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Christian Dittmann

Biography

Christian Dittman is one of the last add to the Persona Records catalog. With a special Chilean touch, his music struck us for his deepness and subtlety.

Christian Dittmann was born in Santiago, Chile, where he spent most of his childhood. He always had his attention set on music, starting from early ages to make his own mixtapes of classics of rock, jazz, pop and fusion. This took him many time sitting in front of the radio with his finger close to the rec button. When he got his first walkman this situation increased hugely, leading him soon to become owner of a very large collection of tapes either bought, recorded or mixed. Then he moved to the south of the country, where he got overwhelmed by the beauty of its landscapes, the silence, the endless open spaces and the wild forest sounds.

Thus he developed a new relationship with music. Being highly influenced by the surrounding environment, he bought a guitar and started playing his own tunes along with the ones in his ever growing collection. At his point he developed his ability to listen to the moment, to read the circumstances surrounding him and getting them into music.

He started to like classic music, admiring the purity of its structure and the passion underlying between the instruments� notes. Then the first tape of electronic music got on his hands, being a new breakout into his approach to music. Soon those hypnotic, repetitive sounds took his entire attention and his collection grew into that direction.

Shortly after he managed to get access to a mixer and two cd players wherehe played sharing his tunes with his friends. His skills grew and at some point he took close contact with the famous Chilean international electronic artists, attending to endless parties and recording their sessions, developing an ever stronger bond with electronic. Motivated with this perspective and always learning by looking, he started his career as a dj, never being sure of what he liked, but always sure of what he didn�t like. This philosophy is the leading edge of his career, which at some point moved from the turntables to the laptop.

His experience as a dj although was enriching and gave him the contact with public and showed him the way to create ambiences, reading the moods and managing climax with the sounds and the knobs of the mixer. After attending electronic music festivals he went urged by the perspective of making his own music. The records were no longer appealing to him as he went creating his own structures and patterns.

He worked very hard and the year 2005 gave a prize to his efforts, being his first e.p. published by Archipel label. Soon after he released in Thinner, Rrygular and Echocord, making his own way through the European minimal scene. His compositions are full of subtle sounds, evolving atmospheric landscapes, organic layers and carefully sliced beat arrangements.

He always puts attention to details and his career as a designer helps him constantly to develop sensibility with diverse aesthetics and to have as well an unusual approach to composition and life. Hopefully you will always be travelling on the wings of his music�

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