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I was born in 1974 in a suburban area of Frankfurt / Main, Germany. The first time I came in touch with electronic music was at the age of 8 when I heard Oxygene from Jean Michel Jarre on the radio. My dad was more into Beatles and the Rolling Stones and my mom into Elvis, so I was absolutely fascinated by the sounds Jarre used, I had never heard something like that before.

After that I discovered Kraftwerk, they worked with minimal and more cold and hard sounds, totally different to Jean Michel Jarre or other bands at that time. Now my ears were open for new stuff and the new stuff came! In the early 80s NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) came up, it was a strange and trashy kind of music but made with synthesizers and a few tracks were pretty cool. At that same time I started listening to Sythie Pop. In the mid 80s I was flashed by Electro like Mantronix, Man Parrish, Newcleus and Cybotron, vocoder voices and strange sequences.

In 1987 a friend of mine showed me stuff from bands like Front 242, Leather Strip and Skinny Puppy, for me a new style of music, it was called EBM and Industrial, dark...aggressive with distorted vocals and unhappy lyrics. For me it was very interesting to see how electronic music had developed since I had heard Jean Michel Jarre or Kraftwerk for the first time. At the same time I was totally into Skateboarding and I also listened to Punk and Skate Rock (and I still do), but there was something new, it was called Acid. Finally, on this point I had the idea to create my own music. I was short of money and couldnt buy a synthesizer or a drumcomputer, but I wanted to get some practice in music. So three friends and I established a Skaterock band, it was absolute different to electronic music but I learned how to work with song structures and arangements,for me a very important time to become that electronic artist which I am now.

1991 the moment of truth, I had that old Commodore Amiga 500 and a friend gave me a sequencer program and a sampler, influenced by everything I listened the past years I started to create my first electronic tracks. After a short time the Amiga was getting too small for what was on my mind, now I had some money and thought about buying my first professional equipment.Over the years my studio was getting bigger and bigger and I dont know how much DAT tapes I recorded, but there was such a high demand on myself and I always had the feeling my music wouldnt be good enough to send out a demo. In the year 2000 I met Stephan Lieb and Frank Elting better known as MRI (Force Inc./Force Tracks), they listened to my tracks and asked me to release a record on their label Konvex-Konkav.

My first record was released under the name "Codec" in February 2001, a mixture of minimal dub and techhouse, but I had to change my artist name because another guy came up the same time with the same name. The new artist name was M.Rahn and the next record came in the same year on Konvex-Konkav and another on Trapez, I was totally flashed, three records in one year, for me it was unbelievable after all the years of hard working. In the following years I released an album on Konvex-Konkav, a split maxi on Regular and two maxis on Trapez.

In 2005 I had a little time out to see what happens with me in the future and now I know......to have a good time further on and my love.....electronic music and my Ivi!

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EPs and LPs

Tiefenschärfe EP (12) 2001 Konvex-Konkav 09

M.Rahn - Toaster (12) 2001 Trapez 011

M.Rahn - Sunblocker EP (12) 2001 Konvex-Konkav 011

M.Rahn - Viertel LP (Double12/CD) 2002 Konvex-Konkav 017

M.Rahn - Reflections (12) 2003 Trapez 024

M.Rahn - Regular looks at Traum (12) 2003 Regular 04

M.Rahn - Cobra Boy (12) 2004 Trapez 042

M.Rahn - Dream on LP (Digital) 2006 Night Drive Music 013

M.Rahn - Colored Landscape EP (Digital) 2006 - 2600 Records 09

M.Rahn - Finale Weisheit EP (Digital) 2006 Night Drive Music 020

M.Rahn - Fashion Wars Vol.1 EP (Digital) 2006 - 2600 Records 012

M.Rahn - Fashion Wars Vol.2 EP (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 018

M.Rahn - Another Day in Sadness EP (Digital) 2007 - 3rd Wave Music 01

M.Rahn - Freischwimmer EP (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 023

M.Rahn - Stryx Sessions EP (Digital) 2007 - 6one6 09

M.Rahn and One Peoples - MMP Netzwerk01 EP (Digital) 2007 - Night Drive Music 032

M.Rahn - Fashion Wars Vol.3 EP (Digital) 2008 - 2600 Records 036

M.Rahn - Automale LP (Digital) 2008 - 3rd Wave Music LP07

M.Rahn - Inner Eclipse EP (Digital) 2008 - 3rd Wave Music 028

M.Rahn and One Peoples - MMP Netzwerk02 EP (Digital) 2008 - 3rd Wave Music 029

M.Rahn - Type EP (Digital) 2009 - 3rd Wave Music 036

M.Rahn - Retrogram EP (Digital) 2009 - 6one6 022

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Compilations

Michael Mayer - Immer (CD) 2002 Kompakt 015

The Midas Touch (CD) 2002 Konvex-Konkav 019

Selection 2 (CD) 2004 Trapez

Selection 3 (CD) 2005 Trapez

Dj Leno (CD) 2006

George Lucas THX1138 Music Inspired By The Film (Digital) 2007 6one6

The Force Vol.2 (12) 2007 - Night Drive Music limited 03

Best of Volume 1 (Digital) 2007 - Night Drive Music 022

Best of Volume 2 (Digital) 2007 - Night Drive Music 023

Best of Volume 1 (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 07

Best of Volume 2 (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 08

Dreams of Home (CD/Digital) 2008 - 6one6 CD04

Best of Volume 1 (Digital) 2008 - 3rd Wave Music

Best of Volume 4 (Digital) 2009 - Night Drive Music

Best of Volume 4 (Digital) 2009 - 2600 Records

We Are 3rd Wave Volume 1 (Digital) 2009 - 3rd Wave Music

Deep & Glorious - Volume Blue (Digital) 2009 - Le Bien Et Le Mal Recordings

An Apple A Day Keeps The Stress Away... Vol. 3 (Digital) 2009 - Le Bien Et Le Mal Recordings

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