SEKTION release first album ‘Druck’ on Geometrik Records
SEKTION, the AtomTM and Siegmar Fricke project, release “Druck”, their first album, on Geometrik Records, out 17 July 2026 on a limited black vinyl LP.
SEKTION, the project of German electronic musicians AtomTM (Uwe Schmidt) and Siegmar Fricke, release “Druck“, their first full-length album, on Geometrik Records, out 17 July 2026 as a limited black vinyl LP of 250 copies. The record moves through industrial and experimental electronic territory across thirteen tracks and marks the first official SEKTION collaboration between the two, a connection the pair trace back to 1992.
SEKTION detail ‘Druck’ and its structure
“Druck” is built from four compositional frameworks that Schmidt and Fricke title Vokostasis, Digitraktion, Leerzeichen and Unwucht. The thirteen tracks follow those groups in sequence: four “Vokostasis” pieces and four “Digitraktion” pieces on the first side, then two “Leerzeichen” edits and three “Unwucht” edits on the second. The duo shape metallic textures, granular rhythms and slow structural shifts, with frequency-altered voice fragments and layers of tape noise running through the record. Geometrik Records has posted four excerpts from the album on SoundCloud.
The album is the first SEKTION full-length. It follows “Kopplung”, a two-track SEKTION release issued in May 2025. Geometrik Records is the Madrid label associated with Spanish industrial group Esplendor Geométrico.
About SEKTION
SEKTION pairs Uwe Schmidt and Siegmar Fricke, two German artists whose work reaches back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. Schmidt, born on 27 August 1968 in Frankfurt am Main, has recorded prolifically since 1988 under names that include Atom TM, Atom Heart, Lassigue Bendthaus and Señor Coconut. He co-founded the label Rather Interesting with Pete Namlook and has released through Raster-Noton, Fax and Mille Plateaux, among others.
His work ranges across techno, ambient, industrial and electrolatino, and his Señor Coconut album “El Baile Alemán” (2000) reworked Kraftwerk as Latin dance music. As a producer and remixer he has worked with Ryuichi Sakamoto, Haruomi Hosono of Yellow Magic Orchestra, Depeche Mode, Merzbow and Towa Tei, and he has reconstructed and remixed material by Esplendor Geométrico.
In July 2024, Uwe H. Schmidt headlined the Russian Outline festival, which returned after its last edition in 2016, and this amid the ongoing conflict with Ukraine. It didn’t take long before critics, such as Ukrainian activist Maya Baklanova, rightfully said that Western artists performing in Russia were normalizing the war and supporting the Russian regime by their participation.
Siegmar Fricke began experimenting with shortwave radio and acoustic noise around 1981, in the space between musique concrète and post-industrial sound, and became an active figure in the international cassette-culture network. He ran his own label, Bestattungsinstitut, and issued numerous tapes between 1985 and 1993 spanning experimental music, EBM and ambient. Since the 2000s he has worked mainly as Pharmakustik, and his collaborations include work with Conrad Schnitzler and Maurizio Bianchi. “Druck” brings the two together as SEKTION for their first album, extending a working relationship the pair date to 1992.
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