Five fun facts about Paul Kalkbrenner

The German techno vet’s 2012 long-player, Guten Tag, is his ninth album. Singles? He’s got scores of ’em, many on Ellen Allien’s Bpitch Control label.

Guten Tag reached No. 5 on the German charts—but it soared all the way to the top position in Switzerland. 

Fritz Kalkbrenner is a dance-music figure in his own right, working in deep house as both a producer and a vocalist; among other claims to fame, he and Paul coproduced the soundtrack to the 2009 feature-length film Berlin Calling.

Paul holds down the lead role in Berlin Calling…playing a German techno biggie. It may not seem like much of a stretch, but we doubt if Kalkbrenner was ever committed to a clinic due to drug-induced psychosis, as his character was in the film.

“Not all techno albums have to be called Energy or The First Rebirth,” Kalkbrenner explains. Amen to that, Bruder.