künstler treu


was born way back in the sixties as the only child of a southern-german ship's entrepreneur and a polish courtesan.

* childhood and pre-school musical education aboard "uschi" on inland waterways - first transistor radio given for sixth birthday & spends daytimes on deck while the portable plays a (beat-) soundtrack to the post-war/pre-kohl landscapes passing by. early musical influences: the monks, alice cooper, breuni-bear radio plays, deutschlandradio and traditional balinese gamelan music.

* youth spent in a small southern-german town. first contact with multitrack recording and tapeloops. private tooltime-sessions with two old revox A77s. result: tapeloops & la frippertronics. heros of the time: can, neu! and other committed non-musicians such as brian eno.

* 80ies: his first synthesizer (korg MS20), his first beatbox (roland TR-606), his first computer (atari 1040), his first girlfriend (margarethe).

* since 1985: founding member of dauerfisch. numerous releases on numerous tape, underground, mailorder, and mini/micro labels until 1990.

* since a 1989 move to berlin: several dauerfisch side-projects begun (sea of tranquility, the LaLaVox Box, Nicoletta, the space songs).

* since 1997: preferred residence for inspiration and composing - oahu/hawaii. can be found there as often as time and money will allow.

* 2001: "my sketchbook of whack", 2nd solo album and a monster of an style-mixed record, that gained fanatic press reviews, but was timed badly just to collide with the music industrys post wtc downfall + crisis.

* in 2002 he got in contact with jon appleton was invited to dartmouth college to record "wunderbra!".

* 2003 brought traveling and performances with appleton at princeton and new york. same year he joined berlin kult band MUTTER to continue his long submerged talent in guitar stunts.

* 2004: joined the reformed NDW legend DER PLAN. release of "die verschwörung" the same year.

* since 2005 kunstler treu hosts his own radioshow "UFO Hawaii" on FRS and byte.fm.

* 2006: forms elektro disko outfit "fluffy target" together with richard cameron