TERENCE FIXMER
http://www.terencefixmer.com
BIOGRAPHIE
Terence Fixmer, born in Lille (north of France at the Belgium border) in 1972, discovered the EBM (ELECTRONIC BODY MUSIC) when he was 15 and became a NITZER EBB-, FRONT 242-, KLINIK-, - AND DAF- fan. At the beginning of the 89-90's he was a party freaker and his interest for the electronic sound increased with the apparition of the New-Beat and Techno in Belgium. At this time he started to buy records and " flashed" on VORTREX from FINAL EXPOSURE(+8). In 1992, he decided to produce his own music and he started to throw parties called "Cosmos" and "Space" in a club called PYRAMIDE. One and a half year later he released his first EP on the Belgium label Diki Rec/hit the beat. In 1993 he moved to Rotterdam for his studies and produced some other EPs for different labels, under different pseudonyms. In 1995, he worked with his old school mate EMMANUEL TOP.
But all this was just the beginning: in 1998 Terence decided to start his own label PLANETE ROUGE RECORDS. The second release on it (after Gemini 9 EP) was the first one under his real name: TERENCE FIXMER :"Electrostatic". The 3 tracker was played by the biggest DJ's world wide, such as DAVE CLARKE, SVEN VATH, JEFF MILLS, DJ HELL etc. "Electrostatic" was voted among the biggest tune of the year 1999 by many magazines and DJ's. In the same year Terence remixed DJ HELL´S "This is for you" (Disko B) and released his 2nd EP on Gigolo: Electric Vision. At the same time he presents his first live act with SVEN VÄTH AT COCOON-CLUB in Frankfurt.
Terence finally remixed SVEN VÄTH´S: "Ein Waggon voller Geschichten" (VIRGIN), which was voted to the 10 best remixes of the year 2000 by different magazines., Terence had played live now all over the world in the best events and clubs (MAYDAY, NATURE ONE, LOVEPARADE,AMNESIA, TRESOR, U60311, FUSE, REX, TRAX ...). He managed to transmit in his live performances the particular energy he got in his EPs; a kind of full power EBM and Techno!
In 2001 Terence moves to Berlin, released the Body Pressure EP on GIGOLO, of course another floor burner. In October 2001 he finally release his first full-length-album "Muscle Machine", unique Fixmer-style, straight, high-energy, 7 dancefloor-tunes. The album reach again many top ten charts and has been voted the best album N°3 for 2001 in Groove mag.. Also he remixed Dave Clarke's "Compass" on Skint Records. And Nitzer Ebb for Novamute. 2001 he relaunched his label Planete Rouge Records, a label with only few releases per year with a special direction & style.
Actually Terence is working on a new album project with Douglas mac carthy, the singer of Nitzer Ebb. So The past meet the present for an explosive cocktails. Relases of the second album during beginning 2004.
Jänner 2004
17.01.2004 - Tryptique, Paris, France
23.01.2004 - Fixmer/Mccarthy Live @ Loft Club Barcelona, Spain http://www.theloftclub.com
24.01.2004 - Fixmer / Mccarthy live @ Coppelia, Madrid, Spain
31.01.2004 - Tor 3, Düsseldorf, Germany http://www.tor3.de
Februar 2004
21.02.2004 - Life-act, Amsterdam, Neterherlands http://www.life-act.nl/
März 2004
13.03.2004 - Got Milk, Strasbourg, France
27.03.2004 - Fat Cat, Bordeux, France
April 2004
03.04.2004 - Fixmer/Mccarthy Live! @ Laboratoire Factory, Lille, France http://www.laboratoire-factory.com/
16.04.2004 - Rheingoldwahl, Köln, Germany
23.04.2004 - Harry Klein, Munich, Germany
Mai 2004
01.05.2004 - Liege, Belgium
07.05.2004 - Fixmer/Mccarthy Live!, Geneva, Siwtzerland
08.05.2004 - Urban Rythm Festival Thessaloniki, Greece
15.05.2004 - Industrial Copera Granada, Spain
21.05.2004 - Gravity, Montreal, Canada
24.05.2004 - The Sullivan Room, New York, USA
28.05.2004 - Fixmer/Mccarthy Live! @ Wave Gotik Treffen, Leipzig, Germany
Juni 2004
05.06.2004 - Synch Festival, Athens, Greece
09.06.2004 - Butan Club, Wuppertal, Germany
19.06.2004 - Watergate Berlin, Germany
26.06.2004 - Tor3, Düsseldorf, Germany
Juli 2004
15.07.2004 - Dour Festival, Belgium
16.07.2004 - Arkiva Festival, Stockolm, Sweden
17.07.2004 - Monegros Desert Festival, Fraga, Spain
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