Fan Erhalder

In the beginning of the 90s Stefan Sommerhalder (aka Fan Erhalder) was introduced to electronic music whilst taping tons of pirate broadcasts from early techno parties. A couple of years later, the passionate funk drummer began to abuse his computer as a musical instrument, enabling him to realise his musical ideas without a band. "I started as a tracker composer with tools from the early pc demo scene. 4channels max, 8bit mono samples, you know, no need for bitcrushers back then". His sound is mainly influenced by early Chicago techno, acid house, early rave tapes and classic hiphop. "I combined my favourite elemens from different genres and tracks, stuff I could not get my hands on. This was back in the 90ies, Internet acces was a privileg, not a product yet.