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Felix Kubin

www.felixkubin.com

Felix Kubin is "better known to the world for his quirky space-circus music" (wire), for his exquisite no school dadatronic pop, through works like the acclaimed Matki Wandalki (vandal mothers in polish), out in 1994 on the german A-Musik.

For his own record label Gagarin, for his tracks out on Caipirinha and Staalplat compilations, for his performances at the sonar or Mutek Festivals. The truth is that Felix Kubin is a "lord of the deranged" (Mark Poysden, Vital Weekly/NL). As written on pitchforkmedia.com "He scores Dadaist cartoons of the future, as imagined by retro-futurists on a budget... his songs are bouncy and immediately endearing, even as they sound better suited for some lost Richard Elfman or David Lynch short than a kiddee matinee... Kubin approaches electronic music as a means rather than an end, and succeeds in pure songcraft where most of his more overtly experimental peers fail... He's one of the few true originals in music, electronica or otherwise, and he's at his best here."

"My father is a rational atom physicist and my mother an irrational translator who is fighting with microwaves". A Korg MS-20 synthesizer was bought to the young Felix from Hamburg. As a result of this he was recording hardcore tracks at the tender age of 11. No surprise then if we see him involved in electroacoustic (togheter with Tim Buhre) since 1987. No surprise if we find him leading the Hamburg's militant dada-socialist party (KED) togheter with a singing group dedicated to playing songs of the former East German Republic. No surprise if we listen at him during one of his many experimental radio shows, in a bilingual noise battle against his polish plunder-mate (Wojtek Kucharczyk).

Felix Kubin lives and works against the gravity (pitchfork) with Sci-Fi Pop/Noise/Animation Films/Radio Plays/Experimental Broadcasting.

As mr Kubin asserts, "culture is not luxury, culture is the new politics in opposition to pure economics". That's probably why The Wire defined him as a 'space age bolshevik'.

"I write songs. Structure and a feeling for good transitions are lacking in a lot of so called experimental music and laptop music. Even all the masterpieces of modern classical music - like Ligeti, or Stockhausen's Gesang Der Jünglinge - work like good pop songs.

I wished a lot of electronic music was less carpentry, less decorative. Even if it is abstract, it is also often lifestyle Muzak."

"Humour is essential, It is non-rational cultural communication and it transports a lot of your cultural background. Humour is a poetic form of philosophy, for me even a Weltanschauung [worldview]"