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Pasquale Maassen

*1982
Dance
A.k.a. Dj Smur G-u-Z Iginona Ikul-a

born 26.02.1982 in dormagen, pasquale began to produce trance-music in 1995 and came to real techno in 1999 through the track “chris liebing - new beginnings”. in 1998 he started to produce tracks digitally with the daw fruityloops and arranged them live with it, loving the crunshed and distorted style of schranz. pasquale is one of the cofounders of one of the biggest hardtechno boards on the internet (united schranz board, www.unitedsb.de, founded 2000). in 2001 pasquale was invited to play live at a private birthdayparty where he suddenly started to improvise and began to build new tracks live and on the fly. for a long time he was the only one who acted digitally live this way. this technique has been proofed in clubs like butan, taucher, pulp mansion, sause, depot and events like ruhr in love. to this day he had produced quite every style of electronical music and is owner of a label which was born in 2001 as “fanatische loop programmierer” and renamed to “renamed” in 2008.

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