Torsten Pröfrock

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Torsten Pröfrock is a German techno - and Electronica - musicians and music label owner .

Life

Pröfrock has been working in the Berlin record store Hard Wax , founded by Mark Ernestus , since the 1990s , initially as a temporary worker alongside his studies at Humboldt University , and later as the store's main buyer.

From 1995 onwards, Pröfrock's first releases appeared on labels such as Chain Reaction , FatCat Records and his own label DIN. He also published records by other artists such as Arovane , Monolake and Pole on DIN .

Pröfrock published under numerous pseudonyms such as Dynamo , Erosion , Log , Resilent , Traktor and Various Artists . He ran the record label DIN until 2000, when he stopped music production and label work for the time being.

In addition to Robert Henke , he was part of his project Monolake from 2003 onwards . Henke also motivated him to produce new music again. Since 2006 Pröfrock ran the label erosion , on the next re-releases as his early works Various Artists of his project, especially the plates T ++ appeared, with whom he's hitherto somewhat from Dub influenced style with influences from the Jungle and UK Garage combined . The project name is based on the programming language C ++ and refers to the digital production method of the project. Pröfrock performed live as T ++ at Fabric in London and at Berghain in Berlin. The EP Wireless , released in 2010, was included in the list of 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far by Factmag 2014 .

Discography (selection)

Albums
  • 1997: Various Artists - Decay Product (Chain Reaction)
  • 2002: Dynamo - Outside Front (DIN)
Singles and EPs
  • 1995: Various Artists - 1-7 (Chain Reaction)
  • 1995: Traktor - Traktor (self-published)
  • 1996: Resilent - 1.1 / 1.2 / 2 (Chain Reaction)
  • 1996: Dynamo - Death Delay EP (DIN)
  • 1997: Various Artists - 8 8.5 9 ( FatCat Records )
  • 1997: Erosion - 1/2/3 (Chain Reaction)
  • 1997: Dynamo - Outside Before / Ahead (DIN)
  • 1997: Dynamo stay (DIN)
  • 1998: Various Artists - Remixes (FatCat Records)
  • 1999: Various Artists - RFT (DIN)
  • 2000: Dynamo - 23 ° / 18 ° (DIN)
  • 2000: Log - In / Out (DIN)
  • 2006: T ++ - Space Pong / Space Break (erosion)
  • 2006: T ++ - Aquatic / Storm (erosion)
  • 2008: T ++ - Worn Down / 100 Bar (erosion)
  • 2008: T ++ - Allied / Tensile (Erosion)
  • 2008: T ++ - Audio1995 # 8 / Audio1995 # 8_2 (Apple Pips)
  • 2009: T ++ - Atlas (T ++ Remix) (with Monolake ; Monolake / Imbalance Computer Music)
  • 2010: T ++ - Wireless (Honest Jon's Records)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Chris Miller: LWE Interviews Hard Wax . In: littlewhiteearbuds.com of December 4, 2009.
  2. ↑ Golden Indian Ax 2012 - Nominated: Hard Wax . In: vut.de of October 22, 2012.
  3. ↑ Felix Denk: Hard Wax . In: De: Bug 88 of April 5, 2005.
  4. ↑ a b c Felix Denk: T ++ / Marcel Dettmann . In: De: Bug 111 from April 25, 2007.
  5. ↑ Christoph Jacket: Monolake . In: De: Bug 95 from January 3, 2006.
  6. ↑ T ++ - Wireless . In: honestjons.com, accessed April 11, 2019.
  7. ↑ T ++ . In: meakusma.org, accessed April 11, 2019.
  8. ↑ The 100 Best Albums of the Decade So Far - 52 . In: factmag.com from November 3, 2014.
personal data
SURNAME Pröfrock, Torsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dynamo (pseudonym); Erosion (pseudonym); Log (pseudonym); Resilent (pseudonym); T ++ (pseudonym); Tractor (pseudonym); Various Artist (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German techno and electronica musician, label operator
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century