Biography
„The craze about the music...“
...the man called Prosumer is besotted with it. Since Achim Brandenburg heartily grabbed the microphone under this moniker in 2005 for Frankfurt’s then undisputed Label Playhouse, he showed that lasciviousness, a fever for Chicago’s Jack flavour and consciousness of tradition aren’t necessarily bound to a time and a place. Vision, passion and knowledge make Prosumer a guardian of house music history and one of the formative artists, influential DJs and important producers of our days.
While deriving his name from Alvin Toffler’s techno sci-fi-bible The Third Wave (producing and consuming at the same time), Prosumer lives up to his name. With more than a decade of Hard-Wax-Record-Store-enculturation on the clock (first in Saarbrucken, then Berlin), he spent countless nights in clubs, days looking for music and years refining his art and becoming in line with the “big three”. This is not a reference to Detroit’s car companies, but the city’s musical heritage that – together with the Big Apple and the Windy city – laid the foundation for techno and house builds with the Big Apple and the Windy City.
Prosumer oscillates between these poles. That holds true for his productions, which are affected by references and historical vertexes, but never feel to be out of time or place. An album with Murat Tepeli and collaborations with Tama Sumo expand his discography for labels like the aforementioned Playhouse, Running Back or Swayzak’s 240 Volts. On the other hand – and that might be far more important – this is exemplary for his DJ work since the mid-nineties. Prosumer connects the tracks and songs of this music’s golden age with the worthwhile pieces and developments of today. Accordingly to that special feeling which is so hard to couch, he gets engaged in it from tip to toe – and so does his audience. Proved by his mission as one of the residents in Berlin’s influential club institution, on his official mix CD for that place that describes his spectrum of sound perfectly and by this certain magic that travels with and in him everywhere.
„Through his body and through his veins...“
Discography
Prosumer
Fabric Mix 79
Fabric157 7 - 12/2014
Prosumer
Panoramabar 03
Ostgut CD 17 - 05/2011
Prosumer
Daybreak
Ostgut LP 07 - 11/2010
Tama Sumo & Prosumer
Rarified
Ostgut Ton 36 - 06/2010
Tama Sumo & Prosumer
Alien Mutts
Diamonds & Pearls 13 - 10/2009
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
U&I/The Jam
Ostgut Ton 30 - 09/2009
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
Serenity - 12"
OstGut Ton 18 - 07/2008
Tama Sumo & Prosumer
Play Up/Brothers, Sisters
OstGut Ton 14 - 03/2008
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
Serenity (LP,CD)
OstGut Ton 03 - 01/2008
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli feat. Elif Biçer
Turn Around
OstGut Ton 12 - 01/2008
Prosumer
Brownstone EP
Running Back 08 - 11/2007
Prosumer & Murat Tepeli
What Makes You Go For It
OstGut Ton 07 - 05/2007
Murat Tepeli feat. Prosumer
On A Ride
Playhouse 110 - 09/2005
Prosumer
The Craze
Playhouse 105 - 01/2005
Prosumer
Newborn
240 Volt / 011 - 10/2004
Remixes
Luv Jam
Quip22 (Prosumer Remix)
Phonica White008 - 03/2014
Murat Tepeli
Forever (Prosumer's Hold Me Touch Me Remix)
Ava 005 - 03/2013
Mock & Toof
Normans Eyes (Prosumer Remix)
Tiny Sticks Tinc 004 - 10/2010
Mount Kimbie
William (Tama Sumo & Prosumer Remix)
Hotflush Records HFRMX007 - 05/2010
Motorcitysoul Feat. Ernesto
Deliver Me (Prosumer Reprise)
Simple Records 1046 - 02/2010
Dash Dude
Tell´Em In The City (Prosumer Remix)
Morris Audio Citysport Edition39 - 08/2007
DJ T.
Lucky Bastard (Prosumers Me&Me Remix)
Get Physical 065 - 01/2007
Sebo K
Moved (Prosumer Stop Dub)
Mobilee 015 - 09/2006