My musical odyssey started about two decades ago.
That was a short time before the fall of the Berlin wall.
It was in the early nineties, when we had immigrated to Germany. I was 15. As so often in life, the beginning was a mere accident in conjunction with a youngster's curiosity.
We had moved into another town, where I happened to pass a record shop and heard this music - unlike anything I had ever heard before.
It was loud, it was hard, it was Jeff Mills Waveform Transmission Vol. I. This name was to thread through my rather modest biography like a recurrent theme
The sound was fearsome and exciting at the same time, an encounter with something quite unknown.
I was just curious … where does this music come from, who makes it, and above all how do they do it!??
At a later date the puzzle came together when various facts gradually combined into a picture that had a name to it - Detroit !!
And there were other masterpieces: Robert Hood - Minimal Nation, Kenny Larkin - Metaphor and Laurent Garnier - Shot in the Dark.
More records followed, 2 Turntables and a battle mixer. My collection increased with my musical likings.
I then went back to the roots. Soul and jazz music became decisive factors in my musical development.
Techno made me a music lover, but I was not limited to one style.
Towards the end of the decade I stopped putting on records and took up photography … but that is a different story
Although I was not active in terms of music in the new millennium, my enthusiasm for that sound and my respect for the artists remained unabated.
And in early 2007, again quite accidentally (how else), I started to make music myself.
Interesting music here as usual! Keep it up!
Preview for all tracks of my debut album Symbiosis of Contradictions are now available on my myspace page through zimbalam player. Mp3 release is now available in all the major stores worldwide.
Greetings from the snowy Moscow/Russia
/Ivan
To shorten the wait until our next album, we'll be releasing a couple of remixes and other B-side tracks on our website and needless to say on MySpace!
Hey friends, my new Album "DECADE ONE" is out now...check the shops for the 3x12" - vinyl on "levelnonzero". Digital Release & CD coming in august soon !!!