The man behind Deetron is Sam Geiser (1978), born and still living in Bern. He first got into contact with music during his early childhood, for his father is a Jazz musician. His big youth passion, however, was HipHop. He was fascinated by the likes of Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Prince Paul but also by Todd Terry's early HipHouse tunes or Detroit techno originators Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. After having bought two turntables and a mixer, he began spinning Hip Hop tunes in 1992.
The DJ culture of the Hip Hop movement was his link to electronic music. He started regular rotati ...read more
The man behind Deetron is Sam Geiser (1978), born and still living in Bern. He first got into contact with music during his early childhood, for his father is a Jazz musician. His big youth passion, however, was HipHop. He was fascinated by the likes of Gang Starr, A Tribe Called Quest, Prince Paul but also by Todd Terry's early HipHouse tunes or Detroit techno originators Juan Atkins and Kevin Saunderson. After having bought two turntables and a mixer, he began spinning Hip Hop tunes in 1992.
The DJ culture of the Hip Hop movement was his link to electronic music. He started regular rotation at different clubs all around Switzerland and became a resident at the world famous Club Trax @ Rohstofflager in Zürich and got well known for his 3-deck mixing skills and sets blurring the lines between Techno, House- and Detroit-classics. « hide
