Patric Catani

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Patric Catani (bourgeois Patric Cremer ; * 1975 in Cologne ) is a German music producer who released his first record in 1992 at the age of 16 as E-De-Cologne . From 1992 to 2000 he mainly produced hardcore techno , gabber and breakbeat , although his style was never really limited to one genre. Since 1998 he has also composed hip-hop , electro-pop , soundtracks for video games, film, theater and radio plays. He publishes under project names such as Candie Hank , Ricardo Prosetti , Flex Busterman , Party Catani , Patric C , Test Tube Kid , Eradicator and Very Impossible Person .

Life

He began his musical career in Cologne with the production of hardcore techno, breakbeats and gabber, which he wrote in the children's room on an Amiga 500 home computer with the sequencer program Protracker . His first record "Live at the Sexshop" was released in 1992 under the project name E-De-Cologne on the Cologne hardcore techno label Monotone, operated by Ingmar Koch (Dr. Walker). After a very successful start, he toured Europe with his two Commodore computers and at the age of 16 was known as one of the youngest representatives of the hardcore / gabba genre. In May 1994, Frontpage magazine named E De Cologne Germany's No 1 for Gabba . Several of his tracks as E-De-Cologne appeared on well-known hardcore techno compilations such as Thunderdome or “Waking Up A Dead Planet”. They were u. a. but also used for a documentary about NASA on Channel Four in Great Britain and influenced the hardcore techno scene with their currently newly discovered 8-bit sound.

Catani moved to Berlin in 1995, where he joined the scene around the Digital Hardcore Recordings (DHR) label operated by Alec Empire . Together with Gina V. D'Orio ( Cobra Killer ) he produced three albums and numerous singles as EC8OR , which were licensed on Beat Rec. In Japan as well as on DHR , as well as in the USA by the Beastie Boys label Grand Royal . He also continued to pursue his solo projects. Parallel to his work for digital hardcore recordings and the Hamburg-based label Fischkopf at the time, he started the label Spite together with Michael Zosel, where, for example, the first productions of Din ST (now DJ Maxximus) were published.

In 1997 he produced, as far as is known, the first C64 tribute record The horrible plans of Flex Busterman , the sound aesthetics of Rob Hubbard was partly taken up in the composition, as also noted as a small joke in the credits. For several years, he is also one of the producers for the consisting of hand puppets Berlin hip-hop - band Puppetmastaz working and his work has extended to the field of film and theater soundtracks. He has u. a. also worked with the Dutch director Johan Simons at the Volksbühne Berlin , the Münchner Kammerspiele and various theaters in the Netherlands. He also appeared on Gonzales' 2001 album "The Entertainist" as a producer on some tracks. His album "Groucho Running" under the pseudonym Candie Hank was released at the end of 2006 on the Cologne-based Mouse on Mars label Sonig . The magazine de: Bug considered him to be one of the busiest musicians in Germany at the time . In 2007, in cooperation with the artist Jorinde Voigt and Chris Imler , he created and shown a Dolby surround sound installation at the Robert Wilson Institute Watermill Center on Long Island (New York). The installation with the name Lemniscate was published in a stereo version on Sonig . With Chris Imler he has been active as Driver & Driver since 2006 and after several tours in Europe and remixes, a. a. For the Berlin rap group Xberg Dhirty6 Cru the duo received a record deal with the Berlin label Staatsakt .

In 2012 he composed the music for the Michel Houellebecq Theater Adoption of Elementarteilchen at the Freiburg Theater under the direction of Christoph Frick . In addition, he produced / mixed various songs on the Fraktus / Studio Braun album "Millenium Edition", which was released on state act as part of the film "Fraktus, the last chapter in music history" (directed by Lars Jessen ).

In 2013 the Xbox video game Battleblock Theater by the American company The Behemoth was released , for which a large part of the music was composed by Patric Catani. The game as well as the music received various awards.

In 2014 the Candie Hank album "Demons" was released on the Berlin label Shitkatapult .

In 2015, Patric Catani worked with the director Felicitas Brucker on a modern adaptation of Antigone after Sophocles at the Theater Basel , the text was written by Darja Stocker based on her own experiences in Egypt at the time of the revolution (2011).

In 2016, Catani worked with the director Felicitas Brucker at the Basel Theater as music supervisor and composer on the play "Retten Was Zu Retten Ist", written by Philippe Heule.

From January to March 2017 he was in charge of the composition and musical selection for the play "Die Unverheiratete", written by Ewald Palmetshofer and directed by Felicitas Brucker at Theater Basel .

In 2017 the video game Pit People , the American game company The Behemoth, will be released on Xbox One and Steam , for which Patric Catani has contributed much of the music.

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  1. ↑ http://www.jorindevoigt.com/Watermill/Watermill_expose.pdf
  2. ↑ http://www.de-bug.de/frontpage/?cat=12
  3. ↑ de: Bug, November 2006 edition
personal data
SURNAME Catani, Patric
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cremer, Patric (real name); Catani, Patric (pseudonym); Candie Hank (project name); Eradicator (project name); Horrible Plans Of Flex Busterman (project name); Party Catani (project name); Patric C (project name); Test Tube Kid (project name); Ricardo Prosetti (project name); E-De Cologne (project name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German music producer
DATE OF BIRTH 1975
PLACE OF BIRTH Cologne