M.RAHN

I was born in 1974 in a suburban area of Frankfurt / Main, Germany. The first time I came in touch with electronic music was at the age of 8 when I heard Oxygene from Jean Michel Jarre on the radio. My dad was more into Beatles and Rolling Stones and my mom into Elvis, so I was absolutely fascinated by the sounds Jarre used, I had never heard something like that before.
After that I discovered Kraftwerk, they worked with minimal and more cold and hard sounds, totally different from Jean Michel Jarre or other bands at that time. Now my ears were open for new stuff and the new stuff came! In the early 80s NDW (Neue Deutsche Welle) came up, it was a strange and trashy kind of music but made with synthesizers and a few tracks were pretty cool. At that same time I started listening to Sythie Pop. In the mid 80s I was flashed by Electro like Mantronix, Man Parrish, Newcleus and Cybotron, vocoder voices and strange sequences.
In 1987 a friend of mine showed me stuff from bands like Front 242, Leather Strip and Skinny Puppy, for me a new style of music, it was called EBM and Industrial, dark...aggressive with distorted vocals and unhappy lyrics. For me it was very interesting to see how electronic music had developed since I had heard Jean Michel Jarre or Kraftwerk for the first time. At the same time I was totally into Skateboarding and I also listened to Punk and Skate Rock (and I still do), but there was something new, it was called Acid. Finally, on this point I had the idea to create my own music. I was short of money and couldnt buy a synthesizer or a drumcomputer, but I wanted to get some practice in music. So three friends and I established a Skaterock band, it was absolute different to electronic music but I learned how to work with song structures and arangements,for me a very important time to become that electronic artist which I am now.
In 1991 came the moment of truth. I had that old Commodore Amiga 500 and a friend gave me a sequencer program and a sampler, influenced by everything I had heard the past years, I started to create my first electronic tracks. After a short time the Amiga was getting too small for what was on my mind, now I had some money and thought about buying my first professional equipment.Over the years my studio was getting bigger and bigger and I dont know how much DAT tapes I recorded, but there was such a high demand on myself and I always had the feeling my music wouldnt be good enough to send out a demo. In the year 2000 I met Stephan Lieb and Frank Elting better known as MRI (Force Inc./Force Tracks), they listened to my tracks and asked me to release a record on their label Konvex-Konkav.
My first record was released under the name "Codec" in February 2001, a mixture of minimal dub and techhouse, but I had to change my artist name because another guy came up the same time with the same name. The new artist name was M.Rahn and the next record came in the same year on Konvex-Konkav and another on Trapez, I was totally stoked, three records in one year, for me it was unbelievable after all the years of hard working. In the following years I released an album on Konvex-Konkav, a split maxi on Regular and two maxis on Trapez.
In 2005 I had a little time out to see what happens with me in the future and now I know......to have a good time further on and my love.....electronic music and my Ivi!
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M.Rahn Releases
Tiefenschärfe EP (12) 2001 Konvex-Konkav 09
M.Rahn - Toaster (12) 2001 Trapez 11
M.Rahn - Sunblocker EP (12) 2001 Konvex-Konkav 011
M.Rahn - Viertel (Double12/CD) 2002 Konvex-Konkav 017
M.Rahn - Michael Mayer -Immer- Compilation (CD) 2002 Kompakt 015
M.Rahn - The Midas Touch Compilation - (CD) 2002 Konvex-Konkav 019
M.Rahn - Reflections (12) 2003 Trapez 024
M.Rahn - Regular looks at Traum (12) 2003 Regular 04
M.Rahn - Selection 2 Compilation (CD) 2004 Trapez
M.Rahn - Cobra Boy (12) 2004 Trapez 042
M.Rahn - Selection 3 Compilation (CD) 2005 Trapez
M.Rahn - Dj Leno Compilation (CD) 2006
M.Rahn - Dream on LP (Digital) 2006 Night Drive Music 013
M.Rahn - Colored Landscape EP (Digital) 2006 - 2600 Records 09
M.Rahn - Finale Weisheit EP (Digital) 2006 Night Drive Music 020
M.Rahn - Fashion Wars Vol.1 EP (Digital) 2006 - 2600 Records 012
M.Rahn - Fashion Wars Vol.2 EP (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 018
M.Rahn - Another Day in Sadness EP (Digital) 2007 - 3rd Wave Music 01
M.Rahn - George Lucas THX1138 Project - Automale (Digital) 2007 6one6
M.Rahn - George Lucas THX1138 Project - Red Pill user (Digital) 2007 6one6
M.Rahn - Freischwimmer EP (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 023
M.Rahn - Stryx Sessions EP (Digital) 2007 - 6one6 09
M.Rahn and One Peoples - MMP Netzwerk01 EP (Digital) 2007 - Night Drive Music 032
M.Rahn - The Force Vol.2 Compilation EP (12) 2007 - Night Drive Music limited 03
M.Rahn - Best of Volume 1 Compilation LP (Digital) 2007 - Night Drive Music 022
M.Rahn - Best of Volume 2 Compilation LP (Digital) 2007 - Night Drive Music 023
M.Rahn - Best of Volume 1 Compilation LP (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 007
M.Rahn - Best of Volume 2 Compilation LP (Digital) 2007 - 2600 Records 008
M.Rahn - Fashion Wars Vol.3 EP (Digital) 2008 - 2600 Records 036
M.Rahn - Dreams of Home Compilation (CD/Digital) 2008 - 6one6
M.Rahn - Automale LP (Digital) 2008 - 3rd Wave Music
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other projects by M.Rahn
Guy Krieger - Dark Eden LP (Digital) 2006 Shrimps&Chips 07
Guy Krieger - There is no perfect World EP (Digital) 2006 Shrimps&Chips 016
Guy Krieger - Nightwalker EP (Digital) 2006 Shrimps&Chips 018
Guy Krieger - Left Behind EP (Digital) 2007 Shrimps&Chips 023
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Coderock - Yuppie Detector EP (Digital) 2006 - 2600 Records 014
Coderock - Failed Society EP (Digital) 2006 Night Drive Music 025
Coderock - Sad Memories EP (Digital) 2007 3rd Wave Music 03
Coderock - Nice to meet you EP (Digital) 2007 Night Drive Music 035
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Liquor Brand - Poison Ivy EP (Digital) 2006 Night Drive Music 023
Liquor Brand - My Feelings EP (Digital) 2007 3rd Wave Music 02
Liquor Brand - Random Nights EP (Digital) 2007 Night Drive Music 030
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