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Artist
Sonarpilot
12+ albums
Housedubstep
about
Sonarpilot is Basel based musician and producer Michael Moppert. Growing up in the cultural hotbed of the 1970s, Moppert was fascinated by the more innovative artists on the music scene - Bowie, Pink Floyd, Roxy Music and electronic pioneers like Tangerine Dream, Kraftwerk and Jean-Michel Jarre. With the explosion of Punk and New Wave towards the end of the seventies, he began to make music himself. He acquired an electric guitar, a 4-track tape recorder, a slightly battered Roland TR 606 drum machine and a Korg MS-20 analog synth, and got to work. The British synth-pop bands such as Yazoo, Bronski Beat, New Order, Heaven 17 and the Eurythmics as well as more experimental artists such as Brian Eno and Laurie Anderson were influencing the music he created at the time. In the 1980’s Michael opened a recording studio and produced local bands in Basel while working at night on his own material after dark. It was during this time that he began to extensively use digital equipment; experimenting with early sampler technology along with all the synths he could get hold of. Towards the end of the 1980’s his productions were losing the typical song-structure and the tracks became longer, increasingly technoid, ambient and experimental. The 1990’s Michaels life would shift and the focus would move away from music, but in 2008, with time freed up, he grabbed his old guitar from the attic, plugged into the medium of computer based music production and, as if welcoming an old friend ba
top songs
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June Dub (Brendon Moeller Dub 1)
3682June Dub (Jonny Miller Remix)
1543Voodoo Logic (Ramadanman Refix)
1134Osaka (Simbad Remix)
725In The Beginning (Tech Mix)
556City In the Sky (Atjazz Galaxy Aart Remix)
557Radar (Trevino Remix)
538Heartbeat
409Cathedral (Echologist Reshape)
2610Radar (Trevino's Techno Mix)
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