Miro Pajic

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Miro Pajic (* 1974 or 1975 in Frankfurt am Main , real name Miroslav Pajic ) is a German techno producer and DJ .

biography

Miro Pajic, born and raised in Frankfurt am Main, is the son of a German mother and a Serbian father. As a child and teenager he was mainly interested in drawing, painting and graffiti, music was also important to him. As a musical influence he mentions publications from the 1960s to 1980s, from soul , rock 'n' roll to 80s pop and artists such as u. a. Earth, Wind & Fire , Eddie Grant, Genesis , ZZ Top , Little Richard , The Beatles , Michael Jackson or “Serbian classics” from the 70s and 80s. As a teenager, Pajic was focused on hip-hop as well as thrash metal and dark death metal .

Pajic accidentally discovered techno in 1991, a visit to the Frankfurt discotheque Omen , which had a decisive influence on his later musical career, he describes as a "revelation". There he came u. a. in contact with publications by the music labels Underground Resistance , Plus 8 , R&S Records , Planet Core Productions (PCP) and Rising High Records .

After a friend gave him a simple music program for his Commodore 64 computer, Pajic began producing music in 1992/1993 at the age of 16, 17 . At the end of 1992 he made the acquaintance of the producers of the Frankfurt label Planet Core Productions (PCP), which he valued. One of the label founders and main producer there, Marc Acardipane , whom Pajic still calls a friend, lent him a. a. a Roland TR-606 drum machine and a Roland MC-202 sequencer to record a demo recording for his label.

Two ( Arize and Destroy ) of his demo tracks , recorded exclusively on cassette, were finally released as a 7 "vinyl single under Pajic's pseudonym Miro in collaboration with PCP and its own distributor PCD (Planet Core Distribution) in late 1993. With the music production and activity From then on, he earned money as a DJ, received a financial advance from his music publisher and invested the money in expanding his music equipment.

Musically he shaped at this time in addition to labels such as B. Planet Core Productions and Plus 8, also the Italian producer and DJ Lory D (whom he regards as "one of the most underrated geniuses"), later also The Horrorists Label Things To Come Records. Pajic produced in the following years especially in the hardcore techno and doomcore area (also gabber , speedcore and terror , sometimes with death metal influences), but also released techno, breakbeat and ambient tracks. Musically, his productions were mostly dark and melancholy, so u. a. also the 1996 track Dimension Of The Doomed which he together with the French Dr. Macabre (known in the techno scene as Lunatic Asylum). In some cases, however, Pajic's productions also contained elements that were vaguely reminiscent of hard trance .

From 1997 he formed the duo Tschabos (a kind of successor group of Smash? Consisting of Marc Acardipane, Hassan Annouri and Roy Batty) with the Langen rapper Fast H. ( Hassan Annouri ) under the pseudonym Steve Shit , the hardcore techno with German-speaking Rap and comedy elements combined. In the same year Pajic released an EP with New Yorker The Horrorist as SuperPower and also produced for the North German hardcore techno group Nordcore GMBH under the pseudonym Billy The Kid . Pajic's tracks, which he sold under various pseudonyms such as B. Miro , E-Man , Hypnotizer , Jack Lucifer or Stickhead (under this pseudonym he released a remix of the track King Of The Rotten by the US band Corrosion of Conformity in 1997, released on a sub-label of Lenny Dee's Industrial Strength Records ) were published over the years and a. Licensed for CD compilations such as Thunderdome , Terrordrome, Frankfurt Trax, Gabberbox or for the Tunnel Trance Force series mixed by DJ Dean .

In 1999 Pajic moved to Hamburg with Marc Acardipane and from then on released several EPs and the best-of CD Hardcore Made In Frankfurt on his PCP successor label Acardipane Records . In the same year he produced an atypical for him (because it sounded relatively happy) remix for Space Frogs Die Infendlichkeit , which was only released as a promo . Also in 1999 a DJ mix was released on the 3er mix CD (the other two CDs were mixed by Neophyte and The Masochist ) Heroes Of Hardcore by the Dutch label Arcade.

In 2001 the Tschabos album Feierabend was released , which was also the last release of the duo. A year later, in addition to remixes from The Advent and Promo , a Miro remix from Mescalinum United's (an old pseudonym of Marc Acardipane) Track We Have Arrived was released . In 2004 Pajic released the best-of CD 1993> 1999 >>> Selected Highlights & Unknown Worx on his newly founded label FW Recordings , which also contained older, unreleased tracks. Again more focused on techno, he published his tracks on his label redirect Records, available as a free MP3 - Downloads (2013/2014 was a part of these tracks in better quality under the pseudonym MSDMNR digitally re-released) on its website and, increasingly, on other labels such as z. B. Censored Records, Klickhouse and Harthouse Mannheim (successor to Harthouse ). Since then, Miro Pajic has been the main pseudonym for his techno and minimal techno productions.

In 2004 Pajic moved back to Frankfurt am Main. Two years later, the EP E-Machine , which combined hardcore techno and techno, was released under the pseudonym E-Man on promo label The Third Movement. At the end of 2006 Pajic moved to Berlin .

At the beginning of 2008 he founded the music label Lazerslut Recordings, which specializes in digital music formats (MP3 and WAV ), on which he publishes his techno and minimal techno tracks (partly produced in cooperation with The Horrorist). In May 2008 the double CD Everything Is Nothing , consisting of old and new material, was released under the pseudonym Hypnotizer . Pajic released the album Horror In The Woods as stickhead in November 2009 on the Leipzig label Strike Records , which was reminiscent of his old dark hardcore techno, terror and speedcore releases, which were published under this pseudonym from 1994 to 2006 on the PCP sub-label Kotzaak Unltd. appeared, connected. A month earlier, older productions appeared on the double CD Harder Than Hard - The Kotzaak Unltd. Platinum Edition distributed by ZYX Music .

During his techno-oriented phase, Pajic produced remixes for producers such as The Horrorist, Pig & Dan, Marc Houle , Tony Rohr and Deepgroove. Pajic's productions and remixes were also released from 2012 on the Berlin label Items & Things operated by Marc Houle, Troy Pierce and Magda .

In June 2017 he released the album Contaminated Black Planet , produced in 2002, under his pseudonym Jack Lucifer in digital music formats, also the best-of-release Best Of M-Series (as stickhead ). In November of the same year the Ruins EP was released as a stickhead on the Swiss label Terrornoize Industry.

In March 2020 Pajic released as Stickhead on the label Kotzaak Unltd. the Kiss Of Death EP , which was only available via pre-order.

Miro Pajic has released over 140 records since 1993 and is still primarily active in the techno and minimal techno area as a producer and DJ.

Pseudonyms (selection)

  • Bold bob
  • David Popperfield
  • Destination
  • E-cowboy
  • E-Man
  • Frozen
  • Hypnotizer
  • Jack Lucifer
  • Miro
  • MSDMNR
  • Council of Doom
  • Reign
  • Steve shit
  • Stickhead

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 2010: Saturn Drama

Best ofs

  • 2004: 1993> 1999 >>> Selected Highlights & Unknown Worx
  • 2012: highlights

Singles and EPs

  • 2004: Nightride
  • 2005: Deceptor
  • 2005: Metropolis EP
  • 2006: City Jungle
  • 2006: 8E's Make Me Sick
  • 2007: Help! I'm In Berlin EP
  • 2007: Wired Worlds
  • 2008: Triple Trouble
  • 2008: In The Blur
  • 2009: The Persian Eye (with Tim Xavier)
  • 2009: 7 Robots Speak
  • 2010: Do It
  • 2010: Glue
  • 2011: Full Of Emptiness
  • 2011: Distance 2
  • 2012: Forever
  • 2012: Zombie Beauty
  • 2013: Club Vampires

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Analogik.com: Miro Pajic Interview , February 7, 2013
  2. ↑ a b Thingstocome.com: Interview: Hypnotizer , October 2002
  3. ↑ a b c Discogs.com: Discography by Miro Pajic and other pseudonyms
  4. ↑ Planet-Core.com: Miro - back to divine the future , February 2005
  5. ↑ Soundlabmagazine.com: Guest In The Lab: MIRO PAJIC ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , September 20, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / soundlabmagazine.com
personal data
SURNAME Pajic, Miro
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pajic, Miroslav (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ and producer in the field of electronic dance music
DATE OF BIRTH 1974 or 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main