在刚刚过去的2017年，Techno依然是世界地下电子音乐的主要声音，在更多的元素比如：Electro, EBM, Noise的充实，新的复古主义创作风潮等等，把Techno音乐赋予了更丰富而非风格界限的内涵。而在纯粹和极简主义的内核，一位德国DJ/制作人，几乎可以描述为“最接近定义Techno内涵的制作人”，他把极简功能主义和表面上看似服务于舞池的Techno音乐，做到了一个极高的艺术水准。Markus Suckut，既是Konekt Asia在2018年的首个重量级呈现。

Techno is still the main voice of the world's underground electronic music in the past 2017. With more elements such as Electro, EBM, Noise, the new retroist style of creation and so on, Techno music has been enriched Non-style boundaries of the connotation. At the pure and minimalist core, a German DJ / producer, his own productions are best described plainly and simply with the word techno. Markus Suckut, who is Konekt Asia's first heavyweight presentation in 2018.

MARKUS SUCKUT

很难将自己对音乐的看法归类于狭隘的范畴，并从许多不同风格的音乐中获得影响。他自己的作品最能被简单地描述为“Techno”这个词，这个词经常被称为Dub。他的集合是广泛的，即使他们有一个共同的基础，很难描述他们的共同之处。也许这就是灵魂，一种梦幻和一种忧郁的倾向，这是Markus和他的音乐的最佳特征。

Markus的音乐常常被简单地描述为功能性Techno，哪怕是在这样一个框架内，他呈现的应该说是功能性Techno的极致艺术。比如，他的第一张EP发表在著名厂牌Stroboscopic Artefacts，这家门槛极高的艺术电子音乐厂牌成为了他的一个伯乐；在不久的随后，大量的演出和发行围绕着Techno世界另一端的制高点Len Faki的Figure。极少DJ/制作人能像Markus这样，一开始就输出了无可挑剔的作品，用类型化的作品打破了类型化审美标准的界限。

Exciting stories without big words When you tell a story you explain something which has engaged you, something which has moved you. Telling good stories is certainly not easy, particularly if you don’t use words. Just like a good DJ set, storytelling is all about creating an arc, putting listeners under a spell and giving the feeling that this story doesn’t have to come to an end. Telling a story with these attributes without using words? How it’s possible is demonstrated by DJ and producer Markus Suckut.

Markus’ own musical history began in 1999, at the brink of the new millennium an interest in electronic music was awakened in the young, Germany-based Markus. At the time it was less about committing to one musical direction, than about the excitement of DJing and testing sonic limits. Carried along by the excitement of these inital impressions Markus beganto teach himself to mix and within a few short years his first productions followed.

It’s hard to categorise someone who himself detests thinking about music in narrow- minded categories and who takes influence from many different styles of music. His own productions are best described plainly and simply with the word techno, techno which often and willingly becomes dub. His sets are wide reaching, and even if they have a common basis it’s difficult to describe what exactly they have in common. Perhaps it is soul, a bit of dreaminess and a tendency towards melancholy that best characterise Markus and his music.

Good things take time. A good story can’t be told in passing; accordingly Markus Suckut can be seen as one of the most vocal opponents of short sets, and of a club culture where the next DJ jostles impatiently in the booth waiting impatiently for the start of their own set. To play in his own style, leading the crowd and casting a spell over it, delighting listeners with records selections that go beyond the remit of any kind of DJ charts, this is his world. And in the company of someone who loves to listen to elaborate stories, who detects subtlety while simultaneously appreciating current trends, the listener is in very good hands with both his productions and his sets.