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artist · four ears
release · when i was young
year · 2000
genre · lo-fi
label · pottheadz
catalogue · phz 509
website · www.shakaree.de
date · 17-may-2004
quality · 208kbps/44,1khz
source · vinyl
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a1 when i was young 8:38
b1 point blank 5:37
playtime · 00h 14m 15s
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four ears are bym stempka and curt nolte, both children of berlins
underground-scene! bym has had great influence on germany's
music-history. he was the founder of flucht nach vorn (well known
new wave underground outfit from the early eighties!). since 1980
he has been dj-ing in berlin's famous clubs like chacha, metropol,
glⁿckstein, tresor, globus, wmf and many others. bym is one of
germanys most respected underground hiphop, drum & bass djs.
1981-83 he played the bass for toten piloten (dead pilots) a
underground band , with two other well known and impressive german
techno-house-pionieres "spaceteddy" dr. motte and jonzon.
1988 bym wrote and produced four singles under the pseudonym 2 kut
together with john caffrey and nainz watts for virgin.
1985-90 he was a member of mad romeo (phonogram rec.) under this
pseudonym he has done several remixes! (tony cook, froon, a.o.)
1988-94 he worked together with colin favor, tim westwood, bam
bam, jeff mills, robert hood and others...
next to his work with four ears, curt nolte has also created the
following film-soundtracks: "zeitgeister (regie barbara
teufel/1991), "die insel" (folke kerkhoff, 1992), "ein haus stellt
sich vor" (1994), berndt in brooklyn (evelyn rⁿsseler, 1994),
mΣnner in ╓l (barbara teufel, 1996). his latest project together
with his four ears-fellow bym was dragon for east west. they also
recorded an album there's a trumpet in my soul (cd/lp) and a
12"-inch original dragon music.
curt nolte is the technological mastermind behind four ears. he
has studied culture science and art. in the early, wilder days of
the 8oties he was singing and playing guitar and sax in different
groups like bermuda dreieck (new wave) and jalta & die teilung
europas (punk). in the mid-80ties he worked as a music-journalist
and as synthesizer-keyboard specialist in some experimental
groups. curt nolte was also part of strange and futuristic
multimedia-happenings and big spectacles like west wurst with
author felicitas hoppe.
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