Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik share 12-inch EP on Mannequin Records
Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik release a four-track 12-inch EP on Mannequin Records on June 20, 2026, with electro and EBM tracks from 2000-2002.
Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik, two German electro and EBM projects, have released a four-track 12-inch EP on Mannequin Records. The split vinyl gathers recordings made under both names at the turn of the 2000s. These tracks were previously sold only inside a limited edition, and this is the first time they are offered on their own.
The release pairs both projects across two sides. The A-side holds the Electronic Corporation tracks “Illuminate” and “We Got Velocity”, first issued in 2000 and 2001. The B-side collects “My Darkest Sounds” and “Nothing But My Beat” from heimelektronik’s “Electronic Lifeforms” EP, first issued in 2002. The four tracks mix electro and EBM.
The record is a 12-inch vinyl in a standard 12-inch disco jacket. The four songs were previously available only inside a limited edition, and the remaining copies are now sold separately for the first time. Mannequin Records issues the 12-inch EP through its Bandcamp store.
How the EP connects to the “Electronic Corporation 1998-2006” compilation
The EP follows a related Mannequin Records vinyl issued on May 9, 2026, “Electronic Corporation 1998-2006“. That ten-track compilation gathers recordings by heimelektronik and MAS 2008, compiled and remastered by Rude 66 from the original sources, with each copy pressed in a different colour blend. The four songs on the new 12-inch sit alongside that compilation as part of the same reissue.
Mannequin Records was founded in Rome in 2008 by Alessandro Adriani and Carlo Cassaro, and is now based in Berlin. The label reissues post-punk, cold wave and industrial recordings from the late 1970s and 1980s, and also releases contemporary electronic work. Its earlier archival electro releases on Side-Line include Voltage Control period 1990-1992 compiled on vinyl and Leroy Se Meurt releases âVouĂ© Ă rouillerâ: New electro album on Mannequin Records.
About Electronic Corporation and heimelektronik
heimelektronik, also written H.E.I.M. Elektronik, is an electronic music project from Dortmund, Germany. It was founded in 1996 by Holger Erlenwein and Ive MĂŒller. The pair split in 1999, and MĂŒller has continued under the name as a soloist. MAS 2008 is a separate project by Ive MĂŒller with RenĂ© Kirchner. Both mix stripped-down electro, minimal electronics and machine-driven body music.
Mannequin Records describes MĂŒller’s roots in the East German underground, where he worked as a teenage mobile DJ before turning to electro and EBM at the turn of the 2000s.
Electronic Corporation is the name Mannequin Records uses for these turn-of-the-2000s recordings by heimelektronik and MAS 2008. heimelektronik’s “Electronic Lifeforms” EP supplied the new release’s B-side. The reissue began with the “Electronic Corporation 1998-2006” compilation on May 9, 2026, and continues with the this heimelektronik collaboration 12-inch EP on June 20, 2026, which returns four further tracks from the era to circulation.
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