Computer jockeys

The computer jockeys are a group from Cologne consisting of Wolfgang Hagedorn and Michael Lückner (alias Digital Jockey) . The website laut.de characterizes its style as "avant-garde electronic music with Asian sound elements". The two artists only use their notebooks for their performances .

Life

Since 1997 the two Cologne musicians toured clubs and electronic festivals. With their debut album Computer Jockeys , which was released in 1999, they became known to a larger audience. On it is ping-pong , the most famous piece of computer jockeys, which got a lot of airplay.

On her second album, Plankton , which was released in 2001, her preference for Asian sounds, which so far found expression mainly through the sampling of Asian instruments, was expanded through the use of Asian chants. The Japanese singer Ayako Akashiba , who got to know the computer jockeys on a two-day visit to Cologne and spontaneously made a few recordings with them, as well as Regina Janssen and Stella Schwarz helped .

For the series Golden Boy and Lupine III they composed the title songs Golden Boy and B'come , which can be found on their album Plankton , and the soundtrack on behalf of MTV .

After this success, both started their own projects. Michael Lückner, who had already released the album 8 Studies in Dub under the name Digital Jockey in 2000 , produced two further albums and also launched the guitar project in 2002 . The first album was called Sunkissed , was released by Morr Music Berlin in 2002 and is one of the pioneers of a revival of the so-called Shoegazer or Dreampop style. Ayako Akashiba has appeared on most of the albums as a singer and co-songwriter.