Artist Bios: Informatik
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Informatik
In the summer of 1993, Da5id Din and Matthew Crofoot formed Informatik based
on a shared interest in the electronic music that was coming from Europe. They
began recording together immediately, and after founding SINless Records,
self-released their debut album Direct Memory Access in 1995. Their
independent success quickly caught the eye of Metropolis Records, who
re-released their debut as the remastered Direct Memory Access V2.0 with
extra bonus tracks and a video for the club smash “At Your Command.”
Two productive years passed while Da5id and Matthew worked on their
respective side projects. Da5id, working as Din_Fiv, released his debut album
Infinity in 1996, while 1997 brought Matthew's techno project LogiQ, who
released Big on Mars that year. During this time, the pair began
recording the sophomore-slump defying album Syntax. Released on
Metropolis in 1998 to critical acclaim, the album spawned a series of club hits
that are still in rotation a decade later, such as “Entropy,” “Watching You
Watching Me,” and “Things To Come”.
Never content to rest on past achievement, Da5id immediately began working on
the followup to Infinity, and saw the Din_Fiv album Escape to Reality
storm the charts in 2000. A highly successful US tour followed, with label mates
Velvet Acid Christ and Haujobb. Joining Da5id onstage was Tyler Newman, creative
mastermind behind Battery Cage. Following this tour, Matthew left Informatik to
pursue other projects, and Tyler came onboard to replace him.
2002 saw the release of Nymphomatik, the first proper Informatik
release in 4 years, and the first record with the new lineup. The change in
personnel also brought a change in the band's sound; away from the more European
electro sound of the first two records, and towards a more contemporary
trance-influenced style. Considered an almost perfect “future-pop” album by
critics, Nymphomatik brought even more instant club hits to the band's
discography, with anthems like “A Matter of Time” and “Flesh Menagerie” popping
up in setlists around the world.
While Tyler was working on the Battery Cage album A Young Person's Guide
To Heartbreak, Informatik took a short break to reflect on the success of
the past as well as the direction of their future output. In 2005 they released
yet another amazing dance album Re:Vision, a collection of new material
as well as redesigned versions of some of their older hits from Nymphomatik
and Syntax. Featuring not only original club hits like “The World Belongs
To Us,” alongside remixes by the likes of Funker Vogt and Iris, Re:Vision
raised the bar for the band's unstoppable trance based future-pop sound. The
band co-headlined numerous US festivals and did a string of live appearances to
support Re:Vision. In 2007, an all new live show was assembled to begin
promoting their upcoming release.
After a hiatus of 3 years, Informatik returns with the new album Beyond,
their most unique and genre-defying work to date. Taking their signature sound
in a new direction, Da5id and Tyler have come back with an album that sets it's
sights on destroying the expection of the “Informatik sound.” Featuring guitar
driven dark melodies and soulful lyrics, Beyond delivers powerful
electronic arena rock anthems such as “It Always Ends The Same” and “Nothing
Greater” alongside the infectious beats of “Temporary” and “Louder Than Words.”
Committed to the ideal of setting the standard for electronic music, Informatik
delivers their best record ever, and challenges their fans to truly
go…BEYOND!!
BEYOND
buy now
MET 562
coming september 9
01. Nothing Greater MP3
02. As We Lay Silent
03. My True Love
04. Louder Than Words MP3
05. Second Chance
06. It Always Ends The Same
07. Simple
08. Night And
Day
09. Temporary
10. Don't Be Afraid
Also see the
Informatik Official Website and
http://www.myspace.com/informatik
