Four Ears

Four Ears are Bym Stempka and Curt Nolte, both children of Berlins underground-scene. If you add up the number of ears they posess between the two of them, you will suddenly understand the name of the project. Bym has had great influence on Germany's music-history. He was the founder of Flucht Nach Vorn (well known New Wave Underground outfit from the early eighties!). Since 1980 he has been dj-ing in Berlin's famous clubs like ChaCha, Metropol, Gl?ckstein, Tresor, Globus, WMF and many others. Bym is one of Germanys most respected underground hiphop, drum & bass DJs.

1981-83 he played the bass for Toten Piloten (dead pilots) a underground band , with two other well known and impressive german techno-house-pionieres "Spaceteddy" Dr. Motte and Jonzon.

1988 Bym wrote and produced four singles under the pseudonym 2 Kut together with John Caffrey and Nainz Watts for Virgin.

1985-90 he was a member of Mad Romeo (Phonogram Rec.) Under this pseudonym he has done several remixes! (Tony Cook, Froon, a.o.)

1988-94 he worked together with Colin Favor, Tim Westwood, Bam Bam, Jeff Mills, Robert Hood and others...

Next to his work with Four Ears, Curt Nolte has also created the following film-soundtracks: "Zeitgeister (Regie Barbara Teufel/1991), "Die Insel" (Folke Kerkhoff, 1992), "Ein Haus Stellt Sich Vor" (1994), Berndt In Brooklyn (Evelyn R?sseler, 1994), M?nner In ?-l (Barbara Teufel, 1996). His latest project together with his Four Ears-fellow Bym was Dragon for East West. They also recorded an album There's A Trumpet In My Soul (CD/LP) and a 12"-inch Original Dragon Music.

Curt Nolte is the technological mastermind behind Four Ears. He has studied Culture Science and Art. In the early, wilder days of the 8Oties he was singing and playing guitar and sax in different groups like Bermuda Dreieck (New Wave) and Jalta and Die Teilung Europas (Punk). In the mid-80ties he worked as a music-journalist and as synthesizer-keyboard specialist in some experimental groups. Curt Nolte was also part of strange and futuristic multimedia-happenings and big spectacles like West Wurst with author Felicitas Hoppe.