Motor City Drum Ensemble
Motor City Drum Ensemble is a unique kind of ensemble in that it consists of just one man : Simultaneously retro and futuristic
German House pioneer Danilo Plessow . He was born in 1985 in a small town in rural southern germany and soon moved to
Stuttgart , the world’s cradle of the automobile and Germany’s ‘Motor City’ (w. Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch headquarters). Hence,
his best known artist moniker ‘MCDE’ obviously is a reference as well to his home-town as to his first love in music, the Soul,
Jazz and Techno sounds of Detroit. The ‘Drum Ensemble’ is a link to his col ...read more
Motor City Drum Ensemble is a unique kind of ensemble in that it consists of just one man : Simultaneously retro and futuristic
German House pioneer Danilo Plessow . He was born in 1985 in a small town in rural southern germany and soon moved to
Stuttgart , the world’s cradle of the automobile and Germany’s ‘Motor City’ (w. Mercedes, Porsche, Bosch headquarters). Hence,
his best known artist moniker ‘MCDE’ obviously is a reference as well to his home-town as to his first love in music, the Soul,
Jazz and Techno sounds of Detroit. The ‘Drum Ensemble’ is a link to his collection of classic drum machines, technical backbone
of his accomplished and renowned electronic music.
Danilo Plessow was always incredibly young at taking up things: He started playing drums at the tender age of six and
discovered his love for jazz in the school big band. From eleven , he started working on his own original productions using a
computer and samples. Being influenced by Jazz, Soul, Funk, Hip Hop and House, the first complete results were already
released five years later (2000) on Stuttgart’s ‘Pulver Records’ under his House and Broken Beat project ‘Inverse Cinematics’ :
Seven 12 inch records (‘Slow Swing’ and ‘Detroit Jazzin’ among others), an album (‘Passin’ Through’) and many remixes and
compilation appearances followed, and the project gathered fans like Gilles Peterson and Rainer Trueby, with whom Danilo
would collaborate later on.
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