Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1969, hp released his first album 'TOD DER CD!' by the age of 17 after rushing through school and classical guitar studies at the conservatory. The record made a point against the upcoming Compact Disc industry and remains a sought-after cult-classic even today, being o
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Born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1969, hp released his first album 'TOD DER CD!' by the age of 17 after rushing through school and classical guitar studies at the conservatory. The record made a point against the upcoming Compact Disc industry and remains a sought-after cult-classic even today, being one of the first intentional lo-fi indie albums of that time. Living partly in Vienna and Berlin he finishes his electro-accoustic studies at the Musikhochschule in Vienna in 1989, already touring all over Europe and various East-Bloc-countries. He performs and releases new albums solo and with groups like KÖB, CAPERS, PLATZLINGER (a duo with Berlin-based freejazz-drummer Peter Hollinger).Summer 89 sees him and his mate Frank Puempel move to New York City where they start the infamous indie-group HP ZINKER which quickly becomes rooted in the Lower Eastside-scene, playing with bands like Sonic Youth, Ween, Helmet, Lemonheads or the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion. MATADOR Records is set up to release the first Zinker album 'And There Was Light'. While the band leans more and more towards progressive hardrock they release more albums and videoclips on ROUGHNECK (London) and THRILL JOCKEY (Chicago). Constant touring in the US and Europe finally pays its toll and the band releases their last album 'At The Mountains Of Madness' in 1994 on NYC's ENERGY Records. Its spectacular sleeve, designed by STEFAN SAGMEISTER, wins several art prizes and gets nominated for a Grammy. By now Hans has already moved to Los Angeles where he got involved with filmscoring and writing music for theaters. He even gets to play a main part in the full-lenght feature 'Deep Up There'. The end of ZINKER makes Hans move back to Europe. In Hamburg, Germany, he joins DIE GOLDENEN ZITRONEN with whom he records 2 albums and tours around Europe several times. At the same time he starts to plough deeply into the art of electronic music and releases his first 12"es and albums under new codenames like AURA ANTHROPICA, SEPERATOR or FINGERFOOD. With his electronic outputs he finds a new home in Munich's Techno-label DISKO B where he later even starts his own sublabel THE SEPERATOR SERIES to release diverse new Electronica. 1997 he moves to Munich, gets into deejaying, sets up his own studio SON MONTUNO and produces not only his own new music and many remixes but also the commercially successful German Rockgroup Tocotronic. He joins forces with Austrian Electro-pioneer GERHARD POTUZNIK as CUBE & SPHERE, with Japanese Artist/Singer CaMi TOKUJIRO as SHINTO, with German Techno-Gigolo DJ HELL and releases on DISKO B, CHEAP (Vienna), DOMINO (London), HEIMELEKTROULM(Germany) and THE MUSIC CARTEL (NY). By the End of the Century he deejays and performs live on different continents and works in collaboration with artists of all directions on different meltings of music with theatre, food, sculpture, fine arts, radio drama and videoart. In 2000 he releases ‘DATACARD’, a hybrid of dark digital soundscapes and slamming breakbeats. The cd-r also features a videoclip by Sir Georg Gaigl, later on more videos by various artists are produced for the album. After the birth of his son ‘Marvin’ he cuts down on live performances and gets more and more into composing soundtracks to movies and radio dramas as well as picking up more multimedia work. New albums are produced for ‘Cube&Sphere’, ‘Shinto’ and the fake-identity supergroup ‘QUEEN OF JAPAN’. He brings back a certain pop-appeal to his music and produces hard-edged remixes for various pop-rock acts. His everlasting love for p-funk and crystal-clear grooves shines through in all these productions, even in his ‘WHITE NOISE’-soundtrack to a 30’s ski-film, his radio work ‘HIGH’, ‘WANDERWÖRTER’, ‘WELCHE FARBE HAT RAINHARD FENDRICH’ or the eerie Japanese-German musical ‘SHONEN A’. In 2001 HP reaches his diploma at the SAE-Multimedia-College and works more and more on webdesign. Production of a new, RnB-influenced album with Gerhard Potuznik and Catriona Shaw as well as various remixes and productions for QUEEN OF JAPAN and SHINTO. Release of his internationally acclaimed soloalbum 'DENIAL OF SERVICE' where he blends his ambient experiences and digital techniques with his jazzrock-roots. More radiowork in Germany and performances across Europe and Japan. Moves to the Lake Of Constance. 2002: His soundtrack work receives several international awards in Germany and the US. He produces the score to Albert Ostermaier’s ‘99 Grad’ (Kammerspiele Munich), Kathrin Röggla’s ‘Really Ground Zero’ (BR), the title theme to the ‘Intermedium 02’ festival as well as further radio productions. New records and extensive touring across the globe with QUEEN OF JAPAN (‘HeadRush’), SHINTO (‘Kibou’) and HANS PLATZGUMER:CATRIONA SHAW (‘Miss Me’). Release of his soloalbum ‘SOFTWARE’. Works with André Heller, Stefan Sagmeister, Ulrich Lampen, Yoshihiro Sawasaki or Paul Divjak and produces various electronic albums, remixes and compilation-tracks. Re-starts his guitar-band ‘HP ZINKER’ and starts recording new guitar-based music as ‘CONVERTIBLE’. Birth of his daughter ‘Faye’.. 2003: Score to Ostermaier's 'KATAKOMBEN' for the Schauspielhaus Frankfurt. New radio work 'COMBRAY' (Marcel Proust) and 'FRÜHLING' (Thomas Lehr) for German radio. New Albums and worldwide gigs with QUEEN OF JAPAN and SHINTO. Founds new mutimedial project HP.STONJI with german electronic wizard e.stonji. 'Really Ground Zero' gets awarded by the RIAS Kommission/Berlin. CONVERTIBLE's first single is released on Universal and reaches the Charts in various countries. Starts to work on a book about his experiences and his philosophies. Soundtrack to Sigrun Appelt's Art-movie 'Urban' with accompanying Live-Performances over Europe. 2004: Release of the CONVERTIBLE album and European tour with classic Guitar-Line-Up. Receives his first Golden Record for André Hellers 'Ruf Und Echo'. New Radio Work und Cds 'Bewegungsmelder' (Ostermaier), 'Electronic City' (Richter) and Vincent Van Gogh's 'Letters To His Brother Theo'. Finishes his book 'Reality Show'. 'METIC EP' and first album 'Mélaina Cholé' as HP.STONJI. New record 'Foreign Politics' with QUEEN OF JAPAN. Performances in Europe, America and Asia as well as various tracks for compilations. 2005: Publishes his first novel ‘Expedition’ as well as an Anthology of his works ‘Expedition 87 – 04’ on doubleCD. new radio work ‘Unter Eis’ (Richter), 'Biometrische Freiheit' (with Didi Neidhart) and ‘Schiffbruch’ (with Ulrich Lampen). works on a new album + live performance with CONVERTIBLE and releases its new single 'Transitory'. release of new album + single ‘E:GUM – Keyboard Lies’ (Klein Records). publishes various articles, texts and lectures (Quart, IQStyle, Datum, Superkünstler, Steir.Herbst). concerts, performances, installations and readings in Europe, Asia, UK, USA. 2006: Release of second CONVERTIBLE album"Frailty of win - Strength of defeat". cd SHINTO: "Sekai". An exhibition of HP artworks takes place in 3 spanish cities. HP spends some time in the Arctic to work on his new novel "Weiß". Performances in Japan, Russia, Turkey, Europe, South America. HP is part of the jury for the german Prix HörVerlag and curates the Bert Brecht Festival ABC Augsburg 2006-2008. New radio work: "Dieses elende Leben", "Durst" (DeutschlandRadio), "Polar" (HR). 2007: Skarabaeus publishes HP's second novel 'Weiß', a hardcover book that has nothing to do with music. Alongside HP produces an audiobook for the Bavarian Radio entitled "Etwa 90 Grad", in which he combines 3 stories of north pole explorers. As a statement to the demise of the record industry and the downfall of the Compact Disc, HP rereleases his very first album 'Tod der CD!' for the first time since 1987. He tours throughout the year in Europe with readings, concerts, as well as performances with German author Albert Ostermaier. In fall he releases his experimental CD-album 'Soundtrack', a 66-minute long piece of Electronica that tells the story of an imaginary movie and has been visualised by 23 international artists. Also this year HP starts a new collaboration with video artist Georg Gaigl: "360Drones" K, USA.  
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