Christoph De Babalon is a Berlin based producer and DJ, best known for his work on
Alec EmpireAlec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot...
's label
Digital Hardcore RecordingsDigital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
. He also is the co-founder of the label Cross Fade Entertainment.
After releasing a handful of 12" releases on smaller Labels in Germany and being heralded as a favorite on
John PeelJohn Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and...
's radio show since 1994, Christoph later signed to
DHRDigital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
in 1996, and later released his only full-length album for the label,
If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It in 1997.
Christoph De Babalon is a Berlin based producer and DJ, best known for his work on
Alec EmpireAlec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot...
's label
Digital Hardcore RecordingsDigital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
. He also is the co-founder of the label Cross Fade Entertainment.
Biography
After releasing a handful of 12" releases on smaller Labels in Germany and being heralded as a favorite on
John PeelJohn Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004. He was known for his eclectic taste in music and...
's radio show since 1994, Christoph later signed to
DHRDigital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
in 1996, and later released his only full-length album for the label,
If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It in 1997. The album was well-received and gained mostly positive reviews, but stood in stark contrast to other DHR releases by offering a new vision of electronic music that differed greatly from that of artists such as
Atari Teenage RiotAtari Teenage Riot was a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. Highly political, they fused anarchist, anti-fascist and anti-Nazi views with punk vocals and the newly emerging techno sound called digital hardcore, which is a term band member Alec Empire used as the name of his...
and
EC8ORAlready both involved with Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings, Patric Catani and Gina V. D'Orio formed EC8OR in 1995...
.
Christoph De Babalon's signature sound is a combination of extreme complexity in construction and complete experimentation in form. Songs span many electronic genres including
noiseNoise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
,
soundscapesA soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscape is the subject of acoustic ecology...
,
ambientAmbient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
,
drum and bassDrum and bass , is a type of electronic dance music which emerged in the mid 1990s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy sub-bass lines...
, and
breakcoreBreakcore is a style of electronic dance music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and industrial music that is characterized by its use of heavy kick drums, breaks and a wide pallet of sampling sources, played at high tempos....
. His tracks are also known for occasionally being exceptionally long, with durations up to 15 minutes.
Christoph left DHR sometime after his "Seven Up" EP, and is now releasing music on his own label "Cross Fade Entertainment", as well as other German labels. Christoph's latest release is
ScyllaScylla , was one of the two monsters in Greek mythology that lived on either side of a narrow channel of water...
& CharybdisIn Greek mythology, Charybdis or Kharybdis was a sea monster, once a beautiful naiad and the daughter of Poseidon and Gaia. She takes form as a huge bladder of a creature whose face was all mouth and whose arms and legs were flippers and swallows huge amounts of water three times a day before...
, based on the Greek myth of two beautiful women who were cursed to become sea monsters.
Discography
- Rise Above This
- Love Under Will E.P.
- File Already Exists. Continue (Y/N)?
- We Declare War
- Destroy Berlin!
- If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It
- Seven Up EP
- Split (7") With Tocotronic
- In A Bad Mood
- Split Series #10 with Kid 606
- Mean Grey Value
- Dark Background
- Scylla & Charybdis
Other Information
- Radiohead
Radiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their first single, "Creep", in 1992...
frontman Thom YorkeThomas Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the lead singer and principal songwriter of the alternative rock group Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar...
is a fan of Christoph's work, as he named If you're into it.. as one of his favourite albums in an interview for Radio 6 . It also noted that Yorke asked Christoph to open for Radiohead in the 2001 tour.
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