Moritz von Oswald (born 1962) is a German record producer and percussionist from

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and based in

Berlin Berlin ( , ) is the capital and largest city of Germany by both area and population. Its 3.7 million inhabitants make it the European Union's most populous city, according to population within city limits. One of Germany's sixteen constitue ...

. He is a co-founder of the production duo and record label

Basic Channel Basic Channel is a German music duo and record label, composed of Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, that originated in Berlin in 1993. The duo have also worked under other names, including Rhythm & Sound and Maurizio, and have founded offshoot ...

. He has collaborated with

Juan Atkins Juan Atkins (born September 12, 1962), also known as Model 500 and Infiniti, is an American record producer and DJ from Detroit, Michigan. ''Mixmag'' has described him as "the original pioneer of Detroit techno." He has been a member of The Belle ...

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, and

Nils Petter Molvær Nils Petter Molvær () also known as NPM (born 18 September 1960) is a Norwegian jazz trumpeter, composer, and record producer. He is considered a pioneer of future jazz, a genre that fuses jazz and electronic music, best showcased on his most ...

. He also leads the Moritz von Oswald Trio, which has featured musicians such as

Vladislav Delay Vladislav Delay is the most frequently used pseudonym of Sasu Ripatti (born 1976), a Finnish electronic musician. He has also recorded as Luomo, Sistol, Uusitalo, Conoco, and Ripatti, working in styles such as minimal techno, glitch, and house. ...

, Tony Allen, and

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. '' The Stranger'' called him "one of the master architects of

dub techno Dub techno is a subgenre of techno that combines the style with elements of dub music, including its sparse, delay-heavy production and prominent bass. Characteristics and history In the early 1990s, producers Moritz Von Oswald and Mark Ernestus ...

Early life

Moritz von Oswald was born in 1962 in

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, Germany. He is a member of the

House of Bismarck The House of Bismarck is a German noble family that rose to prominence in the 19th century, largely through the achievements of the statesman Otto von Bismarck. He was granted a hereditary comital title in 1865, the hereditary title of Prince of ...

and a great-great-grandson of

Otto von Bismarck Otto, Prince of Bismarck, Count of Bismarck-Schönhausen, Duke of Lauenburg (, ; 1 April 1815 – 30 July 1898), born Otto Eduard Leopold von Bismarck, was a conservative German statesman and diplomat. From his origins in the upper class of J ...

. His parents were Countess Mari Ann von Bismarck-Schönhausen and the Hamburg merchant Egbert von Oswald. He studied orchestral percussion at the

Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg The Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg is one of the larger universities of music in Germany. It was founded 1950 as ''Staatliche Hochschule für Musik'' (Public college of music) on the base of the former private acting school of Annem ...

Career

In the 1980s, Moritz von Oswald was the percussionist for the

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band

Palais Schaumburg Palais Schaumburg is a neoclassical-style building in Bonn, Germany, which served as the primary official seat of the German Federal Chancellery and the primary official residence of the Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany from 1 ...

. After that, he moved to

and began creating electronic music. He worked as an in-house producer for the Berlin record label Tresor. In the early 1990s, he released collaborative projects with fellow Palais Schaumburg member

Thomas Fehlmann Thomas Fehlmann (born 1957) is a Swiss composer/producer who lives in Berlin, Germany, and has been active in electronic music since the 1980s. He is currently active on the Kompakt record label based in Germany. Fehlmann is an on-and-off member ...

under the monikers 2MB and 3MB. He co-founded the record label

with Mark Ernestus in 1993. The duo's works have been released under numerous monikers such as Basic Channel and Rhythm & Sound. He has formed the Moritz von Oswald Trio along with Max Loderbauer and

. In 2009, the trio released ''Vertical Ascent''. It was followed by ''Live in New York'' (2010), ''Horizontal Structures'' (2011), and ''Fetch'' (2012). Subsequently, Vladislav Delay was replaced by Tony Allen. The trio released ''

Sounding Lines ''Sounding Lines'' is the fourth studio album by Moritz von Oswald Trio. It was released via Honest Jon's on 9 June 2015. It is the group's first album after Vladislav Delay was replaced by Tony Allen. Critical reception At Metacritic, which as ...

'' in 2015. He is also one half of the duo Borderland along with

. The duo released ''Borderland'' in 2013 and ''

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'' in 2016.

Discography

Studio albums

* ''3MB Featuring Magic Juan Atkins'' (1992) * ''3MB Featuring Eddie Flashin Fowlkes'' (1992) * ''Technosoul'' (1993) * ''Recomposed'' (2008) * ''Vertical Ascent'' (2009) * ''Horizontal Structures'' (2011) * ''Fetch'' (2012) * ''Borderland'' (2013) * ''1/1'' (2013) * ''

'' (2015) * ''

'' (2016) * ''Moritz von Oswald & Ordo Sakhna'' (2017)

Live albums

* ''Live in New York'' (2010)

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Oswald, Moritz Von 1962 births Living people Musicians from Hamburg

Moritz Moritz is the German equivalent of the name Maurice. It may refer to: People Given name * Saint Maurice, also called Saint Moritz, the leader of the legendary Roman Theban Legion in the 3rd century * Prince Moritz of Hesse (2007), the son of ...

German electronic musicians German record producers German percussionists