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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Patrick Kunkel - The Dust

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Patrick Kunkel - Cocoon Recordings, Suara, Kling Klong, Leena Music, Form Music, Octopus Vienna, Austria Patrick´s sound can be described as straight ahead techno, but also taking in influences from house music. He presents tech-house music, partly monotone, but always under the aspect of being groovy. He combines the elements of a lot of different styles in order to show it as a whole. In 1999 he founded the event and artist agency Global Tunes and organized various big events with intern​ationa​lly well-known artist. In March 2002 Patrick quit his job in this agency in order to focus on his own studio projects. In 2003 he met Harold Todd from the Lenny Kravitz band and, following his passion to house music, they set up the project Sexy Pie. In 2004 they released their first single. In the same year he started to work for the Frankfurt based label Cocoon Recordings, where he is responsible for the digital distri​bution. In 2006 his first EP gets released including a remix by Oliver Koletzki. A lot of other releases followed – cooper​ations with and remixes from artists like Guy Gerber, DJ Sneak, Boris Brejcha, Mendo, Alex Flatner, Broombeck and studio partner M.in speak for oneself. In 2010 he produced the Ibiza-​Spotli​ght-Po​dcast for Cocoon Recordings, which represented the sound of the label of this summer. Later that year he was also responsible for the Bonus Mix for the „Sound Of The Eleventh Season“ by Sven Väth. 2011 has been a highly productive year: Patrick´s remix for Extrawelt´s Titelheld hit the third place of the Beatport techno charts. He also mixed the retros​pective Mix-CD of „11 Years Cocoon Record​ings“. In the same year he finally set up his own label Insist Music. Patrick´s own music and remixes can be found on countless esteemed label like Cocoon Recordings, Suara, Kling Klong, Leena, Form Music, Octopus, BluFin and keinemusik amongst others. His remixes are highly appreciated by colleagues and so it is no wonder that artists like Extrawelt, Boys Noize and Lützen​kirchen rely on his works. Techno is a form of electronic dance music that emerged in Detroit. Techno artist are using sequencers, synths, drum machines, sfx units, samplers and midi controllers to create unique rhythmic patterns alternating with bridges, atmospheric pasages and melodic and rhythmic build-ups. Techno is one of the genres, which is due to the musical matter absolutely unabused by the music industry. Techno is true heart of music in general.


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