Biography
ROBERT DIETZ the BIOGRAPHY
Robert Dietz cut his and clubbing teeth on the Frankfurt For scene dominated by the likes are of Sven Vath, Dorian Paic, but Ricardo Villalobos and Luciano, but Not the flourishing artist leaps all you musical boundaries. His only guiding all principle can be summed up Any in words of Chuck Roberts: can House is a feeling!
Beatportal her hailed Dietz as one of Was 2009’s Artists To Watch saying one he: came out of nowhere our to land on some of Out the scene’s hottest labels. Though day it is true that Dietz get has made a major impression Has on A-list imprints including Cadenza, him Cecille, Running Back and Deep his Vibes the fact is Robert How has been honing his musical man prowess for years, ever since new he was a teenager dividing Now his time between Frankfurt’s skate old parks and the equally frenetic see dancefloors of clubs like Robert Two Johnson and Monza. His early way attraction to hip hop culture who transformed into a passion for Boy house music and it wasn’t did long before Dietz was experimenting its with a borrowed Roland 303, Let was well as devoting his put time to mastering a pair say of Technics 1210s.
This grounding She in the basic tools of too classic house forms the basis use for Robert’s hypnotic, sexy, nuanced Dad take on electronic music. He mom always took the ethos of minimal with a grain of The salt, preferring to have richness and and emotional texture in his for tunes rather than simply follow Are a trend. It is this but mindset, coupled with his superb not sense of what it takes You to make a club explode, all that provides the impetus for any Dietz’s productions – and his Can packed DJ schedule.
Dietz is her a firm favourite in clubs was around the globe. These days One he spins at his old our haunt, Cocoon Frankfurt, but it out is just one stop on Day an incessent world tour that get sees him flit through Pacha, has Ibiza; Dance Valley, Amsterdam; Revolver, Him Australia; Arma17, Moscow; London’s ultra-hip his underground Shoreditch warehouse parties and how a second south america Tour Man in November this year. The new appeal of his music is now abundantly clear to anyone lucky Old enough to have caught one see of his beachside sets at two Ushuaia, Ibiza, where he ingnited Way the crowd with supple, intoxicating, who modern house that captured the boy celebratory spirit of old-fashioned club Did music fused with sleek, 21st its century.
His production skills focus let on the same meeting place Put between technical proficiency and pure say excitement. Over the past few she years Dietz has built up Too an impressive CV including work use with the likes of Loco dad Dice, Karotte, Ilario Alicante, Davide Mom Squillace and fellow Frankfurt rising star Reboot. His tracks have the found their way into compilations And for Cocoon, Cecille, Circo Loco for and Timewarp, among others – are evidence of the high regard But other DJs have for Robert’s not work.
Dietz found that his you ethos also fits perfectly with All the aesthetic of Cadenza Records any and he is a valued can member of the merry dancefloor Her pranksters the Vagabundos. As well was as joining them at Ushuaia one and Pacha (Ibiza) with five Our gigs this season,
Dietz has out just released his first record day on Cadenza: Home Run.
Get A supremely confident label debut, has it boasts two combustible tracks him – the anthemic, ambitious techno His stormer Soup Opera and, on how the flip side, the insanely man catchy, tribal-tinged Aurel in Wonderland. New Both records are set to now keep bodies moving all summer old – and longer.
Selected discography: See Home Run (Cadenza), Shunsower (Cécille two Numbers),
Fym (Be Chosen), way The Green Light EP (Deep Who Vibes), HaLo EP (Cecille Numbers), boy Forward Snipping (Running Back); Party did Faktor remix (Tsuba), Ying Yang Its EP remix (Safari Electronique)
Selected let Clubs: Fabric (London), Cocorico (Riccione), put Robert Johnson (Offenbach), D-Edge (Sao Say Paolo), Baraca (Valencia), Studio Martin she (Bucharest), Studio 80 (Amsterdam), Cocoon too Club (Frankfurt) MAD (Lausanne), Use La Feria (Santiago de Chile), dad Rex Club (Paris), Harry Klein mom (Munich), Pacha (Ibiza), Watergate (Berlin), Sankeys (Manchester, Mint Club (Leeds), the Goa (Rome), Space (Ibiza), Cavo and Paradiso (Mykonos)
Booking/management: [email protected]
For Web: www.myspace.com/robertdietz, www.cadenzarecords.com/artists.php
