About
Germany Mille Plateaux is a label for experimental electronic music and electronic arts. Genres like Clickhop, Glitch, Clicks & Cuts, Minimal etc. were largely influenced (and named) if not formed by the label. The name "Mille Plateaux" (A Thousand Plateaus) initially stemmed from a concept and same-titled principal work co-authored by Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, French psychoanalyst and philosopher respectively. The former gave his approval of the use of "Mille Plateaux" to the original label founder. History: * 1993: founded by Achim Szepanski Sublabel of Force Inc. Music Works until 2004 Releases 1 to 15 are a cooperation between Force Inc. Music Works and Blue. * 2003: Defunct after the bankruptcy of distributor EFA * 2004: Temporarily revived as MillePlateauxMedia by Achim Szepanski * 2006: Run by Disco Inc. Ltd. * 2008: Run by Marcus Gabler * 2018: label [Mille Plateaux] launched by Achim Szepanski Please only submit releases with MP-catalog numbers here. Releases with MPM-catalog numbers belong to MillePlateauxMedia.
Sub-labels
Ritornell
Sublabel of Mille Plateaux for abstract experimental electronic music and sound art.
Force Intel
Force Intel is a branch for IDM. Mille Plateaux received many demos that were not experimental enough for their label, but actually very good as IDM. The solution was a new label. Force Intel is no...
Cluster
Cluster is Mille Plateaux’s label for experimental ambient music.
Badly Organized (Mille Plateaux)
Badly Organized is Mille Plateaux’s label for Avantgarde, Obscure, Naive, Impro, New Music, DaDa etc. It further expands the range of genres featurerd on Mille Plateaux. Founded by Marcus Gabler...
Mille Plateaux Organic
Mille Plateaux Organic is Mille Plateaux's sublabel for acoustic, cinematic or otherwise non-electronic artful music. Founded by Marcus Gabler 2011.
Electric Ladyland
Series of compilations on the label. For New York studios please use .
Clicks & Cuts
Clicks & Cuts is a famous series of compilations of experimental electronic music and IDM. The series was established at the Mille Plateaux label in 2000.