Wasscass

Wasscass

Wasscass 2016
Background information
Birth name Alexander Starnell
Also known as al cutter
Origin Spaichingen, Germany
Genres Electronic, Minimal techno, Techno, House music, Progressive House, Trance music, Goa trance
Years active 1993 – present
2002 – present (as Wasscass)
Labels Klangklar Records
Associated acts slaxory
al cutter
Mr. Mo
Lotta
Gravenberg
Station to Station
Nuclear Tango
Rhythmusschnalle
Website www.wasscass.com

Wasscass is a German techno producer and label head born in Spaichingen in 1977, currently based in Stuttgart.

History

Growing up in a music-oriented family, Wasscass' life was filled with sounds of Kiss, Iron Maiden, Def Leppard or Judas Priest at a very early age already. He became familiar with the world of EBM and Techno with records from Tommi Stumpff, Nitzer Ebb, Front Line Assembly and cubic22 from Berlin.

Buying his first turntables in 1992, he started his DJ career with his first gig as "al cutter" at club Cinderella in Tübingen in 1993. He started the set with a 15-minute intro, followed by a solid gabba and hardcore set. Although this might have been the starting point, he was still missing a direction. During those days, DJ Sven Väth fascinated all revelers with ingenious hardfloor from Frankfurt. Wasscass' encounter with Väth at Southern Germany's number 1 club "Oz" gave him the greencard for 1994's Futuresonic Party in Stuttgart, playing a set with four decks with flying colours.


Taking a break from DJing in 2001, he came back even bigger in 2007. Mainly being booked for industrial high-class rooftop parties always far from the mainstream, he also played all kinds of styles in clubs and radio stations, finding its peak at the Kazantip festival. Nowadays, he only returns to the decks for the virtual community, despite not being the biggest supporter of social media.

In 1999 he opened his own club, "Alte Stilfabrik" (Nox Club), closing in 2002 due to conceptual deviations.

Wasscass started producing own tracks in 1996, never sticking to a certain style or genre. Since then, he is producing several projects of different kinds of styles, with slaxory being the first sub-project evolving from the idea of a T-shirt label in 2008. All of his projects have one thing in common - representing underground, aiming to establish a new genre, far from the norm. The latest release "Airport" is the best example.

He never reached for the limelight, avoiding commercial publicity wherever possible.

Discography

Album


Vinyl


Mix Compilations


Digital Releases

  • Crazy Stewardess (from the album "Airport") (2016)
  • First Class (from the album "Airport") (2016)
  • Neue Welt (2016)
  • Back (2015)
  • Das Feld Vor Der Tür (2015)
  • Hill Farmer's Dance (2015)
  • The Art Of (2015)
  • Chemtrails and Haarp (2015)
  • Virginia Sun (2015)
  • Strandbad (2015)
  • Day By Day (2015)
  • The Eye (2014)
  • Magic Y (Dark Remix) (2014)
  • Schanti (2014)
  • Magic Y (2014)
  • White City (2013)
  • Stranger (2013)
  • The Box (2013)
  • Stand Up (2013)
  • Running Free (2013)
  • Die Vega (2013)
  • Taxi (2013)
  • Monaco (2012)
  • Life (2011)
  • Slimslod (2011)
  • Openfield (2011)
  • Bodycult (2011)
  • Nastyness (2011)
  • Black Blood (2010)
  • Calls Cenobite (2010)
  • America (2010)
  • Proghead (2010)
  • Bekka (2010)
  • One Night In Jail (2010)
  • Am Main (2010)
  • Soccer (2010)
  • Possessed (2010)
  • Fame (2009)
  • Forgotten Battles (2009)
  • Schattenmann (2009)


slaxory - Digital Releases

  • Lipstick (2016)
  • Phil Bowie (2016)
  • Matchbox (2015)
  • Spaceship (2015)
  • Main Street (2014)
  • Goa Girl (2014)
  • Sky Diver (2013)
  • Downside Up (2013)
  • Let It Go (2012)
  • Evil Shiva (2011)
  • Neoship (2011)
  • Flying Cobra (2010)
  • Blue Morning (2010)
  • Time Stand Still (2010)


al cutter - Digital Releases

  • Pex (2016)
  • Decibel (2015)
  • Gypsy (2015)
  • B and K (2015)
  • Be Wood (2014)


Mr. Mo - Digital Releases

  • Trip Trap Kleine Füße (2016)
  • Slow Deep (2015)
  • Konturen Der Zukunft (2015)
  • The Garden (2015)
  • Stuttgarter (2015)
  • Get Up And Dance (2014)
  • Breadcrumb (2014)


Lotta - Digital Releases

  • Stereo Food (2016)
  • Space (2016)
  • The Golden Butterfly (2015)
  • Type B (2015)
  • ORS (2015)
  • LED (2015)
  • Eternity (2014)
  • To The Moon And Back (2014)


Gravenberg - Digital Releases


Station to Station - Digital Releases

  • Stop Thinking (2016)
  • Bunker Oder Bungalow (2015)
  • Benrath (2015)
  • Grand Designs (2015)
  • Atrium (2014)
  • Test For Echo (2014)


Nuclear Tango - Digital Releases


Rhythmusschnalle - Digital Releases

Private Life

Wasscass is married, living in Southern Germany with his wife and son.
His wife is the face behind "Magic Y", the project responsible for all the artwork at "Airport" as well as the one supporting Wasscass' social community channels.

References

  1. Review "First Class" from the album "Airport"
  2. "Seasons End" (EP "Stand Up") at Ibiza's Club Amnesia
  3. house-mixes.com
  4. The Field Remixes: Openfield
  5. Beatport Charts: Possessed
  6. Review "Airport" at Amazon.de
  7. Kazantip 2008


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