Robert Lippok

In 2001, the music sharing platform Napster disappeared from the market after only two years, while iTunes and Ableton Live were released. When Robert Lippok released the CD “Open Close Open” on the raster-noton label in 2001, it marked a turning point for him. Since the early 1980s, the artist, who grew up in East Berlin, has been exploring the boundaries and new frontiers of art with band projects such as “Ornament und Verbrechen” and, since the 1990s, with “To Rococo Rot.” After Lippok's solo album “Open Close Open” was re-released on vinyl by the Japanese label Flau in 2016, he finally released an extended version on a 12" glow-in-the-dark vinyl in 2024. Not least, this reminiscence of New York techno maxis of the 1990s makes “Open Close Open” an important soundtrack to global as well as local and radical transformations in recent music history, which Robert Lippok will expand with new sounds and reflections in HELLERAU with guests.