Kyo presents TROPICLAB ft. Alex Niggemann

PUBLISHED April 10th, 2016 03:00 pm

30 APR 2016 | Electronic music doesn’t really have borders – for many artists its essential defining element is freedom. Both as a DJ and a producer, Alex Niggemann has set out to further blur any remaining boundaries between house and techno, gravitating towards the melancholic atmospheres that he loves and avoiding petty sub-genre pigeonholing as much as possible. Alex Niggemann, quite simply, lives and breathes musical evolution every hour of every day.

A classically trained pianist who gave up the ivory keys to follow his technological dream, it was his mother pushing a young Alex hard to practice piano every day that built strong foundations and his brother’s expansive vinyl collection in the early 90’s, that opened his ears to his future calling. Electronic music-wise, Ken Ishii changed Alex’s life within a few hours, while he listened and danced to techno in a club for the first time. Legendary figures, such as Derrick May, Laurent Garnier, Kevin Saunderson and Emmanuel Top, also provided key experiences for the impressionable teenager’s future development.

TROPICLAB ft. Alex Niggemann is happening on Saturday, 30 April 2016 at Kyo from 10pm till late.