The Alex Merck Music group (AMM) was founded in 1992 to get music heard that deserves a broad, but quality conscious audience. We do not release albums that would only appeal to a few thousand people worldwide, but we also do not release music that sounds like what you constantly hear on the most popular radio stations.
Most of our music is Jazz or based on Jazz - and those albums can
be found on Jazzline (acoustic jazz, firmly rooted
in the traditions of jazz improvisation and rhythms of latin and
swing base) and Lipstick (electronic or electric
instruments with rhythms based on funk, groove, rock, drum&bass
etc.)
On Barracuda you will find interesting pop, rock and soul music.
For anyone new to jazz and soul, we now have an overview of rhythmic jazz styles here, which gives the main names and directions to the music styles including acid-jazz, hip-hop jazz, soul, fusion, jazz-rock etc. Click here to get it!
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Jane Getter - Storytime (QT 3.0) |
Quicktime 3.0 Audio (about 28 KB streaming) |
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Jane Getter - Storytime (Realaudio) |
slightly longer (about 30 s.) as Realaudio 3.0 |
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Jane Getter - Cat Walk |
Realaudio 3.0 about 72 KB about 32 S. last part of guitar solo and beginning of last melody |
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Peter Herborn - The Blizzard |
End passage of the track with bigband shouts |
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Dieter Ilg - Guten Abend, Gute .. |
from Fieldwork , Quickt. 3.0 sound going from head into guitar solo, about 24 s., streaming about 70 KB |
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Dieter Ilg - Guten Abend, Gute .. |
same as above as Realaudio 3.0 , about 50 KB |
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Dieter Ilg - Nun Sich Der Tag geendet hat |
Realaudio 3.0 demonstrating both the slightly "drum'n bass" ish groove and the swinging guitar - going from part of folktheme into solo, around 55 s. , 105 KB |
Lipstick
is a label concentrating on Funk-Jazz, Rock-Jazz, Acid-Jazz and
similar "Crossover-Jazz" styles. One album is actually more drums
& bassish (Manifesto by Adam Holzman). The main artists include
Leni Stern, drummer Simon Phillips, Adam
Holzman, Bill Evans, and Jazz-Grunge group Matalex.
Most of the artists are americans, but there are also quite a few
europeans and international groups.
Jazzline
is a real jazz label based on hard-bop and modern acoustic jazz. The
main artists include Carola Grey, Tony Lakatos, Dieter Ilg
Trio , Charlie Mariano and dutch singer Masha
Bijlsma.
BARRACUDA
is our youngest label, founded in fall of 1996. It features soul,
R&B, rock and world-pop with artists and groups
including Ray Gaskins, Soul
Immigrants, Prime Crime,Anita Carmichael, Wizards
of Ooze and KAZDA.
Current CD-price (at the end of 1999):
Europe: DM 34.80 (or Euro 18.00) including sales tax and shipping for fax-orders through the form on this website or e-mail orders.
USA: US-$ 16.00 plus US-$ 12.00 per order for shipping and packaging. (if you are living in the USA or South America, it might be better to order our albums from amazon.com, Barnes&Noble or other US-online retailers.
We also accept all major credit cards (except Discovery, which some Americans have).
Since we know that quite a few music stores today do not have most CDs in their store, you can order our albums directly. We do not want to compete with good music retail stores - but if they do not have our albums, they can not sell them. This means they are earning even less (most CD-retailers constantly complain about how bad sales are) .. and are hurting you and us too. Therefore we decided to start our own mail-order operation.
Click here to get to our order form: 
Last Updated: 26.December 1999