of the band OKAY) as the A&R manager, they aim to close the gap existing since 2004 and continue the original work.
First new releases are scheduled for late 2009.
The name Mille Plateaux was taken from Mille Plateaux, a philosophy book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, published in 1980.
See also
External links
- Official Website
- Official *Milleplateauxmedia Site
- Mille Plateaux page at Discogs
- MillePlateauxMedia page at Discogs
- Achim Szepanski's website
- Supralinear website
- Parent company TOTAL RECALL website
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