With his debut album, “we could be dead soon”, Matthias Dengg from Munich presents a distillation of electronic music from the exciting early years of the electronic movement. The character of all tracks in the collection is defined by his career, which first had to be LIVED in order to be able to perfectly concoct this kind of music – with all the knowledge of its history.
They are truly time travels while at the same time being entirely rooted in the present, the HERE and NOW. Listening to the tracks, you may remember names like Seefeel, Biosphere, or Basic Channel. Stylistic devices currently popular are absent, but so is nostalgia. His tracks are sometimes softly driving and then again, you feel the expansion, the experimental ambiance. All of them are infused with this almost mystical depth. It’s like waking up in a David Lynch movie. Underground you just can’t resist.
Matthias Dengg, aka denqq was part of the core team around Upstart in the 90s and was responsible for the doors of the legendary techno club Ultraschall. After its closure, he worked at the club’s successor, Harry Klein, for a few years and even managed to live in Berlin for almost 10 years. So from the beginning, he was not a mere bystander, but rather a protagonist, right there, in the middle of all the action! Initially, before the emergence of electronic music, he was associated with the hardcore genre, and like many others, his search for musical advancements quickly led him from there to the emerging scene called techno with all its subgenres.
Klaus Burkard, the man behind normoton, and denqq are connected by a close friendship spanning many years, and so it is only logical and consistent that “we could be dead soon” comes into being through this very label.