http://www.berlin-kreuzberg-institut.com/blog/bki-04-22-august-2008/

Welcome to our 4th session!

[ with interviews in English and German ]

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Download the BKI-04 show [192kbps MP3 / 3 hours] -> HERE <-!

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BKI-04 with:

Paul Brtschitsch live! [Rootknox / Wolfskuil / Ostgut Ton, Berlin]

Fabrice Lig aka Soul Designer [Third Ear / Versatile / F-Com, Charleroi]

and of course your showhosts Robosonic [Diskomafia].

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Welcome, Paul Brtschitsch!

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Paul Brtschitsch was born in Berlin where he lived until the age of 10 and than moved to Frankfurt. Stamped by the early times of the legendary OMEN in Frankfurt, he discovered his love for electronic music and started playing e-music as a DJ at parties in the region. In 1992 he got his first Synthesizer and got into producing tracks.

Paul established the label Taksi in the late 90s along with André Galluzzi. The label acquired quite some underground prestige in 2000, when Richie Hawtin licensed their track “Schneesturm” for his label Plus 8 and released the maxi with his own remix in 2001.

Paul gained more and more production experience and started releasing on different labels, like Force Inc. and Ongaku.

His debut album “Surftronic” appeared in February 2000 on Frisbee - a year later, his second longplayer named “Venex” was released: sexy and deep music with an unmistakable groove. Finally, Paul completed his album trilogy on Frisbee with “Memory”.

Pauls musical interests developed over time, he started working on different projects such as the downbeat triphop album with Dr. Atmo “Change your life” (released on a sub-label of Kitty Yo). In addition he got several remix requests, like Snap “Rhythm is a dancer” and Pascal F.E.O.S. “Overflow”. He also produced music for two pavilions at the Expo 2000 in Germany. Two more TripHop albums followed in 2005 and 2006.

Meanwhile Paul kept on performing live in Europe, Japan, Russia and USA.
In 2006 he released a record on the Belgian label Music Man and one on the label Ostgut Ton, affiliated to the infamous Berghain club in Berlin. Paul, who in the meantime has moved from Frankfurt back to Berlin, founded his new label+platform Rootknox and started co-producing Anja Schneider for her releases on Mobilee. His solo release (”Hook Up”) came out on Mobilee’s sub label Leena. At the same time Cologne’s label Karmarouge released their birthday compilation “Traumschwiegersöhne”, featuring the track “Morning Glory”, a collaboration between Gabriel Ananda and himself.

After working hard on Anja’s debut album “Beyond the Valley”, Mr. Brtschitsch is back on track with his own productions and touring with his live performance, which he is showcasing at the Berlin Kreuzberg Institut… Dankeschön!

Watch out for Paul’s release “Bridge Itch”, out in mid SEPTEMBER on Wolfskuil Records!

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Welcome, Fabrice Lig aka Soul Designer!

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“Where Techno Soul Meets Futuristic Funk, you will find Fabrice Lig’s Music”…

A Soul Designer’s essence is undeniably connected to the principles of art – which means, human activities concerning aesthetic manifestations in order to stimulate the senses, bring emotions and ideas, rather than looking for commercial results. These are the purposes that always guided the life of Fabrice Lig, a talented electronic artist that is today a huge example of forward-thinking mind to all the new generations of computer software producers.

Born near Brussels in the city of Charleroi, Fabrice Ligny used to be a History & Geography teacher. It was his musical passion which brought him to the forefront of the electronic scene of his country since his first musical steps. After starting to buy records and getting into the groove, he began to produce still young, with the help of a broad musical background that pointed to the many periods of underground music he had been through in the last twenty five years. From the breakdance era when he was still a teenager to the rise of the house scene of Chicago, the alternative European electronic scene and the techno sound from Detroit, Fabrice absorbed it all. Because of its Sci-Fi Soul essence, Detroit Techno would become his strongest influence ; melted with his other influences, it gave him an eclectic touch that would define his sound in the future.

Detroit Techno’s principles gave Fabrice Lig the idea of combining soul-aesthetics with the futuristic, just like the standards of Science Fiction’s books and movies: sophisticated atmospheres, seductive melodies, chords and rhythms of beauty similar to those of the Motor-City artists. Fabrice’s natural attraction to these ambiances brought him closer to Kevin Saunderson in particular: Fabrice made a remix of a track called “Banjo” for Kevin’s alias E-Dancer in 1999. The feeling of intellectual proximity had approached Fabrice Lig to the Detroit scene to the point that he was considered “part of the Detroit musical culture itself” according to the words of Underground Resistance’s head Mad Mike. With that E-Dancer release, Fabrice became the first white European to release on the legendary Detroit Techno label KMS.

Fabrice Lig’s production career included releases on other conceptual labels such as Laurent Garnier’s F-Com, Raygun, 7th City, Kanzleramt, Motech, Delsin, and more recently Third Ear and Versatile. Fabrice moreso collaborated with Japanese techno superstar Ken Ishii on his last album “Sunriser” and once again on the new Soul Designer’s album.

Fabrice commits himself to the essence of his artistic soul with his alias Soul Designer, performing live on acclaimed festivals and events such as Montreux Jazz Festival, Sonar in Barcelona, Detroit Fuse-In Festival, I Love Techno in Belgium, Printemps de Bourges Festival from France (with Jean-Michel Jarre on stage) and countless respectable clubs. His new Soul Designer album came out in early 2008, together with an international tour called “Evolutionism World Live Tour”. Don’t miss it…!

Check out Soul Designer’s album “Evolutionism”, out on Third Ear:

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