Alex Bau

There are not many DJ`s of this type. DJ`s who believed in Techno from the first minute, DJ`s who experienced Techno from the very beginning, DJ`s who made techno their own thing. DJ`s who found their own style, even more, who developped it over the years, Dj`s who`s name is the expression for a specific sound. Alex Bau is one of them. But at the same time, there are some slight differences with this guy. Why focussing on just one style of music? Why only minimal sounds? Why only Techno? Why? If cou can have both…

Is it related to the fact that there has been a time before Techno for Alex Bau? Thousands of records in his collection, different styles, different music, for sure something that leaves its marks, no doubt about it. Still he is doing Depeche Mode-Nights from time to time, just for fun, and his activities on Techno don`t really suffer from that, not at all! With his 5 or even more hours sets at his first resident club in his southeastbavarian homearea, the „Libella“, where for example also DJ Hell started his career back in the 80ies, he achieved the reputation as somebody who is totally aware of what he is doing, totally dedicated to it and also totally loving it. He had his own radioshow for over 2 years on a local radiostation, still so far the only technoshow in this area, but after countless gigs at the local clubs time was right to proof that he is also able to play at other places all around. Especially the productions together with his friend Sven Dedek, mainly released under their moniker „Basic Implant“ or „Electric Envoy“ on labels like the at this time starting „Fine Audio Recordings“ from Chris Liebing have hit the technofloors in a very impressive way, so that he was able to collect also international experiences behind the decks while Sven was playing live. Releases like the „Phase Edit EP“, a highly acclaimed and well sold rework of some Nitzer Ebb EBM Classics, or their work for Dave Angel`s "Rotation", Justin Berkovi`s "Predicaments" or Pascal FEOS` "PV-Records" enabled the guys to reach a much bigger audience. Finally, after numerous releases for different labels beside his own label “Toneman”, Alex released his debut-album “Connected” in late 2004, which immediately draw the attention of many high class DJ`s like Chris Liebing, Pascal FEOS or Good Groove to name just a few. The fact that these artists, all standing for a different kind of style, grabbed the tracks from “Connected” constantly shows that the name of the album couldn`t have been chosen in a better way.

With starting his own label „Toneman“ back in 2000 Alex Bau also started to his soloproductions for labels like Chris Liebing`s “CLR” or the Montreal based label "Default Recordings". Montreal can be understood as a kind of scale of Alex` DJ-activities too! Within 3 years he has been booked to Montreal four times, his set from the legendary night at “Aria” from january 2006 was even released as a mix-cd “live at Aria / Montreal” so that Alex came back months later to perform on the releaseparty, once again a night to remember for the Montreal technomovement. At this time Alex was already booked as the headliner, and its reported by numerous mails and guestbook-entries that it was not a mistake to do so…

But it`s not only Montreal, where Alex is being booked again and again, there are also other places, which obviously is a sign that he seems to be a guy who understands what to do when standing in front of people and trying to bring the party to the max. Clubs like Frankfurt`s "U60311", where, among other dates, he was part of the closing night of Chris Liebing`s legendary partyseries “Es ist Freitagaaabend”, Munich`s "Electric Delicate", Würzburg`s "Airport", or the legendary "Tresor" in Berlin are not only the trademarks of german technoclubculture, they can also be found on Alex Bau`s giglist. Japan, Braszil, USA, Canada, Poland, Croatia, Serbia, Holland or the closer Austria and Switzerland are some of the tourstops on Alex` calender, and no matter where, all over the places people can hear and feel how interesting, versatile and powerful techno can be if you understand to combine minimal and straight techno as a constant up and down. Always everything under control while the party is going wild, that`s what Alex is always going for.

The fact that Alex became an official artist on the highly acclaimed label „Zenit“, that has been the platform for acts like Marco Carola, Adam Beyer, The Advent, Gaetano Parisio and many more, is a kind of logical consequence of years of hard working for good, high quality techno. Techno in its purest form, just as described above, this is the goal for Alex, not matter if playing or producing. On his current album „Credo“, minimal tunes go together with peaktime slammers in a way that appears obvious and logic. Techno can do a lot, if you let it do so. That`s the credo. His credo.


diskografie

Please note: The monikers „Basic Implant“ and „Electric Envoy“ have been used by Sven Dedek also for soloprojects over the past years, listing here only contains productions in cooperation with Alex Bau!

vinyl

Basic Implant Audio 12 Fine Audio Recordings
Basic Implant Audio 19 Fine Audio Recordings
Basic Implant Audio 27 Fine Audio Recordings
Basic Implant Audio 43 Fine Audio Recordings
Basic Implant Sok 21 Sok
Basic Implant Structured Forms EP Toneman
Basic Implant Revenge of the 101 EP Toneman
Basic Implant Revenge of the 202 EP Toneman
Basic Implant Revenge of the 303 EP Toneman

Electric Envoy EI 02 Energy Industries
Electric Envoy Kapellmeister Hugo Strasser Parasound
Electric Envoy Phase Edit EP Parasound
Electric Envoy Metaphor 01 Metaphor
Electric Envoy Masterplan EP Genau
Electric Envoy Night Shift EP Definition
Electric Envoy Channel Deluxe EP Rotation
Electric Envoy Zeitzwang EP Prison
Electric Envoy Yellow EP Prison
Electric Envoy Electronic Mess EP Frisbee
Electric Envoy Distance EP Frisbee
Electric Envoy Zero Bizz EP Frisbee
Electric Envoy Bad Weather EP Ascend

Testosteron Inc. Nothing in Common Audio Assault Rec.

Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Origin EP Music First
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Open Arrays EP Toneman
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Real Partysluts EP Toneman
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau tst 001 TST
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Goodfellas EP CLR
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Psychomechanics at work Predicaments
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Atmojunk EP PV-Records

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Alex Bau Basically implantive footwork Default
Alex Bau No Risk, No Fun Default
Alex Bau Propulsion Toneman
Alex Bau Clau 9 Clau
Alex Bau Connected (Album) Toneman
Alex Bau Difference Toneman
Alex Bau EP Masters of Disaster
Alex Bau Earstrain EP CLR
Alex Bau Ante 29 Ante Zenit
Alex Bau Ante 31 Ante Zenit
Alex Bau Punch Zenit
Alex Bau Best Behaviour Zenit
Alex Bau Ante 34 Ante Zenit
Alex Bau Ante 35 Ante Zenit

cd

Alex Bau Connected Toneman

mix-cd

Alex Bau Propulsion Mix CD Toneman
Alex Bau Future Classics Three Exacta.udio
Alex Bau Connected DJ-Mix Toneman
Alex Bau E-Traffic EME

remixes

Basic Implant C.F. RMX Definition
Alex Bau C. Liebing – American Mad. CLR
Alex Bau P. Feos – Flashed Back PV-Records
Alex Bau Basic Implant – Bradleys Punch Pershing
Alex Bau V. Enzinger – Personal Enemy Masters of Disaster
Sven Dedek & Alex Bau Boese Welt – Superstar Toneman
Alex Bau David Keno – Tapper i220
Alex Bau Samuel L. Session – Velvet
Alex Bau WJH – Skiptrack


clubs / events / references

clubs

Tresor (Berlin), U60311 (Frankfurt), Electric Delicate (München), Airport (Würzburg), Mothership (Nürnberg), Fusion (Münster), Ex-Stammheim (Kassel) and many more inside and outside germany...

events

Streetparade (Zürich, CH), Rave on Snow (Saalbach, AT), Unite Parade (Salzburg, AT) Cosmic Trip Open Air (Teplice, CZ), DJ`s Gathering (Cluj, RO), Delahoya (Cluj, RO), Endorphin Open Air (Neubrandenburg, D), Explosion Open Air (Smederevo, YU), Ravemontreal (Montreal, CA), Circuito (Sao Paulo, BRA), Goiania Electronic Music Festival (Goiania, BRA) and many more inside and outside germany...

countries

Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Brazil, USA, Canada, Japan…

tour

Phase Edit Tour 2000 (D), Revenge of the 101 Tour 2001 (D), Toneman Propulsion Tour 2003 (D, AT, CH, HR), Future Classics Tour 2004 (D, NL)

web

www.alexbau.de