Klaus Jankuhn
Klaus Jürgen Jankuhn (born January 12, 1965 ) is a German music producer who has had a major impact on the German techno scene.
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When he was 4 years old, Klaus Jankuhn was given a small guitar, after which he began to play music. Jankuhn came to electronic music around 1980, initially in a project group as a student at the Pascal-Gymnasium Münster , where he also got to know WestBam . The two then produced music together for the emerging DJ scene. In 1985, their first single, 17 - This is not a Boris Becker Song , was released under the project name Cowboy Temple (a reference to Paul Hardcastle's hit 19 , one of the first pieces that brought sampling and dance rhythms into the charts). Jankuhn, WestBam and his brother Fabian Lenz founded the label Low Spirit together with William Röttger and Sandra Molzahn in the same year .
DAF singer and mastermind Gabi Delgado-López recorded together with Jankuhn, as a replacement for Delgado-Lopez's partner Robert Görl , the maxi-single The Gun , which is considered the first German house record.
Klaus Jankuhn produced the publications of numerous musicians, among others for Maximilian Lenz alias WestBam and for Marusha . Jankuhn and Lenz also produced the corresponding anthems for the annual Mayday under the pseudonym Members of Mayday . They each produced the official anthem for the Love Parade under the project name The Love Committee .
After Low Spirit ended, Jankuhn and WestBam continued to produce music together for a few years, but later went their separate ways.
Awards
- 1995: ECHO Pop in the category "Best National Producer"
- 2003: Dance Music Award in the category "Best Producer"
Web links
- Klaus Jankuhn at Discogs (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ DJ Klaus Jankuhn has been producing the hits of the techno scene with his label Low Spirit for years at berliner-zeitung.de, accessed on March 11, 2015
- ↑ Tim Stüttgen and Markus Hablizel: My life theme is DJ music , interview in Spex , 2005
- ↑ WestBam: The Power of the Night. Ullstein Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-550080685 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jankuhn, Klaus |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jankuhn, Klaus Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German music producer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 12, 1965 |