Hermann Kopp is a German composer

Composer

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 and musician

Musician

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, presently living in Barcelona

Barcelona

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, Spain

Spain

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Biography

After moving to Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

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 in 1979 he became a member of the German electro-industrial band Keine Ahnung. In the eighties he released two vinyl records with a sound that can be vaguely classified as electronic minimalism

Minimalism

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. In 1987 he participated in the soundtrack of the German horror film Nekromantik

Nekromantik

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, followed in 1989 by music to the movie Der Todesking

Der Todesking

Der Todesking is a 1989 German horror film directed by Jörg Buttgereit. This experimental style movie which does not use central characters explores the topic of suicide and violent death in the form of seven episodes, each one attributed to one day of the week...

and in 1990 to Nekromantik 2

Nekromantik 2

NEKRomantik 2 is 1991 German horror/splatter film directed by Jörg Buttgereit and a sequel of his 1987 film Nekromantik. The film is about necrophilia, and was quite controversial and was seized by authorities in Munich 12 days after its release, an action that had no precedent in Germany since the...

. Unlike the song material that tends to be intimist and voluntarily drawing on the kitsch

Kitsch

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 side, his film scores create uneasy and haunting atmospheres, weaving atonal strings, slow motion rhythms, moog synthesizer

Moog synthesizer

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s and plain noise into soundtrack form. In 2007, Hermann Kopp released “Psicofonico”, abstract violin soundscapes influenced by a Spanish documentary on the Electronic Voice Phenomena. His release “Under A Demon’s Mask”, however, remains closer to his earlier horror scores, developing them into an individualistic, morbid musical language.

He has been signed to the following labels through his career;

• Passiv
• Red Stream
• Vinyl On Demand
  Vinyl On Demand
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• Bataille
• Galakthorrö
• Aesthetic Records

In Other Media

In the movie Der Todesking

Der Todesking

Der Todesking is a 1989 German horror film directed by Jörg Buttgereit. This experimental style movie which does not use central characters explores the topic of suicide and violent death in the form of seven episodes, each one attributed to one day of the week...

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

Uwe Barschel

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 who was found dead in the bathtub of a hotel in Geneva

Geneva

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, following a political scandal that became popular under the name of “Waterkantgate”.

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
• "Under A Demon's Mask", Vinyl and CD, 2008
• "Nekronology", Vinyl-LP, 2009
• "Cerveau D'Enfant", Vinyl-EP, 2010

External links

• http://www.hermannkopp.com
• http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0465841