BIOGRAPHY
Meat...
....is murder!
Frankfurt/Main in the very early nineties. The time that wannabe-philosophers from today’s capital of Germany polemized years later as the „Raving Revolution“, was just under way. The Hessians, however, preferred to party in clubs like the Omen and Dorian Gray or organized small illegal open air parties out in the woods rather than giving advantage to gigantic industrial ruins. It was an innocent and naive era that is still inspiring today. It’s mind’s child is Carsten Schuchmann a.k.a Meat.
Affected by countless Frankfurt nights since 1990 and the mythical love parade in the summer of 1991, Meat became one of the figure heads of the city. Getting his merits through playing at unlawful parties in closed motorway service areas, ruins of houses and under bridges, he emerged from being a backyard-DJ to a real professional. Meat is the weight-bearing column under the famous Freebase Records shop. Founded in 1994, the store soon swung itself from being a small backyard shop to having a prime address and to this day it belongs to the irrefutable constants in this unstable business even far beyond Germany and the electronic scene. A few years later Meat compiled the splendid "ELECTRO FIELDS" CD for the Hamburg Density label and founded the in-house label Below which deals with everything in-between House, experimental electronic and minimal attempts. In these interfaces Meat also finds himself.
Equipped with old-school-traits he has both the forever sharpened blades of the past days plus an undelusive instinct for essential novelties. With his mother’s milk he sucked in Straighten Techno and the basics of Chicago and Detroit, which go perfectly together with the minimized housy sounds of nowadays. This load of craftsmanship didn’t pass without effect. Meat was one of the style guiding resident DJs at the earliest incarnation of the Frankfurt downtown club “Monza” and jointly responsible for the legendary nimbus of this place. He then moved on to become a resident at Sven Väth’s colossal future vision “Cocoon“, before he initiated, together with selected guests and Freebase staff, the monthly “Freebase Night” at the holy Robert-Johnson Club, which until now has been his steady home base in the Rhein-Main-area. As well as being a passionate socker fan, who else would place a TV in his record shop during the world championship?!, Meat hops around throughout Europe with growing success. On one of those trips someone might have sold him an extra power-battery that has provided him with surplus supernatural energy. Plus all these activities as a DJ, label generator and record shop owner he doesn’t just buy the world’s special and best records, but he also produces them.
Together with Einzelkind he released the smashing first production “Meat is Murder EP” for the well known label Get Physical. A worthy second EP followed, called “Words from The Frontline”. Since these first productions, many releases have made it accross the record store counters as well as the online portals of this world. There have also been other collaborations with Einzelkind, the very busy Frank Heinrich a.k.a Reboot as Lakeof and studio partner Chris Wood, with whom he´s been working on the last two productions. As if that wasn’t enough, 2009 is also the year in which Meat has started to produce by himself! Having started with two remixes, you won´t have to wait long now for his first solo EP.
Of course all other collaborations will continue to work their magic. Meat and Chris Wood are already back in the studio working on some tracks for the London based label MurMur and Einzelkind will do the remix for it.
In that sense: „forward ever, backward never“.... (hehehe!!!)
