January 2016

Sneaker has been on a mission to reveal the origins of electronic music for about twenty years now. Whether as a producer or DJ – Sneaker is doing it properly but always after careful consideration. He loves music which imparts atmosphere and attitude towards life, even in a parodyzing way that doesn’t take it all – or itself – too serious.

Early on, he fell in love with Detroit and Chicago but furthermore there are the obscure italo-, new wave- and minimal-synth-gems that make his sets and ‘Dunkeltier’ edits (@sneaker-edits) special and provide his productions with that certain Sneaker-flavour.

In 2012 a remix of the 80s Belgian minimal synth band Twilight Ritual saw the light of the day on white vinyl on Madrid based Frigio Records, followed by another remix of industrial pioneers Esplendor Geométrico in 2013 and a total rework of Absolute Body Controls ‚Tanzmusik’ on the Dunkeltier Rising EP on the Macadam Mambo Edits label from Lyon.

The pricky bomb that is ‘You Think You Think!’ on Uncanny Valley Rec. has enriched the sets of Daniel Bell (DBX), Crème-head TLR, Cassius, Traxx and Deetron. It was featured on the FabricLive-CD of Daniel Avery. After the collaboration ‘Heteronomous’ on Jacob Korn’s debut album (featured by Mano Le Tough in the Boiler Room and licensed to the Future 303 compilation) it was time for the single EP ‘Java/Sumatra’ in summer 2013 on Uncanny Valley. Specialiced on edits of dance (un-)classics he’s one of the heads behind the new label Ratlife. As one third of ‘Serial Error’ along with Korn and Credit 00 he contributed the ‘Our Beat Is Still New’ series on ‘Red D’s We Play House label from Belgium. The year 2015 has seen an enormous output with EPs on ULM, Lunatic, Bahnsteig 23, Bordello A Parigi and Rat Life plus numerous contributions on vinyl.