Der Dritte Raum

Andreas Krüger, aka Der Dritte Raum, is the man behind some of the most stirring electronic music of the past thirty years. But he'd rather not talk about himself. "The least important thing in all I do is myself," he says. "It's about the music." But of course there would be no epic anthems like "Hale Bopp" nor transcendent tunes like "Electric Friends" without his creativity, vision, and technical virtuosity which has been honed by his lifelong fascination with sound. The son of musical parents, Andreas grew up immersed in music. He began to study the piano as a child but tired of rigid instructions learning to play precisely he stopped taking lessons and instead exploring the secrets of compositions from Bach to Pink Floyd. His main love, though, was