Klaus Jankuhn (born 12 January 1965) is a German record producer and musician, considered a pioneer in the early German
techno
Techno is a Music genre, genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally music production, produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central Drum beat, rhythm is typ ...
scene. He mostly worked for the artists of the rave label
Low Spirit, producing artists such as
WestBam,
Marusha
Marusha Aphrodite Gleiß (born 18 November 1966), known by her stage name Marusha, is a German-Greek electronic music disc jockey, producer and television presenter who had hits in the mid-1990s including her 1994 single " Somewhere Over the Rainbo ...
or
DJ Dick. Together with WestBam he also founded the project
Members of Mayday.
Life
Klaus Jankuhn grew up in
Münster
Münster (; nds, Mönster) is an independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a state di ...
, where he befriended with WestBam. Both started producing tracks for the early techno and rave scene. Around 1986 he moved to
Berlin
Berlin ( , ) is the capital and List of cities in Germany by population, largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's List of cities in the European Union by population within ci ...
.
One of their first tracks ''17 – This is not a
Boris Becker Song'' was released in 1985 under the moniker ''Cowboy Temple''. Soon after Jankuhn, WestBam, Fabian Lenz and
William Röttger founded the label Low Spirit.
Jankuhn and WestBam also produced the anthems for the annual
Mayday festivals (as ''
Members of Mayday'') and
Love Parade
The Love Parade (german: Loveparade) was a popular electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruh ...
s (as ''
The Love Committee'').
Awards
* 1995:
Echo Pop as "Best producer national“
* 2003:
Dance Music Award as "Best producer" (shared with WestBam)
German Dance Award 2003
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External links
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References
1965 births
Living people
German record producers
German techno musicians
People from Münster
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