Biografie
Arne Schaffhausen and Wayan Raabe grew up in towns outside Hamburg and met on the same circuit of parties and record shops, both of them starting to DJ. Neither owned much equipment, so they connected what they had to gear borrowed from friends. Raabe has said that almost nobody around them counted techno as real music, and that the dismissal did them good: it lent the pair a feeling of rebellion and licensed them to be outsiders. They worked under several project names before settling on Extrawelt in 2005, the year Soopertrack reached Border Community. Cocoon Recordings, which first licensed that track for a Sven Väth compilation, has released the German duo's albums since Schöne neue Extrawelt in 2008. In 2012 and 2015 they described a live show of multitrack playback locked to MIDI clock, with drums, bass and samples played by hand.
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