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Bjorn Rohde

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Biography

Bjorn was born in the early 70’s in a small town in the north of the Ruhr Area

and his passion for music began since he was a little guy.

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He was impressed by

the sounds of musicians like Mike Oldfield, Frankie Goes to Hollywood,The Art

of Noise, Kraftwerk, The KLF, Jean-Michel Jarre, Vangelis, Tangerine Dream,

Klaus Schulze, and many more.

In the beginning of the nineties, he bought his first hardware synthesizer.

Bjorn was developing electronic and experimental sounds in his small home

studio with the old Roland JD800 Synthesizer durig this time.

In 1992 the electronic music brought him to the new music genres Techno/Trance

style. He began to work as a DJ in the Ruhr Area underground scene. During

this time, his sound and music was affected by the greatest artist of

Techno/Trance music like: Sven Vaeth, Energy 52, Ralf Hildenbeutel, Jam &

Spoon, DJ Dag, Stevie B-Zet, Emmanuel Top, and many more.

His favourite Record Labels during this time were: Harthouse Rec., Eye Q Rec.,

Djax Records, Noom Rec, Le Petit Prince, Tresor Records.

His fans loved his deep & drifty sessions.

At the end of the nineties, he did a long creative break.

Since the end of 2000 he is back with new inspirations and ideas. He began to

discover the world of ambient and ambient dub stuff made by Aural Float, Fresh

Moods, Full Moon Fashions, JFC, Rauschfaktor, ÜNN, Ruxpin, Saafi Brothers and

others and fit all these styles together to wonderfull DJ mixes.

Due to big request Bjorn decide in the mid of 2007 to launch his own Podcast

“SATELLITE FM” on satellitefm.de to bring his music to the folk. Later on in

2008 he launched two resident DJ shows called DEPARTURE at sense.fm & FRESH

MOOD at globalbeats.fm successfully.

friskyradio.com is broadcasting Bjorns ambient dub sets from time to time.

July 2008, Bjorn was invited to be the “ARTIST OF THE WEEK” at the biggest

Progressive House online radio station friskyradio.com.

2009, he did a training for a licensed skilled Audio Producer at

PRODUZENTENSCHMIEDE /FFM, which was founded by the well known Music Producers

and DJs Michael Kohlbecker/Saafi Brothers and Pascal FEOS.

Currently he is working on several music projects as Audio Producer.

Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.