Biography
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Born
14 May 1967
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Died
30 May 2011 (aged 44)
Tillmann Uhrmacher was a German music producer and DJ. In 1989 Uhrmacher had his first No. 1 hit in the German Single Charts with his project Mysterious Art and Das Omen, Teil 1. Nearly 500,000 singles had been sold and the song quickly led the charts all over the world. Uhrmacher had conquered the world of pop music doing productions and remixes for the most famous Acts of the early 90s such as Mauro Picotto, Judge Jules, Tomcraft, Safri Duo, Marky Mark, Jimmy Sommerville, Inner Circle, Babyface, Culture Beat, Hot Chocolate and many more. He worked in studios together with legendary pop producers, such as Frank Farian or Harold Faltermeyer.
He took part in events like Madonna’s Blond Ambition Tour 1990 as a Support Act. In 1990, when he toured the world with Madonna, he started his radio show MaxiMal.
In 2006, MaxiMal celebrates its 16th birthday. It is now the eldest radio show for electronic music in German Broadcasting.
In 1999 he produced the single Autumn together with Mauro Picotto under the name Lava. The sing became a big club hit.
In 2002, on the popular English label Sony Directions, the track On the Run was published. It became a No. 1 f the Cool Cut-, Dance and Club charts, no. 16 of the English sales charts and the fans of Paul van Dyks Soundgarden on Radio Fritz made the track their No. 1 Hit of the year! In many countries the corresponding video clip became a long-running hit. More productions followed, which can be found in the playlists of nearly every top DJ. Uhrmacher had been nominated in the category Best Trance Artist for the Dance Music Award Germany in 2005.
In May 2006 Uhrmacher won the Special Award for his radio show MaxiMal on the DJ meeting in Duisburg. In his own studio Uhrmacher works a lot on Clubsound with Peter Ries and later with Stefan Fornaro.
He died on June 8th, 2011.
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