Influenced by the band "Kraftwerk" YNK (Yannick Hofmann) started experimenting with his "Casio keyboard" when he was in elementary school. He recorded his first music tape in 1996 with his small cassette recorder. The tape contained pieces of minimalistic electronica and his own vocals. Frustrated after a local radio station denied to play his tape on air, he changed his musical direction. He got in touch with oldschool rap-records, for example Run DMC.
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Influenced by the band "Kraftwerk" YNK (Yannick Hofmann) started experimenting with his "Casio keyboard" when he was in elementary school. He recorded his first music tape in 1996 with his small cassette recorder. The tape contained pieces of minimalistic electronica and his own vocals. Frustrated after a local radio station denied to play his tape on air, he changed his musical direction. He got in touch with oldschool rap-records, for example Run DMC.
When he was eleven years old he started to use the digital sequencing software "Cubase", experimented with it and started producing music when he was twelve.
Influenced by the dj-sets of Sven Väth and Richie Hawtin at the age of fifteen he developed strong interest in techno and House music. He invested in turntables and started to collect records. At the same time he started to buy electronic equipment to professionally produce electronic music.
He spends most of his time with producing music, creating new sounds and developing his own style situated somewhere between deep- and minimalhouse and techno.
After several digital releases YNK released his first track on vinyl in 2009 together with his friend and companion M.in. It reached a top10 position in German club-charts and gain support by Josh Wink, Karotte, Jesse Rose, Johnny D and more. His second release "Capetown River Boating" was hammered in DJ-sets by Tiefschwarz and Thomas Schumacher.
After meeting the Mannheim-based guys of Fimo he now joined the newborn Percusa family. Show less
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