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This is what you might not expect from German drum & bass! Fauna Flash are the first German drum & bass outfit, who are getting props from the posse, for example from and Fabio who played their dubs on their BBC 1 radio show “One In The Jungle”! All this resulted in a 12inch exclusive release on Peshays label Elementz (UK release winter 97). And a track by Fauna Flash called “At The Movies” appeared on (maybe the most respected) drum & bass compilation “Promised Land 3”. The tracks on the 12inch taster from Fauna Flash’s new album “Aquarius” are played by DJs like , Kemistry & Storm, Fabio, Grooverider, Kabuki, and are listed by Gilles Peterson’s personal charts in Straight No Chaser.

The Munich based drum & bass project Fauna Flash released it’s first 12inch in 1995. Before that Christian Prommer and Roland Appel (one of Munich’s best wild-style DJs), the two members of Fauna Flash, have played drums in different band projects. Around 1992 the started doing live drum sets to ambient music at and in clubs. 1994 they began gathering studio experience. Roland and Christians tracks were always influenced by and 80s-fusion. And although they now are specialized on drum & bass with futuristic beats and retro samples you can still tell where their roots are.

Since their first release on Compost Records in 1995 Fauna Flash became Germany’s first and most respected drum & bass live PA. They have been booked for occasions like the Montreux Jazz Festival, “The Future Sound Of Jazz”-tour, the I-D-Party in Munich, WMF in Berlin and the PopKomm in Cologne. You can also catch them doing their live gigs with sequencers, drum-machines, keyboard, FX and additional live drums all over clubs in Europe. And as NME (UK) once wrote “Fauna Flash have solved one of the great puzzles of the late-20th Century: how to take the excitement and energy of drum & bass on record and translate it to a ‘live’ setting. And as a result, they’re going to be lauded and adored wherever they go. Fact!” If you can’t catch them in person you can hear their dubplates being played by DJs like Peshay, Fabio, Grooverider, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Rainer Trüby and many others.

Fauna Flash‘s often strangely named tracks like “Please May I Sniff Your Klompen Kloqqen” are featured on many well known compilations like “Lytic Cocktail” and ”The Future Sound Of Jazz” Vol. 2, 3, 5 and 6 on Compost Records, “Furry Logic” and “Essential Drum & Bass” on Hypnotic, “The Freestyle Files” on K7, “Connected - Continental Breaks And Beats Vol.1” on GAP, “Sounds Like Trip Hop Vol. 1” on Leguan, “Sunflower” on BMG and on the third “Promised Land” mixed by Peshay. They have also done for Tosca (R. Dorfmeister), which is featured on the album, Four Ears, Fon-Kin and Beanfield. Recently Fauna Flash teamed up with former A Forest Mighty Black-member Rainer Trüby for a side project called Trüby Trio. Together they have done a track for “The Future Sound Of Jazz Vol.4” and have remixed Frederic Galliano (F-Communications), Tab Two and Beanfield. Their debut 12inch ”Galicia” is released on Compost Records. The newest track of Trüby Trio, ”Prima Vera” is on CD V.A. ”Glücklich”-Vol. III (Compost 055-2) and on the B- Side of ”Brazil Selection ”Ye Mele” (Compost 056-1).

Fauna Flash back programme: Compost 007 (12inch): Side A: “Butterfly Catcher”, “Journey Into Scoose”, Side AA: “Lunatic Jam”,“Butterfly Catcher (In The Ozone)” Compost 015 (12inch): Side A: “Please May I Sniff Your Klompen Kloqquen”, “Find The Unshrinkables”, Side AA: “Poly Ply Plus” Compost 023 (12inch): Side A: “Should A Gentleman Offer A Tiparillo To A Jockey?”, Side AA: “Post-Sunset Misunderstanding”, “Sexual Attraction” Compost 041 (12inch): Side A: “In The Dangerous Kitchen”, Side AA: Experimental Error” Compost 042 “Aquarius” (CD/2-LP): “In The Dangerous Kitchen”, “Serpico”, “Experimental Error”, “Kiss”, “Top Secret”, “Synopsis”, ”T.H.E.O.”, “Blue Lotus”, “Suited For City-Squiring” Compost 046 (12inch): Side A: Velvet Strings, Side B: ”Kiss”, Natural High Productions’ ”Streets Of Zürich”-Mix, ”Kiss”

Fauna Flash remixes: Four Ears “Waves Of Wolf” (Compost Records) Beanfield “Planetary Deadlock” (Compost Records) Fon Kin “Monty Ninja” (Compost Records) U.F.O. “Loud Minority” (Brownswood Rec. Japan) Tosca “Fuck Dub” (G-Stone) Waldeck ”Defenceless” (Spray/BMG) Force & Paul ”Blue Movie” (Compost) A classical tune for a Sony Classic Remix-project (Sony), release date summer 1999

Fauna Flash exclusive tracks: “At The Movies” (Elementz UK), also on V.A. ”Future Sounds Of Jazz”-Vol. 6 “Yellow Shark” (Elementz UK) “Heavy Weather” (Groove Attack Productions) “Casual Swing”(Compost Records)

Fauna Flash side projects: Trüby Trio, Voom : Voom

Fauna Flash movie/TV soundtrack production and advertisement: Background music for a Pro 7 (television) “Liebe Sünde” contribution Hattrick (soccer magazine) television add

Fauna Flash tracks on compilations: “Butterfly Catcher” The Family Tree International (GAP/YoMama/Compost/Ninety-Nine) “Post-Sunset Misunderstanding” Fuzzy Logic Vol.1 “Post-Sunset Misunderstanding” Essential Drum&Bass “Sexual Attraction” the freestyle files “Experimental Error” Sunflower “Find The Unshrinkables” Sounds Like TripHop Vol. 1 “Casual Swing” Sound Core “In The Dangerous Kitchen” Code +49 Tosca “Fuck Dub” (Fauna Flash Remix) jungelized2 Tosca “Fuck Dub” (Fauna Flash Remix) Lead With The Bass

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