Cristian Vogel is a composer and music producer, known for his experimental DJ and Live performances, studio composition and production. Born in Chile 1972 but growing up in the UK, he now lives and works in Barcelona.
He studied 20th Century Music at Sussex University, under the tutor-ship of the British composers, Johnathan Harvey and Martin Butler. Over more than a decade he has recorded a number of albums and released on eminent experimental techno labels such as Tresor Berlin, Novamute and Mille Plateaux.
Cristian has toured consistently since 1992 as DJ and live performer, as a solo artist and also with Jamie Lidell as Super_Collider. Of late, he has been singing and playing guitar in his band project Night of the Brain .
As studio remixer, he has been invited to reinterpret songs by artists as diverse as Radiohead, Maximo Park, Thom Yorke, Juan Atkins, Pedro Carneiro among many others. Cristian Vogel's producer credits include albums for Chicks On Speed, Panico, VirŸs, Las Perras del Infierno and others.
2003 marked a return to electro-acoustic composition, the composition of original scores and live soundtracks for the renound Swiss choreographer Gilles Jobin. To date, he has collaborated on four critically acclaimed pieces for Jobin, which have been enthralling the contemporary dance community worldwide.
As well as dance, Cristian has been involved in other art projects for international multi-media artists - Roland Olbeter's 'Soundclusters' for Sonar Barcelona 2003, Artificiel's 'Bulbes' for the Montreal museum of Contemporary Art in 2003, Stefan Bruggeman's 'A Production of Nothing' in 2005 and ' 1000 beats 1 beat' for Pieter-jan Ginckels in 2007.
As if that wasn't enough, Cristian is also behind four independent record labels, Station 55 Records , Rise Robots Rise Records, Mosquito Records and Sleep Debt Records, as well as hosting a long running internet community known as Erutufon.
He is resident producer at the Station 55 Electronic Music Studio ( http://www.no-future.com/vogel_microsite/station55studio.htm
l ) in Barcelona.
Official discography can be found at http://www.no-future.com/vogel_microsite.
