Seelenluft

Seelenluft ( born July 8, 1971 as Beat Soler in Wil SG ) is a Swiss musician. He is known as a producer of electronic music and is at home in various styles of music.

Career

Beat Soler began his musical career as a guitarist at the age of seven years. From 1986 to 1992 he played guitar in various New Wave and indie bands like The Nightmare, Hamlet Fish or Nero's dinner, was a member of the artist group K Hall and attended the Jazz School St. Gallen. From 1987 to 1991 he studied graphic design. His first solo album under the name Seelenluft the flame of acapulco published in 1991 in the form of a small edition of audio cassettes self-published and was created with the help of drum machines, synthesizers, guitar, bass, and his own voice. Copies of this cassette are extremely rare.

1992 was staggered Beat Soler to Zurich. Over the following years, he moved more and more to electronic music and finally he published in 1996 his first official album " Bellatrax " on the Danish label Hypnotic Records. The album was heavily influenced by the then drum -and- bass - wave, but also contained elements Easy Listening, animal sounds or guitar solos.

In 2000, his first album the rise and fall of silver city- bob appeared on the Viennese label Klein Records. The album was a collage samples of his 40s - 60s record collection, enriched with electronic beats and synth elements. 2001 Album synchronized swimmers -EP, Silver City Bob meets Acapulco appeared 11 This album was the order music for the synchronized swimmers project Acapulco 11, which was performed in 2001 in the Lake of Zurich three times. Christian Candid of Klein Records heard the music and decided to make an album on his label it. The album sounded like nu jazz combined with cinematic elements in the style of characterized by synchronized swimming and Synchronchoreografie films of the 1930s by Busby Berkeley. The album took the world in the nu-jazz scene very well received.

In 2002, the album was released out of the woods, which produced Beat Soler in Los Angeles. The now -heavy electro-pop songs contained for the first time song structures. The album was sung by usually not singing people who Beat Soler had picked up on the street in his former residence Los Angeles. Such as Lara Stuart, who was on a song ( " air-conditioning " ) to singer a fanatical priest, the beat had taken with his MiniDisc on his car radio, or the twelve -year-old Michael Smith of the gangster quarter Compton. The latter then also sang Manila, which was the first single of the album. Manila became an overnight hit and landed in the official British and Australian charts. In addition, managed the song in France, Germany and Austria No. 1 on the club charts.

After this success Seelenluft toured as a DJ or live act around the world and produced many remixes for artists such as Stefan Eicher / gray zone, Moonbootica, Tipsy, Waldorf, etc. In 2003, his fourth album for small records, the way we go. This album was his most commercial work to date, was sung by Olivera Stanimirov and I can see CLEARLY now veteran Jim Reid of the Jesus and Mary Chain. The singles were remixed by producers like Joakim, Tiga or MANDY. For this album he put together a live band, which had its European tour in 2005. In addition, he worked as a producer for the Stereo MCs.

Life

In addition to his career as Seelenluft Beat Soler worked on tons of film, theater and music for advertising. For 10 years, he ran his own graphic design studio soler -international.com in Zurich, where he realized graphic for the club scene and about 15 of its own low-budget video clips alone. In addition, he worked as an art director on a freelance basis in Zurich advertising agencies. Since 2004 he lives and works in Berlin.

Discography

• The flame of Acapulco ( 1991)
• Bellatrax (1997)
• The Rise and Fall of Silver City Bob (2000)
• Synchronous Wimmer (2001)
• Out of the Woods ( 2002)
• Way We Go ( 2004)
• Birds And Plants And Rocks And Things ( 2008)