Klimek

German electronic music producer Sebastian Meissner, born September 27, 1969, in Czenstochowa, Poland, has employed Klimek among his many pseudonyms for a body of experimental ambient work that a Spex magazine contributor once labeled “violently sad sounding music.” While residing in Frankfurt, Germany, Meissner first entered the electronic-music scene through an encounter with Achim Szepanski, founder of the influential techno imprint Force Inc. and its various subsidiaries. His initial recording, issued in 1999 on Szepanski’s Mille Plateaux label, appeared under the duo name Autopoieses alongside Ekkehard Ehlers and bore the title La Vie à Noir.

In the ensuing years Meissner issued solo projects under additional aliases, including Random Industries’ Selected Random Works in 2000, Random_Inc’s Jerusalem: Tales Outside the Framework of Orthodoxy in 2001 and Walking in Jerusalem in 2002, and Bizz Circuits’ The Very Best of Bizz Circuits in 2002. He introduced the Klimek moniker in 2002 via the double-sided 12-inch Milk & Honey on Kompakt; the tracks “Milk & Honey” and “Sun(Rise)” later surfaced on that label’s Pop Ambient 2003 compilation. Further Klimek output on Kompakt comprised the 2004 album Milk & Honey, the 2005 12-inch Listen, the Snow Is Falling, and the 2006 full-length Music to Fall Asleep, while additional pieces appeared in the Pop Ambient installments of 2004 through 2008. In 2007 Meissner relocated the Klimek project to Ezekiel Honig’s Anticipate Recordings, resulting in the album Dedications.