Background
Haas was born in Aichach and moved to Berlin.
Haas was born in Aichach and moved to Berlin.
He heavily influenced the German music scene of the 1980s through his work on the synthesizer (Korg Mississippi-20) with bands such as Minus Delta t, Doctorate.A.F., CHBB/Liaisons Dangereuses and Crime & the City Solution. He is regarded as one of the founding fathers of techno and modern electronic dance music His former Doctorate.A.F bandmate Gabi Delgado said in 2015 that "Chrislo Haas influenced me more than Robert, in his extreme, über-punk way.
Chrislo was a natural-born provocateur, which I liked." Haas" work was extensively documented in Verschwende Deine Jugend (Waste Your Youth), Jürgen Teipel"s book on the Neue Deutsche Welle.
Haas died in late October 2004 at the age of 47 years in Berlin from circulatory collapse due to excessive alcohol consumption.
He was also a member of Crime & the City Solution.