Paul Kalkbrenner

Biography

Paul Kalkbrenner (1977) is a producer, DJ and actor from Berlin, Germany. He is signed to the famous Bpitch control label founded by Ellen Allien. Starting as a trumpet player and studying music theory, Kalkbrenner later switched to electronic music. In 1999 he released his first tracks under the name of Paul dB+. As a live act, he performs using Ableton Live in combination with midi controllers and hardware synthesizers. In 2008 he composed the sountrack for the German movie Berlin Calling in which he also is the leading actor. The theme song Sky and Sand, featuring his brother Fritz Kalkbrenner ended up in various European charts. More information and music on Paul’s MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/paulkalkbrenner A short chronology: 1985-90 * lessons in trumpet and music theory 1992/93 * first performances at an east berlin youth club 1994/95 * dj at walfisch, exit/kitchen, vereinsheim, praxis dr. mc coy, halle weissensee 1996 * buys his first production equipment 1997/98 * editor, operator and producer at the german tv stations ard, zdf, rtl, premiere 2000 * plays all over the world 2008 * filmproject "BERLIN CALLING" Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.