Gudrun Gut
Gudrun Gut (born May 20, 1957 as Gudrun Bredemann)[1] is a German electronic musician, DJ, presenter, music producer and founder of the Monika Enterprise music label.
She grew up in the Lüneburger Heide and moved to Berlin in 1975, where she studied visual arts at the Hochschule der Künste from 1978 to 1984.[2] She was an early member of experimental act Einstürzende Neubauten and a founding member of music groups Mania D, Malaria! and Matador. She is the head of the labels Monika Enterprise and Moabit Musik. She co-presented the Oceanclub weekly radio program in Berlin with Thomas Fehlmann. Her debut solo album, I Put a Record On was released on February 5, 2007.[3] Music critics saluted the openness and approachability of the music on the record.[4][5] Gudrun Gut is co-founder of the female electronic musicians network female:pressure which has a feminist intention.
According to The Wire magazine's April 2008 issue, which featured Gudrun Gut on the cover, "this 'dilettante' has genially hosted Berlin's new music scene for 30 years".[6]
Works
Selected discography
- 1980: White Christmas 7″ (with Tabea Blumenschein, Frieder Butzmann and Bettina Köster)
- 1996: YadiYAdi maxi single (with Anita Lane)
- 1996: Die Sonne maxi single (with Blixa Bargeld)
- 1996: Members of The Ocean Club CD (v. a. with Anita Lane, Danielle de Picciotto, Blixa Bargeld, Jovanka von Willsdorf, Jayney Klimek, Inga Humpe, Myra Davies, Katharina Franck and Manon P. Duursma)
- 1996: Firething maxi single (with Anita Lane)
- 2004: Members of The Ocean Club double CD (reissue with a remix CD containing mixes from Ellen Allien, Thomas Fehlmann, Effective Force, Ian Pooley, The Orb, Paul van Dyk, Klaus Schulze, Spinout and CoBra)
- 2005: Move Me 7″
- 2007: I Put A Record On CD
- 2007: In Pieces 12″ (remixes from Burger/Voigt, Pole, Dntel)
- 2007: Pleasure Train 7″
- 2008: Apples, Pears and Deer in Poland EP
- 2010: Baustelle CD (with Antye Greie-Ripatti as Greie Gut Fraktion)
- 2011: Rekonstruktion CD (remix CD of the Baustelle record)
- 2012: Wildlife CD
- 2012: 500m CD (with Jochen Irmler as Gut Und Irlmler)
- 2016: Vogelmixe – Gudrun Gut Remixes Heimatlieder aus Deutschland Berlin / Augsburg CD / Vinyl
- 2017: Instrumentals For "Sirens" LP (with Beate Bartel)
Filmography
- 1988: Dandy – directed by Peter Sempel
- 1995: Girls Bite Back – directed by Wolfgang Büld
- 2005: Verschwende deine Jugend – directed by Benjamin Quabeck
- 2015: B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West-Berlin 1979-1989, documentary with Mark Reeder
Radio drama music
- 1991: Paul Zech: Das Trunkene Schiff – directed by Wolfgang Rindfleisch (Radio drama – Funkhaus Berlin)
Bibliography
- Marke B, Berliner Labels. Verbrecher Verlag ed., Berlin 2002. ISBN 3-935843-18-6 (with Thomas Fehlmann and Daniel Meteo).
References
- ^ Ocean Club Radio GmbH in Berlin (Handelsregister entry)
- ^ "Bio & Discs - G.Gut". M-enterprise.de. Retrieved 2012-10-24.
- ^ I Put a Record On, MP3 Album on eMusic.com. Accessed 2 June 2007.
- ^ Brian Howe (1 August 2007). "Gudrun Gut - I put a record on". Pitchfork.
- ^ Mike Schiller (28 June 2007). "Gudrun Gut: I put a record on". Pop Matters.
- ^ The Wire, Issue #290, April 2008, Online summary
External links
- Homepage at Monika Enterprise
- Gudrun Gut: Memory Podcast (A summary of her career featuring tracks by various projects she was involved in. Recorded for The Wire in 2008. MP3, 40 minutes)
- Short CV on the Ocean Club home page
- Gudrun Gut at IMDb
- Myspace
- Interview in EXBERLINER Magazine
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