In the beginning Electric Chair was a one-man company. Before starting his own company founder Soenke Lohse managed two of Hamburg´s largest concert venues besides playing bass in various bands.
Tour business for Electric Chair began in 1989 with the first German tour of Warp Records, featuring their acts LFO and Nightmares On Wax. The main
objective of Electric Chair has always been to set up tours and local events in every way appropriate to the then newly developed beats and dj oriented
music forms. Instead of staging rock´n´roll type shows in rock´n´roll type venues, the focus was laid on clubbish vibes, multimedia show concepts and
cooperations with the dance music communities, which at that time started to flourish. Besides working with progressive dance music acts, Electric Chair in their early days also produced spoken word events featuring artists like
Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins with Caspar Broetzmann, Nick Cave, Diamanda Galas and Timothy Leary. These experiences proved very useful for through them
Electric Chair achieved a competence to conceive and produce various events that crossed the borders of rave and performance, party and themepark, life and art (not quite...).
galas, promotional events for radio stations, magazines and tv
stations ("Rave-olution", "10 years of Spex magazine" etc), Electric Chair
did it all!

 


Besides the booking involvement of Electric Chair with various early German hiphop projects, cooperations with German retro rare groove label Soulciety, UK´s own Acid Jazz Records and with Hamburg´s Mojo Club were the basis of Electric Chair - the agency.
From 1990 to 1995 Electric Chair built up a national and international network. The promoted music matched the team´s personal taste combined with an overall desire for new sounds. The sound brought on stage shifted back and forth from hiphop and acid jazz to concepts like triphop, drum`n`bass, big beat, downtempo, dub, poetry and nujazz, not to forget brazil and latin jazz.

Electric Chair established themselves as acknowledged translator, tastemaker, driving force in the axis that connects international agents and local promoters. Electric Chair has become a sought after partner for the development of new acts. The agency closes the gap between enterprising club promoters (the ones with mobile phones but no fax...) and the big promotional companies.
Uncompromisingly high production standards and the willingness to develop new artistic concepts in terms of sound and vision, gave Electric Chair their main asset - their reputation!


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