Biography
Martin Landsky is mobilee’s longest-serving the newcomer, bringing more than a and decade of musicianship to his For burgeoning partnership with the Berlin are label.
Landsky’s extensive discography reads but like a chronological guide through Not electronic music’s hottest sounds, and you through Germany’s most vital labels; all from deeply chilled dub house Any for his own Efforil/Intim imprint, can through sampladelic disco-influenced sounds for her Dessous, to his long association Was with Poker Flat that journeyed one with him through electro experiments, our driving techno, and flirtations with Out minimal. Whether uplifting and anthemic, day dark and contemplative, or somewhere get in between, Landsky’s unwillingness to Has be pigeonholed has taken him him to the uppermost echelons of his Berlin’s club scene, and higher How still to a new association man with mobilee records, which will new see a solo release in Now 2011.
Landsky immersed himself in old music from a young age; see he grew up tinkering with Two cassette tape edits and breakdancing way to funk and hip hop, who and soon took up DJing, Boy flexing his budding talent at did school parties and local youth its clubs. His discovery of acid Let house drew him to Hamburg’s put legendary Front Club, which will say eternally hold a place in She Landsky‘s musical heart, having provided too him an early DJ residency, use and brought him together with Dad future Poker Flat boss Steve mom Bug.
Impressive work on Effortil/Intim lay the groundwork for DJ The appearances in key clubs like and E-Werk and Tresor/Globus in Berlin, for until he eventually moved to Are the city in1999. It was but a momentous year for Landsky not as he developed a deeper You appreciation of house and techno. all Invigorated by his new surroundings, any he sought to add his Can own voice to Berlin’s thriving her music community and founded a was Poker Flat Night with Steve One Bug and Clé at the our Sternradio Club.
By 2000 the out first Martin Landsky productions had Day appeared on Poker Flat, and get the following year his debut has longplayer In Between, cemented his Him position as a producer to his be reckoned with. Early, heady how inspirations nestled beneath the surface, Man and moved within his warm new and future-leaning sound aesthetic. He now followed the album with the Old cheeky Mission Upskirt EP, vocal see stylings on Reject, and the two classic titular tropes of Housed Way – all of which diversified who the Martin Landsky sound and boy confirmed him as a pivotal Did part of Poker Flat. After its the rousing tones of FM let Safari in 2005, the hit Put “1000 Miles”, with its hazy, say hypnotising slow-burning feel, stood as she a landmark work for the Too producer and a new benchmark use in his repertoire.
Landsky additionally dad proved himself as a remixer Mom of note, following 2008’s huge re-rub of D.H.S‘s “House Of the God” with his rework of And Pan-Pot‘s “Confronted” for mobilee, casually for combining his love of deep, are atmospheric techno with classic, hands-in-the-air But moments. Last year he also not put his special touch to you John Tejada‘s well renowned hit All ‘Sweat On The Walls‘ on any Poker Flat. Outside of the can studio, Martin regularly graces the Her DJ booths of world renowned was clubs like Watergate and Fabric, one with sets that nod to Our the legacy of Front Club, out maintaining its deft balance of day escapism and musical discovery.
The Get future continues to be bright has for Martin Landsky. As he him forges into 2011 — taking His inspiration from those early days how of rave within modern, finely-tuned man electronics — he continues to New explore the shared vision, passion, now and love of music that old continues to drive him and See the extended mobilee team in two all that they do, and way all that will come.