Corvin Dalek (real name Gábor Müller) is a Hungarian DJ, producer, remixer and graphic designer. He was born in Budapest, Hungary and played his first gig in a disused railway station at Bodrog near Sarospatak on New Year's Eve 1988. Following a series of frustrating experiences with inexperienced promoters, Dalek decided he wanted to promote his own parties, forming the company Sunflower Promotions to do so. [2] Ten years later, after a trip to Berlin, he decided to move there. During Berlin's first DJ convention, he officially set the world record for playing a set at the highest number of turntables (10). [1]
His debut single on MFS was Pounds And Penz, produced in conjunction with Munich-based DJ Alex Flatner, in March 1999, and his remix of the track on the B-side became the definitive version - the world's first Wet'N'Hard record. (It was also part of Pete Tong's Essential Selection in 2000.) [2] In February 2000, together with MFS' Mark Reeder, he established the sub-label Flesh to explore and release material evolving from the current European underground. [3] It released his (to date) only LP, I Am A Dalek, in 2003. His single Real Man is said to have been banned from peak time radio in 22 countries ([3]), and the session he recorded at MFS for Kat's Karavan featured a string of expletives and simulated sex, causing some controversy among listeners (despite airing well after the watershed).
Festive Fifty Entries[]
- None
Sessions[]
- One and only session, no known commercial release.
1. Recorded: unknown (MFS Berlin). First broadcast: 11 July 2002. No repeats.
- Mix
Other Shows Played[]
- 16 November 1999: Peel played four tracks from Corvin Dalek's mix album Assorted Stadtanisichten - A Journey Through Berlin (MFS):
* Denki Groove: Niji (Takkyu's "Wire" Loop)
* Cal-Q-Lator: Can We Go Now? (Original Mondosmix)
* TR727 vs Abyss: Kick Down
* Namito: Deerooz - 17 November 1999: Peel played three tracks from Corvin Dalek's mix album Assorted Stadtanisichten - A Journey Through Berlin (MFS):
* Chris Zippel: Eternum (Organic Version)
* Namito: Deerooz (Part 1)
* Cosmonaut: Parovoz - 18 November 1999: Peel played three tracks from Corvin Dalek's mix album Assorted Stadtanisichten - A Journey Through Berlin (MFS):
* Krilly & Zetti: Süßwaren (Bambini Mix)
* Liquid Crystal: Looking For Love (Reconstruction Mix)
* JFK: Falling Love - 28 September 2000: 'Pornoground (Mix LP-Hotkunst)' (MFS / Flesh)
- 04 October 2000: Peel played a track from Corvin Dalek's mix album Hotkunst (Flesh):
* Alex Flatner: Wet And Hard - 12 October 2000 (Radio Eins): 'Pornoground (Mix LP-Hotkunst)' (MFS / Flesh)
- 06 March 2001: The Atheist (12") Flesh
- 07 March 2001: 'Pornoground (12")' (MFS)
- 15 March 2001 (Radio Eins): 'Pornoground (12")' (MFS)
- March 2001 (FSK): The Atheist (12") Flesh
- 17 April 2001: 'The Atheist' (MFS / Flesh)
- 19 June 2002: unknown (LP-Corvin Dalek At The Loveparade 2001)' (white label)
- 26 June 2002: Loknar & Polansky, 'Dark Mirror (Corvin Dalek's Carnal Beast Mix) (12")' (Flesh)
- 13 March 2003: 'The Atheist (Compilation LP-Flesh For Fantasy)' (Flesh)
- 23 September 2003: 'Menage A Trois (LP-I Am A Dalek)' (Flesh)
- 09 October 2003 (Radio Eins): 'Menage A Trois (LP-I Am A Dalek)' (Flesh)
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- Footnotes
- ↑ At the Berlin Atonal Festival in February 1999, he played a set with 12 Technics turntables, but the attempt was incorrectly recorded.
- ↑ Wet'N'Hard is a techno sub-genre that uses samples of love-making noises as a backing for the music, or "sexual energy for young clubbers who join on the dance floor to take part in the historical sexual ritual of dancing," [1] as evinced by Dalek's session.
- ↑ The label was never a success and folded around 2005-6.