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Total Voigt & Voigt

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Voigt & Voigt, the project that has repeatedly redefined the multifaceted kinship and musical relationships of Reinhard and Wolfgang Voigt over the years, is probably the closest thing to what one could call the artistic depiction of a lifelong connection. At the latest since the founding of the first record store in 1993 together with Jörg Burger and Jürgen Paape, the two Voigt brothers have been walking together almost continuously, equally influenced by a childhood in the Cologne district of Mülheim as they were awakened by the historic lightning strike of American acid house, united in love for individual representatives of intellectual British pop music just as they are for Ralf and Florian and other world-changing achievements originating from the Rhineland such as: Brauhaus, Carnival, Sound of Cologne.

On the one hand Wolfgang, a trained drummer, who grows up with German Schlager in his ears, plays in bands early on, finds himself in punk, but above all in the glam rock and psychedelics of the seventies, only to become heavily addicted to the lips of Green Gartside and Paddy McAloon at the beginning of the eighties, before DJ Pierre snatches him from all dreams. Shortly thereafter, a breathtaking artist career takes off, in the course of which not only Mike Ink, Wassermann and GAS, but also Wolfgang Voigt himself are (re)born.

On the other side, the younger brother Reinhard, who follows the elder at every turn, but with due distance and sufficient stubbornness. He builds his own world, in which, after the 303 revolution, especially (sadly recently deceased) Richard H. Kirk leaves deep traces at the beginning of the nineties. Reinhard borrowed his first name from Kirk’s legendary Warp project Sweet Exorcist and in 1994, with his "Kultur EP" on Wolfgang's Profan label, empowered himself as Sweet Reinhard, an unpolished revenant somewhere between Felix Krull and Palais Schaumburg, who programmed his tracks down to the last corner of the 4/4 beat as if snares and hi-hats were colorful Lego bricks, resulting in an interpretation of acid, house and bleep techno never heard before.

As Voigt & Voigt, the two have always taken a different path than simply tipping "the best of both worlds" together. The early, very elegant releases "Korn/Roxy" and "Dorn/Vision" on Kompakt Extra/Speicher, were followed by the thoroughly pop-affine series "Erdingertrax" and finally the album "Die Zauberhafte Welt Der Anderen", a "surrealistic gem of cologne techno-psychedelia", on which the brothers devoted themselves to acrobatic reference sampling and imaginative pop collages without restraint or limits. Finally, in the pandemic year 2020, the disturbingly bewitching digital album "Mülheim Deluxe" was released.

In this field of tension between merciless techno that musically captures the spirit of a long brewery night, experimental and almost cinematic electronic sketches and finally tracks that repeatedly pay homage to the big P-word, "Total Voigt & Voigt", a digital best-of compilation of Voigt & Voigt contributions to KOMPAKT's traditional TOTAL series, also moves.

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released October 20, 2022

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Voigt & Voigt Cologne, Germany

Voigt & Voigt is the joint project of brothers Reinhard and Wolfgang - an infamous pairing fit not only for the bombastic Speicher imprint.

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