Michael Fakesch

Munich-based producer Michael Fakesch’s work is usually even more well known via Funkstorung, the name he information less than with partner Chris De Luca. Funkstorung possess released almost twelve information in just 3 years collectively, mostly with the obscure Acidity World imprint and, recently, their very own label Musik Aus Strom. Funkstorung’s information typically deploy a dark, tough, hard-edged electro visual vaguely similar to a slightly much less obsessive Autechre. Fakesch’s single work, nevertheless, while keeping the gritty creation ideals, pursues a bleaker, a lot more introverted tack, having a studied concentrate on melody and slower, even more plodding rhythms. Fakesch adopted a not unusual progression from past due ’80s hip-hop (Community Foe, Paris) and old-school electro (Grandmaster Display, Guy Parrish) — he was a semi-professional breakdancer — towards the techno explosion that had taken keep in Germany in the first ’90s. His single output up to now includes the two-part Demon EP (1997) as well as the 1999 full-length Marion.