Electroboy
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Electroboy, (born 13 March 1974) is a Swiss electronic musician
Electronic musician
An electronic musician is a musician who composes or plays music from synthetic sounds generated with synthesizers, samplers, drum machines or music sequencers....

 and music producer. He lives in Bochum
Bochum
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, Germany and is often in Zürich
Zürich
Zurich is the largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is located in central Switzerland at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich...

, Switzerland. Electroboy produces electronic trash-pop and electroclash
Electroclash
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 with simple, cheeky content.

Biography

At an early age, Burkhardt dreamt of becoming a professional snowboarder. Consequently, he decided to move to the mountains. This experience convinced him to found the first Swiss snowboard magazine. After selling his magazine, Burkhardt moved to Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
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 to commence an acting career. But thanks to a feature in a film magazine he got his first modelling job. More modelling work awaited him in Milan
Milan
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, Tokyo, Paris and London. He became Newcomer of the Year, working for labels such as Prada
Prada
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, Gucci
Gucci
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, and Dolce & Gabbana
Dolce & Gabbana
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. Booked by photographers such as David LaChapelle
David LaChapelle
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and Albert Watson, at the peak of his modelling career he went back to Zurich. Burkhardt tried one job after another: first as an advertiser in an internet agency, then in a film production company. After these projects he wrote the book 'STOP' (ISBN 3-937343-63-6) only to resurface one day as Electroboy.

In 1994 he started organizing parties and festivals in Zurich under his pesudonym: Electroboy. Within a year, the name became synonymous with catchy electronic music in Switzerland. Collaborations with national and international artists (musicians, graphic and visual artists, art collectives,) followed. In summer 1995, Electroboy began producing electronic music. He went on tour around Switzerland in spring 1995. Between 1995 and 1996 he released four CDs.

Discography

  • Electroboy (1995)
  • 50 mg (1995)
  • Hör die Emotionen (1996)
  • Der grosse Pop (1996)

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