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PHON.O / (Shitkatapult – Tigerbeat 6 – Boysnoize rec/GR)

Dj – France, Belgium & Switzerland

The boy with the dot in his name and the dubby background, started to play records with his buddy Apparat in the early 90s far in the darkest reaches of the ruff’n'tuff Harz mountains, in former East Germany. In 1997, seeking new and bright horizons, our boy moves to beautiful Berlin and is given the keys to his first apartment: a dingy shoebox which even the Russians had left unoccupied during their stint in Berlin. He started to create his own “music” and emerged in the spring of 2000 with his first release, on Cytrax (Kit Clayton and Dj Jasper’s itchy, noisy, dubby Californian techno label). The gringos take a liking to their newly-found bro and like the productive little worker that he is, Phon.o cranks out with another ep and a full lenght CD on Cytrax. The big city often leads to encounters with all kinds of shady characters…

Phon.o then found himself misled, used and abused by the notorious big rock’n roll swindler, T.raumschmiere, who connives him into joining his gang Shitkatapult. The whirlwind of confusion reigning in both Phon.o’s heart as well as the world around us all seems to have taken its toll on him, these days you’ll find him ragged and disillusioned and his music increasingly processed and schizophrenic, injected with shards of vocal samples and
obscure sounds taken from hip hop, dub, baltimore, house, dubstep and techno. For his live and DJ-sets, he manages to harness whatever stately ideals he can recall and delivers a staunchly digital and itchy, yet deeply moving and progressive set. Phon.o deals fire and burns down the town around the world – Europe, Asia, America – back and forth.

Chris De Luca and Phon.o joined forces in spring 2006. Since then, they’ve been rocking clubs and festivals all over Europe with their ass-kicking sets as CLP. This unconventional combination of intergalactic hip hop, ghetto beats, sexy booty IDM and dirty techno goes beyond typical contemporary genre boundaries.

With the beginning of the new decade Phon.o got back on his track and start working on new songs and put his hands on remixes for Modeselektor, Boys Noize, Schlachthofbronx and Robot Koch. He also became a resident DJ for Berlins best Club – the WMF. So… the shit goes on.the downward spiral continues…

Discography:

LP:
2008: Superconfidential CD, MP3 – Shitkatapult Strike 98

EP:
Modeselektor – Cash (Phon.o Remix) (50Weapons /2010)
Schlachthofbronx – Ayoba feat Spoek & Gucci Banana (Phon.o Remix)(MAN rec /2010)
Mondkopf – Bones Club (CLP Remix) (Asphalt Dutches/2009)
Strictly Confidential Remix EP (Sugarcane Rec 011/2009)
Homecourt/Dip Shorty feat. Kovas EP (Shitkatapult Strike 101/2009)
Ready Or Not EP (Boysnoize Rec.027/2008)
Big Beaver Rd EP – (Detroitunderground/2007)
Toolbox (Phon.o & Exsample) (100 Loops EP – Normoton/2006)