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SCHAUMGUMMI the singer was born Paul Dittman in an area of Germany known as "Sourland". Paul's parents soon emigrated to Austria. Paul's father was a teacher at the Vienna conservatory of music. One of Herr Dittman's star students was Johann Hoeltzel later known to the world as FALCO. After watching Paul eat a bag of marshmallows for lunch every day for a month, FALCO named Paul "SCHAUMGUMMI" FALCO took SCHAUMGUMMI under his wing and SCHAUMGUMMI followed FALCO to the burgeoning punk scene in Berlin and would often have this eleven year olds punk band: "FUCK YOU - SPACEMAN" open for him.

SCHAUMGUMMI wandered the punk/Neue deutsche Welle streets of Germany and Austria throughout the eighties-recording a noise record with other homeless geniuses: Maschine Zwiebel Geld(1989). Which was released on vinyl with pieces of glass and safety pins embedded in the vinyl.

Disenchanted by the fading of punk- SCHAUMGUMMI turned to sculpture with a series of steel 17' high marshmallows - which he placed in fields, WWII battle sights and old parade grounds around Germany (the one at Zoologischer Garten was removed before reporters and authorities arrived-and was subsequently denied his diploma from university for the stunt).

Turned on by what he called the "Second coming of Punk" SCHAUMGUMMI was inspired by the early rave scene and was given an old fairlight synthesizer by a crazy techno DJ at the first Love Parade and has been a cornerstone ever since with a series of 12" anonymous dance singles that have lead to the 4minute pop masterpiece- SCHAUMGUMMI.

SCHAUMGUMMI spent some of the nineties DJing under different names-some of which were: Afrikka Bambatta, Fat Boy Slim, Moby, Carl Craig, etc. Promoters didn"t know what a DJ looked like most of the time, so sometimes when one went to a rave to see a famous DJ they might have accidentally/unknowingly seen SCHAUMGUMMI-being his little devilish selfs.