b. 1965, Coburg, Germany. Friedmann is one of the more intriguing figures operating in electronic music. He has listed German progressive rock, Gary Numan, Iron Maiden and Tangerine Dream as early influences. However, his life seems to have been irrevocably changed by childhood experiments with a cassette player and he has previously quoted Andy Warhol's maxim that: ‘The acquisition of my tape recorder really finished whatever emotional life I might have had. But I was glad to see it go.'
Friedmann named his own label Nonplace, as a metaphor for where he sees himself in the ...