kai@future-music
30.09.2002, 20:24
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Tronik 100
With a drum & bass debut that would make most up-and-coming producers green with envy, Tronik 100 caused quite the stir last year when the deep and groovy 'Renegades of Funk' album hit the streets with four of their own soulful numbers included. Having been involved in the German techno scene since the early 1990s, the Duisburg-residing Christian Jeukens and Mike Ruesche were previously best known for their cult-like status as Materiebeschleuniger releasing most noticeably on the Dutch imprint, Djax-Up-Beats (also home to Chicago house originators like Mike Dearborn, Ron Trent and Claude Young).
Admitting that they were growing tired of the "straight techno sound" Christian and Mike began experimenting with drum & bass aesthetics hoping to come up with something fresh and exciting.
"We were a little bit bored of techno and wanted to try something different," says Christian. "What's so interesting about drum & bass is that you can layer numerous different styles on the bass and beats. To us music is music and it makes no difference to us if we make techno, house, soul or drum & bass - we wish we could hear all of it in one evening at one club! Either way, that's how we began to merge our own version of the techno and house vibe into drum & bass, searching for our own sound."
Drawing upon numerous influences, most noticeably Detroit techno, soul, funk and 80s groove, the duo created a number of tunes and blessed them with the Tronik 100 alias. "We've always loved artists like Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Carl Craig, even Photek," says Christian. "The name Tronik 100 sort of fits with that whole retro-futuristic vibe we were going for. We imagined it as a name an old skool Detroit producer might use as an alias."
After committing a number of tracks to DAT, the duo sent three copies out, one to Clayton (the man behind the Renegade/TOV empire), one to the legendary Fabio and one to Dego of 4-Hero/Reinforced fame. The response they received was overwhelming. "Clayton called us first and immediately signed two of the tunes to Renegade," says Christian. "Two weeks later Fabio called to tell us how much he loved what we had sent and Marc [the other half of 4 Hero] contacted us hoping to set us up for a release on Reinforced in the future. From that day everything just took off. We were very motivated and Fabio and Grooverider began playing our tunes on their [Radio 1] show almost every week. It was a great push for us."
With five tunes already released to the worldwide massive courtesy of Renegade and Renegade Hardware, Tronik 100 show no sign of easing up. Recently releasing their smashing 'Nightfever' EP on Renegade with rumours of numerous releases slotted for various labels in the near future, the boys maintain their focus is on their full-length album due out later this year.
"At the moment we're just trying to focus on refining our sound," says Christian. "We're integrating some new equipment into our studio, we're working with vocals now, and we're also hoping to work on something a bit more bassline-dancefloor oriented. The drum & bass scene is in such a good place right now. You can hear so many different styles represented in a single DJ set and even DJing itself has been pushed forward by people like DJ Marky and Craze - it's such a party when you see them play. It would be cool if there were more tunes you could listen to at home or in your car that would also work in the club, that's the way forward in our eyes. We're hoping to do a little of that on our album and help push the scene forward as much as possible as well as continue to develop our own sound."
Words like that make it easy to see why Tronik 100 are here to stay.
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Kommt IMO sehr sympatisch rüber. Besonders der letzte Absatz ist cool und läßt auf mehr hoffen...
Kai
Tronik 100
With a drum & bass debut that would make most up-and-coming producers green with envy, Tronik 100 caused quite the stir last year when the deep and groovy 'Renegades of Funk' album hit the streets with four of their own soulful numbers included. Having been involved in the German techno scene since the early 1990s, the Duisburg-residing Christian Jeukens and Mike Ruesche were previously best known for their cult-like status as Materiebeschleuniger releasing most noticeably on the Dutch imprint, Djax-Up-Beats (also home to Chicago house originators like Mike Dearborn, Ron Trent and Claude Young).
Admitting that they were growing tired of the "straight techno sound" Christian and Mike began experimenting with drum & bass aesthetics hoping to come up with something fresh and exciting.
"We were a little bit bored of techno and wanted to try something different," says Christian. "What's so interesting about drum & bass is that you can layer numerous different styles on the bass and beats. To us music is music and it makes no difference to us if we make techno, house, soul or drum & bass - we wish we could hear all of it in one evening at one club! Either way, that's how we began to merge our own version of the techno and house vibe into drum & bass, searching for our own sound."
Drawing upon numerous influences, most noticeably Detroit techno, soul, funk and 80s groove, the duo created a number of tunes and blessed them with the Tronik 100 alias. "We've always loved artists like Kevin Saunderson, Derrick May, Carl Craig, even Photek," says Christian. "The name Tronik 100 sort of fits with that whole retro-futuristic vibe we were going for. We imagined it as a name an old skool Detroit producer might use as an alias."
After committing a number of tracks to DAT, the duo sent three copies out, one to Clayton (the man behind the Renegade/TOV empire), one to the legendary Fabio and one to Dego of 4-Hero/Reinforced fame. The response they received was overwhelming. "Clayton called us first and immediately signed two of the tunes to Renegade," says Christian. "Two weeks later Fabio called to tell us how much he loved what we had sent and Marc [the other half of 4 Hero] contacted us hoping to set us up for a release on Reinforced in the future. From that day everything just took off. We were very motivated and Fabio and Grooverider began playing our tunes on their [Radio 1] show almost every week. It was a great push for us."
With five tunes already released to the worldwide massive courtesy of Renegade and Renegade Hardware, Tronik 100 show no sign of easing up. Recently releasing their smashing 'Nightfever' EP on Renegade with rumours of numerous releases slotted for various labels in the near future, the boys maintain their focus is on their full-length album due out later this year.
"At the moment we're just trying to focus on refining our sound," says Christian. "We're integrating some new equipment into our studio, we're working with vocals now, and we're also hoping to work on something a bit more bassline-dancefloor oriented. The drum & bass scene is in such a good place right now. You can hear so many different styles represented in a single DJ set and even DJing itself has been pushed forward by people like DJ Marky and Craze - it's such a party when you see them play. It would be cool if there were more tunes you could listen to at home or in your car that would also work in the club, that's the way forward in our eyes. We're hoping to do a little of that on our album and help push the scene forward as much as possible as well as continue to develop our own sound."
Words like that make it easy to see why Tronik 100 are here to stay.
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Kommt IMO sehr sympatisch rüber. Besonders der letzte Absatz ist cool und läßt auf mehr hoffen...
Kai