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Aljosha Konstanty
12+ albums
chilloutambientelectronicgaragefuture garage
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Kassel - In September, Aljosha Konstanty received a direct message on Instagram that he now says was “a surreal moment”. The electronic musician from Kassel was contacted by the manager of US star Lana Del Rey, who wanted to use part of one of his songs for her new album. Konstanty, whose songs are accessed millions of times on the streaming service Spotify, first had to ask his manager in London whether the news was genuine. It was. Del Rey had taken a liking to his track “Wanderlust”, which Konstanty had already released in 2017 under his stage name AK. A few chords from it can now be heard in “Fishtail” from their current album “Did You Know That There's a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd”. Konstanty is listed with a songwriting credit. The Los Angeles musician's accolade is the latest chapter in the North Hessian's unusual success story. His ambient tracks, which are as spherical as they are melancholy, have more than ten million clicks on Spotify. Now that the pop duo Milky Chance and singer Lea have long since moved to Berlin, AK is Kassel's most successful musician who actually lives in Kassel. The 25-year-old grew up in several different places. After his birth in The Hague, his parents moved around a lot. The family lived in Kassel for six years. Konstanty completed his A-levels in the Netherlands. He already had a place to study German language and literature in Canada, but then decided to pursue a career in music: “My family didn't always understand that much.” As a scho
