It was the year 1982, Abba broke up, Blade Runner hit the cinemas, we
feared the first computer-virus, Thriller by Michael Jackson was
released and exactly 6 days later Fabian Simoneit aka “Cruel
Culture” was dropped on earth. Only skeptics doubt about the
direct connection of this events.
Fabian grew up in the west of Munich and already was virtuous in his
first solos on the pans and pots of his mother. The cassette-recorder
has been carried around all the time to record everything and laugh
about it afterwards. Fascinated by the possibilities and inspired by
HipHop and electronic music on radio and tv he began to write and
record childlike songs with a classmate using his casio-keyboard and
hifi. With unlike stamina for his age he kept doing this and
distributed the tapes to his classmates. Around the same time he
started to get piano-lessons but he neglected the piano because he
wanted to play the drum kit and he switched it some years after. His
drum-teacher also was the pitiable reagent who had to listen to the
first experiments cruel did with his pc he got around 1995 which he
explored more and more. Additionally he kept to play the drums in a
Band and started more serious hiphop-projects. Soon he was infected
with the drum'n'bass-virus, those dark and mighty sounds which came out
1996 and afterwards and he also began to intensively explore this
region of sound. He upgraded his music-system and at the latest when
the internet got more important he was lost to this genre. Whereat you
have to say that he isn't secretive about most genres except
Techno/Gabba what he did for a short while and what got him allergic to
many 4/4-bassdrum-music.
Till today he is doing many styles of music but he concentrates on
Drum'n'Bass and Downtempo as “Cruel Culture” and
his HipHop-Projects (Fay-B, Kollision...). The first release came a bit
late, in November 2006 the first tunes where available digital and
since then it's going on and on with releases on “PN
Records”, “Shadybrain”, “Urban
Poetry”, "Basswerk", "Trim" and hopefully more in future.
Stay tuned...
Please send booking-requests etc. to "cc[at]cruelculture.com"
Disco:
upcoming releases
Cruel Culture & Cut - Twisted Nature (Trim)
2008
Cruel Culture - Pseudo/Autist feat. Skyence (shadybrain digital)
Cruel Culture & Er.iC - Prism [Trim008] Vinyl+Digital
Elixir (basswerk sessions v3)
Future (pnr dubstep sessions v2)
2007
Nagual (pnr0008)
Cruel Culture & Er.iC Equilibrium (shadybrain00507003)
Fuck the Truth (pnrlp0002)
Zeitgeist (urpoetdig001)
Hi-Lar, Marauder, Cruel Culture Taifun/Headwired (pnr0004)
2006
Cruel Culture & Er.iC Hostbody/Rejected (pnr0001)
Die Spielwiese (remixed) Catch Me (cruelculturemix)
GET THE MUSIC AT:
other shops: Amazon, emusic, Groupietunes, iTunes, napster, rhapsody, chemical-records.co.uk, last.fm ...
