Andi & Hannes Teichmann
Berlin
They don't call it techno. They call it social music. Togetherness is the driving force for GEBRÜDER TEICHMANN and their extremely versatile activities. In the minds of Andi and Hannes Teichmann, music is a playground, a network of interdependent improvised DIY scenes.
Their approach turns a club or a concert venue into a meeting ground, forming a temporary space for shared ear-opening experiences. In Berlin alone, you can list Suicide Circus, Staatsoper, Berghain, HAU and Hamburger Bahnhof as places where GEBRÜDER TEICHMANN allowed for this kind of exchange to happen. Their DJ sets reflect social and sonic relations, resonating experiences over continents and traditions. They push borders, are always in the making, never finished, never done.
But their vision is a global one: establishing grassroots connections from Pakistan to Angola, Sri Lanka to Mexico, taking in influences from Chicago house to contemporary music and electro-acoustic experiments. Noland--the name of Teichmann's label - couldn't reflect this approach any better.
Arno Raffeiner / 2022
Berlin based Gebrüder Teichmann are the two brothers Andi and Hannes Teichmann who work as electronic musicians, DJs, producers and cultural activists. Their work is not limited by style or genre borders. With their musical and cultural projects the two try to find new ways to build bridges.
With their special live electronic setup they collaborate with artists from a wide range of genres, from hip hop to classical music, from traditional to experimental music.
In the field of contemporary music they´ve worked with ensembles as Ensemble Modern or Ensemble Decoder and composers as Moritz Eggert or Leopold Hurt.
Beside that they perform with their father Uli Teichmann as Teichmann & Söhne.
The improvisation trio not only brings together two generations of german avantgarde musicians, but combines elements of world, freejazz, ambient, techno and krautrock.
As networkers they brothers developed intercultural projects in cooperation with Goethe Institutes around the world.
Since 2009 they have put together the project BLNRB with the Goethe-Institut Kenya including artists like Modeselektor, Jahcoozi, Just a Band, Ukoo Flani beside others and are part of the TEN CITIES project management, a research and collaboration project, focusing on history and present of the underground club scenes in the European cities of Berlin, Bristol, Kyiv, Lisbon and Naples and the African cities of Johannesburg, Cairo, Luanda, Lagos and Nairobi. Soundcamp Sri Lanka, the Mondmaschine Project in Mexico and Soundcamp Karachi follwoed.
They curated several nights at Worldtronic Festival at Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Their diverse musical activities DJing, giving workshops and playing live have taken them to over 60 countries as far as Afghanistan, Angola or Honduras.
Gebrüder Teichmann started getting into music in 1989 at the age of 9 and 12 years with their punk band Totalschaden before they discovered electronic music.
They´ve been an active part of the Berlin underground scene since the late 90s and have been playing all relevant Berlin clubs from Berghain/Panorama Bar, WMF to Bar25.
Since 2009 they are hosting regular nights at Suicide Circus Berlin.
Together and solo they have released on various labels, such as Kompakt, Ladomat, Killekill, Staubgold, Soundway, Outhere or Disko B and their own labels Festplatten, Teichtracks, NOLAND and NOLAND Tracks.
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