Lützenkirchen (born 1976 or 1977,
[Thomas Winkler]
Spiegel Online, 10 June 2008 (in German) real name Tobias David Lützenkirchen) is a German
DJ and
producer. He is best known for having created the 2008 song "3 Tage Wach" which reached the German Top 40 Charts.
Lützenkirchen began his DJ career in 2006, adopting ''Lützenkirchen'' as his professional name. By 2008 he had switched to performing pure live sets.
The single "3 Tage Wach" ("awake for three days") was the 60th best-selling single of 2008 in Germany. As summarized by
Spiegel Online
' () is a German news website. It was established in 1994 as ''Spiegel Online'' as a content mirror of the magazine ''Der Spiegel''. In 1995, the site began producing original stories and it introduced ''Spiegel Online International'' for artic ...
, the vocoder lyrics describe "how it feels to party for three days without sleep, ingesting lots of alcohol and drugs".
[ Lützenkirchen has described them as satire and as a humorous "mirror of the echnoscene", and rejected claims that it was advocating drug use.] He has been stipulating in contracts that flyers and posters must not mention "3 Tage wach", being concerned that the hit would define his image too much.[
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References
External links
Official blog
http://www.thedjlist.com/djs/LUTZENKIRCHEN// Lützenkirchen's official blog]
Lützenkirchen on thedjlist.com
1970s births
German house musicians
German techno musicians
Living people
Year of birth uncertain
German electronic dance music DJs
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