Paul Kalkbrenner

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Paul Kalkbrenner (born 11 June 1977) is a German live act, producer of electronic music, and actor from Berlin.

Because he breaks down his tracks into elements that are reassembled onstage, Kalkbrenner is considered a live act, as opposed to a DJ.

He is most known for his single "Sky and Sand", which sold over 200,000 copies, went platinum, and was highly charted in countries such as Belgium and Germany.

He is also known for portraying the main character Ickarus in the movie Berlin Calling, written and directed by Hannes Stöhr, which ran for several years at Kino Central in Berlin.

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Career

Ellen Allien's first appearance on BPitch Control as a record company was in Berlin. Kalkbrenner and Funke met Allien at one of her parties. She came over to hear what they were working on, made few suggestions, and in 1999, Kalkbrenner unveiled his first tracks as the Friedrichshain EP on BPitch Control under the name "Paul dB+." Kalkbrenner's first album, Superimpose (2001) and Zeit (2001), began to see album debuts as his desired format. His melodic sound, with its affinity for grand gestures, followed the dancefloor's logic, but his third album, Self (2004), introduced a narrative aesthetic. One year after being released, the track "Gebrünn Gebrünn" became a crossover hit. Kalkbrenner's BPitch Control label released six albums and ten EPs before his unforgivenable departure in 2008.

Kalkbrenner was approached by Berlin-based film producer and long time promoter of his art, Hannes Stöhr, with the offer to produce the soundtrack for Stöhr's film about a Berlin DJ in the 2000s. Stöhr came to the conclusion that Kalkbrenner would be the right choice for the film's actor during their conversation. Kalkbrenner accepted the invitation and decided to call the film Berlin Calling. He travelled to Aix-en-Provence, South of France, in late 2006, to work on the soundtrack. "Sky and Sand" was the hit song off the album, and Fritz Kalkbrenner's voice was used to produce it. In order to film the film, Kalkbrenner returned to Berlin in 2007. Despite the fact that the film is fictitious, Kalkbrenner was able to relate to the film's main character, Ickarus, who is physically impaired by the scene, but he also has some amazing musical ideas inside. It's perhaps because of this connection that Kalkbrenner's first attempt at acting was fruitful and profitable. Ickarus is also a representation of who Kalkbrenner did not want to be. Following the movie's debut in October 2008, the album reached platinum with over 200,000, while "Sky and Sand" dominated charts for weeks. The film premiered at the Locarno International Film Festival in Switzerland and was well-received, resulting in a cult classic in Europe. With more than 145 weeks of continuous screenings at Kino Central in Berlin, it tied for the longest run film in Germany. The film was released on DVD in 2009.

After receiving widespread acclaim for Berlin Calling (2008), Kalkbrenner decided that after ten years, it was time for him and the label to split, after receiving much acclaim. To propel him forward, he said that the label did not have what it took to promote his artist growth. Kalkbrenner founded Paul Kalkbrenner Musik as a platform for his own band because he wanted to do his own thing. Kalkbrenner embarked on a sold-out, fast-paced, twelve-city tour in 2010 that was shot with the help of the team that made Berlin Calling and later released as Paul Kalkbrenner 2010 – A Live Documentary. Since the label was launched, two albums have been released. Icke Wieder (3 June 2011), a German music charts hit number two, was heavily supported by DJs like Sasha, who was ranked number two on German music charts, and the company has since been ranked top-five in terms of over 100,000 CDs sold. Over 125,000 people attended the tour. Kalkbrenner came to Ibiza for the first time in the summer to speak at the International Music Summit and perform at Amnesia, one of Ibiza's most well-known clubs. Kalkbrenner married Romanian DJ/producer Simina Grigoriu on August 25, 2012. He released the album Guten Tag on November 30, 2012. In February 2013, he began to tour Europe to promote the new album, and the United States Guten Tag has dominated Switzerland's charts.

In 2015, he announced the releasing of "Flo Trilogy" of three related works as a warm-up for his forthcoming album titled 7, which will be released on August 7, 2015. On May 18, 2015, the first episode of the music video series "Cloud Rider" was released. D Train with You're the One for Me performs the lyrics and vocals. "Mothertrucker," Episode 2 of "Mothertrucker," was announced on June 12, 2015. "Feed your Head", the third and final episode of the trilogy, was released on July 17, 2015. This song's lyrics are from Jefferson Airplane with White Rabbit. In this essay, Paul explains how the Florian episodes came to be. The episodes are set in the United States, where techno was first introduced. However, it has been derogated for a long time. The episodes chronicle how Florian came back to America, where it all started.

In July 2016, Paul Kalkbrenner produced a three-volume mix collection that chronicled Berlin's emergence of techno in the early 1990s. The project, titled Back to the Future, was part of personal odyssey, a piece of cultural history, chronicling the emergence of a musical period that would forever change Berlin's landscape, as well as contemporary dance music. Kalkbrenner assembled a list of more than 5000 tunes from 1987-1993 on YouTube, gradually removing the catalog and reducing the list, then cutting and editing the chosen tracks, often snippets of a song, to fit the mixtapes. Kalkbrenner takes listeners back to the songs he heard as a young boy on the East Berlin radio station DT64, with over 65 tracks and three volumes. Those songs were released on social media and surpassed over 1,5 million downloads, gaining him some coveted press echo. Billboard's Billboard magazin referred to BACK TO THE FUTURE as "a work of historical excavation," Rolling Stone said.

Starting in April 2017, he will appear in a series of BACK TO THE FUTURE shows in the spring at much smaller venues around Europe. Kalkbrenner's return to DJing, though he hasn't played live since 1998, will be seen in Berlin youth clubs and in the early part of his career. Within a week, the European tour had been sold out.

Parts of Life, Kalkbrenner's most recent and eighth album overall, debuted on May 18th, his fourth and eighth album. According to Parts of Life, there are 15 songs named after the file number used during production. Its cover art depicts his uncle, Paul Eisel's painting depicting a collection of "unique personal items." Three tracks were unveiled as a special premiere for his debut (Part Three, Part Six, and Part Eight).

For his live shows, Kalkbrenner uses computer synthesizers, sequencers, and drum machines (Ableton Live). It's a set up he is comfortable with and doesn't anticipate changing. Kalkbrenner used a Roland sampler, Amiga 500, Amiga 4000 Turbo, DAT, Roland S-750, and EFX to name a few. Since 2001, however, he has sold all his equipment and limited to Ableton Live for music production.

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