Dirk Erchinger, one of Germany’s hardest working drummers, has made music history in Germany, Austria and Switzerland as a member of Jazzkantine and Count Basic.
Jazzkantine have established live music in German hip hop, have had a number of chart hits and were awarded an Echo and a Jazz Echo.
With „Joy and Pain“, Count Basic were at #1 of the American NAC-Charts for several weeks in 1996, and later were awarded the „Austrian Grammy“, Amadeus.
On the recordings of Jazzkantine and Count Basic, Dirk has played with musicians as Till Brönner, Pee Wee Ellis, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Fred Wesley, Nils Landgren and Xavier Naidoo.
Dirk Erchinger was also the musical director and one of the producers of Berlin based techno-drum-ensemble Drum Connection, with whom he has played events around the globe, from Dubai to El Salvador, from Texas to Israel and Malaysia.
With his music production company D-Phunk-Musik, Dirk also produces music for film, television and industry (customers include Senator Film, Sat 1 and Volkswagen).
Through his online service www.drumsbyrequest.com Dirk plays on numerous studio productions.
Dirk Erchinger runs his own recording studio in Berlin Kreuzberg, is founder and head of DRUMTRAINER BERLIN drum school and lecturer at Hochschule der populären Künste Berlin FH (University of Applied Sciences).