Biografie
Robert Natus brings a sense of groove to the dense percussion and force of hard techno. His DJ beginnings were modest: at around fourteen he owned one turntable, while his friend DJ Tadox owned another. Putting the two together gave them a way to learn to mix the records they were buying.
That attention to mixing carries into his approach to intensity. Natus has described looking for melodies, recognisable motifs and unusual sounds within very hard records, trying to prevent speed and weight from becoming monotonous. His productions under his own name and aliases such as Pneumatik helped make him part of the early-2000s hard-techno circuit. Bitshift Music provided an outlet for his work and that of fellow producers, while Hardcore Salsa, made with Arkus P., brought Latin rhythmic material into the same tough setting. The album Straight and his Schranz Total mixes document that period of his sound.
