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Electronic & Techno Producer
About Mike Wenner
In the humid basement of Berlin’s Griessmühle in 2017, Mike Wenner debuted his modular-only live set 'Kohlenstoff', a 75-minute sequence built entirely on self-patched Buchla and Make Noise systems, no sequencers, no DAWs, just voltage-controlled unpredictability. That night crystallized his signature tension: industrial precision meets organic decay, where kick drums don’t just hit but *breathe*, modulated by analog feedback loops that evolve over 16-bar phrases. Unlike peers who chase maximalist drops, Wenner sculpts negative space, his 2021 album 'Stahlzeit' features six tracks with fewer than 14 drum hits per minute on average, yet remains relentlessly dancefloor-functional through micro-rhythmic friction and harmonic dissonance tuned to 432Hz for psychoacoustic resonance. His studio in Neukölln houses a custom-built 3U Eurorack skiff dedicated solely to granular manipulation of field recordings from Ruhr Valley coal mines, which he layers beneath 303 lines to ground techno in post-industrial memory.
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- “How did your time restoring vintage Buchla modules in Cologne shape your approach to rhythm?”
- “What’s the story behind the 12-second tape degradation loop in 'Stahlzeit' track 4?”
- “Why do you tune all oscillators to 432Hz only for live sets—not studio work?”
- “How does the acoustics of abandoned Ruhr Valley buildings influence your reverb design?”