Kanye West, Robosonic | id

Kanye Omari West (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is a Grammy award winning rapper, producer, author, designer and singer. He began making beats and rapping in the early 90s in Chicago, IL, United States when he formed the rap group Go Getters with Chicago natives GLC and Really Doe. He later gained nationwide popularity in New York when he began producing tracks for artists such as Jay-Z, Twista, Mase, Talib Kweli and Alicia Keys. West’s style of production often utilizes pitched-up vocal samples, usually from soul songs, with his own drums and instruments. The first major label song...

As a DJ team, Robosonic [Sacha Robotti + Cord Henning „Schall“ Labuhn] stand for electronic dance music with attitude. Playing alive [DJ+live mix on computer] or purely as DJs on the turntables, they perform in clubs, on festivals, fashion shows, dirty basements, afterhours and improvised locations of all sorts, worldwide. As a team of producers, Robosonic deliver intelligent and multidimensional music to be played on dancefloor soundsystems as well as on kitchen ghettoblasters. The style they produce is undogmatic: drawing their influences from a bootlegger / mashup past, hip hop, funk and electronica, to create quirky techhouse and deep experimental...