Sebastian Strootmann

“Alltagsgeschichten am Rande der Sinnlosigkeit.” When the delicate voice from the off struggles for the listener's favor through billowing synth surfaces, it documents nothing less than the essence of the sound aesthetic of DJ and producer Sebastian Strootmann himself, who is based in Leipzig in the Far East. In 2018, Sebastian Strootmann debuted with the "Shine and Shatter EP”. Seven atmospherically charged tracks that were capable of burning the metallic kick drum into your cerebral cortex under sparsely lit highway bridges. Born and raised in the northwestern back province of Germany, his socialization with techno was still in the stars. Sure, it's all about the music. His sense for the essence of melody and groove manifested itself early on during adventurous piano descents to the delight of his grandmother. Musical youthful sins and corpses pave his path, which lead from pianistic Boogie-Woogie to school band village punk, from countless moderately well-mounted Hip-Hop beat productions to Drum & Bass to the now 130 beats of dystopian atmosphere per minute. So, calling "Shine and Shatter" a debut is only statistically accurate. Numerous gigs let him swap the West German club cellars of Osnabrück and Münster for atmospheric vaults in Brno, Czech Republic, and finally fill indoor and outdoor domiciles in his new adopted home of Leipzig with his trademark sound and melodically driving mixture.