On March 7, 2025, Ensemble Modern and Hainbach release the vinyl album ›Primer‹ on Ensemble Modern Media. It is the first vinyl album produced by the Ensemble’s own label. The experimental artist and YouTuber Hainbach uses nuclear research equipment and magnetic tape loops to create ever shifting electronic compositions.

The Berlin-based composer and performer of electronic music Hainbach first collaborated with Ensemble Modern in the autumn of 2022, during its experimental series ›Checkpoint‹.

Hainbach:
"Primer is both a live show and an interpretation of a live show. Everything that can be heard here was recorded during the ›Checkpoint‹ concert in Frankfurt when the Ensemble and I performed together for the first time. At the studio, I got together with EM’s double bass player Paul Cannon, and we took the recording apart. We wanted it to sound like a record, not like the broadcast of a live show, so we cut and pasted, using echoes and modulators until we had found a sound and an intensity which represented what ›Primer‹ is: a starting signal, a bolt of lightning, the start of something that will hopefully remain"

Paul Cannon:

"Hainbach has a unique approach to discovering the hidden potential in all kinds of objects and in vintage electronics. He has the rare gift of arousing curiosity and fascination for his open world of sounds and music."

On March 9, 2025, Ensemble Modern and Hainbach meet again, presenting the world premiere ›Übersetzungsverstärker – Eco della Traduzione (2022/2025)‹ at the subscription concert at the Alte Oper Frankfurt.

TRACKLIST :

A1 Funeral For Justice (Injustice Version)

A2 Imouhar (Injustice Version)

A3 Takoba (Injustice Version)

A4 Sousoume Tamacheq (Injustice Version)

A5 Imajighen (Injustice Version)

A6 Tchinta (Injustice Version)

A7 Oh France (Injustice Version)

A8 Modern Slaves (Injustice Version)