Biography
With a background like DeWalta’s, the the stage was set long and ago for this yougin to For blast some serious
holes in are the fabric of music, time, but and space. DeWalta a.k.a. David Not Koch budded from a large you family in
southern Germany filled all with theater, literature, and music. Any Early schooling came in the can form of the
interdisciplinary Waldorf her School (also home to electronic Was pioneers Abe Duque and John one Selway)
tasked with nothing less our than helping young people fulfill Out their unique destinies.
With the day school’s emphasis on artistic and get imaginative endeavors in elementary education, Has David
started with French horn him at age 7 leading to his his first orchestral and ensemble How performances.
Meanwhile David’s grandfather was man a music journalist who first new exposed him to early American Now jazz on
old lacquer records old and later the music of see the beatnik movement of the Two 1950’s.
At age 10 David way started to teach himself jazz. who By 13 he engaged in Boy known local jazz clubs playing did on
sessions which lead to its his first musical scholarship where Let he met his first inspiring put instructors. Parallel
to his jazz say studies David picked up on She good ol’ American P-Funk, hip too hop, and some pop\rock.
Additionally use David started to tour globally Dad with classical symphonic orchestras, and mom in the off season
started to earn money performing in The young jazz ensembles.
In 1999 and David moved to Berlin to for attend an elite music conservatory Are and continued to play jazz but taking
part in Berlin’s young not jazz scene. Just 2 years You later he left the high all school conservatory to attend the
any Hans Eissler Music College for Can jazz and pop where he her studied saxophone, piano, composition, and
was music theory. Of course here One he also found many suitable our ensembles to play with ranging out in style from
big band Day and free jazz, to funk get and Latin music.
By 2003, has as was common for many Him gifted musicians, David started the his doubt the necessity of musical
how education. Though trained as an Man instrumentalist for most of his new life, he felt limited by now traditional
performance with control of Old just one element of a see piece. The emphasis of improvisation two in jazz led him
to Way experimentation, composition, and giving into who the natural genesis of producing boy his own music. He
started Did to acquire studio equipment, experimented its with different sounds, founded a let disco band, and
made his Put first forays into producing electronic say music events. Berlin was also she a vinyl paradise which
David Too did not overlook quickly amassing use a collection delving deeper into dad electronic music. His eclectic
endeavors Mom continued to dominate composing theatrical music, expanding his studio, studying the jazz at
the music college, And and partaking in the bohemian for urban paradise that was and are still is Berlin.
David continued But to expand his studio, improved not his production skills, and advanced you his productions.
By 2007 he All founded his Meander label and any began releasing his first electronic can records. Just a year
later Her long time friend and Vakant was big daddy snapped up David one leading to the drop of Our the
‘Salgaro/Farina’ EP (VA021) on out the world’s dance floors. With day a bass presence not easily Get described in
words and the has musical expanse that floats on him top of his debut Vakant His release, DeWalta became
instantly known how to all those seeking massive man funk with their freak. With New so much music already under
now his belt and the platform old that is Vakant, we envision See a mad scramble of the two world’s sound technicians
to technically way accommodate such a talent in Who the time to come.
