Rudiger Esch

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Ruediger Esch performing in Krefeld (2006)

Rüdiger ('Rudi') Esch (born August 10, 1966 in Düsseldorf ) is a German musician , author and music consultant. He first appeared as part of the punk movement and was later the founder of the MakroSoft studio project . Since 1988 he has been the bass player for the industrial band Die Krupps and the punk band Male .

Life

In 1982 Esch founded the German-speaking punk band Feine Deutsche Art (FDA) , for which he worked as a composer and lyricist. The band had their first concert in 1983 in the opening act of the Toten Hosen in the Garath leisure center. Further concerts, among others with Family 5 and Hour X , followed in 1984 in Düsseldorf and the surrounding area. The song With my back on the wall was featured on the Ruhr area sampler Punk's not dead . In 1985, the FDA disbanded, and a retrospective appeared in 1990 on Teenage Rebel Records .

Based on Jim Jarmusch's film Stranger than Paradise , Esch founded a band of the same name in 1986. The group mainly played English, melancholy guitar pop in the style of The Cure , Siouxsie or Joy Division . Here, too, Esch was active as a lyricist, composer and bassist. In 1987 Esch founded the label strange records in cooperation with the city of Düsseldorf. During the presentation of the record, his band was discovered by Klaus Dinger . In the same year the first productions took place in the La Düsseldorf studio Dingerland, as well as a joint concert. From the collaboration, a new group was formed around Klaus Dinger in 1988, which later released an LP as The Angel of the Lord .

In 1989 the band Die Krupps was founded . This had already achieved cult status in the early 1980s with the publications Steel Works Symphony and True Work / True Pay . A band quickly developed with a permanent, international line-up: Rüdiger Esch on bass, Jürgen Engler on vocals, Lee Altus from San Francisco on guitar and Ralf D Körper (returned from the band Propaganda ) on keyboards. Between 1989 and 1997 five albums were released and the band played more than 200 concerts in Europe and North America. After a break of several years, Die Krupps gave their Reunionshow in 2005 at the WGT in Leipzig. In 2011, for the 30th stage anniversary, Die Krupps embarked on a double headliner tour through Europe with Nitzer Ebb and played at the Kinetik Festival in Montreal and the Amphi Festival in Cologne , among others .

From 1990 to 1996 Esch studied German language and literature and philosophy at Heinrich Heine University in Düsseldorf with a focus on aesthetics. In 1999, Esch founded EPAG Enterprise Multimedia AG together with his brother Holger Esch.

Since 2012 Rüdiger Esch working on a book about the electronic music of his native city, in October 2014, entitled Electri_city - Electronic Music from Dusseldorf in Suhrkamp Verlag published. Various media such as Die Welt, Spiegel Online and the Tagesspiegel reported on the book. It has now also been published in English. 2016 at Omnibus under the title Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music. Esch is also co-author of a biography together with Miriam Spies about the band DAF ( German-American Friendship ), which was officially authorized by the two band members Robert Görl and Gabi Delgado-López .

Since 2015, Rüdiger Esch has been organizing the Electri_City Conference in Düsseldorf, based on the title of his first book, at which the history of electronic music is illuminated through lectures and concerts.

Esch lives with his family in the south of Düsseldorf.

Discography

with male
with MakroSoft
  • Stereo also playable Mono , Ministry Of Sound (2006)
with Die Krupps
Collaborations

Publications

  • Electri_city - Electronic Music from Düsseldorf , Suhrkamp Verlag, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-518-46464-9 .
  • Electri_City: The Düsseldorf School of Electronic Music , Omnibus Press, London 2016, ISBN 978-1-78558-119-9 .
  • John Paul Jones: The multi-instrumentalist . In: Heel, Franz-Christoph (ed.): Led Zeppelin (Rockportrait) , edition: 1, 2008, ISBN 978-3-89880-929-0 , p. 34.
  • This is DAF: Biographie, Berlin, Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf 2017. ISBN 978-3-86265-663-9 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ EPAG Enter-Price Multimedia AG. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Michael Pilz: Kraftwerk: How and where German pop was invented . In: THE WORLD . January 6, 2015 ( welt.de [accessed April 15, 2020]).
  3. ↑ Tobias Rapp, DER SPIEGEL: Electri_City by Rüdiger Esch: Düsseldorfer Pop - There's something else - DER SPIEGEL - Culture. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Use your synth. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  5. ^ Electri_City: The Duesseldorf School of Electronic Music. Retrieved April 15, 2020 .
  6. ↑ THAT'S DAF: biography. November 1, 2017, accessed April 15, 2020 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Esch, Rudiger
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Esch, Rudi
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German musician and author
DATE OF BIRTH August 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Dusseldorf