Marc Trauner (born April 7, 1969) better known by his numerous aliases including Marc Acardipane, Mescalinum United, The Mover, Pilldriver, Marshall Masters and Resident E, is a
DJ and
producer based in
Frankfurt
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,
Germany
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.
History
Trauner was co-founder of record label
Planet Core Productions and the hardcore techno production team with the same name, better known as PCP. He released, as Mescalinum United, "We Have Arrived" in 1990. "We Have Arrived" was remixed by
Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, composer and DJ active in electronic music since 1988. His idiosyncratic work has drawn on many styles, including techno, ambient music, ambi ...
and two versions of the track appeared on Aphex Twin's album ''
Classics
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''.
He scored a top 20 hit in the UK in collaboration with
Scooter in 2003, with the single "
Maria (I Like It Loud)", a cover of his 1997 single "
I Like It Loud" (Marshall Masters feat. The Ultimate MC).
In 1997/1998 he released his Best Of Album - Best Of Marc Acardipane (1989-1997) (2xCD) and (1989-1998) (CD). This was spread over 2 volumes.
"We Have Arrived"
"We Have Arrived" is a
hardcore techno
Hardcore (also known as hardcore techno) is a genre of electronic dance music that originated in the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany in the early 1990s. It is distinguished by faster tempos (160 to 200 BPM or more) and a distorted sawtooth ...
track by Marc Trauner under the alias Mescalinum United. It was first released by Planet Core Productions in 1990 on the ''Reflections of 2017'' EP. The track is often regarded as the first hardcore techno track.
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Remixes
* The Advent remix (5:35)
*Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, composer and DJ active in electronic music since 1988. His idiosyncratic work has drawn on many styles, including techno, ambient music, ambi ...
QQT remix (4:24)
*Aphex Twin
Richard David James (born 18 August 1971), known professionally as Aphex Twin, is a British musician, composer and DJ active in electronic music since 1988. His idiosyncratic work has drawn on many styles, including techno, ambient music, ambi ...
TTQ remix (5:03)
*Darrien Kelly's 98 retake (4:18)
*DJ Promo remix (6:19)
*Lory D remix (4:24)
* Manu le Malin remix (4:40)
* Miro remix (5:05)
* Rude Awakening remix (4:10)
* The Horrorist remix (4:06)
*The Mover remix
References
External links
Marc Trauner's official homepage
Information on discogs.org
by music journalist Simon Reynolds
Simon Reynolds (born 19 June 1963) is an English music journalist and author who began his career at ''Melody Maker'' in the mid-1980s. He subsequently worked as a freelancer and published a number of books on music and popular culture.
Reynold ...
, originally published in The Wire
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, July 1998.
Musicians from Frankfurt
Living people
1969 births
German electronic dance music DJs
German hardcore techno musicians
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