• Digital


Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland

  • Cat No: GIGOLO373
  • Release: 2026-04-17
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Format

digital 1400 JPY

The remix album Gesamtklärwerk Deutschland is a collaborative art and music project by Jonathan Meese and DJ Hell. It combines electronic club music with conceptual art and motifs drawn from cultural theory.

From an academic perspective, the project can be understood as an interdisciplinary intersection of pop culture, performance art, and electronic music studies. Remix structures here function in a way similar to how they are described in media studies: existing sonic and semantic structures are deconstructed, recombined, and placed into altered contexts. The "treatment plant" (Klärwerk) motif can be interpreted metaphorically as a process of cultural filtering or purification, in which historical narratives, ideologies, and pop symbols are reprocessed.

From a historical standpoint, the project draws on several traditions:

- the avant-garde strategies of the Dada and Fluxus movements, which employed collage, provocation, and irony
- the German electronic music tradition since the 1970s (e.g., experimental studio work and concept albums)
- the club and remix culture of the 1990s and 2000s, in which DJs use existing works as raw material for new aesthetic forms

Thus, the album is understood less as a conventional music release and more as a comprehensive artistic concept that raises questions about German cultural history, pop mythologies, and the role of remix as a cultural method.

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