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Robert is a techno and hardcore dj from tirol (which happens to be the western part of austria, by the way). He started spinning vinyl in 2003, learning new tricks quickly and constantly developing his skills, and steadily growing his record collection. After he had his first public appearances in a small club in january 2004, he soon performed at one of the biggest techno events in western austria, the "Filmriss". Playing in front of hundrets of crazy people for the first time was one of the most intense moments he ever experienced. And now, several years later, he's still addicted to the feelings that rise in his veins when he blasts kicking and pumping music through 10.000 watt PA systems, making people scream and dance their asses off...

After more than 10 years of passively listening to electronic music of all sorts, Robert got into the "dj thing" with classic techno tracks from respected producers like chris liebing or adam beyer, which, at that time, was a quite new genre to him. Over the time he became more interested in harder forms of techno, and, like many others, showed serious interest in the emerging hardtechno scene (aka schranz). However, not forgetting about all the music he was listening to in the years before, he soon realized that this genre most of the time copied itself instead of beeing original, and most of the releases lacked not just originality, but serious production quality.
As a logical conclusion, Robert decided to stop buying (and playing) new "hardtechno" records and focus on classic techno productions, music with "brain and soul", as he likes to call it. So, if you hear him play techno now, you'll most probably be presented tracks from producers like Eric Sneo, Jeroen Liebregts, Tom Hades, Dean Rodell, Ortin Cam, Chris Liebing, Dave Clarke, Brixton, Adam Beyer, Henrik B, Hardcell, Secret Cinema, Alex Bau... to name only a few. Still, if it has to get a bit rougher, there's plenty of good hard techno music available in Robert's record collection: stuff like Glenn Wilson, The Anxious, Robert Natus, DJ Ogi, the Protocast label, Paul Langley & Dj Bam Bam, Greg NoTill...

On the other hand, Robert still has his desires for hard and fast music, consequently he also likes to play the more techno-influenced styles of hardcore like "Industrial" or "Darkcore". Despite beeing pretty aggressive, the diversity found in this kind of music is something that most hardtechno producers never managed to accomplish. If you hear Robert spin this kind of music, then it will most likely be raw tunes from masterminds like OPHIDIAN and all his friends on the META4 or ENZYME labels, as well as most of the productions that come out on DJ PROMO's THIRD MOVEMENT imprint - e.g. Peaky Pounder, N-Vitral, Sandy Warez, Void Settler, etc.

To sum things up, right from the beginning Robert's style was all about diversity, and this holds true in 2008 more than ever before. It's questionable that most djs like to play the same kind of tunes for two hours straight - therefore the most important thing for Robert is to play "a bit of everything". Drop a cheesy trance track on earshattering hard techno or maybe mix some melodic drum n bass with industrial-hardcore or maybe just madonna's newest release with some breakbeat techno. Who cares if it's cheesy? "Play what i like" is what counts, and not repeating the same schemed tracks for 90 minutes Robert's highest priority. So don't confuse him with all those other artists who think everything above 135bpm is evil or no music exists below 160bpm. You people are boring and dull and you don't know how to diversify your performance.

One final thing to say: unlike many other dj's Robert wasn't suddenly "into techno" because he went on a random party and felt the urge to start deejaying. He followed the development of electronic music for a long time, has always loved it and always will. Despite others who just follow fads, play minimal techno because it's "in" or schranz because "the people want it", he will always stay true to the music that *he* loves. And no one is ever gonna change that!