Bob Humid

History

Bob Humid aka Robert Feuchtl is one of the most avowed producers in the Cologne electronic music scene. He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, but grew up in Germany for most of the time. He was one third of the Electronic Body Music / Kunstlied-Formation "Der Liederkranz" in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He has organised & co-organised many activities in Cologne's electronic music underground including "Mos Eisley" (with DJ Tetsuo), "Twist'n'Shout" (with Uh-Young Kim), "Is It Now?", "Radical Love Area" and "Vectrax" (with Telekolleck). He has also run the two record labels named Bored Beyond Belief (1995 - along with Wolfgang Schreck from Big Noise fame) and Serve & Destroy Recordings.

Bob Humid was also the technical editor for the German Groove Magazine for almost seven years as a successor of Christian Rindermann (aka C-Rock) and he gained reputation in the German Keyboards / Sound & Recording Magazine where he still works as a technological autor. Along testing studio & DJ gear he is known for being a producer with a strong affinity for detail. Bob Humid was also in charge of of mastering recodings of Boxer Sport, Mathias Schaffhaeuser's Ware Records, Pagoda London and many other Underground-Labels.

Over the time Bob Humid has worked, produced and / or remixed / with: twila.too, Carla Subito (Fetisch Park), Holger Czukay (Can), Igor Sirodzha, Daniel Myer (Dots And Dashes, Haujobb), Bernhard Deissler (Videos), Alexander Gerdes, Numinos, Coloma, Mathew Mercer, Carlsbop, Der Liederkranz, Decomposed Subsonic (aka Valour), Uh-Young Kim, Telekolleck (Britis©he Botschaft), Djamel Laroussi and Mathias Schaffhäuser (Ware Records).

Releases

2001 - The Albums Twisted Repairs & Twisted Despairs

Twisted Repairs (Serve & Destroy / Groove Attack)

His debut Album-Release "Twisted Repairs" draws a sharp line between the musical styles of labels such as Rephlex and Certificate 18. It features elements of IDM, Techstep, Drum'n'Bass and some vocal production. It also features very sophisticated beat-programming and a unique editing where every sound has a meaningful feel to it. Bob Humid has an obvious obession for Funk within 4/4th metrics and a digital production philosophy that he claims to be influenced a lot by Rupert Hine in his early 80ies phase. While being distrubted worldwide by Groove Attack these both debut albums have been solely promotet in Germany where they have been highly acclaimed by the local press.

Twisted Despairs (Serve & Destroy / Groove Attack)

This Album can be considered the "Evil Twin-Brother" of "Twisted Repairs". It is the effort of the artist himself to perform a remixed variation of Twisted Repairs. Bob Humid intended to make "Twisted Despairs" sound as if the original album would have been remixed in a far away future and brought to present times by mysterious ways of time-travel. Therefore it leaves the paths of abstract Drum'n'Bass totally while serving a wild and eclectical mix of electronic genres, heavily covered under a lot of DSP-Processing and hundreds of layers of effects and filtering-techniques.

2006 - Leaving the strict paths of IDM

Second Wind Phenomenon (Suburban Trash / Serve & Destroy)

from left to right: Down: Igor Sirodzha (Guitarist), Stefan Senf (Labelchef of Suburban Trash), Numinos (Press photographer), Alexander Gerdes (Filmmaker of "Angst"), Holger Czukay (Narrator), Bob Humid, twila.too (vocals), Carla Subito (Sound-Design), Rob Taylor (Coloma, vocals), Sonya Pinnow (Promoter), Alex Paulick (Coloma)

Five years after his debut album "Twisted Repairs" Bob Humid has changed his look at Electronic Music. "Second Wind Phenomenon" is a mature musical oeuvre that combines elements of Soundtrack, Science-Fiction, Psychedlia, IDM, Drill'n'Bass and Radioplays. Being a real concept-album, inspired a lot by the way Bands like Godley & Creme, The Legendary Pink Dots or Coil produced their albums, it is very divers and eclectical while slightly touching all kind of musical styles. The production defines the limits of what is possible in modern music-production. It features binaural microphoning-techniques and a lot of unusual vocal production. Along the participants we find the names of Holger Czukay (Can), Igor Sirodzha, Coloma, twila.too and Carla Subito (Fetisch Park). The CD-Extra-Zone of the CD-version (a double-vinyl version is available) contains a XviD-version of "Angst", a 16mm short-movie by filmmaker Alexander Gerdes for which Bob Humid has written the soundtrack and score.

External links

[Official site]
[Comprehensive discography at Discogs]
[http://suburbantrash.c8.com/ Label and Mailorder for Bob Humid Records
[http://www.beatport.com Download Bob Humid Tracks Online

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