Started with music in his home town hamburg in the late-eighties,playing guitar in jaded new-wave/post-guitar-rock-bands, followed by small gigs in the local hamburg club-scene.
Begin of the nineties he started getting contact to the
local reggae scene including first
visits of concerts like dub syndicate,mad professor,Burning spear etc.
followed by jam-sessions with different musicans ... Read more
FENIN (Lars Fenin) /Berlin
Dub/minimal
Started with music in his home town hamburg in the late-eighties,playing guitar in jaded new-wave/post-guitar-rock-bands, followed by small gigs in the local hamburg club-scene.
Begin of the nineties he started getting contact to the
local reggae scene including first
visits of concerts like dub syndicate,mad professor,Burning spear etc.
followed by jam-sessions with different musicans
that more and more went into dub-reggae-experimental.
In 1993 he moved to berlin inspired by the expanding
club and music-scene in formely east -berlin,
where he 1995 founded his own reggae band:"Tribal Notes".
The contact to electronic music came by 1996,
when he went to his first out-door raves and
several drum´n bass partys made by underground crews
in unusual east-berlin locations,
with a fresh and unconvential potential.
Fenin still did his gigs and songwriting for/with
the band,but he went more and more interested
into electronic dance-music and producing it.
In 1997 he bought his first digital synth and an atari 1040st,to get started with beats and samples.
The first live appearances took place in 1998
with his friend "harzkrafthof" in an downbeat/dub/echo-style,
playing in clubs like maria,bastard etc.
followed by releasing his first track
on a Compilation done by friends in hamburg.
First Dj-sets on local partys ,
spreading the vibe from dub/reggae to minimal/electro.
After moving in his own studio by 1999,
he got in contact with shitkatapult,
who put out his first release under
anonymous "herr pitzelberger" on hoerzu.
First shows in diverse berlin-clubs and
small techno-events proved his status as an
funky and dubby-tech live-act.
Two other releases(„container“ ep,“done“ ep)
on shitkatapult came up in
2001 and 2002,followed by the cozmic-suckers-tour
around europe in spring 2002 including a bunch of
shitkatapult artists and Dj´s.
In 2003 fenin came up with the ep."driven" on
D-Meteo Label "meteosound",berlin,
On this ep. Fenin depending more on his dubby-reggae
type of roots including a D-meteo remix,
that was part of the Wire CD(London).
Fenin´s first net appearance on the label "textone"
with the "live & direct" ep and the response of it
was a kickin 4/4 welcome back in 2004.
In july 2004 another ep on meteosound was released,
feat.some new material of rootsy electronic-dub
and works with roots-singer gorbi(no-C.I.A.)
In september 2004 Fenin went on a little skandinavian tour with
"mitek" founder mikael stavöstrand,
promoting some new material and the "Hi-Fi-remixes"
Compilation,that came out in oktober on mitek.
On shitkatapults dvd collection strike 50 in november 2004
fenin hit the katapult with his dub-stepper“none of them“
feat. a video by canadian video artist jason mc farlane.
January 2005 started with the "tour-ep" on danish label
"echocord" with 4 techno-based tracks.
In may 2005 fenin returned to the shit-familiy,
by releasing his first album „grounded“,
opening a wide range from vocal reggae tunes
to abstrakt minimal schemes and straight beats.
Several live appearances followed such as barcelona loft,plock festival
poland,publik services dk,covo club bologna etc.
in fall 2005 another echocord ep. came up“backbord“
followed by the 2nd mp3 release on net label
textone:“strada del sol“ feat. 4 minimal cuts
for the final scratch/dj posse. Show less
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