After innumerable remixes and a handful of singles, in fall 2009 his debut album ‘In Between’ was published on the label Freude am Tanzen. Here he has the required distance for travel on the weekends, the locale allows for inspiration from the student life, and his creativity to flourish. Since 2005 Marek Hemmann lives in Jena where his home, studio and label are in the immediate vicinity. Always on the search for the perfect groove and catchy melodies which fit snug and comfy in the ear. Deep bass meets voice fragments, shakers, and percussion carry the rhythm a funky minimal techno with plenty of space for other musical elements. The result is a substantially reduced electronic dance music which having a solid house foundation orbits its original state. From then on he refined and improved his sets from which grew the distinctive Marek Hemmann sound a sound with a minimum on technique but rather a very wide diversity of noise and tonal sensibility. This emboldened him to eventually begin to play his music live, leaving behind self-doubt and found with his first gig his calling as a live act.

Until the first live gigs would come just a few years later, he made music for himself and his flat mates. Here was to be found deep and delightful connections with people, rhymes, light and sounds.

The reason for the sonic passion was delivered to him via the techno parties late 90’s in his home area of Gera which was soon a weekly anchor for electronic experimentation. The discovery of the samplers and the synthesizers suddenly opened new possibilities where the acoustic world could be conserved it was now possible with sound and noise on synthesizers to create what the human ear has never before experienced. It all began in the beginning of the 90’s with a guitar whose sonic spectrum was far too limited for him. Marek Hemmann has grown into the electronic music as a hunter, collector and true connaisseur of tones and sonics. Together with Mathias Kaden, they formed the project Karocel and released the highly acclaimed album “Plaited” on Freude Am Tanzen. There is this lack of pretention in their music which everybody loves, actually people from the techno, soul, jazz or pop worlds even all seems to be convinced. Well, it’s true, Marbert Rocel music is light and sunny, but they working hard with patience, belief, a lot of cigarettes, and dozens of live gigs around Europe, to spread their charm with passion and a wicked glints in their eyes. As Groove magazine wrote “…an album finally progressed their own stunning charm into a higher sphere of danceable indie pop”. Marbert Rocel, the East German indie pop’n’jazz sensation and live band just brought their third album “Small Hours” to life, capturing a deep sense for beats, smoking, songs, indie pop trips including leftfield house- and jazzy affairs. Exciting blend of organic and electrifiying house, ethereal melodies, encapsulates a lot of variety (as we like) remixes for the purist house heads as well as for fans of deep leftfield house or twisted groove addicts.

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