Mille Plateaux

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Mille Plateaux is an influential German electronic music record label. They are known for mostly releasing ambient electronic artists and groups.

Some artists/groups released on the label include Alec Empire, Oval, Microstoria, Terre Thaemlitz, Porter Ricks, Beequeen, and Kid 606.

In 2000, to take advantage of the glitch music popularity in the electronic music scene, Mille Plateaux released their Clicks & Cuts Series, which showed both Mille Plateaux and non-Mille Plateaux glitch music luminaries exploring the genre.

In early 2004, Mille Plateaux parent company Force Inc. Music Works went bankrupt due to the collapse of Germany's main independent music distributor, EFA-Medien. Mille Plateaux and other Force Inc. Music Works associated labels were folded at that time. The label was revived briefly in late 2004 under the name MillePlateauxMedia, and then returned to the original name in 2006, as part of the newly formed Disco Inc. Ltd. label family (also featuring the return of the imprints Force Inc. and Force Tracks).

The expression Mille Plateaux comes from a philosophy book by Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari.