Captain Comatose LIVE @ Honkytonks

Friday 26th November 2004
Support: Boogs, Angela Maison, Ant J Steep

Captain Comatose Biography
Captain Comatose are Khan and Snax. Both are not green to the electronic music world. You do the research!

In 1996, the two met in Berlin when Snax was Djing at a 3000 fashion show Khan remembers, "I started talking to this weird guy who carried his records in a paper bag. Trouble was he didn't understand German. But we realised that we're actually neighbours in New York City." A great friendship and creative collaboration followed with many international releases and tours.

In 2000, the two started recording the first Captain Comatose record for Playhouse (Germany). "I dreamt, we were recording and I was singing "Comatose Captain", Snax says, "I didn't question it and we had a band name." Their first two 12inches became instant club hits. Many DJ's, including Luke Solomon, Trevor Jackson, Andrew Weatherall, and of course the Playhouse Clan, rated them high in their DJ charts and become huge fans.

In the spring of 2002, Snax and Khan relocated to Berlin. There they put together a live show and word started to spread about their decadent performances. "We're definitely a disco band in the true sense", says Khan. Remixes for Gus Gus, Electronicat, Hanin Elias, Cold Cut and Julee Cruise followed. Next up is Captain Comatose's first full length album for Playhouse, out May 2003. Entitled 'Going Out' it contains tracks off the first two 12 inches as well as exciting new material. Heavy touring follows come summer time.


Khan Biography 2003
Can Oral, aka Khan, was born of a Finnish mother and Turkish father, and grew up as an outsider in a hostile Germany. He started his first band Mut zum Schlag (Courage to the Beat) in 1982 with 2 drummers and Khan screaming, and released the first German hip hop/no wave record.

He eventually tired of the rock-band life of rehearsals and beer, bought a cheap Atari computer and Prophet 2000 sampler, and started making music for German and Austrian TV programs. In the late 80s, Khan met the Time Tunnel/Structure posse from Cologne and started making techno with people like Walker, Jammin Unit, Mike Ink. and Jorg Burger.

In 1992 he left for New York, where he lived with Jimi Tenor and had a band called Public Extacy that played the early NY Illbient/Lalalandia parties. In their cockroach-infested kitchen studio, they also recorded hundreds of records such as the Bizz OD smash hit 'I'm Coming Out Of Your Speakers', that became one of Junior Vasques' [Sound Factory] favorites. In 1994, Khan opened Temple Records (an electronic record store in Manhattan) and started the El Turco Loco label.

Once he realised that his least favorite DJs were spinning his records, Khan decided to change his style and became one of ambient's most innovative producers, with projects like H.E.A.D., Global Electronic Network, Radiowaves and 4E, recording for such labels as Mille Plateaux/Force Inc., Harvest, and Rising High. These records had significant impact on the UK Fat Cat, Ifach, and Ninja Tune scenes.

In 1999, Matador released the electro-porn quasi-soundtrack 1-900-GET-KHAN, and a 'greatest hits' compilation of sorts, Passport, in early 2000, No Comprendo in summer 2001. Khan is currently living between Berlin, NYC and Mexico exploring new languages, art, and music, and remaining an 'outsider' until the term becomes irrelevant. He has worked with artists such as: Julee Cruise, Andre Williams, Kid Congo Powers, Francoise Cactus [Stereo Total], Hanin Elias [Atari Teenage Riot], Jon Spencer, Diamanda Galas, Air Liquide, Jimi Tenor, Lukas Ligetti, Thomas Brinkmann, The Modernist, Little Annie & Christian Jandreiko and many many more........

Alec Empire: "Khan is a true genius! A lot of people copied him, fuck them, he is the original. The collaboration between Hanin and him defines what New York's indie drum-machine bands are trying since years but never achi Tags

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