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WINNER OF WEEK 9 : Wellenrausch

Biography of Torsten Fassbender:

Torsten Fassbender was born on the 22th of June 1970 in a town called Velbert near Düsseldorf. Already at the age of 12 his whole interest was to program Demos and Intros. He soon got the chance to join the famous Tristar & Red Sector Inc Demo Group on the Commodore AMIGA. Insiders of that scene know that this was a great success for him. In that time he met alot of nice persons and his programming skills reached a high level.

Some years before he met Mladen Katicic due to a friend of both on a Party in Venlo/Netherlands. Due to the fact that Mladen was aleady envolved to the Music Scene on the cultmachine Commodore 64, Torsten learned to love the Computermusic and its scene. Torsten and Mladen had a great time, but none of them could say why they lost themselves out of their eyes.
Someday Torsten decided to stop programming and start to get experiences in modern computermusic. His first steps he took on the fame "soundtrakcer" from . At the same time he started to learn playing Guitar and Piano. With this backround he was able to do his innermost wish.. DOIN MUSIC! But there was a problem... THE LIMIT OF 4 MONO VOICES FOR A COMPLETE SONG!!!!.. So, he decided to learn and ofcource buy Midi-Eqipment. The years passed by, and he proved alot his skills in writin music, espacially electronic dance music.
He released in the year of 1994 his first single () and from then it goes straigt up.. Torsten reached a num of good reviews in magazines like "frontpage" or "raveline". He done some remixes to get experiences actual dance music and to find his SOUND! the "wellenrausch sound"... His biggest succes was his remix for "PPK - ResuRection" on Perfecto Records.

It was someday in the year 2001 where he gots a nice little email from no one else than Mladen Katicic. Wow... A sign from above... :) Torsten and Mladen met again after nearly 10 years and they started to doin Music. Their innermost profession..

Biography of Mladen Katicic:

Mladen Katicic was born on the 6th of March 1972 in a little Village in Ex-Yugoslavia.His Parents emigrate in the early seventies to Germany. In Velbert, a little town, found the whole family a new home. In the Mid-Eighties M. become acquainted with a C64-Programmer from the so-called Scenegroup "Seven Up".
This Meeting shows him that it was possible to hold his musical ideas with a relative simple Homecomputer and - sure with much Trouble and Fate but nevertheless obtain quite passable results. His Experiences with this modest Soundchip meant the first contact with self-created Music for M.
A few Years later M. become acquainted with the Amiga-Progammer Torsten Fassbender. This looked after a "Musician" for the "Demo's" and "Intro's" wich he made. Both understood themselves at first attempt magnificently and years later both should also became "Members" of the world-well-known Scenegroup "TriStar & RedSector Inc." (also known under their abbreviation TRSI).
In the Beginning of the Nineties slowly but however reliably the Friends lost sight of each other. T. meanwhile more fascinated by music producing then programming searched and found itself own ways to express in music. M. for his part lost interest slowly for music and lived the following years inconspicuosly and completely without Ambitions.

However, one day M. decided to take some Pianolessons. A Small piano and many Note Sheets later M. were again their where he already stood years ago. He composed own melodies and harmonies and beside he learned to read musicnotes a little.

In October 2001 now finally M. selected the number of a certain Mr. T. Fassbender.

Discography:

2000 - Welcome to Berlin (Freeride Records Finland)
2003 - On the Run (Spacepark Records SPP001)

Remixography:

2000 - Maschinenmensch / Domo Origato Mr. Roboto (BMG Jugendschallplatten)
2000 - Ramond / Wishing well (Freeride Records Finland)
2001 - PPK / ResuRection (Perfecto Records UK)