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The man behind Deetron is Sam Geiser, 24 years old, born and still living in Bern. He first got into contact with music during his
early childhood, for his father is a Jazz musician. His big youth passion, however, was HipHop. He was fascinated by the likes of
Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Prince Paul but also by Todd Terrys early HipHouse tunes or Detroit techno originators Juan
Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. After having bought two turntables and a mixer, he began deejaying Hip Hop in 1992.
The deejay culture of the Hip Hop movement was his link to electronic music. He started deejaying at different clubs all around
Switzerland and became resident at the world famous Club Rohstofflager
in Zürich where he plays together with Jeff Mills, Robert Hood, Luke Slater, Surgeon, Steve Bicknell and got well known for his
3-deck mixing skills and sets blurring the lines between Techno, House- and Detroit-classics.
He made his first sound experiments with a sampler in 1994 and from then on continuously built up his own studio because of his
avid interest in electronic sounds. An introduction to Stefan Riesen from Phont Music in 1997 led to his first release as Soul Mate
on Phont Music. He then travelled to Japan for deejaying in 1999 and recorded the Double Exposure Vol.1 EP with DJ
Shufflemaster in Tokyo, again for Phont Music.
In the year 2000 he was contacted for an EP by In-tec records where he released the very successful Alien Entertainment EP
which was hammered by the likes of Jay Denham, Claude Young, Jeff Mills and Laurent Garnier. Sam played sets at clubs all
around Europe and his productions got licensed to many compilations around the globe.
In 2001 Dolls for a diva was released on the highly acclaimed Music Man label in January, the start of a strong relationship with
this label from Belgium. New EPs followed on Dave Angels Rotation (Vertigo EP), Jay Denhams Black Nation/Sector 616
(Dancing manual EP), Steve Bicknells Cosmic (as Karakter), Ongaku (Lorraine EP) and Phont Music (Cut Back EP). They now
are a constant in the record boxes of top jocks like Richie Hawtin, Laurent Garnier, Dave Angel, Ben Sims, Jeff Mills. |
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