Biography
Carsten Jost, a German producer and DJ whose real name is David Lieske, helped establish the techno imprint Dial as one of its three co-founders in Hamburg in 1999 alongside Peter M. Kersten, known as Sten and Lawrence, and Paul Kominek, who records as Turner and Pawel. Since the late 1990s his output has remained atmospheric and minimal, yet the style shifted over time from the brittle, haunting techno heard on the 2001 album You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows toward the melodic, shimmering house of the 2022 release La Collectionneuse.
Dial quickly became recognized for atmospheric minimal techno after issuing widely praised albums by Pantha du Prince, Efdemin, and Roman Flügel. Jost began placing his own material on the label in 2000; those early recordings were sparse and glitchy, presenting a colder, darker interpretation of the microhouse sound then prevalent in underground dance music. After the EPs Elmenreich and Make Pigs Pay, his debut full-length You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows appeared as a co-release on Dial and Ladomat 2000 in late 2001. Further EPs came out on Klang Elektronik and Sender Records, while he supplied remixes for Swayzak, Tocotronic, Phantom Ghost, and additional artists.
During the mid-2000s Jost moved into a warmer, more melodic strain of deep house that retained an undercurrent of melancholy. In 2007 he issued the single Atlantis 1 and 2 together with a split 12-inch alongside Efdemin. After a period of absence he returned in 2011 with a split single shared with Lawrence; he and Efdemin also reworked the Pantha du Prince track “Stick to My Side,” which features Panda Bear. In 2016 he resurfaced once more as one half of the duo Misanthrope CA with Robert Kulisek, issuing the dark drone album Deathbridge.
His long-delayed second solo album, Perishable Tactics, arrived in 2017. The 2020 digital compilation Days Gone By (2002-2012) gathered non-album tracks and remixes, and the third album, La Collectionneuse, followed in 2022 with some of his most laid-back deep house material. Three subsequent remix EPs each contained one new original track by Jost that continued in the same vein.
Dial quickly became recognized for atmospheric minimal techno after issuing widely praised albums by Pantha du Prince, Efdemin, and Roman Flügel. Jost began placing his own material on the label in 2000; those early recordings were sparse and glitchy, presenting a colder, darker interpretation of the microhouse sound then prevalent in underground dance music. After the EPs Elmenreich and Make Pigs Pay, his debut full-length You Don't Need a Weatherman to Know Which Way the Wind Blows appeared as a co-release on Dial and Ladomat 2000 in late 2001. Further EPs came out on Klang Elektronik and Sender Records, while he supplied remixes for Swayzak, Tocotronic, Phantom Ghost, and additional artists.
During the mid-2000s Jost moved into a warmer, more melodic strain of deep house that retained an undercurrent of melancholy. In 2007 he issued the single Atlantis 1 and 2 together with a split 12-inch alongside Efdemin. After a period of absence he returned in 2011 with a split single shared with Lawrence; he and Efdemin also reworked the Pantha du Prince track “Stick to My Side,” which features Panda Bear. In 2016 he resurfaced once more as one half of the duo Misanthrope CA with Robert Kulisek, issuing the dark drone album Deathbridge.
His long-delayed second solo album, Perishable Tactics, arrived in 2017. The 2020 digital compilation Days Gone By (2002-2012) gathered non-album tracks and remixes, and the third album, La Collectionneuse, followed in 2022 with some of his most laid-back deep house material. Three subsequent remix EPs each contained one new original track by Jost that continued in the same vein.
Albums
Singles
