Mission Statement

SPRENGSTOFF RECORDINGS (meaning "dynamite" in german) was founded in october 2002 in Berlin. Basically I started this as a D.I.Y. thing because I was fed up asking other labels to release my music.

I tried not to release music following any trend but just putting the tracks on vinyl I believed in (Oh, another thing: the release policy is "vinyl only" cause I still think this is the hottest format). Music should touch peoples feelings through aggressiveness, sadness, happiness, love/ hate-the-world-, let´s-start-the-rave-, read-a-book-feeling or whatever. But it never should be boring. I´m often missing this fact in electronic music- the spirit of the heart is often replaced by pure technical virtuosity. Also the idea behind Sprengstoff Recordings was to transport some message. I´m highly influenced by 80s Thrash Metal and Punkrock where it was quite normal to deliver political statements. This was one of the greatest things for me in those genres: the deliverd views trying to make the audience think and not just seeing them as a a bunch of blind consumers.
For me the label work isn´t "all about music" but just the consequent continuation of the spirit of enlightenment. Check the texts I published on http://www.lfodemon.com to see what are the point of views I´m promoting (and also how those views changed).


On a musical level the message is "diversity". I´ve never seen this label has a "hardcore" label or something but as a label to release the music I like - and I like a lot of various music.
Although I started with music that could be filed under "dancefloor", I never wanted to be stuck on that. Kool Pop is a good example of how a label can work: not giving a fuck what people expect but just putting out interesting records with innovative sounds.
I also never cared about name-dropping. You either do good music or not- no matter if you released twenty or zero records yet. Of course the phrase of"anything goes" is also an illusion. There are economic constraints in the production and marketing of records. Oh, those ugly words! But if I understood Marx correctly, I just can laugh at people pretending to be "underground". There´s no such thing as freedom when everbody is subordinated the dominance of the market. I luckily never had to make a living out of the label so I had the maximum freedom in deciding what music to release.

lfo demon, 21.12.2004
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