(self-) empowered also by Jungle/Drum&BASS since 2000

Art Director @ WERKSTATT c/o LOFFT Leipzig 2013-2015
Head of Creative_Open_Space/ DJ Booking for SUBLAB c/o Westwerk 2017 Editorial Director @ Schauspiel Leipzig Clubconvention 2018

www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNOyN2QksfA
www.blog-theaterpaedagogik-schauspiel-leipzig.de

hello all my name is samuel david pollard and this is my epic gangster soundcloud account.

HELLO EVERYONE OUT THERE MY NAME IS CHECKY CHECKZN FROM THE COUCHMUZIK COLLECTIVE. I MIX EVERYTHING FROM DRUM N BASS TO HIP HOP, BOOGIE FUNK AND HOUSE. FOR MORE MIXES CHECK OUT COUCHMUZIK ON SOUNDCLOUD
https://soundcloud.com/couchmuzik

Having over 30 releases out there on many different labels, soundaddict Rogier Habraken a.k.a. Mindmapper lost his status as "new-comer" long ago. Thanks to support of many keyfigures within the scene, he has laid down a solid foundation for the future. Backed up by many gigs, residencies and appearances on events, radioshows and festivals in both the Netherlands and abroad. Next to that he's co-owner of Break-Fast Audio, sound designer and mix engineer for Dutch broadcasting and has a curating duty for the online music discovery service 22tracks.com.

Coming from a background of working with bands, playing piano, double bass and electric guitar for many years and building his own studio, Mindmapper has got all the musical skills a producer might want. What started out as recording and arranging songs played by his band, evolved in a serious affection for cutting, sampling and composing electronic music. Combined with his education as an Audio Designer, Mindmapper is a musical mastermind whose style expands way beyond just Drum & Bass. 

It's hard to describe his broad spectrum of productions in few words but one can find all sort of influences ranging from techno to rock and dub to classical. His tunes and collabarations tend to explore the "boundaries" of the genre and have been spotted, not surprisingly, by a broad audience. Support comes from Loxy, Doc Scott, Hazard, Hype, Octane & DLR, D-Kay, Bailey, Fabio, Consequence, Gremlinz, June Miller amongst many others. With material forthcoming on Samurai Music, Dispatch, Eternia Music, Soundium X, Creative Wax and CX, 2013 looks bright. 

Labels:

Blendits Audio
Break-Fast Audio
Broken Audio
Buried Audio
Crunch Recs
Creative Wax
Criminal Recs
CX Digital
Cylon Recs
Demand Recs
DigiLab Recs
Dispatch Recs
Dust Audio
Eternia Music
Horizons Music
Samurai Music
Santorin
Soundium X
Subtle Audio
Translation Recs
Vampire Recs

Affiliations:

Break-Fast Audio & Events
22tracks.com (Amsterdam DnB-section)
DJ MAG NL (reviewing dnb releases)

Contact/Bookings Inquiries:

mindmapperdnb AT gmail DOT com

Cruel Culture is a producer and DJ based near Munich, Germany. Classically trained in piano and drums, he transitioned early into hip-hop and electronic music, drawn by its boundless creative potential. Since the mid-1990s, he has been crafting immersive soundscapes—entirely self-taught and stylistically versatile—ranging from deep, minimal drum’n’bass and ambient textures to cinematic trip-hop and industrial dubstep.

Since his debut in 2006, Cruel Culture has released music on respected labels such as Dispatch, Citrus, Shadybrain, Mindtech, Urban Poetry, Plasma Audio, and others. Collaborations with artists like Keosz, Survey, Polarity, Kit Curse, and Acid Lab have further expanded his sonic universe.

In addition to his solo work, he is the producer and one half of the hip-hop duo Kollision.

For over 15 years, Cruel Culture has also been a driving force in Munich’s underground scene as co-organizer of Break It Down – Munich, helping to shape and sustain the local drum’n’bass movement.

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