SLAPPER

About SLAPPER

Slapper is a pseudonym used by Romanian-based electronic musician, DJ and record producer Claudiu-Gabriel Tache. Slapper is a pseudonym used by Romanian-based electronic musician, DJ and record producer Claudiu-Gabriel Tache. He was born on 11 August 1975, in Bucharest. Slapper began DJing at school parties and started his career as an amateur musician, making music using his PC's tracker software. As his interest in music production rapidly grew, he moved on to more serious production techniques and experimented with techno/ambient/trance music in the solo project Slapper, founded in 1998.
In parallel with his work, Slapper join several acts in Bucharest scenes. In may 2005 he was a part of the first live Romanian Tribute to Depeche Mode, with vocalist Iulia Gherasim and guitarist Marius Draghici. In november 2005 Slapper join at keyboards the pop-rock band Aria and started a new musical project called Take2 with the band's vocalist Daniel Tache ("Drimm"). In march 2006, joined by keyboardist/guitarist Alexandru Chiciu ("Lex") Take2 project became the new-wave/synth-pop band Alfa who plays three live tributes to Depeche Mode anticipating the first concert in Romania of their idols (23 juin 2006, Bucharest). One of this concerts was filmed by the team of Brown Owl