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hans platzgumer - portrait |
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 guitarist, electronic + accoustic composer and producer 1969: born in Innsbruck/Austria 1987: finishes school and releases his first record 'Tod der Cd!', a pamphlet against the Compact Disc as the new media. 1989: living partly in Vienna and Berlin he finishes his electro-accoustic studies at the Musikhochschule in Vienna and tours all over Europe, especially in East-bloc-countries, with his new formed duo PLATZLINGER with Berlin-based drummer Peter Hollinger. Release of new solo-records and albums with Platzlinger and his Vienna-based rocktrio KÖB. 1989-1994: moves to New York and founds the internationally renowned rock-group HP ZINKER. They release 5 studioalbums and various singles and videoclips on different American and English recording companies (Fire Rec, Matador, Thrill Jockey). Tours all over the US and Europe. Besides that he gets involved with Filmscoring and music for theatres as well as acting (full lenght feature 'Deep Up There'). After the release of a Greatest Hits Album in the US he moves to Los Angeles for further studies of classical Hollywood Filmscoring . 1995, 1996: With the release of HP Zinker's last album 'At The Mountains Of Madness', which got nominated for a Grammy and won several prizes for best cover-art, he moves to Hamburg, Germany. There he starts to plough deeply into the art of electronic music and releases his first 12"es and albums under new codenames like AURA ANTHROPICA or SEPERATOR. Also he joins the legendary Hamburg-based group DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN, with whom he records a new album and tours the European Continent. 1997/98: He moves to Munich. Being more and more involved with new Electronica, he releases new solorecords on various labels. At the same time he starts his own studio 'Son Montuno', deejays and performs in many European clubs, produces not only his own new music ('Fingerfood' - album + cookbook on 'Disko B') and many remixes, but also the commercially succesful German Rockgroup Tocotronic. Starts new experimental electronic duo CUBE & SPHERE with Austrian Techno-animal Gerhard Potuznik (Cheap Records, Vienna). New worldwide releases of Aura Anthropica and Die Goldenen Zitronen on British and American labels. New pop project SHINTO with japanese artist/singer CaMi Tokujiro. Besides lots of live-performances in clubs and at international festivals he again works in collaboration with artists of all directions on different meltings of music with theatre, food and videoart. 1999: Launch of his own label THE SEPERATOR SERIES - a subdivision of German Techno label DISKO B. New albums and 12"s with Cube&Sphere, Shinto and Seperator. Collaboration with Munich based visual artist GEORG GAIGL (Recordsleeves, Videoclips, Installations). Performances in Europe and Japan. |
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hans platzgumer homepage |
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contact
HANS PLATZGUMER promo@diskob.com BOOKING: Disko B Booking Lindwurmstr. 71 D 80377 Munich Tel: +49-89-5438 231 Fax:+49-89-5438 441 booking@diskob.com booking: Queerbeat |
