Let?s move back in time, to around 2001, when the legendary electronic music club ?Ultraschall? still existed, two people got to know each other, and how meaningful this moment was, surrounded by experimental electronic music, could not have been said at that time. Stefan Holmeier was dj in the ?green room? from time to time and Maximilian Pisec was light engineer in the club. After a few conversations they both decided to play music together ? just to try it out. They knew that they were different in many ways, but their was a bonding between them: their love for music. They realised that their approaches worked out great together: one complemented the other ? Splits & Slits was born. During the years the Munich-born music-obsessed and the Slovenian technic gadget nerd played a lot of live sets. First in a tiny bedroom studio, now in their own studio the two create their typical sound. During a stay in Munich Anthony ?Shake? Shakir heard a demo version of the song ?Hammering? and was so thrilled by it, that he decided he wanted to release it on his own label Frictional. Striking about the 12-inch is the way it was done. The basement is the track ?Hammering?, a techno track that uses a sample of a work song from an historical recording dating from the 1930s. The swinging-souly voices are combined with a clear and funky beat that pushes you forward, and you won?t forget the voice for a long time, even after the track has been listened to multiple times. After that Anthony ?Shake? Shakir created a remix that afterwards was again remixed by Splits & Slits.