Talla 2XLC
Talla 2XLC (born Andreas Tomalla ), born in 1963, is a pioneer and one of the most important pioneers of the commercial German and international techno / trance scene.
Life and work
He worked early 80s at a record store at the Frankfurt Hauptbahnhof ( City Music). There he sorted records with electronically produced music in a separate category and named it with " Techno". With the establishment of techno club in 1984 and his performances he gave more than twenty years an important impetus for the emergence and development of the German techno club scene as well as the international trance scene.
Talla2XLC was awarded on 15 April 2010 with the Honorary Medal of the City of Frankfurt am Main. These explained the Frankfurt Mayor Petra Roth that he was " born with his innovative music the name of our city in the world and the cultural prestige of Frankfurt promoted internationally " have.
Pseudonym
His stage name Talla 2XLC is derived as an abbreviation of his surname and by an ancient cassette mixtape from whose technical name " XS60 " and was for Talla came just because there was already the Talla Vocal Ensemble. Retrieved from " XS60 " is the way to " 2XLC " was not far, as Talla 've always had a soft spot for names and technical terms. To be recognized by GEMA as an independent artist, Talla chose this addition to its well-known artist until now alias.
"?" Because the question " what does" 2XLC belongs to the most sought-after in his life, there is a fictional anecdote: Once, when he gave an interview to the magazine Partysan, and he was out of the question annoyed again, he thought this story from: Talla lived in his student days in an apartment together with Buddhist monks. Since these processed loudly every day in the hallway of the WG, he could never hear the ringing. One of the monks took pity on him, and carved him a bell sign saying " Talla 2 x LC" (twice long ring ). The monk was the German language not very powerful. That's why he cut ringing with " C." from. The whole thing was just a fictional fun, but was then repeatedly reprinted in various magazines.
Career
Talla began DJing in the dance school " Kiel Blell ". In the eighties he began producing his own works under the project name Axodry and could subsequently achieve initial success with the follow-up projects Two of China and Moskwa TV. His most famous project was then Bigod 20, which he was the founder. Talla created this name based on his favorite author HP Lovecraft. However Tomalla had early on not the commercial focus of others, at that time known DJs and gave quite a lot of administrative responsibility for the marketing of his work. After the years of reconstruction of the techno club and his record label " Music Research", which no longer exists now, he retired with the reason to have to worry about its labels and the artists from 1992 to 1995 for some time from DJing. In addition, his definition of Techno a completely different sound presentation corresponded. He saw himself in this time mainly in the tradition of EBM, European electropop and industrial. The by releasing Definition of Techno in the fusion of techno and Afro-American house and disco music did not correspond to its values imagination and he refused at first completely off.
The mid-1990s he had a comeback as a DJ and at international raves, in which he could build on the success of previous years. As a techno club founder and resident in the Frankfurt Club Dorian Gray, he was, until the closure of the club in late 2000, one of the most booked DJs in Germany. Then came increasingly to Talla as a remixer of trance - known acts such as Rank 1 and Darude. Talla 2XLC To date, has been working together with different producers as a DJ and remixer. Well-known and commercially successful is its Techno Club CD series in Mix-/Battle-/DJ-Format each with a different famous DJ. Meanwhile, he is represented internationally by the Canadian Agency DJlinks which also manages Johan Gielen, Scot Project, Yoji Biomehanika and.
Development
The Techno Club who has lost with the closure of Dorian Gray his home base is again turned round the end of 2004 after a lot of ups and downs in Frankfurt, where he found a new "home" at the Café Royal for over a year every first Friday of the month. Then the techno club changed early September 2005 the stock in the center of Frankfurt. A year later, the techno club found its home base in Frankfurt Club U60311 before the Monza in Frankfurt City was the current location in May 2010, where it continued the times of Dorian Gray and arrive every month fans from all parts of Germany. In addition, he is booked nationally and internationally for years at many major events. Especially in the USA, he is more on tour.
Talla 2XLC addition puts every first Thursday of the month from 21:00 bis 23:00 clock in his techno club broadcast live at Sunshine Live sets on.
Talla 2XLC still strongly promotes the electronic music, especially for the trance scene.
The Love Parade leaned Tomalla due to their commercialization since 2000 onwards. As the management of the Love Parade changed and the music was in the foreground in his view, he changed his mind. His application to the Techno Club for the newly designed 2006 parade had a week before the event successful, as they could stand in for a failed participant. The voting was determined to be 50 % of Internet visitors to the organizers and 50% of the club culture bearers of the scene. The Techno Club came up with 36th place of 420 registered participants. In his remarks Tomalla often indicates in his opinion, critically evaluative commercialization of Techno & Trance.
Personal
Talla has two brothers, lives in Frankfurt, is married and has one child. As part of the campaign " Yes -to -FRA " to Tomalla was " to -FRA - Fanflieger Yes " Map with nine other persons on as supporter of Frankfurt Airport.
Discography
Without Singles ( 60 ) without Remixes ( 270 ), extract (source: Discogs )