Ingmar Koch

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Ingmar Koch
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Background information
Genres Ambient techno, acid house, noise, experimental breaks
Occupation(s)Musician, Producer, Film Producer, Multi Media Artist
Instrument(s)Electronic instruments and computers
Years active1980–present
LabelsHarvest, Analog Records, EMF, Socket Records, Force Inc, Sm:)e Communications, Mille Plateaux, Djungle Fever, Propulsion285, Telepathic Bubblebath, XXC3, Rising High, Edge Records, Direct Drive, lsb27, BMG, Sony, Kompakt, Kreisel, Structure, Auftrieb, Blue, Monotone, Space Teddy, Intergalactic Research Institute For Sound

Ingmar Koch (also known by his pseudonym Dr. Walker) is a German musician, producer and label owner in the field of Electronic Music. He was a member of more than 50 different techno music projects, such as Air Liquide (with Cem Oral), Khan & Walker (with Can Oral), Global Electronic Network (with Can Oral), Pierrot Premier (with Thomas Thorn), Lovecore (with Wolfgang Voigt) and Rei$$dorf Force (with Jörg Burger, Freddy Fresh, M.Flux, Thee Joker, L Nino among others).

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Biography

Koch started to produce electronic music age 14. First record release with 16. In 1991, he founded a recording studio in Frankfurt with Cem Oral, with whom he shortly afterwards formed the project Air Liquide with. [1] In 1992, their first EP, titled Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule , was issued on the Cologne based record label "Blue". [2] In 1991 Koch, Oral, Joerg Burger and Wolfgang Voigt founded the acid techno label "Structure". [3] In 1993, Koch formed the labels XXC3 and Dj.ungle Fever (which is still active until today).

The same year and following years, he recorded numerous solo releases and collaborations with artists such as Wolfgang Voigt, Biochip C., Frank Heiss, Thomas Thorn, Jörg Burger, Electric Indigo, Holger Czukay, ADSX, Wulfmanson, Mary Susan Applegate, Craig Anderton, Omsk information, Fabian Stall, FM Einheit, Andreas Thein and Triple R. With Can Oral he published, among other monikers, as Khan & Walker and Gizz TV & Walker. [4]

2014, he started the art & music television projects Psychedelic Kitchen and lsb TV in cooperation with the Cologne video artist Uli Sigg and Berlinbased TV and Radiostation Alex Berlin. [5] [6]

Also in 2015, he got involved in several cooperations with the art gallery Neu West Berlin and Riga based Synthesizer manufacturer Erica Synths. [7]

In 2017, Koch opened the chili-farm "SPX27" and in cooperation with the Berlin club and art-location "Maze.Berlin" the experimental musicbar and video art gallery "Liquid Sky Berlin - #lsb02". [8]

In 2023 start of Liquid Sky d-vices, a label for experimental hardware and software music instruments, made in Santana da Serra, Portugal. [9]

Koch releases 2025 the probably biggest music album in the history of music: "527 - Da Dark Dada-ist" on DJungle Fever with 550 previously unreleased tracks and over 27 hours of playtime. [10]

Also in 2025 relaunches Koch with biz partner Cornel Hecht the legendary German synthesizer brand PPG with new versions of classic PPG hardware instruments and synth modules. [11]


Selected discography

Studio albums

Singles and EPs


Please check Discogs for a more complete discography.

References

  1. ↑ Robert Klanten: Localizer 1.0. Die Gestalten, 1995, ISBN   3-931126-00-5.
  2. ↑ Blue Discography bei Discogs.com. Retrieved 5. August 2013.
  3. ↑ Structure Discography bei Discogs.com. Retrieved 5. August 2013.
  4. ↑ Dr. Walker goes underground with ACID bei sonycreativesoftware.com. Retrieved 5. August 2013.
  5. ↑ lsb-TV
  6. ↑ lsb-TV on facebook
  7. ↑ FutureMusic (26 August 2020). "Is the Ninja Tune Zen Delay the best desktop effects unit that Erica Synths has released so far?". FutureMusic the latest news on future music technology DJ gear producing dance music edm and everything electronic. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
  8. ↑ liquid sky berlin lsb#02 info Archived 11 February 2018 at the Wayback Machine bei maze.berlin. Retrieved 9. Oktober 2017.
  9. ↑ liquid sky instruments
  10. ↑ Amazona Story
  11. ↑ PPG w2.2x4 article on CDM
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