Lutz Ludwig

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Lutz "Lupo" Ludwig (* 1957 in Hannover ; † 10. April 2014 in Berlin ) was a German techno - DJ and - musicians .

Life

Ludwig was born in Hanover as the son of a railway official. At the request of his parents, he first began training as a financial inspector.

Since the mid-1970s he worked as a DJ under the pseudonym LUPO. Among other things, he played in the Madhouse in Hamburg or in the Jara in Dortmund . From 1983 to 1994 he was resident DJ in the Munich disco P1 , where his sets also had a lasting influence on the young DJ Hell .

With Andy Weiner he founded the P1 Records label , which released singles such as “Tribute To James B.” by Captain Hollywood & BPM with a remix by Ludwig and Rickster's house classic “Night Moves”. In 1989 Ludwig met Maximilian and Fabian Lenz in Munich , with whom he appeared at the Night of Power . After the P1 Records label was discontinued in 1990 due to financial problems, Ludwig moved to Berlin. There he worked for several years as a booker and DJ promoter for the Low Spirit label, which was co-founded by the Lenz brothers . His first single "Hell Or Heaven" , produced together with Klaus Jankuhn , was also released on Low Spirit in 1990 . The single reached number 2 in the Italian charts. The follow-up single Keep It Up was able to place in the American and British dance charts. In 1991 the album Everybody Shake Your Body was released .

After a creative break of several years, the mid-1990s saw more trance and electro-influenced releases. The last solo single B.Rocker was released in 2002 on Electric Kingdom . After that he made a few records with Sven Seelenmeyer as Blowfeldt 59 and with Mike Hellmich and Nathalie De Borah as Die Telemathiker .

Ludwig later worked as a recruiter . On April 10, 2014, he died at the age of 57 in his adopted home Berlin.

Discography (selection)

album

Singles and EPs

  • 1990: Hell Or Heaven (Low Spirit)
  • 1990: Keep It Up (Low Spirit)
  • 1991: So Hard (Low Spirit)
  • 1994: I Wanna Love You (Urban)
  • 1995: Transpose (Low Spirit)
  • 1995: Velo City (Low Spirit)
  • 1996: Penetration / Channel Splitter (Low Spirit)
  • 1997: Bastard (Loud & Slow)
  • 1997: Bullshit and Party (Low Spirit)
  • 1999: People ( Electric Kingdom )
  • 2000: For Freedom and Dignity (Low Spirit)
  • 2001: Do It Alright (Electric Kingdom)
  • 2002: B.Rocker (Electric Kingdom)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ LUPO - an obituary Westbam at fazemag.de, April 22, 2014. Retrieved on 26 April 2014
  2. ↑ LUPO is dead at trndmsk.de, April 11, 2014, accessed on April 13, 2014
  3. ↑ a b Lutz LUPO Ludwig died at fazemag.de, April 11, 2014, accessed on April 13, 2014
  4. ↑ a b WestBam : The power of the night. Ullstein Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-550-08068-5 , pp. 126-127.
  5. ↑ DJ LUPO can still hear well, only his neck hurts at berliner-zeitung.de, October 9, 2001, accessed on April 13, 2014
  6. ↑ In the intoxication of the white nights . In: Der Spiegel . No. 51 , 1998, pp. 122 ( online ).
  7. ↑ Interview with DJ Hell: Chiemsee and Ibiza at sueddeutsche.de, 23 August 2013, accessed on 13 April 2014
personal data
SURNAME Ludwig, Lutz
ALTERNATIVE NAMES LUPO (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ and musician
DATE OF BIRTH 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Hanover , Germany
DATE OF DEATH April 10, 2014
Place of death Berlin , Germany