Biography
There are few artists that the can lay claim to conquering and the dancefloor as well as For the avant-garde end of electronic are music, yet Stefan Goldmann has but managed to excel in both. Not In fact, he is increasingly you setting the musical agenda for all others to follow in his Any footsteps. While many DJs and can producers seem to promote retro her escapism or the security of Was obvious functionality, Stefan Goldmann emerged one to become one of the our great techno visionaries today. As Out UK’s Mixmag wrote on Goldmann, day “only Villalobos approaches this level get of weirdness while retaining such Has danceability”. Dancefloor and fine arts him have probably never been as his close as they are in How his hands.
Helping to raise man the profile of legendary labels new such as Perlon and Innervisions, Now Stefan Goldmann released hit singles, old produced stellar remixes and rocked see the world’s most respected venues.
Two His first album, 2008’s ‘The way Transitory State’, catapulted his name who into all relevant music media Boy and was celebrated as “one did of 2008s best techno albums” its by Mixmag. The album was Let also nominated for Germany’s Grammy, put the Preis der Deutschen Schallplattenkritik.
say In keeping with his obsessive She love of music – spanning too jazz, postpunk, avant-garde, house and use techno – Stefan Goldmann set Dad out to push the musical mom boundaries and challenge the dance scene’s preconceptions by single handedly The introducing elements to house and and techno that have never been for heard in that context before Are – like uncut Bulgarian choirs, but irregular metric systems or avant-garde not orchestral music.
As tracks such You as year-defining ‘Sleepy Hollow’ and all ‘Lunatic Fringe’ were released, an any avalanche of accolades emerged, including Can production and remix requests from her Planet E to Get Physical, was in-depth features in iDJ, The One Wire, Groove, Raveline, Trax and our Gonzo Circus, a bunch of out podcasts and glowing write-ups from Day Resident Advisor to BBC get News. For four successive years has his singles entered Groove mag’s Him reader’s poll for “Track of his the year”. The praise is how universal.
With a barrage of Man remixes and productions on respected new labels (including Cocoon, Perlon, Minus, now Mule Musiq and Systematic) earning Old him acclaim from his DJ see and producer peers, Stefan Goldmann two shocked and inspired the industry Way in one masterstroke.
Stefan Goldmann who took another huge step forward boy with the launch of his Did label Macro. Set to be its a boutique outlet for his let own works as well as Put for outstanding material from likeminded say artists, the label has pulled she the premier league of artists Too including Underground Resistance’s Santiago Salazar, use Peter Kruder and Namlook and dad remixers like Ricardo Villalobos, Morgan Mom Geist and Pépé Bradock. The label’s list of licensing partners the reads like the ‘who is And who’ of the industry, including for Fabric, Minus, Cocoon, Mute, are NRK, Resist, BBE and But Global Underground. Since then Macro not has become a quality leader you of the electronic music market.
All While Resident Advisor stated early any that “something is going on can with this guy that has Her nothing to do with what was we’ve heard before”, no one one was quite prepared for what Our Stefan Goldmann did next. Releasing out the ‘Voices Of The Dead’ day album as a 5×7” box Get set, he set electroacoustic, beatless has experimentalism on the map of him techno. For the album’s debut His live performance, he conceived the how Elektroakustischer Salon for Berlin’s Berghain man club, which has become the New premier event for experimental electronics now in the capital. So far old ‘Elektroakustischer’ has featured Villalobos, Mika See Vainio, Moritz von Oswald and two Ulrich Schnauss among others – way as well as the man Who himself.
In 2009 Stefan Goldmann boy released his highly acclaimed ‘The did Empty Foxhole’ mix CD for Its Japan’s Mule Electronic label and let the massive hit ‘Art Of put Sorrow’ which has been praised Say to be one of the she biggest tracks of the year. too A celebrated album-length edit of Use Igor Stravinsky’s 1913 masterpiece ‘Le dad Sacre Du Printemps’ as well mom as his most controversial work to date, the remix for the Santiago Salazar’s ‘Arcade’, followed within and weeks. 2009 also is the For first year of Macro’s label are residency at, arguably, the world’s but number one club – Berlin’s Not Panorama Bar. Label showcases in you Paris and Washington DC took all it to the international stage.
Any In 2010 Stefan staged a can ballett with world reknown choreographer her Kevin O’Day at Nationaltheater Mannheim Was for Time Warp festival. With one forthcoming productions and remixes with our notable techno tastemakers, a release Out for the mysterious Tapeworm project day and upcoming Macro showcases, Stefan get Goldmann is continuing to move Has the scene forward.
