Claas Sandbothe is freelance drummer, but also performs as DBA.



The German born musician went to London for a year in 1996. There Sandbothe became a (tabla) student of Talvin Singh , who also introduced him to production and dj-ing. A year later he started working with Singh and Friedel Lelonek (Singh's Engineer) in their studios.



Claas Sandbothe played his first dj-set at Anokha in 1998. There he had the freedom to develop his own style by mixing Indian and African sounds with UK breakbeats and DnB - and became a resident in 2000.



Since then Claas Sandbothe has done tours with Talvin Singh and worked together with Cleveland Warkiss (UK), Smadj (FR), DJ Equal-i (UK), Reflections Band (GER), Culture Clash Sound System (GER) among others.



Since 2003 Claas Sandbothe is Friedel Lelonek's label and production partner at "1K Records".