Chris Vocoder born Christian Preissing in the city of Schkeuditz in Easter Germany before the wall was fallen. First contact of Electro was Kraftwerk's „We are the Robots“ in the 2nd grade without any clue what music it is but catched by the first time of the synthetic sound and robot voice.

After the wall was fallen moved to West Germany and became influenced by the sound of any Electronic Music. Started in the mid 90´s as a Raver and join Techno, D&B and 2Step Parties.
Dave Clarke's „Electro Boogie 2“ was the beginning to start collecting Electro Records. Fascinated and reminds to the first contact. Now the baby have name: Electro!
The wish to make music came up. And the first music hardware was bought.
Chris's Music processes social, historical, political and technical content. Electro Influenced by darkness of Techno, the flow of D&B and the soul of 2step. This was at the end of the 90´s.

After several years of producing in the bed room Chris came in touch with Supremeja and got worth tips & tricks about production and sound design. Finally they become friends and Chris found a home with german based Electro freaks Dynamik Bass System, Supremeja, Thomas MKII, TecRoc, & Thomas Kress.

1. Which artists has influenced you the most?

- Kraftwerk and Dave Clarke have had the biggest influence on me. Kraftwerk opened the door to a previously unknown world of music and Dave Clarke gave it a name by showing me the world of electro artists. In the early nineties electronic music was not present in any way. Thursday night I recorded Steve Mason BFBS Radio 1 on cassette and listened to it enthusiastically with friends over the weekend.

2. What new projects/releases with your participation are expected in the near future?

- My second album is in the starting blocks with preceding single release plus remixes from other electro artists. A teaser video is also planned. All in all it's going to be so disturbing, I hope people out there take it with a pinch of humor.

3. Which artists/labels is more relevant to you now?

- I have such a wide taste in music that it's hard to pin down a label or artist. Supremeja as a friend and a kind of mentor is certainly high on the list. Datapunk, Direkt Beat, Electrix Records, Culivates Electronics, Metroplex, Supremeja.music are fantastic electro music labels. I also recently discovered Sleaford Mods for myself. There is so much great artists and music besides the mainstream that I can't even list them all.

4. What inspires you now to create music?

- What inspires me about making music is putting my feelings & thoughts into a musical context. Telling little stories. I always try to start from scratch. I jam around with my devices, I have a melody in my head, I read an interesting book, watch an exciting documentary or watch the daily news (which I try to avoid). All this inspires me.

5. If it's not a secret, what set-up do you use when creating music?

- My DAW is Cubase. I mostly record live sequences in it and then cut them up to rearrange them.
My favorite equipment: Sequentix Cirklon, Clavia Nord Modular, Moog Subsequent 37 & Moogerfooger MF 102, Make Noise O-Coast, Tasty Chips GR-1, Korg ER-1, Elektron MonoMachine & MachineDrum, ShureSM 58.
Then there are many VST's I like to use for example: Trackspacer, Bitcrusher, Split EQ, Things Texture & Motor, Echobode, Gatekeeper, Manipulator, Amalgame, Eos & Byome .
The vocoder sounds come from Korg MS2000BR & Kaos Pad2, Nord Modular, VST-Chipspeech, Texas Instrument (Speak&Spell, Speak&Read, circuit bended Speak&Math ) Mac´s VoiceOver and Amiga 500-Say It.

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The first time I got introduced to electronical music was during a lesson in music class in 2nd grade back in 1985. Out teacher played the song „Wir sind die Roboter“ („We are the robots“) by Kraftwerk. I immediately got totally hooked by the „new“ sound that hit my ears. And man, those mecanical voices...for a long time I had no clue what or who made them.
More than ten years past by and then I, more by accident, heard something simillar again and got myself some cd´s and records of this kind of music. After a while however it wasn´t enough anymore just to listen to the records recorded by other artists, I just had to start producing electronical music myself. And so I did and still do...

Electronic podcast since 2016 and a label. DJ and live sets from artists and producers from all over the world.
The purpose and objectives of this podcast and label is not only to explore all sorts of different facets of Electro and Experimental Music, but also to reveal the influence on music through the location of the artist.

Discography:
SBDM001 / Alpha Visitor - Obey And Reproduce LP
SBDM002 / SOD-90 - Teeth Against Metal LP
SBDM003 / 6SISS - Bacteria EP
SBDM004 / X-Truder - drumWERK EP
SBDM005 / ADJ - Invasion Of The Compliant LP
SBDM006 / Interweave Electronics - Decayed Matrix LP
SBDM007 / Golden Virgo - Unlogix EP

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