About Me
You can call it Downtempo, Trip Hop or Headz, but it really is a way of hearing music that expresses the experiences and attitudes of many inner city kids or even better, of two guys outta Mannheim. From their first chat during a party where they were both DJing, Torsten Martens (Monophonic) and Tobias Schirmann (Whizcutz) discovered their common preferences for head-nodding beats, floating strings, deep bass lines and warm-sounding key instruments. Soon thereafter, they decided to start a joint project apart from their solo activities and now they present their first album as Third I Vision, "Somewhere There's Music". With "Somewhere There's Music" Monophonic and Whizcutz present an acoustic companion as well for different kinds of moods as it sends you on a time-traveling journey into the past: back, when 12"-vinyls of labels such as Mo 'Wax, A Cup Of Tea, Pussyfoot or Ultimate Dilemma filled the crates of your local record dealers. It has been a time, TripHop has been called Downbeat and Downbeat named Headz; a well-being trip way back to the time before the variousity of such sound has been categorized into "Lounge". Monophonic, the former A&R Director of Mole Listening Pearls (2000-2004), producing his own tracks since three years (e.g. the album "Ish/Ism" for the Tokyo-based label Ward Records), he has done remix works for Eminem & Royce 5'9", Kurtis Blow, Dublex Inc., Thomas Siffling & The Public Sound Office, Bossa Boutique or Kabanjak, and most recently he was requested to deliver exclusive tracks to MTV America for their upcoming show "The Fu". As DJ he got his weekly DrumnBass mix show on Radio NRJ and is on tour as well through Germanys most wanted clubs as in Moscow, Miami, Paris, Copenhagen, Amsterdam or Zurich. His counterpart at Third I Vision is DJ Whizcutz, who is one of THE turntablists, also having supported Richard Dorfmeister, Scratch Perverts, Cappadonna of the Wu Tang Clan or the Delinquent Habbits. As well accompanying Thomas Siffling & The Public Sound Office on their actual tour as carrying his originality to his own production and remix work for e.g. the Groove Guerilla.
