Biography of Florian Kruse florian


Florian Kruse’s sound can be best described as modern electronica, as he fuses downtempo dub-influenced grooves with more German minimal-sounding deep grooves and tech-house, with clear references to the likes of Chateau Flight, Âme, Stefan Goldmann and Jazzanova, to name but a few.
Florian is currently producing and remixing for acts such as Rivera Rotation, Svenson & King, Samantha James and Canadian folk singer Tamara Nile, and has tracks and remixes coming out on Slip’N’Slide, Om Records, Lounge Records and Sweden’s Heya HiFi, run by SUMO. He also has several new hot productions in the pipeline together with studio partner Nils Nürnberg &
of course brother Vincenzo.

Florian is an active DJ on the Hamburg underground scene and with his old friend Ciro Vesuviano, they organise the Moccabeat parties at Lounge in Hamburg, and from that another band idea is born, and named "Moccabeat Connection". Aside from this and being involved with several other bands, he is also one of the producers for house act "Rivera Rotation". With numerous releases and remixes they should already be familiar with many house-heads out there, their amazing remix of Q-Burns Abstract Message & Lisa Shaw’s ‘This Time’ is a house classic, and was re-released in February 2007.

The darker more minimal underground track “All Day” by Rivera Rotation, is scheduled for release on Slip’N’Slide summer 2007, with Florian Kruse, Vincenzo and Silicone Soul Remixes, as played by X-Press 2, Darren Emerson & Stuart Patterson amongst others. His amazing collaboration with Nils Nürnberg & Tamara Nile – Sunrises, is also forthcoming on Slip’N’Slide with Lifelike Remixes, which has already had much interest from several key European A&Rs.

Raised in Schleswig Holstein, North Germany, he started buying records with preference for electronic music and music of the 70's, influenced by his brother Vincenzo, a successful DJ/Producer in his own right. Florian moved to Hamburg at 19, and found work as DJ promoter for well known PR & Club Promotions company “Public Propaganda” as well as working for super-cool distribution company, Wordandsound.

He now works for the highly respected German branch of “School of Audio Engineering”, or SAE, as audio engineer and teacher,
guiding tomorrow’s stars of German electronica towards a bright future in music production.

Career Highlights -2007
Winner of the “Burn For Music Newcomer Contest“ in the category House/Trance/Ambient with the band “Gaudy Project” in May 2003.
Special FX produced for "Turin Olympic Games 2006", the official game for Sony Playstation, X-Box and PC release in August 2005.
Rivera Rotation “All Day” (Florian Kruse, Vincenzo and Silicone Soul Remixes) -Slip'N'Slide 2007 Release Kruse & Nürnberg Ft Tamara Nile – Sunrises (Original & Lifelike Remixes)-Slip'N'Slide 2007 Release At time of press, selected Moccabeat Connection titles are bound for release on Knee Deep Recordings in summer 2007 (tbc)