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Markus Wormstorm (Autechre and Miriam Makeba’s love child) is a lot more than just an unfortunate surname. He was born in Pretoria, South Africa, and started writing electronic music at the tender age of fifteen. He attended a local art school where he studied both Drama and Music. At the age of 16 Markus had formed a small theater group, which put on annual performances at the schools theater. These “performances” where often skit based, and though poorly executed, politically fuelled and enthusiastically academic, these shows where really nothing more than a good excuse for Markus and his friends to wear more then their usual amount of eye liner, get naked and pour stage blood all themselves and the audience (teachers included). Markus wrote the music for these shows and directed them.

At the age of 18 Markus moved to Cape Town, after convincing his parents that he needed to study there. Shortly after dropping out of University he sold a song to African Dope Records for five thousand rand. He used the money to buy himself a cd writer, and so doing was able to burn a hundred copies of his first solo album ”Rachel the Bear”. By some small miracle one of these cds found it’s way to New York city, and he was soon after contacted by Sound-ink records and offered a deal in 2001.
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