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Ingmar Koch

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Years active
  
1991–present

Music group
  
Air Liquide

Genre
  
Acid house

Genres
  
Ambient techno, acid house

Occupation(s)
  
Musician, Producer, Video artist

Associated acts
  
Air Liquide , Khan&Walker, Asbest!, Pierrot Premier, Rei$$dorf Force, Global Electronic Network

Albums
  
16 Lovesongs For The Spice Girls

Record labels
  
Harvest Records, Time tunnel tunez, XXC3 / Liquid Sky Berlin, Djungle Fever

People also search for
  
Cem Oral, Sense, Freddy Fresh

Ingmar Koch (also known by his pseudonym Dr. Walker) is a German musician, producer and label owner in the field of Electronic Music. He was a member of more than 50 different techno music projects, such as Air Liquide (with Cem Oral), Khan & Walker (with Can Oral), Global Electronic Network (with Can Oral), Pierrot Premier (with Thomas Thorn), Lovecore (with Wolfgang Voigt) and Rei$$dorf Force (with Jörg Burger, Freddy Fresh, M.Flux, Thee Joker, L Nino among others).

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Biography

In 1991, Koch founded a recording studio in Frankfurt with Cem Oral, with whom he shortly afterwards formed the project Air Liquide with. In 1992, their first EP, titled Neue Frankfurter Elektronik Schule, was issued on the Cologne he record label Blue, the chef and together with Oral had founded the musicians Jörg Burger. In 1991, Oral, Burger and Wolfgang Voigt founded the acid techno label Structure. In 1993, Koch formed the labels XXC3 and Dj.ungle Fever.

In 1993, Jörg Burger, Wolfgang Voigt and Koch together founded the Delirium Köln, a record shop, which also serves as a music label and distributor.Later Delirium Köln was renamed into "Kompakt".

The same year and following years he recorded numerous solo releases and collaborations with artists such as Wolfgang Voigt, Biochip C., Frank Heiss, Thomas Thorn, Jörg Burger, Electric Indigo, Holger Czukay, ADSX, Wulfmanson, Mary Susan Applegate, Craig Anderton, Omsk information and Triple R. With Can Oral he published, among other monikers, as Khan & Walker and Gizz TV & Walker.

In 1996, Koch and Thomas Thorn formed Thorn Kölner Elektronikbar Liquid Sky Cologne. In 2001 he founded the artist hotel Monte Christo Köln and the underground techno club Club Camouflage Cologne in cooperation with Heike Windberger. In 2012, Koch founded the artist collective and video art gallery Liquid Sky Berlin.

2014 he starts the television project Psychedelic Kitchen and lsb TV in cooperation with the Cologne video artist Uli Sigg. In 2015 he began collaborating with the Leipziger Firma Hearthis.at online radio Telepathic Bubblebath, named after the record label, and with the Berliner Baeren Siegel GmbH die Internetart- / Streetart- / Performanceart- Kampagne #scrt_brln.

also in 2015 he gets involved in several cooperations with the art gallery Neu West Berlin. In 2016 Koch founds the noise.berlin movement, a multimedia art & philosophy project featuring disturbing radical visuals, noise music & abstract thinking.

Studio albums

  • 1994: Global Electronic Network (=Khan & Walker) – Rolleiflex / Weltron (Mille Plateaux)
  • 1994: Global Electronic Network (=Khan & Walker) – Rolleiflex / Timesquare (Mille Plateaux)
  • 1995: Khan & Walker – Radiowaves (Harvest)
  • 1994: Global Electronic Network (=Khan & Walker) feat. 4E– Electronic Desert (Mille Plateaux)
  • 1996: Khan & Walker – Schleichfahrt (Disko B)
  • 1997: Holger Czukay vs. Dr. Walker – Clash (Sideburn Recordings)
  • 1997: Khan & Walker – Empire State Building (Harvest)
  • 1997: Khan & Walker – Radiowaves II (Harvest)
  • 1998: Dr. Walker & M. Flux – 16 Lovesongs for the Spice Girls (Harvest)
  • 2000: Dr. Walker – Escape From Cologne (Tone Casualties)
  • 2014: Adsx. Sense. Dr. Walker – MK-Naomi Sessions (XXC3 / Liquid Sky Berlin)
  • 2014: Khan & Walker – Empire State Building (I Am Single)
  • Singles and EPs

  • 1993: Khan & Walker – Biogas (Propulsion 285)
  • 1993: Walker – DJ.Ungle Fever (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1993: Mike Ink & Walker – Lovecore E.P. (Structure)
  • 1993: Walker / Biochip C. – Shark Volume Two (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1993: Walker – Illegal EP (Luv Traxx)
  • 1993: Biochip C. / Walker – Red Light District Vol. II (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1993: Walker – Drummatix Drop Outs (Communism Records)
  • 1993: Walker – The Sunshine E.P. (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Black One – Electronic Percussion E.P. (Force Inc. Music Works)
  • 1994: Gizz TV & Walker – Spread / Invasion of the Bassface (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Gizz TV & Walker – Live at the Electro (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Business Card E.P. (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – U-Haft EP (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Astroland EP (Direct Drive)
  • 1994: Mike Ink & Walker – Lovecore II (Not on Label)
  • 1994: Jammin' Unit vs. Walker – Money Talk$! (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Redlight District Vol. 3 (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Don't Fuck With Cologne (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Electric Indigo & Walker – Vol. 11 (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1994: Walker – Schrei Nach Liebe (Force Inc. Music Works)
  • 1994: Biochip C., Jammin' Unit & Walker – Shark-Trax (Rising High Records)
  • 1995: Black One / Bizz O.D. – Little Funky Jazz Piano / Wo? (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 1995: Black One – The New EP (Temple Records N.Y.C. Inc.)
  • 1995: Black One – Digital Percussion (Temple Records N.Y.C. Inc.)
  • 1995: Freddie Fresh vs. Dr. Walker – DJ Fresh Analog U.S. Vs. Walker Cologne DJ.Ungle Fever Germany (Analog Records USA)
  • 1995: Gizz TV & Walker – Little Lonesome Astronaut (Force Inc. Music Works)
  • 1995: Khan & Walker – Empire State Building (XXC3)
  • 1995: Walker & Triple R – Aufraeumen! (XXC3)
  • 1996: Gizz TV & Walker – Super 8 – 001 (Super 8)
  • 1996: Walker & Frank Heiss – Flash Dancers on Acid (Sm:)e Communications)
  • 1997: Dr. Walker – Damenwahl! (Eat Raw)
  • 1997: Dr. Walker – Nuthin But An “E” Thang (Syncom Productionz)
  • 1997: Dr. Walker – Dr Walker's Psychedelic Kitchen Vol.1 (Serotonin)
  • 1997: Gizz TV & Walker – Spalt (Acid Orange)
  • 1998: Dr. Walker & M. Flux – Present Some Cockrockin Beatz (Harvest)
  • 1999: Khan & Walker – Simplex (Harvest)
  • 2000: Dr. Walker – Escape From Cologne (Tone Casualties)
  • 2004: Dr. Walker and Wulfmanson and Lorentz Hecker – Soundtrack From “The Car” (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2004: Dr. Walker and Wulfmanson – Fischteich EP (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2005: Rob Acid / Toktok / Wulfmanson / Dr. Walker / Sanomat – Djungle Fever Looopz (DJ.Ungle Fever)
  • 2005: Dr. Walker – Asbest Volume 1 (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2013: Dr. Walker – Spontane Selbstentflamunkk (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2013: Adsx. Paul Heimweh. Dr. Walker – Telepathic Bubblevinyl (XXC3 / Liquid Sky Berlin)
  • 2013: Dr. Walker – Hoch Die Tassen – Ab Dafuer – Remixes (Dj.ungle Fever)
  • 2016: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker – Psychedelic Kitchen Berlin 2016 (Subsonic Records)
  • 2016: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker – Only Here (Subsonic Records)
  • 2016: Omsk Information & Dr. Walker – Only Here (Ninja Jamm)
  • 2016: Monsieur Fleury & Dr. Walker – Tapearchive (Telepathic Bubblebath)
  • 2016: Monsieur Fleury, Daniel Katzenstab, Coldcut & Dr. Walker – Industrial Sky (Ninja Jamm)
  • Songs

    This Is Not a Mind TripThe Increased Difficulty of Concentration · 1994
    Combat Zone - Part IIRobot Wars · 1994
    If There Was No GravityNephology · 1994

    References

    Ingmar Koch Wikipedia