nonplace

Nonplace Records represents the german music label launched in 2000 and run by Bernd Friedmann.

Bernd Friedmann (also Burnt Friedman) (born 1965 in Coburg, Germany) is a German musician and producer who works under a variety of project names in the fields of Electronica, Dub and Jazz.
Friedmann was raised in Kassel where he studied painting, performance and video at the Kunsthochschule Kassel from 1984 to 1990. His first recordings of found and self-built instruments, done with Wolfram Der Spyrafrom 1978 to 1982, were released under the name TOXH in 1989.

Friedmann's music defies easy categorisation. His instruments include ambient noise and speech samples, analogue synthesizers and organs, as well as toy piano, steeldrum, kalimba, vibraphone or Melodica. Over the years his trademark sound became easily recognizable even in his remix work for other artists. Often complex polyrhythmic patterns stand beside long passages without audible drums.

Since 2000 Friedmann runs his own "nonplace" label. He lives in Berlin.

Nonplace Records serves as the home platform for a variety of artists such as: Burnt Friedman, Beigem Jaki Liebezeit, Freeform, Shank, Root 70, Flanger, Tohuwabohu, Cyclopean, amongst many others.