Raster-Noton


Raster-Noton was a German electronic music record label. It was established in 1999 in Chemnitz, Germany. By the mid 2010s, it had become known as "one of Europe’s most revered and reliable hubs for experimental electronic music, IDM and audio-visual art."
Raster-Noton emerged from the fusion of Rastermusik, founded by Olaf Bender and Frank Bretschneider in 1996, and Noton, a sub-label that was run by Carsten Nicolai.
The label focused on the overlapping border areas of pop, art, and science, releasing music albums, publications, and installation works focused on rhythmic, minimal electronic music.
In 2017, the label split into two entities: Raster, to be run by Bender, and Noton, focusing on Nicolai's output.

Artists

Catalogue

20' to 2000

20' to 2000 is a monthly series of twelve CDs released over the course of 1999, with each month's artist contributing a 20-minute project expressing "possibly a manifest of the millennium". Each disc was packaged in a thin plastic slipcase with a hollow core. A separate kit containing twelve magnets fit into the core and allowed the individual discs to be joined into one set. This series received the "Golden Nica" award from Ars Electronica in 2000.
monthartist
JanuaryKomet
FebruaryIlpo Väisänen
MarchRyoji Ikeda
AprilCoH
MayOlaf Bender, Byetone
JuneJens Massel, Senking
JulyThomas Brinkmann
AugustRobin Rimbaud
SeptemberAlva Noto
OctoberMika Vainio
NovemberWolfgang Voigt
DecemberELpH: elph.zwölf