Christoph De Babalon
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Christoph De Babalon is a Berlin based producer and DJ, best known for his work on Alec Empire
's label Digital Hardcore Recordings
. He also is the co-founder of the label Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET).
's radio show since 1994, Christoph later signed to DHR
in 1996, and later released his only full-length album for the label, If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It in 1997. The album was well-received and gained mostly positive reviews, but stood in stark contrast to other DHR releases by offering a new vision of electronic music that differed greatly from that of artists such as Atari Teenage Riot
and EC8OR
.
Christoph De Babalon's signature sound is a combination of extreme complexity in construction and complete experimentation in form. Songs span many electronic genres including noise
, soundscape
s, ambient
, drum and bass
, and breakcore
. His tracks are also known for occasionally being exceptionally long, with durations up to 15 minutes.
Christoph left DHR sometime after his "Seven Up" EP, and is now releasing music on his own label Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET), as well as other German labels. Christoph's last release was Scylla
& Charybdis
, based on the Greek myth of two beautiful women who were cursed to become sea monsters. His latest release is A World Of My Own on Restroom Records.
Alec Empire
Alec Empire is a German musician who is best known as a founding member of the band Atari Teenage Riot. Also a prolific and distinguished solo artist, producer and DJ, he has released well over a hundred albums, EPs and singles and remixed over seventy tracks for various artists including Björk...
's label Digital Hardcore Recordings
Digital Hardcore Recordings
Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
. He also is the co-founder of the label Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET).
Biography
After releasing a handful of 12" releases on smaller Labels in Germany and being heralded as a favorite on John PeelJohn Peel
John Robert Parker Ravenscroft, OBE , known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey, radio presenter, record producer and journalist. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly from 1967 until his death in 2004...
's radio show since 1994, Christoph later signed to DHR
Digital Hardcore Recordings
Digital Hardcore Recordings is a record label set up in 1994 by Alec Empire, Joel Amaretto and Pete Lawton. Most of the music is recorded in Berlin, though the label is based in London where the records are mastered and manufactured...
in 1996, and later released his only full-length album for the label, If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It in 1997. The album was well-received and gained mostly positive reviews, but stood in stark contrast to other DHR releases by offering a new vision of electronic music that differed greatly from that of artists such as Atari Teenage Riot
Atari Teenage Riot
'Atari Teenage Riot' is a German digital hardcore group formed in Berlin in 1992. The name was taken from a Portuguese Joe song 'Teenage Riot' from the 'Teen-age Riot' album, with the word 'Atari' added as an Atari ST computer was used to create compositions...
and EC8OR
EC8OR
EC8OR is a German digital hardcore band founded in 1995 by Patric Catani and Gina V. D'Orio and signed by Alec Empire's Digital Hardcore Recordings record label...
.
Christoph De Babalon's signature sound is a combination of extreme complexity in construction and complete experimentation in form. Songs span many electronic genres including noise
Noise music
Noise music is a term used to describe varieties of avant-garde music and sound art that may use elements such as cacophony, dissonance, atonality, noise, indeterminacy, and repetition in their realization. Noise music can feature distortion, various types of acoustically or electronically...
, soundscape
Soundscape
A soundscape is a sound or combination of sounds that forms or arises from an immersive environment. The study of soundscape is the subject of acoustic ecology...
s, ambient
Ambient music
Ambient music is a musical genre that focuses largely on the timbral characteristics of sounds, often organized or performed to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual" or "unobtrusive" quality.- History :...
, drum and bass
Drum and bass
Drum and bass is a type of electronic music which emerged in the late 1980s. The genre is characterized by fast breakbeats , with heavy bass and sub-bass lines...
, and breakcore
Breakcore
Breakcore is a style of electronic music largely influenced by hardcore techno, drum and bass and Intelligent dance music. Its sound is largely characterized by a high-tempo, well-timed mingling of distorted kick drums , break beats arranged from samples of the Amen break, and audio samples from a...
. His tracks are also known for occasionally being exceptionally long, with durations up to 15 minutes.
Christoph left DHR sometime after his "Seven Up" EP, and is now releasing music on his own label Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET), as well as other German labels. Christoph's last release was Scylla
Scylla
In Greek mythology, Scylla was a monster that lived on one side of a narrow channel of water, opposite its counterpart Charybdis. The two sides of the strait were within an arrow's range of each other—so close that sailors attempting to avoid Charybdis would pass too close to Scylla and vice...
& Charybdis
Charybdis
Charybdis or Kharybdis was a sea monster, later rationalised as a whirlpool and considered a shipping hazard in the Strait of Messina.-The mythological background:...
, based on the Greek myth of two beautiful women who were cursed to become sea monsters. His latest release is A World Of My Own on Restroom Records.
Discography
- Rise Above This
- Love Under Will E.P.
- File Already Exists. Continue (Y/N)?
- We Declare War
- Destroy Berlin!
- If You're Into It, I'm Out Of It
- Seven Up EP
- Split (7") With Tocotronic
- In A Bad Mood
- Split Series #10 with Kid 606
- Mean Grey Value
- Dark Background
- Scylla & Charybdis
- A World Of My Own
Other information
- RadioheadRadioheadRadiohead are an English rock band from Abingdon, Oxfordshire, formed in 1985. The band consists of Thom Yorke , Jonny Greenwood , Ed O'Brien , Colin Greenwood and Phil Selway .Radiohead released their debut single "Creep" in 1992...
frontman Thom YorkeThom YorkeThomas "Thom" Edward Yorke is an English musician who is the lead vocalist and principal songwriter for Radiohead. He mainly plays guitar and piano, but he has also played drums and bass guitar...
is a fan of Christoph's work, as he named If you're into it.. as one of his favourite albums in an interview for Radio 6. It also noted that Yorke asked Christoph to open for Radiohead in the 2001 tour.