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Artist
Sick-E
12+ albums
downtemponu jazztrip-hop
about
Sick-E started making music using a cheap electric guitar back when he was 15. Luckily, he didn’t prove to be all too talented plucking chords, which is why he quickly moved on to realizing his song ideas via equally cheap sampling software on his PC. When he moved to Bonn to study English and Japanese in 2001, two important things happened: He stumbled across Propellerhead’s Reason (2.0 at the time), and he met up with Phour Trakk, a Cologne native studying at the same department. The two quickly discovered they shared some musical interests and went on to produce and publish songs as the Zengineers on netlabels ideology.de and musicartistry.de. A few albums and numerous individual contributions later, they also started doing live gigs, either in Zengineers setup or with the recently founded formation Backwater Planet, sporting live drums, violin and a jazz singer. Over the years Sick-E’s listening habits gradually moved away from trip hop and hip hop to the faster and harder sounds of DnB, which is also reflected in the latest Zengineers productions. For his first solo release, however, he revisited his musical roots with a collection of moody trip hop beats chock-full of nostalgic jazz and funk samples. Depending on how busy he will be with the Zengineers, Backwater Planet and his “regular” life, there might be more to come. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
