Move D

German artist David Moufang, performing solo under the Move D moniker, has amassed an extensive catalog of joint projects that rank among the strongest statements in ambient techno and deep house across the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s. Among these partnerships, those with Pete Namlook stand out most prominently, alongside repeated work with Benjamin Brunn, Jonas Grossman under the Deep Space Network name, Juju & Jordash as Magic Mountain High, and Jonah Sharp as Reagenz.

Moufang established Source Records in Heidelberg, Germany, alongside Grossman in 1992, and the two issued their initial recordings that year under the Earth to Infinity alias. Their first Deep Space Network full-length, Big Rooms, followed in 1993 and reached U.S. listeners via Instinct. During 1994 and 1995 Moufang broadened his output considerably, delivering the solo album Solitaire on Fax, the inaugural Move D LP Kunststoff on Source, and a self-titled Reagenz collaboration with Jonah Sharp on Reflective.

The pattern of simultaneous projects persisted into 1996, when he issued the Move D album Exploring the Psychedelic Landscape, began his first sessions with Pete Namlook, and added two further Deep Space Network releases: Deep Space Network Meets Higher Intelligence Agency and Traffic: Live at the Love Parade. The following year he formed the ambient jazz ensemble Conjoint.

Throughout the 2000s Moufang concentrated primarily on Move D material, producing the solo sets Pop for Dwoozle in 2004 and Tonspuren 1-10 in 2007, four albums with Thomas Meinecke, two with Benjamin Brunn, and more than twenty with Pete Namlook. Additional LPs appeared from Reagenz, Deep Space Network, and Conjoint, while the new ensemble Studio Pankow also debuted.

The 2010s brought another Reagenz album plus two fresh collaborative ventures: Magic Mountain High with Juju & Jordash and the Mulholland Free Clinic, which united personnel from both Magic Mountain High and Reagenz. Moufang also recorded a live album with Jordan Czamanski under his own name. His most resonant statement arrived in 2014 with the Move D solo album The Silent Orbiter, dedicated to Pete Namlook, who had died two years earlier. That same year he mixed Fabric 74. Kunststoff, by then viewed as a contemporary classic, received a reissue on AVA Records in 2018. In 2019 Moufang presented his fifth Move D solo album, Building Bridges, on Aus Music, drawing together tracks gathered across his entire career.