sikØra (= Stephan Straka, born 1968 in a small town close to Frankfurt am Main) had been caught by any kind of music very early on.

he chose a hammond organ as his first instrument to play on and experiment with.

then detouring electronic music for some time he tried post-punk (playing bass), classical (orchestral drums) as well as pop-combo (keys) before finally arriving in the arising techno world of mid-1990s Frankfurt, where he eventually
met Jörn E. Wuttke again (alter ego and much more) in 1996 - whom he already knew from earlier musical adventures - and committed himself to electronic music ever since.

releases soon followed on Klang Elektronik, Playhouse, Ongaku, Cocoon and others, where many of his hereos suddenly became labelmates. some time later he started Nummer-Schallplatten with Frank Lorber and released a set of fine EPs with Frank.

a special incident forced him to pause with production and gigs for some years, but he never lost track of electronic music and began h