Paul Schmitz-Moormann (musician)
Paul Schmitz-Moormann (* 1975 ) is a former German DJ as well as acid house and trance musician. He became known in the early techno scene from 1988 under the pseudonym Kid Paul .
Life
In 1981 Schmitz-Moormann moved with his family to Berlin, where they initially played in the music video Congratulations from the rock group Spliff . In 1983 he started breakdancing and took brief classical piano lessons.
In 1988, at the age of 13, he became known under the pseudonym Kid Paul with his publication Acid in my House with Brian Carter Music and played at the first acid house parties in the UFO . He later became resident DJ at UFO and Dubmission.
Together with Cosmic Baby he formed the trance project Energy 52 which, with Café del Mar in 1993, produced one of the most famous trance pieces. In the same year he also produced with Paul van Dyk and Stephan Fischer under the pseudonym Dolfin ' .
In 1995 Schmitz-Moormann withdrew from the techno scene and no longer performed as a DJ. The same year he founded the label ISM Productions , where he under the name Paul M. likely to Downtempo and Drum 'n' Bass published oriented pieces.
Pseudonyms
- City Child
- Ignition
- Kid Paul
- Paul M.
- Velocity
Web links
- Paul M at Discogs (English)
- Paul Schmitz-Moormann in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Sven Schäfer, Jesper Schäfers, Dirk Waltmann: Techno-Lexikon. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf Verlag, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-89602-142-7 .
- ↑ Felix Denk, Sven von Thülen: The sound of the family: Berlin, techno and the turn. Suhrkamp Taschenbuch 4548, ISBN 978-3-518-46548-6 , p. 409.
- ↑ Tilman Baumgärtel : Kid Paul no longer lives here . In: The newspaper of December 13, 2003.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmitz-Moormann, Paul |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Kid Paul (pseudonym); Paul M. (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German DJ as well as acid house and trance musicians |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1975 |