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Onkel Dunkel – 10 Essential Tracks

Onkel Dunkel – 10 Essential Tracks

Onkel Dunkel (“Dark Uncle”) is the solo project of Monno Wurtz, producer, mastering engineer and sound designer. Born and raised in Denmark, he has been involved with music one way or another since his late teens. First as a bass player at the age of 17, but the introduction to Psychedelic Trance lead to him ditching his bass and getting into computers and synthesizers.

Onkel Dunkel blasting @ Satya Festival 2013 (Photo by Ben Kirschenbaum Visuals)

A few years later, together with his partner Jaffa Skouborg their goal was to make harder-edged music than most were doing at the time, thus forming the “Grapes Of Wrath” project. In 2004, together with Meteloids, they released their album “Tits on Fire”. The Onkel Dunkel project originally started up in late 2002, but was put on hold until 2007 when Monno went on releasing material on various compilations.

Monno Wurtz has participated in numerous events and festivals[..] and is now considered as one the true pioneers of the Scandinavian dark-psy scene.

Onkel Dunkel is known for his twisted night/forest “dark” Psychedelic, but has also produced some downtempo/chillout sounds, for example with the “Ice Queen” track released on a free compilation on Zealotry Music in 2008. His first full length album “Use Your Head” came in 2011, reflecting his very personal interpretation of the psy-trance music and a deep insights into his state of the art.

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His second album “Connections” Was released in June 2017 and is mainly comprised of tracks produced with friends that came for a visit in the studio. It´s a mix of influences spanning far and wide, but always staying close to his signature twisted dark Psy-trance sound.
Monno Wurtz has participated in numerous events and festivals around the globe throughout the years, and is now considered as one the true pioneers of the Scandinavian dark-psy scene.
Trancentral has prepared for you 10 essential Onkel Dunkel tracks.