Paul Kalkbrenner came of age in East Berlin after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when techno arrived in the city. His two plus decade career is intertwined with the genre that emerged from Detroit and became a global cultural force.
Paul’s grand techno sound has seen him fill stadiums and top charts, yet this new EP is deeply club focused music. It’s evidently Kalkbrenner, but 'Speak Up' is also...
Originally released as part of the 2018 LP ‘Parts of Life’, the celebrated German live electronic artist Paul Kalkbrenner today releases the music video for album track, ‘Part Twelve’. With eight studio albums to his name, countless performances at the world’s most sought-after clubs and festivals, Paul Kalkbrenner is an artist who has consistently remained at the forefront of electronic music. Crossing over from the underground to also achieve mainstream...
Because of the close bond between the German techno producer and Tomorrowland, the two parties teamed up to bring something truly remarkable to celebrate the last 100 Days until Tomorrowland's 2018 edition. A livestream performance will take place on the legendary One World bridge in De Schorre, the venue where Tomorrowland takes place since year one. Year after year, Paul always brings joyful grand techno into the hearts of the...
Paul Kalkbrenner’s eighth album, Parts Of Life (release May 18), comes a decade after his Double Platinum selling LP Berlin Calling, and feels similarly definitive for an artist who has spent the last 10 years topping charts and performing his singular strain of grand techno to ever growing audiences. Check out the first track 'Part Three' from it.
Parts of Life, follows Paul’s Back To The Future trilogy, chronicling the...
Paul Kalkbrenner’s eighth album, Parts Of Life (release May 18), comes a decade after his Double Platinum selling LP Berlin Calling, and feels similarly definitive for an artist who has spent the last 10 years topping charts and performing his singular strain of grand techno to ever growing audiences.
Parts of Life, follows Paul’s Back To The Future trilogy, chronicling the arrival of techno in Berlin in the late 80s....
Berlin DJ Paul Kalkbrenner’s remix of Leonard Cohen’s new single “You Want It Darker” is available everywhere today. The electronic artist debuted his rendition of the Leonard Cohen track at Lollapalooza Berlin last month. Kalkbrenner gives Cohen’s hypnotic song of religious exploration a booming bass and an upbeat tempo.
Paul Kalkbrenner is one of techno's most successful artists, and been active in the Berlin techno scene since the 90s. He...
Paul Kalkbrenner was afforded the opportunity on his new album 7 to explore the master vaults of Sony and Columbia and choose a few records to sample. One of the songs he decided to do was Jefferson Airplane’s psychedelic single, “White Rabbit.” Taking the vocals from the iconic counter-culture hit, Kalkbrenner works a brilliant instrumental underneath. Titled “Feed Your Head,” the track stays true to the Berlin legend’s venerated minimalist...
This week another handful of artists have confirmed for Rock Werchter 2016. It’s a nice little haul: The Last Shadow Puppets, New Order, Disclosure, Robert Plant and the Sensational Space Shifters, Paul Kalkbrenner and Black Box Revelation.
Work in progress, about 25% complete… The bill for the festival, taking place at Festival Park in Werchter from Thursday 30th June until Sunday 3rd July, is taking more and more shape...
Paul Kalkbrenner unveiles the music video for ‘Cloud Rider’ the debut single from his forthcoming album ‘7', and the first in a trilogy of music videos called FLORIAN. Watch the video for ‘Cloud Rider’ here
The FLORIAN trilogy features the tracks ‘Cloud Rider,’ ‘Mothertrucker,’ and ‘Feed your Head.’ The series follows a fictional character named Florian; a young foreigner who compulsively shares the music he loves with strangers, though...
