Cristian Vogel (born 1972) is an Chilean experimental

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ian.

Biography

Vogel was born in

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and moved to

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in the early 1980s with his family, fleeing from the government of

Augusto Pinochet Augusto José Ramón Pinochet Ugarte (, , , ; 25 November 1915 – 10 December 2006) was a Chilean general who ruled Chile from 1973 to 1990, first as the leader of the Military Junta of Chile from 1973 to 1981, being declared President of ...

. Vogel first began working with electronic compositions in the late 1980s with the

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(working with

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, among others). He attended the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

and graduated with a degree in modern music there, suffusing his

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compositions with influences from ''

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'' and other

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styles. In the early 1990s, Vogel began working with Dave Clarke, and issued several EPs on Clarke's Magnetic North Records label, the first of which was the underground success, ''Infra''.Cristian Vogel
at Allmusic.com After some collaborations with Russ Gabriel, Vogel released his debut full-length, ''Beginning to Understand'', in 1994 on

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, and began releasing music regularly after this on

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. He also started two labels of his own, ''Mosquito'' and ''Quinine'', on which he releases both his own music and other artists'. In the early 2000s, Vogel moved to

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, where he set up the Erutufon 5 studio. He currently lives there full time. In recent years, he has started a number of other record labels: ''Rise Robots Rise'' (now defunct), ''Sleep Debt'', and ''Station 55'' (also the name of his studio). Whilst these record labels are primarily a vehicle to release his own work, they have also released records for other artists. Alongside

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, he formed the group Super Collider, who released two albums, before Jamie Lidell saw fame with his

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album ''Multiply''. He currently sings and plays guitar in the band

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, based in Barcelona. Vogel has also been sought after as a remixer, having remixed artists such as

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, and

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Discography

Albums

* 1994 - Beginning to Understand (''Mille Plateaux'') * 1995 - Absolute Time (

) * 1996 - Specific Momentific (''Mille Plateaux'') * 1996 - Body Mapping (

) * 1997 - All Music has come to an End (

) * 1999 - Busca Invisibles (

) * 2000 - Rescate 137 (

novamute Novamute Records is the electronic dance music subsidiary of Mute Records, which was started in 1992.Larkin, Colin (1999) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music'', Virgin Books, , p. 243 The label's staff included Mick Paterson (promotions ...

) * 2000 - Sing Sweet Software (as Trurl and Klapaucious) ( Supremat) * 2002 - Dungeon Master (

) * 2005 - Station 55 (

Novamute Novamute Records is the electronic dance music subsidiary of Mute Records, which was started in 1992.Larkin, Colin (1999) ''The Virgin Encyclopedia of Dance Music'', Virgin Books, , p. 243 The label's staff included Mick Paterson (promotions ...

) * 2007 - Double Deux/Delicado (

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) * 2007 - The Never Engine (

) * 2010 - Black Swan (Choreographic score, 2009) (

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) * 2012 - The Inertials (

Shitkatapult Shitkatapult is a German record label which focuses on electronic music, spanning both IDM and techno. The label was founded by Marco Haas (T. Raumschmiere) and Marcus Stotz in 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the ...

) * 2014 - Polyphonic Beings (

)

EPs

* 1994 - Infra EP (''Magnetic North'') * 1994 - Lambda EP (''Magnetic North'') * 1994 - Intersync EP (''Force Inc'') * 1994 - Narco Synthesis EP (''Ferox'') * 1995 - Conscious Arrays EP (''Force Inc'') * 1997 - Two fat Downloads 88 EP (''Primevil'') * 1999 - Boom Busine EP (''Mosquito'') * 2009 - Crust Cloud Chunks EP (''Snork Enterprises'') * 2009 - Endless Process EP (''Artifexbcn Records'') * 2010 - Time To Feed The Alien EP (''Snork Enterprises'')

Singles

* 1994 - We equate Machines with Funkiness (''Mosquito'') * 1994 - Tales from the Heart (''Force Inc'') * 1995 - Defunkt #1 (''Solid'') * 1995 - Artists in Charge of Expert Systems (''Mosquito'') * 1996 - The Visit: Defunkt #2 (''Solid'') * 1996 - Demolish Serious Culture (''Sativae'') * 1998 - Defunkt Remixes (''Solid'') * 1998 - Syncopate to Generate (''Sativae'') * 1999 - General Arrepientase (''Tresor'') * 2000 - Whipaspank (''Novamute'') * 2001 - Me and My Shadow (''Novamute'') * 2005 - 1968. Holes (''Novamute'') * 2009 - Crust Cloud Chunks Remixes (''Snork Enterprises'') * 2012 - I like it - Sounds like Spain (''Hyper Connection'')

Compositions for Dance

*2003 - "2-0-0-3" with Clive Jenkins and

Franz Treichler Francisco José Conceição Leitão Treichler (born 14 November 1961), better known as Franz Treichler, is a Swiss singer, songwriter, musician, composer and record producer. He is best known as the vocalist and sole consistent member of the Swiss ...

*2004 - "Delicado" / choreography

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*2005 - "Steakhouse" / choreography Gilles Jobin *2006 - "Double Deux" / choreography Gilles Jobin *2008 - "Text to Speech" / choreography Gilles Jobin *2009 - "Black Swan" / choreography Gilles Jobin

References

External links

NeverEngine Labs
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Cristian Vogel
discography at

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. {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, Cristian 1972 births Living people Chilean electronic musicians Alumni of the University of Sussex