Jochen Rückert, drums Jochen was born in 1975 near Cologne and started playing drums when he was about six years old, on Carnival parades. In 1995 he moved to Brooklyn, NYC, where he still resides. Jochen has toured extensively in North and South America, Europe, and Asia, and has become one of the most sought after and imitated European Jazz drummers. He also plays bass in the NYC rockband "worldclass" and programs, remixes and produces music for various artist in the elctronic music/idm/breakcore sector, his programming alias is Wolff-Parkinson-White. Since his first colloboration with Hayden Chisholm in 1996 in the group "The Inflictors" the two have toured extensively with Root70. His first book, entitled "Read the Rueckert- Travel Observations and Pictures of Hotel Rooms" has just been released this fall. |
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