AMG All Music Guide

            Curd Duca
            Years Active 
            Genres Electronica
            Styles IDM, Experimental Techno, Ambient Techno, Trip-Hop
            Instruments Artwork, Producer
            Tones Ethereal, Trippy, Laid-Back/Mellow, Hypnotic, Nocturnal, 
            Eerie, Melancholy, Bleak
            Labels EFA (4)
                                    
            The productions of electronic mood-music figure Curd Duca look back 
        to  the  late-'60s  dawn  of  popular synthesizer music, the age of Wendy Carlos'
  classical-synth  fusions  and  studio producers who experimented with computer music by
  yoking  it  to  pop  pieces.  Duca's  been  in the music business since the early '80s,
  originally playing keyboards for the German groups Auch Wenn Es Seltsam Klingen Mag and
  8  Oder  9 — the latter released a half-dozen LPs during the '80s. In 1992, he recorded
  his solo debut, Easy Listening, the first in what became a five-volume series on Normal
  Records  that  took  up  most  of  the  subsequent  four  years.  Moving  to  the solid
  experimental/techno  label  Mille Plateaux in 1997, Duca released Switched-On Wagner, a
  series  of  synthesizer  translations  of works originally by the German romantic giant
  Richard  Wagner.  The  following year, he inagurated yet another series, Elevator, each
  volume of which included dozens of short tracks in a muzaky mode. — John Bush

            Performed Songs By: Richard Wagner

            1996 Switched-On Wagner: Minimalistic Mood Music EFA
            1998 Elevator EFA
            1998 Easy Listening, Vol. 5 Plag Dich
            1999 Elevator 2 EFA
            2000 Elevator 3 EFA

            1998The Best of Curd DucaAsphodel