BEROSHIMA Live! @ DECADANCE Thessaloniki, Greece 17.11.2007
The Beroshima project was started by Frank Muller in the early 1990es, appearing first at his former label Acid Orange. The experimental sound of Beroshima on Acid Orange was completely new and underground in the beginning, becoming a well-known trademark sound around the globe. About Muller Records, established in 1996, grew with it's cool Berlin based club sound and developed into one of the successful German techno export labels. The label owner is the multi-faced Frank Mueller a.k.a. Beroshima, who has built up a musical network of friends from Berlin around the globe to Tokyo. His technography started when he moved to Berlin in 1992 and he founded the label Acid Orange. After four years he concentrated his activities on Muller Records, his own playground where to he invited other high-profile techno producers. The first Beroshima releases "Electronic Discussion" and "Deebeephunky" became worldwide stompers and started a series of club hits released on Muller Records. Soon other artists and friends joined the label. Meanwhile Frank promoted his sound as DJ and live act at all the countless major places around the globe where techno is celebrated. reaching a well-known status as a techno-pioneer in countries like France, Japan and Germany. Frank has been a resident DJ at Mayday, Europe's biggest indoor rave and now is a resident at the WIRE Festival, Asia's biggest rave in Japan. Each Beroshima release sounds different - and in fact, it is! Frank has invited other musicians and producers to explore new sounds and broaden the scope of the project Collaborations with Takkyu Ishino and remixes by DJs like Claude Young and Rok pushed every output into a new direction. Frank definitely is to call a truly innovator - representing a varied style of electronic music with its own twist. The unique sound of Beroshima and the variation of his latest releases makes it difficult to describe his countless outputs in a few words. frank already released minimal experimental music in the early nineties while rave music still had a big time. Not just being an electroclash pioneer or innovator, frank muller and its alter ego beroshima even more became an icon and a techno legend. He turned back to his organic analog sound that Beroshima is know for. His performance rocks the place wherever he goes. His detroit clubhit "Corazon" released on Muller Records turned the beroshima sound into a new direction. Beroshima's latest release "Horizon" on Sven Vath's label Cocoon Recordings was one of the biggest hits in IBIZA in summer 2007.