Peter Wacha

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Peter Wacha (* 1962 ) is a German DJ , record label owner and club operator who is best known under his pseudonym DJ Upstart .

Life

From 1979 published Wacha for a short time, the punk - Fanzine Upstart . He kept the name even after the fanzine was discontinued and used it as an artist name for his DJ appearances.

Together with Peter Blaha, Wacha founded the record store Optimal in Munich in 1982 , which was mainly specialized in new wave and punk genres . Today, Optimal is one of the world's largest independent record stores.

Like DJ Hell , Wacha was part of the Munich dance hall megalomania . After Wacha founded his first record label with Sub Up Records in 1985 , the label Disko B , conceived by Sub Up Records as the “Dance Department” followed in 1991 , which was supported by trend-setting releases by artists such as DJ Hell, Patrick Pulsinger , Electric Indigo , Robert Görl , Richard Bartz and Console became known. One of the first releases, Kotai's single Susi's Daydream , was co-produced by Wacha.

In the Munich techno scene, Wacha was also known for the Ultraworld parties he helped organize, from which the techno club Ultrasound I later emerged.

Together with Alex Murray-Leslie, Melissa Logan and Jürgen Söder, Wacha founded the Disko-B subsidiary label Chicks On Speed ​​Records in 2000 , on which mainly the publications of the electro group of the same name Chicks on Speed appeared. This was later followed by albums and EPs from bands such as Le Tigre , DAT Politics and Kids On TV .

In 2005 Peter Wacha opened the Munich Club Rote Sonne together with Dorothea Zenker, Richard Rieger, Bernd Bergmann, Sven Künast and Martin Gretschmann .

In the 2008 documentary We Call It Techno! , who documented the development phase of the techno scene in Germany from 1988 to 1993, gave an interview to Wacha.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Optimal Records website  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 5, 2010@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.optimal-records.de  
  2. ↑ Really Optimal ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2008 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. at intro.de , accessed on August 5, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.intro.de
  3. ↑ Searching for traces: Munich minus thirty. Thomas Bedall. Tanzcafé megalomania ( Memento of the original from June 20, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 5, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.clubstars.net
  4. ↑ Alexander Bock: The importance of Munich as a location for popular music recording companies . Grin Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3638723541 , page 114
  5. ↑ Disko B Portrait ( Memento of the original from May 13, 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. on diskob.com, accessed August 5, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.diskob.com
  6. ↑ Ultrasound at SchönereWelt !, accessed on August 5, 2010
  7. ↑ Rote Sonne - It should crack at sueddeutsche.de , accessed on August 5, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Wacha, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Upstart (pseudonym); DJ Upstart (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German DJ, record label owner and club operator
DATE OF BIRTH 1962