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Raoul Fleischmann is a DJ born in Chille but raised in Holland by his German mother and his Chillian father, after they fled for political reasons. During his rough childhood Raoul loved to forget the world around him and completely lose himself in music. He played piano for many years, until he was fourteen: the time he discovered electronic music. Since that moment Raoul has been obsessed by searching for music with a new sound or idea. Around 1996 he started creating music, very dark atmospheres with confusing rhythms, hardly ever in 4/4 time. He stopped creating music because of the limitations of the software he used and started to try writing his own. After many failed attempts he wanted to do something with music again, so he began to DJ at Cafe Vaaghuyzen, a local dj-cafe in Amsterdam. In 2005 he left Holland for quite some time and went travel in his homeland Chille, in search of his roots.
When he returned from his journey he had learned a lot about his parents history and made peace with his turbulent past. Out of the newly-gained respect for his parents, he changed his DJ name to his father's first and his mother's surname. This is when he started to take DJ-ing a bit more seriously and started playing in other places then Vaaghuyzen.
Raoul's dj roots are detroit electro, electronic experiments, dubby grooves and since a few years focuses mainly on minimal techno, especially tracks that are deep and weird, got steadily driving dorsoventral basslines, dubgrooves and sick shit. He pays attention to the kicks and loves breaks in which the tracks build up to a prolonged extra-climax. He is open-minded for experimenting and occasionally loses himself completely behind the decks when he discovers something new and unexpected on the spot.
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