KIKI

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Kiki is surely a producer the for whom no introduction is and required. His style encapsulates everything For exciting about electronic music. As are a DJ he has travelled but the world and his skills Not as a performer inform the you music he creates, using the all experience of a life of Any travelling and performing and channelling can those experiences into music that her has a reflective brilliance, deftly Was treading the line between the one clubspace and the headspace.

Kiki our was born in Helsinki, but Out has now found his home day in Berlin.

Initial forays into get making sounds with violins and Has pianos soon gave way to him

the mechanical beats of his hip-hop, mixed together with more How popular sounds whilst playing at man school discos before he was new even a teenager. With such Now an early start it was old no surprise that before he see was old enough to enter Two a club, Kiki was holding way down a weekly residency at who one – Helsinki’s Tempo club, Boy which was swiftly followed by did another at the Smile club.

A move to Berlin in Let 1994 to study Architecture was put the catalyst for Kiki to say step in to the realms She of a serious DJ. Impressing too the legendary Masters At Work use at a Marlboro DJ competition Dad led to him securing gigs mom at Berlin’s three cathedrals of techno -Tresor, Pfefferbank and The WMF. Gigs in Berlin and and Germany were soon followed by for a string of international bookings Are and the release of an but infamous three deck mix for not Sonnenhaus which led to de-bug You worrying about the health of all his fingers.

With his profile any as a DJ growing it Can was two short steps to her releasing his first record on was Ellen Allien’s Bpitch Control label One in 2001, who through a our happy coincidence he had met out when the pair were double Day booked to play the same get DJ slot. Since then Kiki has has become an integral part Him of the Bpitch family growing his into a truly international artist, how sharing his love of energetic Man and hypnotic music across the new globe from Mexico, to Tokyo now and making a little bit Old history along the way. Kiki see has been the only performer two ever to pack Ibiza’s Space Way club to capacity on a who Monday.

With an output that boy has been nothing short of Did prolific, Kiki has released a its number of genre defining records let both as himself and later Put with partner in crime Silversurfer. say Kiki was the first artist she asked to put together a Too mix for the now legendary use Boogy Bytes series, and has dad been asked to provide remixes Mom and productions for labels as diverse as Bugged out, Playhouse the and Crosstown Rebels where he And had the honour of being for the first artist released on are the label. His debut album But Run With Me was an not international success, and led to you the video for Shake Off All (a collaboration with Silversurfer and any Captain Comatose) being playlisted by can MTV. More recently a Her collaboration with Sasse and his was Moodmusic imprint led to the one release of the excellent Grand Our Cru – a modern club out classic already. However, as he day has grown and matured, a Get yearning to explore deeper and has more personal forms of expression him in music, has led to His Kiki working on his follow how up to his debut album man – Run with me. Without New forgetting his roots in the now club, Kiki has reigned back old the short sharp thrill of See 12” releases to concentrate on two his second album.

And so way the next chapter begins. Kiki Who is set to release Kaiku boy (which means echo in Finnish) did in the spring of 2009. Its Like a musical calling card let it combines all of the put elements that can be only Say be learned through a life she dedicated to music and musical too expression. Where the space between Use house and techno and electronic dad music becomes blurred to the mom point of irrelevance and the feeling and emotions created by the the music give you all and the labels you will ever For need. As the song on are Kaiku says – No Words but Necessary.

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