Artist:
Thomas Brinkmann
Title:
GetGetGet
Label:
Editions Mego
Cat#:
EMEGO323
Release Date:
23rd October 2026
Format:
vinyl, download & streaming
Tracklist:
01.
GETGETGET/A
02.
GETGETGET/B
Press Info:
“Negative Music / The Poorest! If they still know silence at all, then only as holes in the continuum of noise…” — Günther Anders, 1965
Editions Mego presents GETGETGET, a new release by Thomas Brinkmann which serves as an inquiry into silence, code, and the limits of perception.
The title GETGETGET references the trilogy of ‘Get’ lp’s made by Rehberg under his PITA moniker; Get Out, Get In and Get On. The music is based on material by Rehberg and Brinkmann morphing these two identities into a third colour, a disappearing color.
Emerging from a live performance at the label’s 30th anniversary in Berlin, the work unfolds as both sonic artifact and conceptual system: a study in what remains when sound is reduced, extracted, and reconstituted.
Taking inspiration from Günther Anders’ notion of “negative music”—composition through absence—Brinkmann’s approach aligns with Heinrich Böll’s idea of “collected silence”: silence not as void, but as a material framed against the constant pressure of noise. In GETGETGET, pauses are not gaps but structural elements, cut from a continuum and reinserted as signals.
The two side long tracks weave a dark abstract and ‘twisted’ presence where the ghosts of the machines and their operators fuse into a fantastical whole. One can hear traces of both Brinkmann and Rehberg logic which seems to fuse in a hallucinatory manner.
Brinkmann’s work reflects a broader condition: the translation of material processes into informational ones. As images detach from bodies and code separates from matter, sound too loses its fixed resonance. What remains is circulation—of signals, of data, of meaning—within systems that increasingly define perception itself.
GETGETGET is an album where absence is equal to presence, a metaphor with suggestive tones of the influence Rehberg had and continues to have in the world of the radical experimental electronic avant garde. The “zero” is not empty; it is what makes everything else work.
Snippets:
Special:
“RA.143”
Recommendations:
Thomas Brinkmann’s “Max Ernst 25th Anniversary EP” on Third Ear Recordings
Thomas Brinkmann’s “Guy Martin EP” on Third Ear Recordings
Thomas Brinkmann’s “When The Music … EP” on Third Ear Recordings
Depeche Mode’s “Exciter | The 12 Inch Singles” w/ Brinkmann remix on Mute
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