A purveyor of digital manipulations of existing music, Ekkehard Ehlers released his debut, Betrieb, in 2000. The record drastically manipulates samples from such early 20th century composers as Arnold Schoenberg and Charles Ives, Ehlers seeing each piece as a closed system with which to experiment. He has worked on a trilogy of mini-albums on which he assumes the spirit of great artists from the past and applies it to electronics. The first in this series was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Robert Johnson followed by Ekkehard Ehlers Plays Albert Ayler, on which he manipulated compositions for cello. The final record in the trilogy was Ekkehard Ehlers Plays John Cassavetes. With Stephan Mathieu, he recorded Heroin. In addition, he has recorded under the alias Auch, as well as with the duo Autopoesies and the group März. (by Geoff Orens, stolen from allmusic.com).

Links:
ekkehard ehlers - politik braucht keinen feind: album of the issue @ absorb.org. And another review of his latest cd at the BBC

Downloads:
Ekkehard Ehlers - The Babes in the wood
Ekkehard Ehlers - down unten
Ekkehard Ehlers - deep tief
Ekkehard Ehlers - Supertramp
Ekkehard Ehlers - Herz
Ekkehard Ehlers - That Which Is Like Them (Freiband Remix)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Behind The Scenes (Kit Clayton Remix)
Ekkehard Ehlers - Webteil (Carmen Baier Remix)

Some more MP3 excerpts can be found at the homepage of Staubgold

Don't wonder when several links are highlighted by putting your mouse coursor over jst "one" link. Those links will take you to webpages where this tracks can be downloaded.