My first synthesizer was a gift from my father for my 11th birthday in December, 1985.

It was a Wersi AP6 Bass Synth, an analog mono synthesizer, year of manufacture 1977 – and it was love at first sound! I had never seen so many buttons and knobs before:

I was amazed at all the functions.

Playing keys the way you do with piano was unfortunately not possible with this device; I could only ever press one button. Various attempts to produce a melody or even a song with this monster came to naught. Frustration was initially very great until I had focused more closely on the technology and the architecture of the synthesizer.

Then it became clear to me that with such a device you can create your own sounds – and from that point on, there was no stopping! My poor parents and my poor sister, sorry about that!!! 

Then at some point, I got headphones as a present, and with that, the topics of inheritance and sibling murder were taken care of.   :)

In order to learn notes, I signed up for an organ course. Yes, precisely, it sounds super-boring – and that it was! But it was also important to me to learn at least the basics, in order to understand the principle of producing sound, and then to be able to create my own sounds. Later, I concentrated more and more on sound synthesis and hardware sequencing.

One day in the music store, there it was:

 A Roland Synthesizer with MIDI connection and, in addition, an ATARI computer which controlled the synthesizer like magic! From then on, not having the computer as sequencer was unimaginable, especially for such tinkerers in sound such as myself. Quickly the old computers reached their limits, whether because of the number of MIDI or audio channels, or because of the chip's processing power for longer pieces of music.

But once this MIDI witchcraft was understood, nothing else blocked me or my creativity.

And yet! Space and time. They've been my enemies since day one (12.12.1985). 

Thus since my first synthesizer affairs, I've been passionately collecting these wonders of technology. My biggest dream is to open the largest synthesizer museum in the world one day. 

Whenever I find the time, I try to go back to the era of the great synthesizer hits of the 1980s and -90s. I recreate the same set-up in my studio and attempt to bring the songs to life once more.

With modern sounds that I designed myself, I want to get more out of the old machines than my predecessors have done.

It is rumored that this creates the unmistakable sound of my musical works:

Warm, unobtrusive, powerful, and full of feeling. Every sound is created and recorded by itself – and thus definitely not off the shelf!

iphunk is pronounced: [aɪ fʌŋk] 

The 1975 born DJ & Producer behind the synonym iphunk ist influenced by tribal vibes according to his Brazilian roots and his passion for various styles of analogue and electronic music. In the early 90's iphunk started mixing Techno and House Music using the synonym "dj chris-k". 

He residentally mixed House Music in several German Clubs for over 10 years and set countless festival-, party- and club dancefloors on fire. After founding a family and taking a long break from mixing in Clubs he restarted mixing in october 2015 with now 40 years of age using his new synonym "iphunk".

Hi my name is Tobey and I'm a music and bass addicted! 

Life without music means nothing to me! I started playing (and as far as possible mixing) cassettes at school parties back in the 80's. In the early 90's I bought my first pair of turntables and a mixer. 

I nearly like all kinds of music but my heart beats most for breaks, funk, hip hop, rock, swing, jazz, dub, dnb, metal and house. That's what led me to ghetto funk, funk breaks and mashup, where everything is combined and enriched with nice hooks/melodies and bad ass beats. 

Of course my equipment has evloved over the years and I still love and play good ol vinyls. Nevertheless I really love the capabilities of digital mixing.

So this is where I stand now. If you like what you hear drop a comment, give me a like and/or follow me. 

Cheers,
Tobey

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