Biography of Superpitcher

Superpitcher is Aksel Schaufler, a German producer with close ties to Cologne's Kompakt label. Like a lot of other producers on that label, it's nearly impossibly to predict exactly what he'll do next. He made his first appearance on Kompakt's Total 2 compilation in 2000 with “Shadows,' an eerie trip-hop production seemingly designed to soundtrack a 3 A.M. drive down a foggy urban alley. In 2001, he contributed a track to Kompakt's first Speicher 12' and released Heroin, a three-track 12' with three different sounds; “Tomorrow' was later included on that year's Total 3. 2002's Total 4 included yet another track from Schaufler, a straightforward electro-pop cover of Brian Eno's “Baby's on Fire.' Soon after that, Schaufler released his second 12', Yesterday, which featured re-workings of “Tomorrow' and “Heroin.'

Biography of Tobias Thomas

Tobias Thomas, born 1970, is a member of the Kompakt family since they very early days. He has been working as a DJ since 1990, and was involved in many cooperative projects like Forever Sweet. Thomas did a number of remixes alongside Dettinger, Superpitcher, Michael Mayer and Reinhard Voigt. As an editor for the german music magazine Spex, he's done interviews with Sven Vaeth, Pet Shop Boys, Westbam, Depeche Mode, Wolfgang Tillmans, Erlend Oye, Justin Timberlake and many others. Since 1998 he has been hosting the weekly 'Total Confusion' night with Michael Mayer and Superpitcher in the famous Studio 672 Club in Cologne. as a DJ he played in more than twenty countries and on three continents. He has released two mix-cds titled Fuer Dich (1999) and Smallville (2003) on Kompakt and one with Forever Sweet, titled geben & Nehmen on Ladomat in 1998.

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