Philipp Paschke (alias Phil Forward) is an artist of minimalistic elektronic dance music since 2009. He was born in June 1990 in Heidelberg, Germany. When he was a kid he listened to the music his father played on vinyls on his pioneer record players. Records like New Order - Blue Monday and Inner Circle - Bad Boys, Bob Marley, Maurice Ravelle - Bolero and many more. His father always told him, that he himself has been a dj, too when he was a young adult.
Phil wanted to try it. He always had a playlist in his vlc player with his favourite artists and he listened to sets of his favourite djs. He wanted to know how the djs make it. How they are, how they play & how they sound... how they move the people and make them dance.
He visited his first NATURE ONE with his best friend Joe R.(2007, Das 13.te Land) and he came in touch with the equipment, the genres, the djs, the lables & the producers.
Then he came home totally frustrated and googled "production", "audio-software", "daw", "djing", "virtual dj", "timecode", "interface", ...
Then he played at small garden parties, for friends in his living room or just for himself. His focus has gone more and more from djing into producing.
And he did so. He started producing using propellerhead´s reason 4. And he will use reason till he dies.
Phil loves DJs/Producers like : DJ Falk, Maceo Plex, Thomas Schumacher, maetrik, stimming, Carl Cox, Magda, Richie Hawtin, Marc Houle, Monika Kruse, Marek Hemmann, Sven Väth, Dominik Eulberg, Peter Mills, Vito Raisi, Benjamin Ludwig, Traumatic, Drucklust, Knatterton, Phil & Julz and many more...
His love to electronic dance music has begun when he listened to dj falk for the first time on the nature one 2007.
These crazy sounds were the reason why he started searching the internet and collecting more & more good music, more and more crazy sounds, and a lot more of artists and producers & labels.
In 2016 he had his first release on the label pure enjoyment recordings. He was so fucking proud of his hard work. He always will be.
The KOROBEINIKI EP.
So PURE ENJOYMENT RECORDINGS was his first label. This label is located in italy and collects artists like Vito Raisi & many more. Because of his character and his opened mind many doors have opened for him.
Then in 2017 he became a ONESUN artist. OneSun is a label of techno music in moscow, russia. OneSun has many sublabels like Yellow & NEON. And many many releases followed on this label:
After that boomed he sended his demo tracks around the world and got more & more followers and new labels, like NACHTWANDLER RECORDS. His first release on this label and regional played sounds is called Let´s Party EP.
After that successful partnership between artist & label he has so many possibilities and many few opened doors, too.
On NACHTWANDLER RECORDS he has other releases as well...
He played in afterhour-clubs (privé, Ludwigshafen, Germany) and at illegal parties, which are always the best. He also knows many producers, which have a recording studio with good & loud speakers, where he sometimes can play his new sounds. Sometimes you can listen to him on Cuebase-FM. You can listen to his radio-show on mixcloud.
His motivation were always his friends, his family, and his music.
His new motivation will be his wife and his child.
And now, he is planning to build up a podcast & a label, called
Forward Recordings