Michael Fakesch's and Chris De Luca's project Funkstörung has had a major influence on the development of electronic music, starting out with straight acid techno, but increasingly shifting their style towards electro and IDM, involving complex beat-editing techniques.
Their first records appeared on Bunker's legendary sub-label Acid Planet, followed by releases on Fakesch's own label Musik aus Strom as well as Compost Records and !K7. Despite their remarkable history and increasing demand for their remixing skills by the likes of Bjork, the Wu-Tang Clan, A Guy Called Gerald or Jean-Michelle Jarre, Funkstörung officially disbanded in 2006 after recording their old-school tribute album 'The Return To The Acid Planet'. Michael Fakesch is currently recording funk and soul influenced electronica for the !K7 label, while Chris De Luca has teamed up with Shitkatapult's Phon.o to explore bass-heavy grime and Baltimore-influenced broken beats.
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This Album is featured in Update #013:
Michael Fakesch, Funkstörung, Musik Aus Strom
With his brand-new remix album 'Exchange', Michael Fakesch brings himself to mind as one of the great innovators of broken beat electronica. From his 12-year-long history as one half of pioneering group Funkstörung, to his influential Musik Aus Strom label, more...
Funkstörung's debut album conjured up images of broken CDs - via its title, its Designers Republic cover artwork, and via the duo's trademark sliced, stretched and otherwise mutilated beats. Part hip-hop, part Autechre, this pre-dates Prefuse 73, Dabrye and many others - landmark album!