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Gabriel Ananda - Biography

Already when he was a little boy Gabriel Ananda was into music. Gabriel had his first serious encounter with music during a fever rush, listening to Classical music which made him notice the relativity of things for the first time. That happened at the age of 8 years. His somewhat involuntary cello instruction did not avail but his passion for music found its ways when he was 16 and played songs of Nirvana on his guitar.

However his dream of becoming an international rockstar did not come true. But there also was this passion for minimal music like Steve Reich and the fascination for electronic sounds and so Gabriel Ananda began experimenting in electronic sounds. Two years later he had his first release on the German Label Hörspielmusik followed by now over twenty 12inch releases on imprints like Cocoon, Trapez, Utils, Substatic, Treibstoff and last but not least Karmarouge Records.

Refreshingly different from the common Techno mainstream Gabriel Ananda breaks hearing-habbits using well dosed deep structured sounds. Connoisseur of the uncommon enjoy his straight and fiddly cool beats. Definitions become useless if Techno, House and Dub merge together like in Gabriel Anandas productions. Acoustic elements give a personal note to my electronic music. There are no stylistic boundaries for Gabriel Ananda, except his own versatile musical taste.

This guy knows how to electrify the partycrowd with his Live and DJ sets and how to pull them into his spell. Gabriel Ananda recently hit the jackpot by placing his release ‘Süssholz’ as No.1 in the german DJ-charts of the Groove Magazine and making it into the playlists of just about every DJ in 2004, followed by his club smasher 'Ihre persönliche Glücksmelodie' and his big hit EP 'Miracel Whop' on Platzhirsch Schallplatten in 2006. On his second longplayer 'Bambusbeats' - released in 2007- Gabriel Ananda presents us a reverse side of his extraordinary skills. Away from his well known melodic tracks now his music dips into the artificiality and abstractness of electronic sound scapes.

Thus made him one the rising stars from the well known cologne minimal house and techno scene and a high frequently booked DJ and Live artist, now playing in clubs all over the world.