Erdem Tunakan

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Erdem Tunakan (born April 13, 1967 in Vienna ) is an Austrian musician , music producer and DJ from the field of electronic music . Together with Patrick Pulsinger , he is considered a defining figure in the Austrian techno scene .

life and work

Tunakan was born in Vienna to Turkish parents, but also lived in Salzburg for eight years during his school days , where his father was busy building the new Mozarteum .

From the mid-1980s he worked as a DJ . He made his first appearance in 1986 in the Vienna Club Atrium. From 1988 was responsible for the distribution of records as an employee of Dum Dum Records. From the 1990s on he wrote some film scores before founding the Cheap Records label with Patrick Pulsinger in 1993 . Artists such as Christopher Just , Robert Hood , Gerhard Potuznik , Kentolevi , Sluta Leta , Louie Austen and Khan published on it . Up to 20,000 of the most successful records were sold, most of them abroad. While Pulsinger was mainly responsible for the music production, Tunakan represented the label externally and managed the business processes.

From 1993 Tunakan's own productions appeared, often in collaboration with Pulsinger, Potuznik and other musicians, under changing project names such as The Private Lightning Six , Sluts'n'Strings & 909 , Restaurant Tracks , Dean & Deluca , Showroom Recordings or Los Modernistas .

In 2000 Tunakan and Pulsinger were awarded the Austrian Music Promotion Prize.

Since Patrick Pulsinger left Cheap Records in 2003, Tunakan has continued to run the label alone. In 2008 he founded the sub-label Cheap Rec. Rocks, which acts as a platform for 60s mod and ska music.

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 1996: The Private Lightning Six (with Gerhard Potuznik , Herbert Gollini, Patrick Pulsinger , Sokol) - They Came Down. (Morbid Records)
  • 1997: Sluts'n'Strings & 909 (with Patrick Pulsinger) - Carrera (Cheap Records)
  • 2017: Erdem Tunakan & Alpha Tracks - Fear Of Missing Out (Cheap Records)

Singles & EPs

  • 1993: Sluts'n'Strings & 909 (with Patrick Pulsinger) - Summerbreeze (Loriz Sounds)
  • 1994: Sluts'n'Strings & 909 (with Patrick Pulsinger) - Steamin 'Promises EP (Cheap Records)
  • 1004: Northstar (with Patrick Pulsinger, Susanne Kirchmayr ) - Figure Skating EP ( Disko B )
  • 1994: Restaurant Tracks (with Patrick Pulsinger) - Reservation EP (Cheap Records)
  • 1995: Dean & Deluca (with Patrick Pulsinger) - Chapter 1 (M-Plant)
  • 1996: Showroom Recordings (with Patrick Pulsinger, Sokol) - Series # 1 (Cheap Records)
  • 1996: Showroom Recordings (with Patrick Pulsinger, Sokol) - Series # 2 (Cheap Records)
  • 1996: Los Modernistas (with Gerhard Potuznik) - Modern Music (Morbid Records)
  • 1997: Restaurant Tracks (with Patrick Pulsinger) - Polish Au Pair (Cheap Records)
  • 2001: The Private Lightning Six (with Gerhard Potuznik, Herbert Gollini, Patrick Pulsinger, Sokol) - Look Straight (Pomelo)
  • 2003: Sluts'n'Strings & 909 (with Patrick Pulsinger) - In Your Pretty Face (Technothing)
  • 2016: Erdem Tunakan & Alpha Tracks - Free Trance Vol. 1 (Cheap Records)
  • 2016: Erdem Tunakan & Alpha Tracks - Free Trance Vol. 2 (Cheap Records)

Filmography (selection)

Soundtrack

  • 1990: meat grinder
  • 1991: I love Vienna
  • 1994: The secret of the gray cells (short film)
  • 1996: speed
  • 2004: Blackout Journey
  • 2014: the last dance
  • 2019: The guest

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ On the way. Radio play adaptation - a radio play by Jack Kerouac, BR 1998 . In: hoerspieleipps.net, accessed on February 25, 2019.
  2. ↑ Topic foreigners in the election campaign: "I hate the word integration" . In: derstandard.at of March 8, 2001.
  3. ↑ Erdem Tunakan . In: swr.de, accessed on February 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ Karl Fluch: With the consequence of a guillotine . In: Der Standard from May 19, 2003.
  5. ↑ a b Ewa Mazierska: Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015: A Cultural History . Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2018, ISBN 978-1138713918 .
  6. ↑ Outstanding Artist Award Music . In: kunstkultur.bka.gv.at, accessed on February 25, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Tunakan, Erdem
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian musician, music producer and DJ
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna , Austria