On January 5th 1973 Robert is born in Poland. Since 1980
he’s living in Germany and since the beginning of the
nineties he released 5 albums and multiple maxi singles on
labels like Disko B, Force Inc, Mille Plateaux, Bpitch
Control, PAR, Taktik, Junkfood, Important Records or Knee
Deep – the Label of DJ Rush. His pseudonymes Rob Acid,
Robert Babicz, Sontec, Dicabor or Atlon Inc impart the wide
range of his musical outgrowths; he hits different spots and
leaves his marks.Robert was led to music through a mixture
of accident and frustration. Dedicated to his profession as
programmer, his frustration about an undiscoverable error
drove him to the tracker program of his Commodore Amiga, in
a sleepless night. This was the last time, he set down on
the Commodore to use it for programming – since that night
he was driven to the Computer by music.
His first Maxi Single he released on Holger Wick’s Label
“Labworks” (Holger Wick turned out to run the “Sense” Label
and become product manager for EFA today).Already his second
Maxi, found its way through multiple DJ loud speakers and
got licensed to “ffrr”, England. In England it entered the
Bullets and almost made it into the official sales-charts.
And all Robert needed for his first success, was the rented
equipment of Oliver Bondzio (memorized as one half of “Hardfloor”)
– a 909, 303 and a 606.
1993 his first production on „Junkfood“ was released –
one of the best Labels, at the height of Acid. He dedicated
the tracks to his 4 friends: Claus Bachor (D2000), Roland
Casper, Malte Galic (today executive board of Native
Instruments), Sascha Kösch (runs the De-Bug magazine / DJ in
Berlin) and Riley Reinhold (organizer of the Cosmic Orgasm
Parties).<\/p>
His first step into the Clubs followed under the
pseudonym “Acid Warrior” on “Junkfood”. DJs like Sven Väth
hosted the Vinyl for several months in their cases and so
followed the logical consequence: Rob’s first live
appearance in Sven’s legendary OMEN club – a club which
fascinated Ravers from all over Europe in the nineties.
1994 the next Ravemonster „Ein Blick ins Nichts (a view
into nothing)“ was released on Bob Humid’s Label (today the
technical editor of Groove Magazine). Since he is known in
the scene, Rob Acid’s productions are as demanded as the
entry to Sven Väths OMEN temple.
Therefore it came to a signing on “Important Records”,
which has been one of Germany’s major labels, among
“Jungfood” and “Harthouse”.
Robert also discovered his love to abstract sounds, Chill
Out and Ambient music celebrated by artists like “Mixmaster
Morris” or “Aural Float”. And especially the very, listed
his first “Dicabor” Album in their Playlists and Mixmaster
Morris even posted it in his ‘charts of the year’. The
artwork got released on the Label of Matthias Roeingh aka
Dr. Motte, who became one of the most outstanding
protagonists of the young scene by inventing the “Love
Parade”. Still, Matthias Roeingh, as well as Mate Galic and
Roland Casper, is a good friend and latterly also part of
one of Rob Acid’s Projects.95 and 96 could be called “Rave
Years”, Rob is well known as Live Act and rocks all popular
Main Events like “Mayday”. The first abroad-bookings bring
him to the USA, Canada, Malta, Estonia and other European
countries, of course.During this time, Rob Acid finds less
time for his productions because he’s booked about every
weekend. To play “really live” is most important to him.
Till today, he improvises instead of coming up with a
ready-made-Set. Therefore his Live Acts are celebrated as
unique events. “Playing live is for the moment, not for
reproduction”. Which you could interpret in reverse:
reproductions are not made for the situational, enthusiastic
Party-Event of his understanding.
In the end of 96 Rob teamed up with Mate Galic, who
moderates the legendary „Housefrau TV“-Show together with
Sabine Christ at that time. (Remember the washing machine!)
The team is not to apart for years. Psychedelic experiences
of every kind follow. Excessive Sound-research and absurd
Parties. Out of transistor radio, bunker and porn films on
big screen, the two filtered the essence which is reflected
on the “Taktik” Label, arisen in 97.
“Taktik” pushes forward, car racing house, extreme sound
research or Minimal might be helpful terms to subscribe the
sound – but maybe they are not.
Meanwhile Techno became more than a homogenous, ecstatic
body. Separate Groups appeared, the Cologne Minimalism was
born and between Frankfurt and Berlin a strange correlation
became present.
2000 Robert is gifted by a daughter and does another
important Step. Influenced trough powerful productions in
the R’n’B Scene, he starts to search after a new sound. The
Project “Atlon Inc” is found and hosted by Achim
Sczepanski’s Label “Mille Plateaux”.Body focusing Rave
ecstasy is taking place on Achim’s “Force Inc” Label.After
his time with „Junkfood”, Rob founds his own label again in
2001. It’s named “Short cuts” and Rob brought out 6 releases
on it. The soon following Sub label “TB International”
stands for the early Acid/Jack Sound of Chicago in the late
eighties.At the same time, multiple requests of Hard- and
Software producers ask for Sound design. He programs
Pre-sets for “Native Instruments”, Steinberg, and gets
adopted to the endorsement of Native right away.
As a result of it and the influence of Ivo Malek, Morton
Subotnic and Karl-Heinz Stockhausen (who is now living in
the neighbourhood) he is doing sound research again. 2
albums appear under his real name Robert Babicz on “Mille
Plateaux”, which transfer the language of the experimental
music of the 60’s and 70’s (musique concrète) into our
days.2003 again, is a year of action. On one hand he starts
a Jazz project (trumpet: Matthias Mainz, drums: Tom, guitar:
Alexs Gunjah plus other guest musicians) and on the other
hand he is breaking out the Rave animal and alias “Sontec”
he releases the Track “Inside” on the newly founded Label
“PAR”, which Sven Väth was playing on and on after he got
the Dubplate of it. The official release is just as popular
and again Robert is listed in several DJ Playlists (such as
Dave Clarke’s for example). In the Groove Magazine “Inside”
entered Chart Position 8.
2004 Robert is still true to his primary-soup Techno, but
still he is one of those musicians who keep searching
constantly and while the tracks of one project are released
he’s already scouting out new paths. To special events Rob
Acid comes together with drummer and guitarist.
For the rest of 2004, the rebirth of “Dicabor” and “Atlon
Inc” are planned and also the first film soundtrack for ARTE
will be produced. Idea and conception: Nikolas Rousseau.
Project name: “Sor-Terre.