Pole (musician)

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Pole at a performance in 2011

Pole alias Stefan Betke (born February 18, 1967 in Düsseldorf ) is a German dub techno musician, music producer , mastering engineer and label owner .

Life and career

Stefan Betke was born in 1967 in Düsseldorf, where he also grew up. He played keyboards and synthesizers in various bands.

In the mid-1990s, the musician, who then lived in Cologne, discovered a characteristic crackling noise while working with a defective Waldorf 4-pole analog filter, which he used as the basis for the production of his first pieces of music.

In 1996 Betke moved to Berlin , where he produced other pieces of music and worked as a mastering engineer at Dubplates & Mastering. His simply 1 titled album was released in 1998 on Kiff SM and received good to very good reviews. In 1999 and 2000 the follow-up albums of series 2 and 3 were released . The remix album R was later released with Betke's own variations and remixes by Kit Clayton and Burnt Friedman .

In 1999 Betke founded the ~ scape label together with Barbara Preisinger , on which Jan Jelinek , Deadbeat , Kit Clayton , Safety Scissors , John Tejada and Mapstation , among others, published their own publications as a Pole . In the same year Betke left Dubplates & Mastering and founded his own mastering studio Scape Mastering.

In 2003 the self-titled album Pole auf Mute followed . Before Betke 2008, his first album as a compilation 1 2 3 on ~ scape re-released , released in 2007 the album rock garden .

In 2011 Betke founded another label, Pole , on which, in addition to re-releases of previous Pole works, a new series of 12 " Forest Stories was published.

Betke performed live as a Pole in London's Fabric , Berlin's Watergate and New York's The Bunker .

Discography (selection)

Albums

  • 1998: 1 (Kiff SM)
  • 1999: 2 (Kiff SM)
  • 2000: 3 (Kiff SM)
  • 2001: R (~ scape)
  • 2003: Pole ( Mute )
  • 2007: rock garden (~ scape)
  • 2008: 1 2 3 (compilation album, ~ scape)
  • 2015: Forest (Pole)

Singles & EPs

  • 1998: Dancing (Kiff SM)
  • 1998: Room One / Room Two (DIN)
  • 2000: Rondell (Kiff SM)
  • 2000: Four Tet v Pole EP (Split EP with Four Tet , Leaf)
  • 2002: My friend Der Baum (with Manuela Krause , Monika Enterprise )
  • 2003: 90/90 (mute)
  • 2003: 45/45 (mute)
  • 2007: Steingarten Remixes (~ scape)
  • 2007: Steingarten Remixes 2 (~ scape)
  • 2007: Steingarten Remixes 3 (~ scape)
  • 2007: Steingarten Remixes 4 (~ scape)
  • 2008: Alles Gute / Alles Klar (~ scape)
  • 2011: Forest Tales (Pole)
  • 2011: Forest Stories 2 (Pole)
  • 2011: The Synth Remixes (with Sistol , Slices Of Life)
  • 2012: Forest Stories 3 (Pole)
  • 2012: In Dubs (with Roll The Dice , Leaf)
  • 2016: Lurch (Version) (Pole)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Bio at pole-music.com, accessed on January 10, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Pole
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Betke, Stefan (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German dub techno musician, music producer, mastering engineer and label operator
DATE OF BIRTH February 18, 1967
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf