BIOGRAPHY

Under Corvin Dalek, Gábor Müller has produced and released electronic club music since the late 1990s and worked internationally as a DJ. He became known through releases on MFS and Flesh, alongside his international DJ work. His productions combine repetitive structures and precise grooves with raw sound, stripped-back arrangements and a direct, physical club aesthetic.

Born in Budapest, his early musical reference points ranged across electronic, psychedelic and experimental music: from Pink Floyd to the electronic reduction and machine precision of Kraftwerk, and Giorgio Moroder’s sequencer-driven synthesiser and dance production. Hungarian avant-garde and experimental music provided further influences. After moving to Berlin in the late 1990s, the city’s club and production culture became an important working environment.

Together with Mark Reeder, Dalek developed the sound of Wet&Hard in the late 1990s. Flesh was established within MFS for the corresponding releases. Wet&Hard described a raw, aggressive form of electronic club music: repetitive patterns, hard beats, sweaty, rolling grooves, stripped-back production and a distinctly physical, sexually charged aesthetic. Parts of its visual language and terminology also pushed against legal and cultural boundaries.

Releases including E for Europe, Stadtansichten and WET&HARD emerged from this period. Dalek later continued his release work through his own Fummelerum Company.

During regular appearances for The Gallery at Turnmills in London, Dalek worked within an international DJ circuit that included Carl Cox, Tiësto and Timo Maas. Further club and festival appearances took him across Europe and Asia, as well as North and South America, including Creamfields and the Loveparade.

Alongside his own releases, Dalek produced remixes for 3Phase and Dr. Motte, Da Hool, Blank & Jones feat. Anne Clark and Shannon, as well as an official remix of Faithless’ I Want More. He also collaborated with Bernard Sumner on Corvin Dalek feat. Bernard Sumner – Crystal, released on vinyl through MFS/Flesh. An earlier demo version later appeared on Mark Reeder’s Collaborator.

New electronic studio work is currently taking shape, combining club-oriented production with more experimental sound design and more open-ended arrangements.