Member Since: 12/31/2004
Band Website: maschinen-musik.de
Band Members: Dr. Schmidt
Influences:
Techno, Electro, BreakBeats and Industrial......
Everything started with mid 80's synthpop like Softcell, Human League, Depeche Mode to Heaven 17 and of course the "Neue Deutsche Welle" or NDW. NDW was the first Germany only music movement, influenced by avantgarde electronics and very often with quite strange lyrics. I still love tracks from this time. Then came Industrial, a short but very important phase in my musical socialisation: Front 242, Skinny Puppy, The Fair Sex, Frontline Assembly, Cassandra Complex, The Invincible Spirits, Das Normal or even the artier side of things, like Anne Clark. This was my introduction into darker, deeper, but nonetheless powerful electronic music. EBM and Industrial prepared me for the 90's, that for me run under one big name: TECHNO
I started with Hart House and early Trance and found my way into harder, deeper and darker territories. Claude Young, Speedy J, James Ruskin, Surgeon, Chris Liebing, Steve Stoll, Marco Carola, Rino Cerrone....all on the list. In '96 I got hit with BigBeat, BreakBeats and HardHop and fell in love with that sound, too. With the death of BigBeat I did a smooth transition to NuSkool breakbeat, like it was done by Adam Freeland, BLIM, Freq Nasty, Tsunamie One, Kevin Beber, High 8, Evil 9, Tipper.......to many names to list them all.
With techno and nuskool becoming more and more schematic and repetitive, I once again was looking for new influences and rediscovered my early love for Electro.
Now and here I try to put all my main influences, techno, nuskool and industrial together under one brand: Maschinen Musik