Ingmar Koch

Ingmar Koch (also known by his pseudonym Dr. Walker) is a German musician, producer and label owner in the field of Electronic Music. He was a member of more than 50 different techno music projects, such as Air Liquide (with Cem Oral), Khan & Walker (with Can Oral), Global Electronic Network (with Can Oral), Pierrot Premier (with Thomas Thorn), Lovecore (with Wolfgang Voigt) and Rei$$dorf Force (with Jörg Burger, Freddy Fresh, M.Flux, Thee Joker, L Nino among others).

Ingmar Koch
GenresAmbient techno, acid house, noise, experimental breaks
Occupation(s)Musician, Producer, Video artist, Labelmanager & Publisher, Performance & Installation artist
Instrumentselectronic instruments & computers
Years active1980–present
LabelsHarvest, Force Inc, Sm:)e Communications, Mille Plateaux, Djungle Fever, Propulsion285, Telepathic Bubblebath, XXC3, Rising High, Edge Records, Direct Drive, lsb27, BMG
Associated actsAir Liquide , Khan&Walker, Asbest!, Pierrot Premier, Rei$$dorf Force, Global Electronic Network, noise.berlin

Biography

Koch started to produce electronic music age 14. First recordrelease with 16. In 1991, Koch founded a recording studio in Frankfurt with Cem Oral, with whom he shortly afterwards formed the project Air Liquide with.[1] In 1992, their first EP, titled Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule, was issued on the Cologne he record label Blue, the chef and together with Oral had founded the musicians Jörg Burger.[2] In 1991, Oral, Burger and Wolfgang Voigt founded the acid techno label Structure.[3] In 1993, Koch formed the labels XXC3 and Dj.ungle Fever.

In 1993, Jörg Burger, Wolfgang Voigt and Koch together founded the Delirium Köln, a record shop, which also serves as a music label and distributor. Later Delirium Köln was renamed into "Kompakt".

The same year and following years he recorded numerous solo releases and collaborations with artists such as Wolfgang Voigt, Biochip C., Frank Heiss, Thomas Thorn, Jörg Burger, Electric Indigo, Holger Czukay, ADSX, Wulfmanson, Mary Susan Applegate, Craig Anderton, Omsk information and Triple R. With Can Oral he published, among other monikers, as Khan & Walker and Gizz TV & Walker.[4]

In 1996, Koch and Thomas Thorn formed Thorn Kölner Elektronikbar Liquid Sky Cologne. In 2001 he founded the artist hotel Monte Christo Köln and the underground techno club Club Camouflage Cologne in cooperation with Heike Windberger. In 2012, Koch founded the artist collective and video art gallery Liquid Sky Berlin.

2014 he starts the art & music television projects Psychedelic Kitchen and lsb TV in cooperation with the Cologne video artist Uli Sigg and Berlinbased TV and Radiostation Alex Berlin. [5] [6]

In 2015 he began collaborating with the Leipziger Firma Hearthis.at online radio Telepathic Bubblebath, named after the record label, and with the Berliner Baeren Siegel GmbH die Internetart- / Streetart- / Performanceart- Kampagne #scrt_brln.

also in 2015 he gets involved in several cooperations with the art gallery Neu West Berlin and Rigabased Synthesizermanufacturer Erica Synths. In 2016 Koch founds the noise.berlin movement, a multimedia art & philosophy project featuring disturbing radical visuals, noise music & abstract thinking.

In 2017 Koch opens the chili-farm "SPX27" and in cooperation with the Berlin club and art-location "Maze.Berlin" the experimental musicbar and videoart gallery "Liquid Sky Berlin - #lsb02". [7]

In 2019 Koch moves the headquarters from the Liquid Sky artistcollective to Southportugal where he also starts the "Liquid Sky Project 27027" reforestation project.

Selected Discography

Studio albums
  • 1994: Global Electronic Network (=Khan & Walker) – Rolleiflex / Weltron (Mille Plateaux)
  • 1994: Global Electronic Network (=Khan & Walker) – Rolleiflex / Timesquare (Mille Plateaux)
  • 1995: Khan & Walker – Radiowaves (Harvest)
  • 1994: Global Electronic Network (=Khan & Walker) feat. 4E– Electronic Desert (Mille Plateaux)
  • 1996: Khan & Walker – Schleichfahrt (Disko B)
  • 1997: Holger Czukay vs. Dr. Walker – Clash (Sideburn Recordings)
  • 1997: Khan & Walker – Empire State Building (Harvest)
  • 1997: Khan & Walker – Radiowaves II (Harvest)
  • 1998: Dr. Walker & M. Flux – 16 Lovesongs for the Spice Girls (Harvest)
  • 2000: Dr. Walker – Escape From Cologne (Tone Casualties)
  • 2014: Adsx. Sense. Dr. Walker – MK-Naomi Sessions (XXC3 / Liquid Sky Berlin)
  • 2014: Khan & Walker – Empire State Building (I Am Single)

Singles and EPs
  • 1993: Khan & Walker – Biogas (Propulsion 285)
  • 1993: Walker – DJ.Ungle Fever (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1993: Mike Ink & Walker – Lovecore E.P. (Structure)
  • 1993: Walker / Biochip C. – Shark Volume Two (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1993: Walker – Illegal EP (Luv Traxx)
  • 1993: Biochip C. / Walker – Red Light District Vol. II (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1993: Walker – Drummatix Drop Outs (Communism Records)
  • 1993: Walker – The Sunshine E.P. (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Black One – Electronic Percussion E.P. (Force Inc. Music Works)
  • 1994: Gizz TV & Walker – Spread / Invasion of the Bassface (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Gizz TV & Walker – Live at the Electro (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Business Card E.P. (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – U-Haft EP (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Astroland EP (Direct Drive)
  • 1994: Mike Ink & Walker – Lovecore II (Not on Label)
  • 1994: Jammin' Unit vs. Walker – Money Talk$! (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Redlight District Vol. 3 (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Don't Fuck With Cologne (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Electric Indigo & Walker – Vol. 11 (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Schrei Nach Liebe (Force Inc. Music Works)
  • 1994: Biochip C., Jammin' Unit & Walker – Shark-Trax (Rising High Records)
  • 1995: Black One / Bizz O.D. – Little Funky Jazz Piano / Wo? (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1995: Black One – The New EP (Temple Records N.Y.C. Inc.)
  • 1995: Black One – Digital Percussion (Temple Records N.Y.C. Inc.)
  • 1995: Freddie Fresh vs. Dr. Walker – DJ Fresh Analog U.S. Vs. Walker Cologne DJ.Ungle Fever Germany (Analog Records USA)
  • 1995: Gizz TV & Walker – Little Lonesome Astronaut (Force Inc. Music Works)
  • 1995: Khan & Walker – Empire State Building (XXC3)
  • 1995: Walker & Triple R – Aufraeumen! (XXC3)
  • 1996: Gizz TV & Walker – Super 8 – 001 (Super 8)
  • 1996: Walker & Frank Heiss – Flash Dancers on Acid (Sm:)e Communications)
  • 1997: Dr. Walker – Damenwahl! (Eat Raw)
  • 1997: Dr. Walker – Nuthin But An “E” Thang (Syncom Productionz)
  • 1997: Dr. Walker – Dr Walker's Psychedelic Kitchen Vol.1 (Serotonin)
  • 1997: Gizz TV & Walker – Spalt (Acid Orange)
  • 1998: Dr. Walker & M. Flux – Present Some Cockrockin Beatz (Harvest)
  • 1999: Khan & Walker – Simplex (Harvest)
  • 2000: Dr. Walker – Escape From Cologne (Tone Casualties)
  • 2004: Dr. Walker and Wulfmanson and Lorentz Hecker – Soundtrack From “The Car” (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2004: Dr. Walker and Wulfmanson – Fischteich EP (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2005: Rob Acid / Toktok / Wulfmanson / Dr. Walker / Sanomat – Djungle Fever Looopz (DJ.Ungle Fever)
  • 2005: Dr. Walker – Asbest Volume 1 (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2013: Dr. Walker – Spontane Selbstentflamunkk (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2013: Adsx. Paul Heimweh. Dr. Walker – Telepathic Bubblevinyl (XXC3 / Liquid Sky Berlin)
  • 2013: Dr. Walker – Hoch Die Tassen – Ab Dafuer – Remixes (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2016: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker – Psychedelic Kitchen Berlin 2016 (Subsonic Records)
  • 2016: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker – Only Here (Subsonic Records)
  • 2016: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker – Only Here (Ninja Jamm)
  • 2016: Monsieur Fleury & Dr. Walker – Tapearchive (Telepathic Bubblebath)
  • 2016: Monsieur Fleury, Daniel Katzenstab, Coldcut & Dr. Walker – Industrial Sky (Ninja Jamm)
  • 2019: Dr Walker - Businesscard Ep (Holding Hand Records)
  • 2020: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker - Drubble Ep (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2020: Khan & Walker - Schleichfahrt rmxd & rmstrd (Dj.ungle Fever)

Please check Discogs for a more complete discography.

References
  1. Robert Klanten: Localizer 1.0. Die Gestalten, 1995, ISBN 3-931126-00-5.
  2. Blue Discography bei Discogs.com, abgerufen am 5. August 2013.
  3. Structure Discography bei Discogs.com, abgerufen am 5. August 2013.
  4. Dr. Walker goes underground with ACID bei sonycreativesoftware.com, abgerufen am 5. August 2013.
  5. lsb.TV WTF bei lsbtv.weebly.com, abgerufen am 9. Oktober 2017.
  6. liquid sky berlin presentzzz... auf Radio Alex Berlin bei alex-berlin.de, abgerufen am 9. Oktober 2017.
  7. liquid sky berlin lsb#02 info bei maze.berlin, abgerufen am 9. Oktober 2017.
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