Hermann Kopp
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Hermann Kopp (born August 21, 1954 in Stuttgart) is a German composer and musician, presently living in Barcelona, Spain.
After moving to Karlsruhe in 1979 he becomes a member of the German electro-industrial band Keine Ahnung.
In the eighties he releases two vinyl records with a sound that can be vaguely classified as electronic minimalism.
In 1987 he participates in the soundtrack of the German horror film Nekromantik, followed in 1989 by music to the movie Der Todesking and in 1990 to Nekromantik 2.
Unlike the song material that tends to be intimist and voluntarily drawing on the kitsch side, his film scores create uneasy and haunting atmospheres, weaving atonal strings, slow motion rhythms, moog synthesizers and plain noise into soundtrack form.
Recently, Hermann Kopp has been working on music for the video game project “Sabotage” and for the Spanish documentary "Psicofonías - Las Voces Desconocidas".
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[edit] Discography
- "Aquaplaning in Venedig", Vinyl-EP 1981
- "Pop", Vinyl-LP, 1983
- "Japgirls in Synthesis", Vinyl-LP, 2004
- "Nekronology", CD, 2004
- "Kitsch", Vinyl-LP, 2004
- "Mondo Carnale", Vinyl-LP, 2005
- "Psicofonico", CD, 2007
[edit] Labels
Passiv
Red Stream
Vinyl On Demand
Bataille
[edit] Trivia
In the movie Der Todesking Hermann Kopp plays a part as a man drowning himself in his bathtub. His name in the film, Barsch, is an allusion to the German politician Uwe Barschel who was found dead in the bathtub of a hotel in Geneva, following a political scandal that became popular under the name of “Waterkantgate”.
