Christoph de Babalon

Christoph de Babalon
Birth name	Christoph de Babalon
Origin	Hamburg, Germany
Genres	Breakcore, dark ambient, drum and bass, jungle
Occupation(s)	DJ, producer
Years active	1994–present
Labels	Cross Fade Enter Tainment, Digital Hardcore Records, TigerBeat6, Love Love Records, VIS
Associated acts	Übergang

Christoph de Babalon is a German record producer and DJ, best known for his work on Alec Empire's label Digital Hardcore Recordings. He also is the co-founder of the label Cross Fade Enter Tainment (CFET).

Christoph de Babalon was born in Hamburg, Germany and stayed there for most of his life until 1999 when he moved to Berlin. After releasing a few recordings on smaller record labels in Germany and his own Cross Fade Entertainment Imprint, and being heralded as a favorite on John Peel's radio show in 1994, de Babalon signed to DHR in 1996, releasing a few EPs and later releasing his only full-length album for the label, If You're Into It, I'm Out of It in 1997. De Babalon was signed after he brefriended label operator Alec Empire at a rave in 1994.

The album was well received and gained mostly positive reviews, with Radiohead frontman Thom Yorke describing it as "the most menacing record [he] owns", but in sound was different to other DHR releases, offering a new vision of electronic music that varied greatly from that of artists such as Atari Teenage Riot and EC8OR, who used industrial sounds with hardcore punk and gabber influences. With the release of If You're Into It, I'm Out of It, de Babalon solidified his signature sound as a combination of extreme complexity in construction and complete experimentation in form. Songs span many electronic genres including noise, soundscapes, dark ambient, drum and bass and breakcore. Some of his tracks are also known for their length, lasting up to 15 minutes.

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