About Me

developed and delivered by Kai Bischof
2001/2002

Who I am and what I do

I was born May 10, 1970. After a real lucky childhood and youth I left school in 1989 with the matriculation. After that I was liable to render the military service for 15 month.

In Summer 1991 I started to study economy at the Univertity of Bielefeld but I gave this up one year later in order to learn the profession of an attended at a tax consultant.

Also in 1991 I´ve started DJing in a club in my home town. After 4 great years of playing records in this club (which was a very good job of course) I had to quit this because I wanted to have more time for my girlfriend. If you´re every Friday and Saturday on stage and you have a real job too, there is not much time left for your lover!




	1999 in Disneyworld / Florida

In 1999 we´ve married and on 19th September 2000 our first son is born (I hope he won´t be the last one).

Now I´m working as the head of department in a building company and music is only a hobby for me today.

My Music

As you can see I was born in 1970 an so I had my best years (or my best party-years I should say) in the late 80s. That must be the reason for my big love to the SAW-Music. There were other great music acts at that period too. Living in a box, The Beatmasters, S-Express, Madonna, The Pet Shop Boys or Coldcut should be mentioned. But whenever I think about this great time, no music brings me more of this “early years feeling” back like the songs of Stock, Aitken and Waterman.

A deciding experience for me has happened in the year 1995. I found a little box with old music-tapes on the loft of our house. On one of this tapes was the extended version of Sinitta´s “Toy Boy” recorded. I haven´t heard this song for years, since 1987 when it was a hit all across Europe exactly. But this first listening, 8 years later, sent me on a time-travel back to the year 1987. All the old feelings were back in one moment.




	with my son Henrik (about 9 month old on this photo)


	I saw the dancefloor, the people, my friends, the girl I loved at that time. For the length of this 12” I was there again. That was the experience which said to me that this music must be something special and so I went from a SAW-Fan to a SAW-Maniac.

What do I think about SAW and their music ?

Well, it´s still very disappointing that we will never see a new production like these great ones in the late 80s but I think it’s for sure that Stock, Aitken and Waterman will never reunite. There seem to be too many frictions about money, copyrights and other terms between them.

What I can say now, one full decade after their split, is, that the enormous success they had and all the great hits they wrote wouldn’t be possible if anyone of the three guys was not a part of the team. Today we know that they can produce hits alone as well but not in this way they did it in the 80s. It’s a matter of fact that they are the best ever seen production team but indeed only as a team!


	Looking back at the 80s from the year 2001 it was certainly a decade where the music was very different. Nearly all kinds of music could made a No.1 - and they did. Looking back at the 90s it was a very boring decade. Starting out with the techno-wave in the early 90s the rest of the 20^th century was just Eurodance and later we’ve got the musical disaster: Hip Hop and R’n’B!




		at home in the kitchen

SAW were often critisized (and they are still critisized today) for their music. In my eyes it seems to be a problem to have many hits. So let me ask a question: Why should a record in Top10 Hits be an indicator for a bad production team?? Can anyone answer me that?? Certainly not!

In Germany we have the problem that with the middle 90s there were more and more german productions entering the charts and, with a few exceptions, that’s all – excuse me – bullshit.

Imagine a Hip Hop song with german lyrics?! Horrable, but we have such songs still in the Top10 here in Germany. It sounds so bad! Don’t missunderstand me, everyone has his own musical favour and it’s good how it is but to speak with a Coldcut record-sleeve of the 80s. “Sorry, but this just isn’t music!”

I try to write and produce a few little songs for myself at home with my Yamaha-synthesizer and my computer and not one song is already finished yet. So I ask myself how many hours per day at work in the studio are necessary to write and produce such an amount of hits like Stock-Aitken-Waterman did?

Have you ever thought about this? In the 80s I believed with the best equipment you can produce a good song in a few hours. (Of course I believed it because SAW particulary did it). In the morning you write the song and the lyrics, at noon you have lunch with Rick Astley. After a hour of sleep you play the hole song down on the keyboard, add a drum-machine and than you record it. So you have enough time left to take the 5 o’clock tea together with Kylie, showing her the lyrics. After that you record her and the background vocals. At least the hole record is ready at 8 o’clock in the evening so that you can go out and watch for new talents in the club.

That would be nice, isn’t it? But it just isn’t reality. It’s hard work, day after day, that’s for sure and from my own little productions, also my Megamixes, I know that you are never ready with a production. There are always parts on a song which you can make better or try to put a further new sounds to it. That’s why I set myself a deadline where I say: “Now it’s ready! Now or never!” It would be interesting for me to know how SAW did this with their productions. Probably they must have had a deadline every 2^nd day!

To come to an end there’s left to say that in the moment we have great comebacks of Rick Astley and Kylie Minogue and with this their old songs from the 80s are more often played on the radio. There could be a chance that the sound of Stock-Aitken-Waterman will come back one day not far away but one thing is a matter of fact:

Stock-Aitken-Waterman are still the most successful music-producers in the world and I see no one in the moment who can take their place!


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