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SASCHA FUNKE - GERMINA SPEEDER

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Germina Speeder
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KOPMPAKT 497
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Sascha Funke is creating a long overdue monument to an almost forgotten cultural artefact of the GDR: the ‘Germina Speeder’ was the only skateboard made in East Germany before reunification and was launched in 1986. It was produced by VEB Schokoladen-Verarbeitungsmaschinen (a state-owned chocolate processing machine factory) in Wernigerode and was therefore affectionately known as the ‘chocolate board’. However, it was hardly suitable for actual skateboarding due to technical inadequacies. It is not known whether Sascha himself owned such a board, but the tracks on the ‘Germina Speeder’ EP definitely roll better than the original. The opener ‘Blaupunkt’ breathes the euphoric spirit of the legendary Berlin club ‘E-Werk’, while the title track would have been more at home at the ‘Dubmission’ parties in the Turbine. Sascha leaves the 90s behind with radiant positivism; ‘Bo Knows’ sounds more like a 2000s open air at Café Schönbrunn. The EP closes with ‘Mastermind’, a high-octane psy-proghouse banger that, like all four tracks, quotes the past but still has both feet on today’s dance floors. Or rather, is dancing. 4:1 for love!

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Blaupunkt 5 22
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Germina Speeder 6 40
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Bo Knows 6 57
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Master Mind 5 43

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A kind of techno that sways between the polarity of emotional overload and concrete rationale – hence immediacy, which is what Sascha Funke is all about. 1989 Sascha listens to a lot of euro-dance-pop as a twelve year-old his first purchased record after the fall of the wall was "technotronic mega mix". 1990-1992 First contact with techno and house is thanks to marusha's radio show "rave satellite;" Sascha buys his first techno record "the seawolf" (underground resistance/ ur). 1993/94 He visits the legendary Berlin club walfisch for the first time as a raver; he organizes parties in youth clubs in the east Berlin section Lichtenberg and thus encounters his first DJ experiences with trance. 1995/96 Sascha goes out with passion and visits clubs like the E-werk or The Matrix. 1997 Sascha begins his DJ career in Berlin clubs like Discount or SO36. 1998 He attempts first steps as a producer with borrowed equipment and the help of his soon to-be label partner Paul Kalkbrenner in their collective studio. 1999 Sascha splits his studio and runs a new studio with Djoker Daan in the side rooms of the Berlin club casino. 2000 Sascha's musical home becomes bpitch control, DJ's at the Ostgut, WMF, Maria, Tresor. Releases also on kompakt (Köln). 2001 Remix fun, like for mitte karaoke, internship at the newspaper De-bug, further solo releases. 2002 Bpitch control „Gemeinsam-tour 2002“, studio work on his first album. 2003 His debut-album Bbravo" / BPC075 appears in September 2003. bravo-tour around the world. participation with the soccer team of bpitch at the magnet mitte soccer cup - drop out at preliminary round, Best party: bpitch new year eve at Maria/Berlin 2004 Participation with the soccer team of Bpitch at the magnet mitte soccer cup - drop out at the semi finale. More remixes for A. Kowalski and Kompakt 100. Best party: WMF Summer Camp and Melt. 2005 No participation at the magnet mitte soccer cup due to an injury. More remixes for Ada and Anja Schneider. He got over his fear of flying and started working for the wepshop of Bpitch. Best party: WMF Summer Camp and Sonar. 2006 Moving back with his studio into the Bpitch house. He finished the second “boogy bytes” mix cd. Works on his new album. Moves temporarily to Aix-en-Provence in order to escape the grey Berlin winter. 2007 Produces in Aix-en-Provence an exclusive track for bpc's label compilation "Camping vol.3" (bpc148+149) as well as tracks for a new ep - "Auf Aix" (bpc144) 2008 'Mango' released on BPitch. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.


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