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Cristian Vogel (born 1972) is a Chilean-born experimental
electronic music Electronic music broadly is a group of music genres that employ electronic musical instruments, circuitry-based music technology and software, or general-purpose electronics (such as personal computers) in its creation. It includes both music ...
ian and producer.


Biography

Vogel was born in
Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...
and moved to England in the early 1980s with his family, fleeing from the
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of
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. He began working with electronic compositions in the late 1980s with the
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(working with
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, among others). He attended the
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and graduated with a degree in modern music there, suffusing his
techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...
compositions with influences from ''
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'' and other
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styles. In the early 1990s, Vogel began working with Dave Clarke, and issued several EPs on Clarke's Magnetic North Records label, the first of which was the underground success, ''Infra''. After some collaborations with Russ Gabriel, Vogel released his debut full-length, ''Beginning to Understand'', in 1994 on Mille Plateaux, and began releasing music regularly after this on
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. He also started two labels of his own, ''Mosquito'' and ''Quinine'', on which he releases both his own music and other artists'. Alongside
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, he formed the group Super Collider in 1998, which released two albums. In the early 2000s, Vogel moved to
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, where he set up the Erutufon 5 studio. In recent years, he has started a number of other record labels: ''Rise Robots Rise'' (now defunct), ''Sleep Debt'', and ''Station 55'' (also the name of his studio). Whilst these record labels are primarily a vehicle to release his own work, they have also released records for other artists. He sang and played guitar in the band Night of the Brain, based in Barcelona. Vogel has also done remixes for
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, and Fujiya & Miyagi. As of 2021, he is based in
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.


Discography


Albums

* 1994 – ''Beginning to Understand'' (Mille Plateaux) * 1995 – ''Absolute Time'' (
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) * 1996 – ''Specific Momentific'' (Mille Plateaux) * 1996 – ''Body Mapping'' (Tresor Records) * 1997 – ''All Music has come to an End'' (Tresor) * 1999 – ''Busca Invisibles'' (Tresor) * 2000 – ''Rescate 137'' ( novamute) * 2000 – ''Sing Sweet Software'' (as Trurl and Klapaucious) ( Supremat) * 2002 – ''Dungeon Master'' (Tresor) * 2005 – ''Station 55'' (Novamute) * 2007 – ''Double Deux/Delicado'' ( Station 55) * 2007 – ''The Never Engine'' (Tresor) * 2010 – ''Black Swan'' (Choreographic score, 2009) (
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) * 2012 – ''The Inertials'' (
Shitkatapult Shitkatapult is a German record label which focuses on electronic music, spanning both intelligent dance music, IDM and techno. The label was founded by Marco Haas (T. Raumschmiere) and Marcus Stotz in 1998 in music, 1998, and is now run by Haas ...
) * 2014 – ''Polyphonic Beings'' (Shitkatapult) * 2016 – ''The Assistenz'' (Shitkatapult) * 2021 – ''The Rebirth of Wonky'' (Endless Process) * 2022 – ''1Zhuayo'' (Mille Plateaux) * 2023 – ''Fase Montuno'' (Mille Plateaux)


EPs

* 1994 – ''Infra EP'' (Magnetic North) * 1994 – ''Lambda EP'' (Magnetic North) * 1994 – ''Intersync EP'' (Force Inc) * 1994 – ''Narco Synthesis EP'' (Ferox) * 1995 – ''Conscious Arrays EP'' (Force Inc) * 1997 – ''Two Fat Downloads 88 EP'' (Primevil) * 1999 – ''Boom Busine EP'' (Mosquito) * 2009 – ''Crust Cloud Chunks EP'' (Snork Enterprises) * 2009 – ''Endless Process EP'' (Artifexbcn) * 2010 – ''Time To Feed The Alien EP'' (Snork Enterprises) * 2012 – ''Enter the Tub'' (Shitkatapult) * 2015 – ''1994 EP'' (Edition Cristian Vogel) * 2020 – ''Mind Control EP'' (Wormhole)


Singles

* 1994 – "We Equate Machines with Funkiness" (Mosquito) * 1994 – "Tales From the Heart" (Force Inc) * 1995 – "Defunkt #1" (Solid) * 1995 – "Artists in Charge of Expert Systems" (Mosquito) * 1996 – "The Visit: Defunkt #2" (Solid) * 1996 – "Demolish Serious Culture" (Sativae) * 1998 – "Defunkt Remixes" (Solid) * 1998 – "Syncopate to Generate" (Sativae) * 1999 – "General Arrepientase" (Tresor) * 2000 – "Whipaspank" (Novamute) * 2001 – "Me and My Shadow" (Novamute) * 2005 – "1968. Holes" (Novamute) * 2009 – "Crust Cloud Chunks Remixes" (Snork Enterprises) * 2012 – "I like it – Sounds like Spain" (Hyper Connection)


Compositions for dance

*2003 – "2-0-0-3" with Clive Jenkins and
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*2004 – "Delicado" / choreography
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*2005 – "Steakhouse" / choreography Gilles Jobin *2006 – "Double Deux" / choreography Gilles Jobin *2008 – "Text to Speech" / choreography Gilles Jobin *2009 – "Black Swan" / choreography Gilles Jobin


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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vogel, Cristian 1972 births Living people British electronic musicians Chilean electronic musicians Chilean emigrants to the United Kingdom Chilean expatriates in Spain Alumni of the University of Sussex Techno musicians