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About Me

Chris Air started deejaying in the early 1990 as Sir Djance with spherical ambient and subtle electronic music. In the same year, the ambient crew "Unrealistic 3rd Truth" U3T was founded and the journey thru the landscapes of ambient spheres and smooth beats and basslines began. After two years of experience and experiments in studio electronics, the first parties with dj sets and live acts came up all over Switzerland and Chris brought warm feelings into cold, sterile rooms - his aim was always to fill the air with harmonic vibes. The trip grooved on with some stops at spherical british breakbeats, early hardtrance tunes and experimental electronic clicks and cuts. Playing in different rooms, such as main dancefloors, secret rooms or chill out areas was always in his mind, whether playing records or live acts with U3T. Thru the years, he discovered his love to minimal music and till today he likes to push the audience with minimal rhythms and essential basic grooves combined with warm, harmonic elements. In the year 2000, after a couple of selfmade events, the "GlÃ¼cksscherben" collective was formed and several party series in different clubs all over Basle are still running till this day. Since 2004, Chris rediscovered the enjoyment of playing live gigs and started again to produce his own music with charming grooves and fluffy basslines. After some live gigs with 'Die Bademeister' and 'Pumpernickel', his solo work 'GlÃ¼cksscherben EP' on the Berlin based label Eintakt brings all together in summer 2006. After a busy year in 2007 with a new studio location, a lot of live gigs and new collaborations, the 'Breat Gritten EP' on Eintakt was released with catalogue number 19 on beginning of 2008. As well as the 'Gluecksscherben EP' was repressed due to great demand. Get a small sample of his sound to get to know his groove...
Live formations:
Monolux / Norger Eidwand aka Chris Air, Roter Fnord (with B.Free), AiRaise (with Dj Raise), Die Bademeister (with A.D.), Pumpernickel (with Olga), U3T (history)
A few stops @:
Planet-E (Basle), Presswerk (Basle), Couleur3 (Lausanne), Radio-X (Basle), Deepmix (Moscow), Grubenstrasse (Zurich), Captains Rave 5 (MS Zuerich), Zukunft (Zuerich), Walcheturm (Zuerich), Hive (Zuerich), Spider (Zuerich), Roggwil (Berne), Casino de Montreux, Schatzalp (abundzu/Davos), JK Festival (Basle), Casino de la Rotonde (Neuchatel), Streetparade (Zurich), Kaserne (Basle), Theater (Basle), La Laiterie (Strassbourg), Douala (Ravensburg), Audiopixel Club (Konstanz), Bar23 (Berlin), Bar25 (Berlin), Hangar (Berlin), Ballhaus Ost (Berlin), Rote Fabrik (Zurich), NT/Areal (Basle), Art (Basle), Reithalle (Berne)
Releases:
U3T 01 - 07, neuronal networks
Mond auf Plastik EP, mo records003
GlÃ¼cksscherben EP, eintakt 13
GlÃ¼cksscherben EP, beatport.com
Valle Verzasca EP, dreiton.net
Berlin Liveset, dreiton.net
Breat Gritten EP, eintakt 19
Breat Gritten EP, beatport.com
Breat Gritten EP, whatpeopleplay.com
Tracks appear on:
bbq with style and attitude bbq_wsaas
4 seasons, nmf01 nmf
Gelbes Billett Musik 01, gelbes billett
Ayahuasca Compilation, eintakt records
Panorama Compilation, dreiton.net
Attack Compilation, dreiton.net
Deep Emotions, mixotic.net
KlÃ¤nge der Nacht, mixotic.net
Gekko Mix, seth-gekko.de
Presswerk 11pm-05am, gelbesbillett.ch
Emerson Mix, kiddaz.fm
Winterdisco Compilation, interdiso.net
Circle Muzic Compilation, circlemuzic.com
Remixes for:
b.free, mp3.de
dfh, don't forget your history
fan erhalder, erhalder.com
debonair, debonair.ch
raise, myspace.com/daraise
chris air at discogs

remix projects

mixes

friends, artists and random impressions

Eintakt 19 - Chris Air - Breat Gritten EP - out now!

available on beatport or whatpeopleplay and your local record dealer!

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 7/8/2006
Band Website: gluecksscherben.ch
Band Members:Norger Eidwand
Roter Fnord
Airaise
AirErnst

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Yes, we rock again!

Influences: Some Stuff on my iPod that makes me feel... Uaaaahh!!
A Tribe Called Quest - Youthful Epression
Air - All I Need
Alex Smoke - Lost In Sound
Alex Under - Aditah La Granjerita
Alexander Kowalski - All I Got To Know
Alter Ego - Soulfree
Anthony Rother - Nacht Der GÃ¶tter
Aphex Twin - Cliffs (Selected Ambient Works 3)
Archive - Lights
Autechre - Drane & Eggshell
Basic Channel - Part 3 (Scion Arrange and Process)
Beginner - City Blues
Beth Orton - Stars All Seem To Weep
Bwicked - Missing Astronauts
Biosphere - Substrata
Biosphere - Algae & Fungi
Biosphere & Deathprod - Transparenza
Biosphere & H.I.A. - Gas Street Basin
Burger Ink - Twelve Miles High
Canson - GS1
Carl Craig - Sandstorms
Christine Vaccine - Medicate with Bass Weight
Crackhaus - Hee Haw On See Saw
De La Soul - Eye Know
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
Der Dritte Raum - Hale Bopp
Dettinger - Oasis Three
Echotek - Freak Africa
Elting & Lieb - Yukon
Etienne De Crecy - Grokster
Everything But The Girl - Single
Fluxion - Fovea Centralis
(Vibrant Forms)
Fluxion - Bipolar Defect (Vibrant Forms2)
G-Man - K.7
Gas - KÃ¶nigsforst Track Five
Gas - Zauberberg Track Three
Global Communications - 1431
Holger Flinsch - Katmandu
James Taylor - Jackflap
Jan Jelinek - Tendency
Jay Haze - Appreciate
Joey Beltram - Across The Hemisphere
Kaito - Air Rider
Kings of Convenience - Know-How
Kristofer AstrÃ¶m - You Don't Know How Good You Are
Laika - T Street
Laurent Garnier - The Man With The Red Face
LFO - El Ef Oh
Luomo - The Right Wing
M:1:5 - Profan Track 11
MRI - Human Patterns
Markus Guentner - Sunset
Massive Attack - Better Things
Matthew Dear - It's Over Now
Maurizio - M6
Miasma - Pigment Stellae
Monolake - Static
Nagy&Frankenberg - Daisys Secret
Nagy&Rohrbach - Es Vedra
Octex - Liagon
Orbital - Halcyon
Pete Namlook & Geir Jenssen - Talk To The Stars
Pete Namlook & Richie Hawtin - A Million Miles From Earth
Philippe Cam - Balance Tr.2
Plastikman - Consumed
Plej - Blue
Portishead - Roads
Public Enemy - Welcome To The Terrordome
Raise - Fokuhila
Rhythm & Sound - Spend Some Time
Ricardo Villalobos - Serpentin
Richard Davis - Sometime
Richie Hawtin - Concept 1.12
Sami Koivikko - Kut Pulatin3
Sonic Infusion - Travel
Steward Walker - Cocoa
Swayzak - Another Way
Swayzak - Buffalo Seven
Temponauta - Muhurta
The Irresistible Force - Snowstorm
The Modernist - Fade Like Glenn
The Orb - The Blue Room
The Streets - Blinded By The Lights
The Timewriter - Power To The People
The Who - Baba O'Riley
Thomas D - Uns Trennt Das Leben
Thomas Fehlmann - Gratis
Timbaland & Magoo - Peepin' my Style
Tory Amos - I Can't See New York
Trentemoeller - Evil Dub
Triola - AG Penthouse
U2 - Beautiful Day
U3T - Sonarschleifen
Vangelis - Blade Runner
Violet - Vision - Your Voice
Vladislav Delay - Live @ Mutek

Alltime Favourites:
Akufen
Alex Smoke
Alex Under
Aphex Twin
Autechre
Anja Schneider
Basic Channel
Bedoiun Ascent
Billy Dalessandro
Biosphere
Carl Craig
Chain Reaction
Christian Morgenstern
D.Diggler
Der Schmeisser
Donnacha Costello
Fluxion
Frank de Wulf
Freiland
Future Sound of London
G-Man
Gabriel Ananda
Global Communication
Hemmann & Kaden
Holger Flinsch
Jeff Samuel
Joey Beltram
Jussi-Pekka
Krause Duo
L.F.O.
Luomo
M.R.I.
M:1:5
Mathew Dear
Maurizio
Miasma
Oliver Hacke
Pan-Pot
Pascal F.E.O.S.
Pete Namlook
Plastikman
Rhythm & Sound
Robag Wruhme
Studio1
Swayzak
Sweet n Candy
Tanzmann & Stefanik
The Orb
Trapez
and a lot more...
Sounds Like: a warm, summer sunday afternoon or a fully energy loaded night trip for the dancefloor. however you like it... but always remember: RAVE STRIKES BACK!
Record Label: Eintakt Berlin / Gelbes Billett Musik
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

SUNSET ROSE

I felt a bit blue these days. must be the rain all day long that makes me a bit dizzy. they say it's gong to snow this week. again. what an image. in the middle of april. we should run around in shirt...
Posted by Chris Air on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 03:03:00 PST

EINTAK 19 OUT NOW

Yeah finally... The new release on EINTAKT BERLIN comes from the heart and with a lot of soul and deepness. It's the BREAT GRITTEN EP and available on beatport.com / whatpeopleplay.com and at your loc...
Posted by Chris Air on Sun, 24 Feb 2008 08:57:00 PST

BONES

'Bones' is an extract from a live jam I did a few months ago. thx to total recall (I'm lovin' it), I was able to redesign the track and give it a new direction. hmm this one takes a few minutes to scr...
Posted by Chris Air on Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:47:00 PST

MAFIA IN DER BADEHOSE

hmmm... i had these wonderful chordish sounds and played around with. it became a funny track at the end, so i thought i'll give him a funny name. i don't take this one too serious - like all my other...
Posted by Chris Air on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 01:18:00 PST

please note

my macbook was stolen yesterday night. full of my music and of course personal stuff. if someone tries to handle with chrisair tracks, and it isn't me, please tell me. thx. i don't think this will hap...
Posted by Chris Air on Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:12:00 PST

Eintakt 13 back on stock

Yeah folks, we did a limited repress of the Eintakt 13 with 'Komm Komm'. So this piece will be available again in good record stores and online distributors soon. Or still hot on beatport.com. Enjoy.S...
Posted by Chris Air on Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:51:00 PST

SUNDAY WORRIES

After a long weekend with insufficient sleep, the two djs and producers Air&Raise met at the 'gluecksscherben studios' complex in basle downtown. After playing around with new sounds and techniques, s...
Posted by Chris Air on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:49:00 PST

INSIDE AIR

They keep asking me a lot of personal stuff all the time... so here's some:Five albums I would take with me to a lonely islandBiosphere - SubstrataPink Floyd - Wish you where hereKristoffer Aström & ...
Posted by Chris Air on Sat, 21 Jul 2007 02:26:00 PST

NEW REMIX DONE

IT'S DONE FINALY! A new version of Debonair's SPECIAL K has squeeched out of my loudspeakers. Hope you enjoy the tune. There's more to come...... hehehe....
Posted by Chris Air on Mon, 16 Apr 2007 02:10:00 PST

NEW TRACKS ON MYSPACE

i finished two remixes over christmas. yes, we celebrate another way ;)AIR TRANSMISSION is originally based on DEBONAIR's track TRANSMISSION from their fabulous album SOMEWHERE MIDAIR. it was an honou...
Posted by Chris Air on Mon, 08 Jan 2007 07:53:00 PST