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2008 | Aquietbump 015 | free
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2008 | Qunabu 007 | free
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Das Kraftfuttermischwerk Schattenspende @ It Becomes Infectious
2007 | Ice and Spice Records CD 002 | buy
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Das Kraftfuttermischwerk Chocolate in Nutshells @ Thinner 100
2007 | Thinner 100 | free
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Biography:
Born in 1976 Ronny Kraak grew up in eastern Germany
– the Wall casting a cloud over Berlin. At the time electronical music
was unfamiliar, for cultural activities were of governmental concern. And obviously
other musicians were regarded as more important than any kind of subculture.
However first records of Klaus Schulze, Tangerine Dream and Kraftwerk appeared
in the eighties.
At a moment’s notice political rebound in GDR in 1990 effectuate that
there was an amazing pool of music to discover for Ronny.
He decided cursory in favour for Hip-Hop and clinged to it awhile. In the
beginning nineties electronic music went on air in weekly radiotransmissions
on KISS FM and DT64 with Steve Mason and Allen Allien.
Ronny bought records ad infinitum – and it was incombent on
them to buy two 1210s. Shortly after they both visited the Berlin E-Werk. He
became frequenter. It felt like a cultural revolution to them and they commemorated
on this on countless weekends. He moved to Berlin to be closer to these goings
being busy with applying records again and again. Eventually Nico Wawersig, a friend, dissolved
his account book, bought a TR-808 and a TB-303 on which they operated at full
capacity. Not in order to create music but to understand how this stuff worked
and in order to speculate about the possibilities of these devices. It was 1995.
In a day everybody tried to produce music with the aid of actual processors
Ronny bought an ATARI ST and dozens of antiquated hardware. He sampled
Kraftwerk-classics in order to newly-arrange them with radio plays. He created
a lot of beatloops on the 808 and pottered a bit on the 303. In this vein they
produced music till 2002.
But evidently it had become completely archaic and furthermore laborious to
go on working like that. A changeover was made, state-of-the-art-technology
was bought, yet not having parted with their aged technology until today.
Since 1999 he worked as Deejay regularly. He performed on various floors
on diverse events due to their musical comprehension they had acquired over
the interveining years. Techno, House and Ambient are among their repertoire
as well as Psy-Trance - still having a soft spot for it.
After the turn of the millennium they concluded to determine their musical diction
– nevertheless this attempt failed.
He preference for unhurried beats and ambient sound collages evolved from
chill-floors on psy-trance festivals they visited. Additionally icons like Massive
Attack, Portishead, and definitely „Wiener Schule“ around G-Stone
were cutting-edge. He were taken by a mixture of organic and electronic sounds.
A crucial experience concerning downbeat music was the purchase of Norman Feller’s
Album „Frameless Structure “. Music like that had never been heard
before including House and Broken Beatz. Discovering netlabel Thinner they noticed
that this very special sound was very much alike the sound he had acquired
in the nineties. A lot of Basic Channel records had gained access onto his
shelves.
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