Budoka | en

producer, DJ
style: Drum and Bass, Hip-Hop
musical influences: Breakbeats, Jungle, Drum and Bass, Hip-Hop, Punk, Metal, Hardcore

Budoka (real name Felix Gumpper) was born in 1976 and lives near Darmstadt/Hassia/Germany. As a trained drummer and guitarist he played in different Hardcore-, Metal-, Punk-formations at the time from 1988-2002, but he has also collected practical knowledge by playing in different Reggae- and live Hip-Hop bands. With the release of the first The Prodigy-LP the interest in Jungle-music has been awaked and the first UK-breakbeat tapes were collected. Together with his brother David (DJ Malice) he bought the first turntables in 1996 and not much time later the Phishmaol Cru was founded around MC Santana, Tyrell aka DJ Gargamel (Gyration), Rayman (Gyration), DJ Spawn and other artists.
Since 2000 Budoka is also activ as producer and releases some of his productions on the German D'n'B-label Tilt-Recordings. The style of his productions reaches from dark bassline emphasized minimalistic rolling tunes to intelligently arranged and jazzy, vocal dominated dancefloor tunes. His influences came from Hardcore/Metal/Punk, from Hip-Hop, but also from Jazz and from other genres of music. The most important influences in D'n'B came from artists like Ed Rush and Optical, Stakka and Skynet and also from more jazzy artists like Big Bud and Seba.
Also since 2000 together with Eli MC under the name Oberton on their own label Traumsoldaten-Records he releases German-speaking Hip-Hop with D'n'B influences and socio-critical texts.

releases (Drum & Bass):
2008 Budoka - "Damage Trust Inc" [TILT010]
2008 Budoka - "Aether" [TILT009]
2008 Budoka - "Ritual" [TILT008]
2007 Budoka - "Under Water" [shadybrain]
2007 Budoka - "Broken Arrow" [T-FREE-3EP023]
2007 Budoka - "Soular" [T-FREE-3EP023]
2007 Budoka - "On The Run" [T-FREE-3EP023]
2007 Budoka - "Renegade Guitarz" [T-FREE-3EP022]
2007 Budoka - "Odyssee 10000" [T-FREE-3EP022]
2007 Budoka - "Sick Boy" [T-FREE-3EP022]
2007 Budoka - "Budo Fist Style" [T-FREE-3EP021]
2007 Budoka - "Whiplash" [T-FREE-3EP021]
2007 Budoka - "The Unseen" [T-FREE-3EP021]
2007 Budoka - "Pleasure Ride" [TILT006]
2007 Budoka - "The Happening" [TILT005]
2006 Budoka - "Whiplash" (RMX) [TILT004]
2006 Budoka - "Invisible Killer" [T-FREE012]
2006 Budoka - "Morphball" [T-FREE005]
2005 Budoka - "Downwards" [TILT002]
2005 Budoka - "Schattenkrieger" [TILT002]
2004 Budoka - "Phenomenia" [T!LT#001]
2004 Budoka - "Mindwalker" [T!LT#001]

releases (Hip Hop):
2003 Oberton - "Revolution" [OT666]
2003 Oberton - "Tal Der Toten" [OT666]
2003 Oberton - "Kinder Der Nacht" [OT666]
2003 Oberton - "Stock Und Stein" [OT666]
2003 Oberton - "Medizin" [OT666]
2003 Oberton - "Traumliteraten" [OT666]

websites:
http://www.phishmaol.com --> homepage
http://www.traumsoldaten.de --> Hip Hop label
http://www.tilt-recordings.com --> Drum & Bass vinyl label
http://www.tilt-recordings.com/t-free --> Drum & Bass netlabel
http://www.myspace.com/booderbasstla --> myspace profile 1
http://www.myspace.com/budofiststyle --> myspace profile 2 .