Ingmar Koch

Ingmar Koch
Genres Ambient techno, acid house
Occupation(s) Musician
Years active 1991–present
Labels Sm:)e
Associated acts Air Liquide

Ingmar Koch (also known by his pseudonym Dr. Walker) is a German musician and label owner in the field of Electronic Music. He was a member of more than 50 different techno music projects, such as Air Liquide (with Cem Oral), Khan & Walker (with Can Oral), Global Electronic Network (with Can Oral), Pierrot Premier (with Thomas Thorn), Planet Lovecore (with Wolfgang Voigt) and Rei$$dorf Force (with Jörg Burger among others).

Biography

In 1991, Koch founded a recording studio in Frankfurt with Cem Oral, with whom he shortly afterwards formed the project Air Liquide with.[1] In 1992, their first EP, titled Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule, was issued on the Cologne he record label Blue, the chef and together with Oral had founded the musicians Jörg Burger.[2] In 1991, Oral, Burger and Wolfgang Voigt founded the acid techno label Structure.[3] In 1993, Koch formed the labels XXC3 and Dj.ungle Fever.

In 1993, Jörg Burger, Wolfgang Voigt and Koch together founded the Delirium Köln, a record shop, which also serves as a music label and distributor. The same year he recorded numerous solo releases and collaborations with artists such as Wolfgang Voigt, Biochip C., Frank Heiss, Thomas Thorn, Jörg Burger, Electric Indigo, Holger Czukay, ADSX, Wulfmanson, Mary Susan Applegate, Craig Anderton, Omsk information and Triple R. With Can Oral he published, among other monikers, as Khan & Walker and Gizz TV & Walker.[4]

In 1996, Koch and Thomas Thorn formed Thorn Kölner Elektronikbar Liquid Sky Cologne. In 2001 he founded the artist hotel Monte Christo Köln and the underground techno club Club Camouflage Cologne in cooperation with Heike Windberger. In 2012, Koch founded the artist collective and video art gallery Liquid Sky Berlin.

2014 he starts the television project Psychedelic Kitchen and LSB TV in cooperation with the Cologne video artist Uli Sigg. In 2015 he began collaborating with the Leipziger Firma Hearthis.at online radio Telepathic Bubblebath, named after the record label, and with the Berliner Baeren Siegel GmbH die Internetart- / Streetart- / Performanceart- Kampagne #scrt_brln.

Discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPs

References

  1. ↑ Robert Klanten: Localizer 1.0. Die Gestalten, 1995, ISBN 3-931126-00-5.
  2. ↑ Blue Discography bei Discogs.com, abgerufen am 5. August 2013.
  3. ↑ Structure Discography bei Discogs.com, abgerufen am 5. August 2013.
  4. ↑ Dr. Walker goes underground with ACID bei sonycreativesoftware.com, abgerufen am 5. August 2013.

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