Gunjah has got older now – not in years but in talent. His ability is what it always was, a dedication to music. There’s been no shift in his priorities. With his rejection of rigid ideas about electronic effects he has set his target at producing something sustainable, something that’s truly authentic. Solid work, in other words, rather than something that’s motivated by a quick fix. Gunjah sees more than this. He sees that pleasure can only result when there’s passion mixed in with it from the start.
For Gunjah the producer, meditation is an essential condition for being taken seriously rather than a weakness. An end product that is effortless, but one that demonstrates effort in the process. This 90s techno kid has stretched himself to create something that isn’t some kind of ephemeral music churned out at the delusional whim of the producer. His experience as a DJ has always made him endeavour to leap over a forced and naive desire for fame to create music that brings feet to the dance floor.
His approach didn’t just develop overnight. Rather, it’s something precise that has only come about through endless experimentation. Markus has always looked trends in the eye, driven to come up with innovative ideas that motivate everyone while giving lacklustre nonsense the cold shoulder. In his albums he creates a durable electronic body of work according to his own benchmark. Stability in sound, ease in communicating it, and joy in applying it all in a constructive way. Gunjah!
BIO:
It was in 1994 in his iconic base in Dresden that Gunjah played for the first time. His first appearance was also his first independent step. Techno becomes the great love of his life. Three years later he’s able to play in Berlin's legendary E-Werk. Berlin is over the moon with his music, giving him the chance to develop his ability in producing a first disc of his own. In 2003 the first Gunjah makes an appearance on 1st Decade Records with “Funkwelt EP”, while in the following year his “Black Quartet” is launched on Armut 24 - and ends up in most record cases.
But he doesn’t only play in Berlin – numerous national and international engagements follow. In Dresden, the town of his birth and creativity, he is soon directing in a variety of clubs and at series of events on a huge scale. The Tweakers are the first, from which Showboxx develops, still playing today. Between them fall the Studio 43 era and, from 2001, the great Funkwelt period, a celebrated institution for electronic sophisticates.
And nowadays? Gunjah has taken a look around and searched for other musicians of his standing. With Sandkasten buddy Lexy (Niconé) the Møenster duo rages from gig to gig. He sets up End of Tape together with Stachy of Hofuku Sochi as a guarantee of quality for sensitively produced techno.
He’s always had a special relationship with the Northern Light band, a fact reflected in bookings for the band and in the “Northern Lite DJ Team” project. Showboxx is now celebrating its thirteenth year and has begotten a successful child with all the DJs that have already visited it: Click Clack was born one Sunday in the summer of 2009 from the unvanquished Tatendrang, giving techno a worthy stage in Dresden.
All of this is due simply to those fans whose unbroken desire to hear more has provided all his projects with their structure, sophistication and functionality. Gunjah!
CHECK:
https://www.facebook.com/gunjah.official
http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/gunjah http://www.discogs.com/artist/gunjah http://soundcloud.com/gunjahdj
BOOKING:
gunjah@funkwelt.com
