Packed Rich

Alexis Boettcher aka Packed Rich‘s musical style is heavily influenced by the crisp and funky drum breaks and dusty jazz samples of the 90‘s boom bap era. His idols being producers like Madlib, Pete Rock, and J Dilla, he doesn‘t try to imitate a sound, but to recreate a certain feeling. A feeling, that grows in the neck of the listener and causes explosive head movements. Instrumentalizing the MPC1000 he tries to bring across organic, human grooves by creating intentional imperfections: His drums and percussions are free of a temporal grid, unlike drums programmed on a computer. At the age of 5 Alexis started playing the piano. His piano tracks and basslines, that elevate his beats beyond the average, range from virtuosic to academic. Nevertheless, his improvisations always have a playful, almost naively detached feel to them. -Hubert Spangler (translated and edited)