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| Kreislauf | |
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| Founded | 2001 |
| Founder | Andreas Buttweiler, Dirk Hartmann |
| Genre | Ambient, Electro, Techno |
| Country of origin | Germany |
| Location | Hamburg |
| Official website | http://kreislauf.org |
Kreislauf is a German netlabel and radio show focusing on quality electronic dance music and ambient music in many flavours (house, techno, breakbeat, etc.).
Kreislauf recommend and publish electronic music beyond commerce and drawers[ clarification needed ]. The project was founded by Andreas Buttweiler and Thomas Hentrich in 1997 as an Ambient-Club in Mannheim/Germany.
In the year 2000 they started their weekly radio-show "Kreislauf. FM" at the free radio-stadion Bermudafunk in Mannheim and Heidelberg, and since 2004 also at Tide 96.0 in Hamburg.
The Label-Section was founded in 2001 by Dirk Hartmann (label-owner of Hörzu!) and Andreas Buttweiler, and become a netlabel in 2006.
Kreislauf 016 was not released.
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