Christoph Umbeck, better known under his stage name "UMSE",
has been running this marathon
for a while now. Between 2005 and 2025, he has released eleven albums
albums, including
three EPs and eight albums. Sometimes it was a concept album "Rheinisches
Blatt", sometimes simply "Kunst für
itself" and sometimes it was "Through the Cloud Cover", to name just a few titles.
to name just a few titles. In these 20
years, UMSE has collaborated with a whole host of names from the music scene, including
collaborations, including
Megaloh, Aphroe, Afrob and Masta Ace, for example.
After UMSE's collaboration with producer legend Nottz in 2020, which led to
the album "UNO"
album "UNO", he has also returned to the topics of beat production
and sampling again
and finally produced the record "Séparée" in 2022 completely on his own
produced - music and lyrics
as well as the organization of the designs,
cover artwork and the videos,
as he has been producing his music without a label since 2021 and only with the support
with the support of the distributor "Groove
Attack" distribution company.
2025 will now see the release of his new, now ninth album entitled
"Immune System", which he
once again produced independently in his home studio.
UMSE has distinguished himself through his own sophisticated rap style, the samples
samples used and the way
and the way he flips them, his dry drums and concise basslines
bass-lines he has created his own
world of sound that consistently picks up where the album "Séparée"
2022 ended.
An uncompromising, fresh UMSE sound that reveals various other facets
of his taste,
life and character. The feature guests also speak
speak for themselves.
There are ten new tracks, all with a video, film off