- Early in 1994 Kreidler was founded by Thomas Klein, Andreas Reihse, Detlef Weinrich with bass player Stefan Schneider who was to leave Kreidler some years later in order to form To Rococo Rot; his place was taken by Alexander Paulick (now Coloma) until 2001.
Kreidler's album Riva was released 1994 on a small Parisian label. This was to be the first of 16 releases to date, with the latest: Eve Future Recall (2004).
Among the artists to have been remixed by Kreidler are such venerable names as Einstürzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode or Faust. Their musical collaborations include Klaus Dinger (NEU!, la Düsseldorf), Add (N) to X, Pyrolator, Young Gods, Momus, Leo Garcia, Theo Altenberg or Chicks on Speed.
Kreidler have played over 300 shows throughout Europe, Asia and North America. In tech-no clubs, in rock venues, in concert halls. At the Sonar and Roskilde festivals. In museums and art galleries. At the Van Dyck retrospective in Antwerp and the openings of the Andreas Gursky shows in New York's Museum of Modern Art and in the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Kreidler contributed to artist-books such as Deutsch -Young German Photography, Toit Du Monde, Romantik.
Kreidler videos have been shown at video art festivals in Barcelona, Valencia, Baden-Baden or Munich. Au-Pair won a prize for 2nd place at the 1999 video awards Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, where La Casa was reaching the final round of the MuVi Awards in 2002.
Kreidler's music is used in films, plays and in the modern - dance - e.g. in Pina Bausch's Ten Chi; as it has graced the catwalks of Chanel, Lacoste or Giles Deacon a.o. For the soundtrack of Alexandra Sell's movie Durchfahrtsland / Remote Area / Terre De Transit Kreidler composed about 40 minutes of music.
- IMDb mini biography by: A Reihse
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