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Forte Records

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Forte Records was founded in 1998 by Christian Morgenstern as it was more and more difficult for him to find a suitable outlet for his own productions, a mixture between electronic Pop-music and Techno/House. He decided to found a label that was open for something new. The idea was to create a platform that features good electronic music no matter what kind it might be of - a label without narrow-minded musical barriers - open for new influences, flavours and various styles of Media Arts.
Mid 1999 the moody Tech-House album "The Lydia E.P." by Christian Morgenstern was released and appreciated by DJs throughout the world, followed by the multimedia project "Death Before Disko". November 1999 Forte signed the super-furry 80's inspired Ural 13 Diktators from Finland and planted foundation stone for the launch of their sucessful debut album "Total Destruction". In 2001 Christian Morgenstern's highly acclaimed 80's Pop influenced album "Hawaii Blue" was released, and the Forte army was joined by the german (ex Rock, now Techno band) Codec & Flexor. Starting as an outlet mainly for Christian Morgenstern's own music, Forte Records by now has developed towards one of the freshests outlets for electronic Pop music.

Labelcode: LC 11290
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Discography

Releases:
FRT01 Christian Morgenstern Night Of The Living Deaf (12") 1998
FRT02 Christian Morgenstern Night Of The Living Deaf (Remixes) (12") 1999
FRT03 Christian Morgenstern Death Before Disko (2xLP) 1999
FRT03CD Christian Morgenstern Death Before Disko (CD, Album) 1999
FRT04CD Christian Morgenstern The Lydia EP (CD, EP) 2000
FRT04LP Christian Morgenstern The Lydia EP (2x12", EP) 2000
FRT05 Christian Morgenstern Re:Death Before Disko (2xLP) 2000
FRT05CD Christian Morgenstern Re:Death Before Disko (CD, Enh) 2000
FRT05Promo Christian Morgenstern Re:Death Before Disko (12", Promo) 2000
FRT06 Ural 13 Diktators Total Destruction EP (EP) (2 versions) 2000
FRT07 Ural 13 Diktators Total Destruction (2x12", Album) 2001
FRT07CD Ural 13 Diktators Total Destruction (CD, Album) 2000
FRT08 Christian Morgenstern Hawaii Blue (12") 2000
FRT09 Christian Morgenstern Hawaii Blue (Album) (2 versions) 2001
FRT10 Various It's Not Just About Skiing - The Best Of Forte Records So Far (CD, Mixed, Comp) 2001
FRT10LP Various It's Not Just About Skiing (2x12") 2001
FRT11 Ural 13 Diktators Total Destruction (Remixes) (12") 2001
FRT11CD Ural 13 Diktators Total Destruction (Remixes) (CD, Maxi) 2001
FRT12 Codec & Flexor Crazy Girls (12") 2001
FRT13 Ronny Priest* Tracked Romance (12") 2001
FRT14 Moshikop Way Above Below (Album) (2 versions) 2002
FRT15 Codec & Flexor The Remixes (2 versions) 2002
FRT16 Portamento Featuring Bochum Welt Quadscreen (2 versions) 2002
FRT17 Dr. Shingo Have You Ever Seen The Blue Comet (2 versions) 2002
FRT18 Dr. Shingo Dr Shingo's Space Odd-Yssey (2 versions) 2002
FRT18CD Dr. Shingo Dr Shingo's Space Odd-Yssey (CD) 2002
FRT19 Codec & Flexor Black Diamonds (12") 2002
FRT20CD Various It's Not Just About Skiing - The Best Of Forte Records Part 2 (CD) 2003
FRT21 Matthew Mercer Secrets (2 versions) 2002
FRT 022-2 Codec & Flexor Tubed (Album) (2 versions) 2002
FRT22LP Codec & Flexor Tubed (2x12") 2002
FRT23 Christian Morgenstern Aux Talk Funkativity (12") 2003
FRT25 Solar (3) Cutting Your Head (12") 2003
FRT26CD Solar (3) Soulless (CD) 2003
FRT26LP Solar (3) Soulless (2xLP, Promo) 2003
FRT27 Christian Morgenstern The Socially Useless EP (12", EP) 2003
FRT28CD Morgenstern* Carolea (CD, Album) 2003
FRT28LP Morgenstern* Carolea (2x12", Album) 2003
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Reviews & Discussion

Review by Segar Jun 29, 2003
yes, that's true!! i'm very sad!! he had an heart attack...

R.I.P. Christian!

Goodbye
Review by rev Jun 24, 2003
Christian Morgenstern, head of Forte Records Cologone, died last week. Rest in Peace, Christian!