Pascal FEOS

Pascal FEOS (born March 11, 1968 in Bad Nauheim , Hessen ; † May 9, 2020 , real name Paschalis Dardoufas ) was a German DJ , producer and label operator in the electronic music scene. Together with Maik Maurice Diehl he formed the live act Resistance D and also published songs under the pseudonym Sonic Infusion . Until 2011 he was part of the production team of the ambient project Aural Float alongside Gabriel Le Mar and Alex Azary . He ran the record label levelNONzero Recordings and Need for Groove .

Naming

His name FEOS was derived from an acronym from " F rom the E ssence o f Minimalistic S ound " in relation to his minimalist music style . However, the M was left out because it didn't sound good. An earlier spelling of the name was Pascal FEOS

Life

Pascal FEOS, who was of Greek descent, had his formative discotheque experiences like many other of his DJ colleagues in the 1980s, when the popular sounds of that time were Italo Disco and Hi-NRG . Later the somewhat harder directions like EBM also found their way. At the time when electronic music was becoming a mass phenomenon through house and acid , Pascal FEOS found his way into the German techno scene as a DJ in 1984. He played in discos such as Dorian Gray , Omen and U60311 in Frankfurt am Main , the Warehouse in Cologne and the Tempel in Munich . In 1989 Maik Maurice Diehl and Pascal FEOS met in a club and decided to produce music together. As early 1990s techno began to take a new style of music a dominant position in the discos, occurred both in 1990 as a live act under the name Resistance D the first time. With their first publication Cosmic Love from 1990, which appeared as a white label with an edition of 500 copies, they became pioneers of the new music genre trance .

In addition to Resistance D , he also worked on the Sonic Infusion project . Both projects were released on Sven Väth's labels Eye Q Records and Harthouse . On these two labels, the so-called Sound of Frankfurt was created with the music genre trance . In 1994 he founded the ambient music project Aural Float together with Gabriel Le Mar and Alex Azary . When trance reached its peak in 1995, Pascal FEOS founded the labels Elektrolux , HeyBabe and Planet Vision together with Alex Azary . Elektrolux in particular developed very successfully and was considered an important label for ambient, dub and lounge music . Aural Float's first album called Introspectives was released on the label in the year it was founded . Pascal FEOS himself published numerous productions in the following years. In 1999 Pascal FEOS released the first album entitled From The Essence Of Minimalistic Sound .

On the album Remixed , which was released in 2000, there are remixes of Pascal FEOS 'own tracks made by artist friends such as Ricardo Villalobos , Timo Maas , Thomas Schumacher , Chris Liebing and WJ Henze. After it had calmed down around Sonic Infusion , he released a new album with this project in 2002 with the title Formatted and with Self Reflexion in 2003 a new single under his own name.

In 2004 he founded his new label levelNONzero Records on which later Pascal FEOS studio albums and numerous singles were released. In 2006 an album called Synaptic was released .

The fourth album Terrabong (February 2010) was also released on its own label levelNONzero Records. After three years of production, his first double album, Departed 2 Return, followed in May 2013 .

In addition to many appearances all over the world, his own music productions and his work as the head of his own music label, Pascal FEOS has also made remixes for artists such as Jean Michel Jarre , Sven Väth , Laurent Garnier and Anne Clark .

He died in May 2020 at the age of 52 from complications from gastric cancer .

Discography (selection)

Albums

• 1993: Edenhouse - Never Mind
• 1999: Pascal FEOS - From The Essence Of Minimalistic Sound (PV)
• 2002: Sonic Infusion - Formatted (Planet Vision)
• 2003: Pascal FEOS - Self Reflexion (PV)
• 2006: Pascal FEOS - Synaptic (LNZ)
• 2010: Pascal FEOS - Terra Bong! (LNZ)
• 2013: Pascal FEOS - Departed 2 Return (LNZ)

Singles and EPs

• 1995: Pascal FEOS vs. M / S / O - Our Music
• 1996: Aural Float - Introspectives (E10)
• 1996: Mark Spoon & Pascal FEOS - The City (Bigger & Better) (Ovum)
• 1998: Pascal FEOS vs. M / S / O - Ideas & Experience (PV 014)
• 1999: Resistance D - Feel High (Vision 019)
• 1999: Aural Float - New Frontiers (E100100)
• 2000: Pascal FEOS - I can feel that / Remix (PV 023)
• 2000: Pascal FEOS - Are U tranquilizied? (PV 026)
• 2000: Pascal FEOS & Petar Dundov - Sidechained (PV 030)
• 2001: Pascal FEOS - Organic Protection ( Cocoon Recordings )
• 2005: Pascal FEOS - I can feel that (OMY 001)
• 2005: Pascal FEOS - Tres O Tres (LNZ 004)
• 2005: Aural Float - Beautiful Someday CD (Elux)
• 2006: Pascal FEOS & M / S / O - Further & Further (LNZ 005)
• 2007: Pascal FEOS & Chris Wood - Details CD (LNZ 004)
• 2007: Pascal FEOS & Marc Miroir - Rezolution (LNZ 012)
• 2008: Pascal FEOS - Endless Summer (LNZ 020)
• 2009: Pascal FEOS & Domenic D'Agnelli - Free your mind (LNZ 030)
• 2009: Pascal FEOS & M / S / O - Luv (LNZ 023)
• 2010: Pascal FEOS & Frank Leicher - Wilde Wälse (Hive Rec.)
• 2010: Pascal FEOS - Girlfunk (Touched)
• 2010: Pascal FEOS & Guido Schneider - Juicy / Half-dry (Highgrade 083)

Remixes

• 1999: Elektrochemie LK - Schall (Pascal FEOS Remix)
• 2000: Azzido Da Bass - Dooms Night (Pascal FEOS Treatment Mix)
• 2001: RMB - Horizon ( Resistance D. Remix)
• 2001: Ramirez - Orgasmico (Pascal FEOS Remix)
• 2003: Tim Xavier - Theater of Sound (Pascal FEOS Treatment)
• 2003: Naoki Kenji - Journey (Pascal FEOS Remix)
• 2003: Chris Zander - Prague Spring (Pascal FEOS Remix)
• 2007: Björn Wilke - RU Ready Ralph (Pascal FEOS Treatment)
• 2009: Dune - Daydreams (Pascal FEOS Treatment)
• 2010: Martin Woerner - Braintwister (Pascal FEOS & Frank Leicher Remix)

DJ mix

• 2001: hr3 & XXL Clubnight Volume 4
• 2003: In The Mix: Rize And Fall (Cocoon Recordings)

Web links

• Pascal FEOS at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Markus Brandstetter: Frankfurt techno DJ and producer Pascal Feos is dead. In: RollingStone. Axel Springer Mediahouse Berlin GmbH, May 9, 2020, accessed on May 10, 2020 (German). 
2. ↑ Alexis Waltz: Pascal FEOS: Family, friends and colleagues comment on his death . In: groove.de from May 22, 2020.
3. ↑ Pascal Feos: The Frankfurt techno DJ is dead - laut.de - News. Retrieved May 10, 2020 . 
4. ↑ ^{a b} Discography of Resistance D , ( Tursa Discography Pages website , as of September 19, 2009).
5. ↑ Biography of Pascal FEOS ( Memento of the original from November 1, 2010 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. , ( MTV website as of September 19, 2009).