Submitted By: audiostatic

Genre: Techno

Date of Set: Aug 6th, 2005

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Alexander was born in 1978 in Greifswald, close to the Baltic Sea. In the small, introspective town Grimmen he spoke his first words and made the first steps; he was taught how to read and write – until one day in 1986, when the Kowalskis decided that the time had come to swap cosiness for excitement. With kith and kin they moved to Berlin.

A wise decision – it is due to the spirit of Berlin, its mood of decampmant in the beginning of the nineties (and last but not least due to Felix and the Utah Saints) that Alexander became addicted to electronic music. – One year later, the Amiga was selected to be the musicial instrument, and tracker did first services. At this time, Techno-records from Chicago were now and then played on the radio. Alex was so enthusiastic about it, that he spent all his money on the precious vinyl. Indeed, when he tried to imitate the sampled titles with his tracker-program, he soon realized how limited the Amiga was. He only had the money for a TB303-Clone and a few cheap drumcomputers – which was enough to create some Acid-tracks. In 1996, he enlarged his equipment with some analog synthesizers and started producing harder Techno. Americans like Joey Beltram, Steve Stoll or Synewave had a strong influence on his sound (even though without knowing it J ). With a friend, he established a small studio the following year – their sessions were successful excursions to the fields of House.

The breakthrough was unexpected, but mighty: short-dated, a friend booked him a live-gig at the Tresor club. Together with his studio-partner he humped half of the studio down into the bunker. The improvised Live-Act was a great success involving the contact to Pacou and therewith to Tresor. It is not surprising that Alexanders first track was part of the „headquarters“-compilation on Tresor Records.

Soon after, Alexander made friends with the guys of „Sender Berlin“. On the contrary, he didn`t have much in common with his studio-friend any longer. The return to producing on his own was the logical consequence. 1999 his work was crowned with success – the first Maxi was published on Proton Records.

Short after followed the first release on Tresor, the „Brothers in Mind EP“. The track “UnGleich 01” and the birth of the act “Double X” were the result of a spontaneous studio-session with Sender Berlin. Double X (Alexander and Stassy of Sender Berlin) had their debut-live-act on the Love Parade `99 at Tresor.

By accident Heiko Laux got a few tracks done by Alex to listen to which followed a new and kind of deeper direction. The owner of „Kanzleramt“ was immediately convinced and engaged Alexander Kowalski as permanent artist. With the beginning of the new millenium, Alexander had premier at the “Kanzleramt”-label with his first EP.

The year 2000 became important for Alexander: the label „Konsequent“ released his „Autocycle`s“ EP , Tresor published new DisX3 stuff, several remixes among others for Sender Berlin, Ben Sims, di_indicator and Christian Morgenstern followed, „unGleich in Exile“ 2x12“ as Double X and his praised solo-Maxi „Dark Soul“ came out on “Kanzleramt”. A Double X CD on unGleich and the belonging limited 12inch “unGleich 6.5.” followed immediately.

In 2001 Alexander Kowalski finally released his first solo-album “Echoes” on Kanzleramt. At the end of the year he found himself in the readers polls of the german dance magazines in the top ten of “Best Newcomer”.

But that was all nothing comparing to what happened in 2002 ! With the release of Alexanders second album “Progress” the techno world went crazy about this new guy from Berlin. He made it for “Album of The Month” in the german Groove magazine as well as in the french Trax and in many others. Alexander sold thousands of albums, played all big festivals in Europe, got an award in the category “Best Single” at Music & Machine for his amazingly deep “All I Got To Know” with Kitty Yo´s fantastic singer Raz Ohara, made remixes for Turner, Elektrochemie LK, Sono 2000, Codec & Flexor, Glen Wilson, Alan Oldham, Martini Brös, followed that big hype with another smashing club-hit with Raz Ohara called “Hot Spot”, sold even more records and found himself this time in the readers polls of the german dance magazines in almost all top ten he could have been in on one of the top 3 positions: Best Producer, Best Album, Best Live Act. Alexander is also nominated twice for the German Dance Award 2003.

The new (third) album '|response|' on kanzleramt will be released in August 2003, the pre-single 'Belo Horizonte' in April.

http://www.myspace.com/alexanderkowalski

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