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Bit-Tuner, born and raised in St.Gallen (Switzerland), lives and works in Zurich (Switzerland)

since 1997, bit-tuner producing music and beats with computer, mpc, synthesizer, bassguitar and a lot of analog effects. he likes to work with samples from old vinyl records, and in recent times with self-recorded sounds and field recordings. the musical results are heavyweight beats, punching basslines, dark atmospheres and melodies, and noisy soundscapes.

he also composes music and does sounddesign for dancetheatre productions. he worked with the dancecompany at theater st.gallen, cie. sans filtre, zürich, compagnie buffpapier, st. gallen.. in the recent past he also composes soundtracks for shortmovies. for example "vandalen" from simon steuri and "bipolar" from gabriela betschart.

with swiss rapper göldin he dropped five albums, and a remix-ep as göldin & bit-tuner on quiet records/zurich.
further collaborations: with sensational from wordsound recordings/nyc, bleubird from endemik music/miami, sole from anticon/california, and many others..

bit-tuner's 4 track instrumental-ep "aspects" was released 2004 by local_form records/st.gallen, and his first solo-album "toxin" was released in 2008 by umbruch recordings/hamburg. in december 2009 his second full-lenght album "low-speed detonation" was released on cd/lp by trepok rec./zurich, and his last record "drome ep" (digital and vinyl), he produced and mastered that one in new york, was released 2011 by trepok rec.

his powerful liveperformances are inimitable. he played a lof of shows in switzerland, germany and austria, and supported kelpe, jon hopkins, ben frost, zomby,
to name a few..


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