Oslo born Dj, Producer & Engineer
Karl Fraunhofer is fluent in the languages of machine music. He’s a synth
whisperer, a savant in the studio and a pretender across electronic music genres.
From his first productions, which touched on the hedonistic heights of Trance to
the stark minimal Techno he creates today in the Det Gode Selskab camp, Karl
Fraunhofer has a versatile affinity for electronic music.
Born in Oslo, Norway and raised on Jazz, Karl had spent his youth learning to
play several instruments under the tutelage of his father who had been a
prominent Jazz musician. The piano and trumpet had kept a restless
prodigy occupied through his formative years, before the temptations of
electronic music beckoned after an informal introduction at his local youth
center.
After school, he enrolled in a sound engineering course on the opposite end of
the world in Australia, where House, Minimal and Techno inspired Karl on a path
to the producer and DJ he is today. He came back to Norway armed with this new
knowledge and started building an impressive studio, which will leave most
green with envy. He became ever more eloquent in his musical vocabulary as
experience and perfection combined in across a wide palette of musical genres.
The brutalist Techno he made as Dortmund with Florian aka Illstm; the arcade
synthwave he culled under his eponymous alias; and the slick minimal Techno
and Micro House he makes today with his Gode Selskab compatriots have found
themselves on esteemed labels from around the world most notably Teen age
riot, Turbo records, Sony Italy, Vocabula, Ploink, Beatservice and Det Gode
Selskab.
It’s with the Gode Selskab that Karl has entered into the latest chapter of his
career and has found a collective and an outlet that can indulge his extensive
musical fancies with remixes and releases dotting the label’s young discography.
Today they run a studio together with Karl at the helm of the controls and an
arsenal of vintage and modern synthesisers and drum machines, gleaning
evocative sounds from the future across a spectrum of creative outlets.