Falko Brocksieper[]

Biography

Falko Brocksieper runs the labels Sub Static and Karloff Rekordings, along with M.I.A.. Started as a platform for own & a few friends' productions first, Sub Static soon gained a solid position within Cologne's Kompakt distribution, and developed to be a wellknown address for driving, minimal techno, with international artists. When the reliable dancefloor compatibility of the label established itself more and more, there was the decision to found a second label, Karloff Rekordings, in order to provide an own seperate playground for more experimental and absurd techno approaches.Meanwhile Sub Static is rocking on beyond its 50th release, and also Karloff has rallied its own devoted fan community around itself. After Falko Brocksieper had made the first sequencer experiences on an Amiga 500 in his younger days, he decided in 1999, during his studies at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne, to focus on music production again, after some activities in video art and installation. Falko Brocksieper's first record was released on Sub Static in 2001, followed by further 12"es on the own label, as well as on Resopal, Treibstoff, Dumb Unit and Tongut. In 2003 he finished his debut album "Hoax Deluxe", which manifested his style between hypnotic minimalism and buzzing, organic analog funk. Thereupon Brocksieper was also in more demand as a remixer, thus he supplied interpretations for Akufen, Basteroid, Gabriel Ananda, Sid LeRock, Dapayk & Padberg and more.In 2004 Falko Brocksieper left his longstanding homebase Cologne, to refuel with new energy and inspiration in Berlin, which will soon show up in some new, fresh Brocksieper-tracks.As a DJ Falko Brocksieper is active since 1993, and a dancer in a club recently described his style as "intelligent and optimistic", which applies by no doubt. Moreover, his sound is sometimes satisfying straightforward, sometimes subtly demanding, steeped to tradition and forward-looking at once, and at the bottom line, most times quite surprising.