Biography
Through digging the parents‘ Soul and 80‘s Dance Tapes in his childhood, Tension got influenced with music early. By listening to genres like Hip Hop, Metal and later Drum & Bass aswell as House Music, he got entusiastic about the diversity of electronic music. Those Inspirations are defining his musical career, but contributing to his eclecticism in sound.
By gathering experience at clubs and festivals since 2006, he soon got deeper into djing and producing various electronic sounds. This was followed by several releases amongst labels like Kaputt Musik, Vector Functions and recently Illegal Alien. Based in his homebase Bielefeld, he took his sound to South Africa in 2013 for a fourteen days tour, followed by gigs at Berlin‘s Kater Holzig, Maria am Ostbahnhof and Tresor in 2016. Beside several EP's, he released his first self entitled album on his regular, Berlin-based label „Be Sure“.
Relevantly embossed by labels like Basic Channel, Ostgut Ton or Perlon, he situates his sound between the poles of (Dub-)Techno, Electronica and Breakbeat, but with a touch of minimalism which he expresses aswell in his dj- as in his livesets.
