Zombie Nation is the project of German DJ and producer Florian Senfter. Zombie Nation's single " Kernkraft 400" was a worldwide hit.

History

The first Zombie Nation EP was released in the spring of 1999 on

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's label, International DeeJay Gigolo Records. A remix of the song " Kernkraft 400" on this debut release reached high chart positions all over the world, including number 2 in the United Kingdom. Since 2001, Florian Senfter has released tracks on different labels under Zombie Nation and his other pseudonym John Starlight. In 2002, he did not renew his contract with International DeeJay Gigolo Records and started his own label, Dekathlon Records, where he released his second album "Absorber" in 2003. In early 2005, the new sublabel UKW Records was launched with John Starlight's ''John's Addiction Part 1'' followed by ''Paeng Paeng 12"'' by Zombie Nation which was recorded a few months later.

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realized the potential of the song at first glance and licensed it for his Cocoon Recordings imprint. The third album ''Black Toys'' which was released in 2006 on UKW Records Zombie Nation is a

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dominated

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from tech-hop to

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-laden

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. In 2007, Zombie Nation collaborated with Tiga under the pseudonym ZZT on the recording "Lower State of Consciousness". Zombie Nation is also known today as an

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 ...

live act. Unusually for a DJ, he uses musical hardware on stage to create sounds. The main instrument is an Akai MPC 4000

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which he uses in combination with a

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and several

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s to do a live

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and Mix of his music. In December 2009 and January 2010, Zombie Nation created an orchestrated track, and Florian tells the story like so: The result was a track by "Zombie Nation and Friends" titled "The Mind of Many".

Discography

Albums

*1999 – '' Leichenschmaus'' (

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028) *2003 – ''

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'' (Dekathlon 010) *2006 – '' Black Toys'' (UKW 5) *2009 – '' Zombielicious'' (UKW 12) *2011 – ''Partys Over Earth'' as ZZT with Tiga (Turbo 033) *2012 – ''RGB'' (Turbo 036)

Singles/EPs

*1999 – " Kernkraft 400" *2001 – ''Kernkraft 400'' (Gigolo 019) *2001 – ''Unload'' (

082) *2003 – ''Souls at Zero'', 12" (+

Remix) (Dekathlon 009) *2003 – ''The Cut'', 12" + DJ Naughty Remix (Dekathlon 012) *2005 – ''Paeng Paeng'', 12" (UKW-2 // ltd. 500) *2005 – ''Paeng Paeng + Meatmaster Jack'', 12" ( Cocoon Records 17) *2006 – ''Money Talks'', 12" (UKW 3) *2007 – ''Gizmode'', 12" (UKW 8) *2007 – ''Lower State of Consciousness'', 12" (UKW/Turbo) as ZZT with Tiga including

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Remix. *2008 – ''The Worm'', 12" (UKW/Turbo) as ZZT with Tiga including

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Remix. *2008 – ''Forza'', 12", remixes by Fukkk Offf and Housemeister (UKW 10) *2009 – ''Worth It'', 12" (UKW 11) *2010 – ''Overshoot / Squeek'', 12", remixes by

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and Bart B More (UKW 13) *2010 – ''ZZafrika'' as ZZT with Tiga *2011 – ''Chickflick'', 12", remixes by Boris Dlugosch and

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(UKW 14) *2011 – ''Vulkan Alarm!'', 12", as ZZT with Tiga (Turbo 109) *2011 – ''Tight'' single, with a remix by

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*2011 – ''Partys over Los Angeles'', as ZZT with Tiga *2012 – ''Meathead'' EP (Turbo 133) *2013 – ''Fishtank / Guzzler'' (UKW 017) *2014 – ''Gnork'' (UKW 019) *2014 – ''TGV'' (UKW 019) *2015 – ''A Night at the Zoo'' (UKW 021) *2016 – ''Something Else'' (Twin Turbo 036) *2017 – ''Knockout'' (UKW 022) *2017 – ''Worldwise'' (UKW 023) *2018 – ''Ticket'' (GPM442)

Remixes

*1999 Dakkar & Grinser – "Take me naked" (DiskoB 087) *1999 Philip Boa and the Voodoclub – "So What" (BMG Ariola) *1999 Sexual Harassment – " I Need a Freak" (Lasergun Rec.Lasergun 003) *1999 Frankie Bones – "My house is your house" (Bash Rec. bash 004) *2001 Takkyū Ishino – "Suck me Disko" (Zomba Rec. EXEC 08) *2001 I-F – "Space Invaders are smoking grass" (Loaded/Eastwest Leaded 012) *2001 Ladytron – "Playgirl" (Labels/Virgin LC03098) *2002

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;– "Trapped" (eastwest UPUS011.03) *2002

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/EDM 090) *2002 AFA /

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– "Being Boiled" (Edel 0141690CLU) *2002 My Robot Friend – "The Fake" (Dekathlon 002) *2002 Gater – "Taboo" (Dekathlon 003) *2002 Acid Scout – "Sexy Robot" (Kurbel 027) *2003 My Robot Friend – "Walt Whitman" (Dekathlon 008) *2004 NAM:LIVE – "The Church of NAM" (Dekathlon 013) *2004 Codec & Flexor – "Time has changed" (Television 08) *2007 Headman – "On" (Relish) *2008

The Presets The Presets are an Australian electronic music duo of Julian Hamilton (vocals, keyboards) and Kim Moyes (drums, keyboards). Formed in 2003 and signed to Modular Recordings, Modular Records, The Presets released two EPs (''Blow Up (EP), Blow Up ...

– "This Boy´s in Love" Modular *2008

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– "I Got" *2009 Adam Freeland – "Under Control" (Marine Parade) *2009 Kid Sister – "Get Fresh" ( Fools Gold) *2009 Tiga – "What You Need" (Turbo Records) *2012 Housemeister – Clarisse (Boysnoize BNR077D) *2017 DJ Pierre – Strobe Light Laser Acid ( Get Physical)

Singles

References

External links

Official website
{{DEFAULTSORT:Zombie Nation German dance music groups German electronic music groups Musical groups established in 1999 1999 establishments in Germany German club DJs German electronic dance music DJs German remixers