apoll

andré pollmann aka apoll started to make music in 1987. living in an industrial area (duisburg, a town in the german ruhrgebiet) he was involved in the EBM scene which started to grow at this time in belgium. apoll was influenced by skinny puppy, front line assembly, clock dva, tuxedomoon, fad gadget (rip frank!), soft cell, à grumh…, the neon judgement, front 242 and of course depeche mode, kraftwerk and portion control to name but a few.
he founded lots of bands and released loads of cool tracks on different electronic body music compilations. an album was released on spanish label bol records in 1990. after leaving duisburg for switzerland in 1991 apoll quit also the EBM scene and found his love as a producer as well as a dj in electronic, minimal styled dance music. apoll appears on different imprints like tokyo’s gyro trax, morris/audio out of berne in switzerland or sub static and punkt music from berlin where he released much acclaimed ep’s.
at the beginning of 2001, apoll started an own label called tongut. tongut stands for minimal, dubby quality techno and features artists like berlin’s top shots rene breitbarth and falko brocksieper plus the likes of novatek, todd bodine, hd substance, holger flinsch, james taylor, stewart walker or dub taylor – not forgetting apoll, who released the first 3 releases himself. tongut is definitely a label to watch!

discography APOLL s.q. 8/2005

most important releases :

6/1996 – Programmed FULL-E RECORDS 5/1997 – Mutonk vs. Neurokiller ELEVATOR MUSIC 3/1998 – Blauer Koffer EP SUB ZERO RECORDS 4/1999 – Grenzfeld EP GYRO TRAX JAPAN 2/2000 – Infraschall EP GYRO TRAX JAPAN 2/2001 – Wintermond EP TONGUT.

3/2001 – Zeiteneingang TONGUT.

9/2001 – T – Dur TONGUT.

6/2002 – Anakusis Negativ SUB STATIC 7/2003 – Leuchtmittel MORRIS/AUDIO

12/2003 – Maurice Lamont meets Apoll (2 remixes)TONGUT.

04/2004 – Quadrophobia PUNKT MUSIC 06/2004 – Remix „I was a robot“, Wolfgang Flür (Ex-Kraftwerk), LIMITED CD EDITION! 07/2004 – Bergwerk (incl. Stewart Walker remix) TONGUT. 09/2004 – Family Three Morris/Audio City Sport 01/2005 – remix for POP 3 TONGUT. 03/2005 – remix for ELECTROID DREHSTROM 03/2005 – remix for DIALOGUE Morris/Audio City Sport 06/2005 – Chrome babies TONGUT. 08/2005 – Monumental Haircut STHLM Audio 12/2005 – From A to B (incl F.Brocksieper remix) TONGUT. 04/2006 – No superego Drehstrom

appearances:

Track on V/A Sub Static „Odd Pieces 2“
Track on V/A „Morris/Audio Vol. 2“ (CD edition only)
Track on V/A Tongut. „Beat Bazaar“
Track on V/A STHLM Audio „Dunkelplatte“
Track on „Stick of Joy“ V/A – Kosmo Music
Track on „Detached“ – V/A Dumb Unit
Track on UNFOUNDSOUND V/A, online release

Loop on V/A Conversation Records Remix for LEIF – Trimsound Remix for DaFresh – Freshin Records

forthcoming releases:

03/2006 – No Superego – Drehstrom

www.tongut.com