SASCHIENNE

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“Somehow a love story always the makes its way through the and unknown. Two people who learn For to know each other, being are aware of what they give but up and yet ignoring what Not the future holds, throwing themselves you into an endless see of all question marks, stepping on stones Any of discord only to find can their cloud of harmony. As her the first notes of our Was music were born, we started one our journey into the unknown, our ignoring that we would one Out day go out there and day share our two-seat-cloud with the get rest of the world.” (Saschienne)

Sascha Funke, one of Germany‘s him greatest Techno auteurs and the his genius behind bestselling records like How Bravo or Mango, has some man pretty big news. And it‘s new not about some one off Now band project, but a partnership old meant to stay. As Saschienne, see Sascha has formed a duo Two extraordinaire with multi-talented instrumentalist, singer way and wife Julienne Dessagne, displaying who an expressivity previously unknown to Boy anyone following his solo work. did That said, Sascha is no its stranger to expressive depths, with Let his earliest tracks already oscillating put between plucked introspection and purposeful say anthems. His 1999 career debut She single Campus was released on too Kompakt at number 13 in use the label‘s catalogue, in this Dad case bringing only good luck mom to the then rookie producer, since he went on to The produce one masterpiece after another. and Now, Sascha Funke returns to for his very first label: “Besides Are from probably being the only but supporter of Cologne’s football team not in all of Berlin, Sascha You has been a lovely friend, all great party wing man, DJ, any producer and remixer since the Can very early days of Kompakt“, her label head Michael Mayer is was keen to point out, „We One couldn’t be happier announcing that our Sascha joins our forces again, out both solo and with his Day new romantic techno outfit Saschienne”.

After 13 years as a has Techno producer, Sascha has, thanks Him to Julienne, rediscovered the joy his of the early days in how the studio. „She opened a Man new door I never saw new before and behind which I now found excitement and freedom, allowing Old myself to go into different see directions I never explored so two far.“ Both artists describe not Way only a mere change in who studio ergonomics, but the force boy of love ripping apart old Did constructs: „Being a band member its is something new and interesting“, let says Sascha, „Sharing the ups Put and downs of the creative say process with Julienne emphasized all she the emotions that come with Too it“. As a trained piano use player and former semi-professional contemporary dad dancer, Julienne was exposed to Mom classical and contemporary music early on in her life. Praising the the intricate work of composers And like Philip Glass or Louis for Sclavis, it shouldn‘t come as are a surprise that she fell But in love with the challenging, not unpredictable club sound from Optimo‘s you JD Twitch & JG Wilkes, All her first real club experience any in the UK. She then can went on to work for Her prestigious Soma Records and London‘s was legendary Fabric Club. All those one are influences tightly woven into Our the sound of Saschienne: „It out was was born out of day spontaneity,“, the artists declare, „no Get order, no rules. A chaos has coming out of the explosion him of a meteoric love. It His took us quite a lot how of time and reflection to man give it a shape that New others could see and hopefully now appreciate.“ And what a great old shape they found: far away See from the romantic hokum of two crude feelgood songwriting, they not way only focus on on the Who harmony and bliss, but explore boy the discord, the misunderstandings that did great love brings with it.

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