Komet
Electronic · DE · Active since 1956

Komet

Microscopic digital pulses and crystalline sine waves that turn silence into a rhythmic architecture. Precision-engineered glitch for deep focus and late-night thought.

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Komet creates music that feels like looking at a circuit board through a microscope. It is a world of tiny, flickering lights and perfectly placed clicks that emerge from a foundation of pure sine waves and white noise. The sound is incredibly clean, almost clinical, yet it possesses a strange, hypnotic warmth that reveals itself only after several minutes of immersion. It doesn't demand your attention so much as it provides a structural grid for your thoughts to rest upon.

What sets Frank Bretschneider's work under this alias apart is the rhythmic sophistication he coaxes out of such minimal materials. While other glitch artists might lean into chaos or aggression, Komet is about order and mathematical beauty. The percussion isn't made of drums, but of the sharp edges of digital signals being cut and rearranged. It is the sound of electricity behaving with perfect discipline, creating a sense of space that feels both vast and intimate.

Start with the album 'Gold' to hear this aesthetic at its most refined. It serves as a perfect entry point into the 'Raster-Noton' sound, offering a masterclass in how to build compelling, groovy structures out of almost nothing. It is ideal for anyone who finds beauty in technical precision or needs a sonic environment that encourages deep, uninterrupted concentration.

Frank Bretschneider (born 1956) is a German electronic musician. He works primarily with sine waves and white noise as his source material. He also releases material under the name Komet. Bretschneider was born and raised in Karl-Marx-Stadt (now Chemnitz) in the German Democratic Republic (East Germany). In 1984, inspired by science fiction radio plays and films, he began experimenting with tape machines, synthesizers, and modified guitars. In 1986 he formed the band AG. Geige (German: work group violin), which was influenced by the Dada art movement, The Residents, and Soviet science fiction. AG. Geige disbanded in 1992. In 1995, Bretschneider and fellow AG. Geige band member Olaf Bender founded the Rastermusic record label. In 1999 this label merged with Carsten Nicolai's Noton label, to become Raster-Noton. Bretschneider has released material on record labels such as 12k, Raster-Noton, Mille Plateaux, Fällt and Bip Hop.
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Our Catalog4 Albums · 1996 · 2003
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