Ekkehard Ehlers is an electronic music artist. In addition to his solo career, he has recorded under the name Auch, and also with the duo Autopoesies and the group März. A BBC reviewer wrote of Ehlers music: Ehlers' music toys with your perceptions a little, opening up a space to think Ehlers became interested in aesthetic theory, particularly the work of Theodor Adorno, as a university student in Frankfurt. He began working with friend Sebastian Meissner as Autopoieses in the late 1990s. Autopoieses was in part about the recontextualization of samples, and the duo released their well-received debut record exploring these ideas in 1998 on Mille Plateaux offshoot Ritornell. Ehlers' tested the solo waters with minimal techno released as Auch in 2000. That same year Ehlers' released his first solo album under his own name, the dark and abstract Betrieb. Constructed primarily of manipulated samples of Arnold Schönberg and Charles Ive

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