Plastik Funk Artist Bio

Plastik Funk is a music duo consisting of German-Spaniard Rafael Ximenez-Carrillo and Japanese Mikio Gruschinske.

Plastik Funk were formed in 2002 while Ximenez-Carrillo and Gruschinke were at high school. Ximenez-Carrillo was born in Madrid but emigrated to Grevenbroich, Nordrhein-Westfalen, whereas Gruschinke spent the former part of his life in Tokyo before settling in Berlin. They began DJing hip-hop at high school but after hearing the works of Frankie Knuckles and David Morales, switched to house. They met after becoming the DJs at two different nightclubs in Düsseldorf.

Their largest hit, Who, was first released in 2012 and gained the acclaim of Avicii, and was played at the Miami club the Winter Music Conference. Following its success, they toured all over the world and started living in Spain. In 2014, Who was remixed and turned into Dr. Who! ft. Sneakbo, which charted at #21 on the UK Singles Chart.

In 2018 Ximenez-Carrillo start touring without Gruschinske, because Gruschinske had problems with his back. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.