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Artist
Gerhard Potuznik
12+ albums
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about
aka GD Luxxe in his own words: i started making music very early. i got involved with some rock bands in school, but didn't meet the right people to play with and instead bought a drumcomputer in 1979. this was the main reason i began doin electronic music.soon the guitar was replaced by some synths. later i bought my first sampler and i made millions of tracks then. i recorded everything on a fostex 4 track cassette tape machine. this was in the early eighties. i was a great fan of everything that came out of manchester: joy division, the smiths, the fall. later i became fascinated by gothic wave shit like the sisters of mercy (whos live drummer was called dr.avalanche. of course it was not a human beeing but some cheap rhythm box, that really impressed me), the cure, virgin prunes a. o. the tracks i did at that time all had vocals on them and still had bits of guitar stuff, although i made nearly everything with step sequencers and drummachines. in 1988 i went to london for a week and attended my first acid house party. that experience completely changed my view of music. until then, i really hated so-called disco and dance music, but after returning from london i figured out how to use my old TB 303. that was the end of writing lyrics and song structures. everything had gone acid. in 1989 i recorded my first 12" for vienna's famous indie label gig records which was also the home of artists like falco. this record was again very new order / pet shop boys influenced and a
