Artist, DJ, conceptualist and ambassador, more than anyone else in modern electronic music, Richie Hawtin has relentlessly proved himself to be a true innovator.
Artist, DJ, conceptualist and ambassador, more than anyone else in modern electronic music, Richie Hawtin has relentlessly proved himself to be a true innovator.
Following two very successful 12″s, one EP and one full length album on Trapez, plus several 12″s on his own label CMYK, Madrid’s Alex Under has become one of the most sought after techno artists and DJs in Spain.
The musical project ATEQ is marked by recurring gentle waves of electronic loops seamlessly integrated into each other, growing into a unique feeling sound crawling toward its climax.
With 13 years behind them as a creative partnership Anthony Middleton and Luca Saporito AKA Audiofly have accumulated unparalleled experience through their endeavours and continue to put everything into maintaining their careers at the highest level. After a chance meeting in 2002, the two men have established a creative empire, which includes two record labels, […]
I think almost everyone can recall a defining moment in their lives where they have enjoyed music on a higher level.
Berlin born DJ, producer and label owner Ben Klock is without a doubt one of the most significant characters in techno’s recent history. A resident at Berghain since its opening in 2004, he has been able to leave his mark on the club’s unique sound, in turn the special space influenced Klock’s approach as a […]
On the paper, Blind Observatory could look like to a lot of Berlin-based dj: young, discreet and expressing a deep interest to techno. But amongst the young guns established in his city, he has a singular style. Playing on numerous repertoires and sometimes during long-length sets, he never falls in the category of linear and […]
Charlie is an artistic soul from Malmö, Sweden. He is known for his deep, yet organic house and techno. Drum machines and acid synths meets rhythmic percussion, piano and dubby soundscapes. He spent the summer of 2014 on Ibiza as one of five winners of Burn Residency, the worlds biggest dj competition. Besides djing on […]
Chris Liebing is dj, producer, radio host of a weekly show and the driving force behind the labels CLR and Spinclub Recordings. His sound has continuously evolved during his dj career, always true to his Techno roots. He was one of the first djs that used the new possibilities in the course of the digitalization […]
Christian Smith is one of the world’s leading exponents of inventive and diverse techno, both as a DJ and producer he is always bold and innovative, leading rather than following. In 2013 it is hard to imagine a list of prolific producers without his name towards the top.
Since the moment he spun his first record, Damian Lazarus’s mission has been a clear and urgent one: to blow away the mediocre, the over- inflated, the obsolete; to seek out and celebrate the energetic, the important, the new. Always rebelling, always going places. “…and to have fun in the process. Playing around with different […]
Daniel Miller is the founder and chairman of Mute, one of the world’s most innovative record labels and publishing companies, with a long history of Number One chart successes in the UK, US and Europe.
Dantiez (pronounced Don-Tezz) has only just begun his musical journey. Growing up in Detroit, the “Motor City” surrounded by the sounds of Techno, House, Soul and Jazz is proving to be the solid foundation that he will need as he ventures into what looks like a long and rich musical career producing, songwriting and DJing. […]
Rod Modell (a.k.a. Deepchord) is a sound-designer with 25 years involvement in electronic music and over 50 releases under various aliases and styles.
Dixon is the vice president of FC Magnet Mitte, owner of a bakery in Berlin, owner of Innervisions Recordings, a producer and a DJ.
Dj Tennis born in 1970 and raised between New Jersey, Sicily and Parma in a family where music was such a small thing. No relatives playing any musical instruments, nothing to play at home, no one giving music any special amount of love. But despite this, his creative and artistic attitude have always centered around music – singing, playing and collecting weird and noisy musical instruments at every turn.
Grammy-winning recording artist Dubfire is renowned for his seamless DJ sets, groundbreaking music, and his innovative label, SCI+TEC. Widely recognized as one of electronic music’s most versatile artists.
Ean Golden is a forward thinking performance dj that has played a major role in the development of digital djing throughout the world.
Etapp Kyle is on threshold of a new period of creative activity in a company of notable players of global techno scene.
“When you find a balance between a passion for music and a pure love of nightlife, you have found the perfect combination to build something unique”
‘My “bedroom” has always been a room full of gear that happened to have a bed in the corner.’
The most important thing to me was to try and create something unique, and to show that sometimes with a change of only one note in the harmony, the whole mood changes. Hopefully I achieved it.
Heidi has worked hard over the past decade to make her mark on the new house and techno music generation.
The Berlin-based DJ Hito was born and raised in Himeji, Japan. After she moved to the German capital in 1999 she developed her passion for minimal and ambivalent music pressed on vinyl.
Born and raised on Athersley South council estate in Barnsley, Daley was pretty much schooled for DJ success from birth. Growing up with four brothers and sisters meant an eclectic barrage of different genres in every room of the house. His dad also helped prepare Daley for house music stardom (or at least a high […]
A product of Sweden’s seemingly endless conveyor of techno talent, Ida Engberg has carved herself a career as a DJ/Producer through relentless hard work and passion. Now an internationally recognized talent whose taste for stripped back, sweat-on-the-ceiling techno and her discerning ear for deep house, Ida possesses a growing production catalogue as she ascends amongst the electronic music ranks.
Janina, a Berlin born & based DJ, and above all a pillar of the German electronic underground scene for more than twelve years. After dropping out school and having bought her first turntables in her early years, Janina built a deep knowledge of electronic music and developed a keen interest in vinyls, while working at […]
John Acquaviva (born in 1963 in Orsara di Puglia) is an Italian-born Canadian dj, producer artists and musical entrepreneur.
Julian Jeweil, a french artist based in southern France and Berlin, found his signature sound through his various productions and live sets, all characterised by a melodic style of techno.
Julian Perez developed a love for electronic music since the early 90’s. Influenced by the old school house & Tchno grooves, he shaped his style with Imports from Detroit, Chicago, UK. At 16, Julian started DJing as a hobby for friends, thanks to records by MK, Todd Terry, Carl Craig, Chez Damier, Paul Johnson, DJ Sneak…
Kim Ann Foxman is frustrated with the norm. Over the last two years she has been incubating and writing furtively. But having recently remixed (amongst others) The xx, and also collaborated with Maya Jane Coles, and Nick Anthony Simoncino’s alias Ron Jason, 2014 is now is the perfect time for Foxman to unfurl into her […]
After an early exposure to 90’s dance music and discovering acts like The Prodigy and Aphex Twin, Lee K’s obsession with electronic music was seeded. A half decade later, with curiosity piqued by DJ culture and the rave scene, her focus soon shifted to the decks. Following a stint at the iconic and now shuttered […]
Berlin based DJ, producer and label owner Len Faki is one of the most outstanding and in-demand artists in techno’s present age. He is an internationally requested dj, whose productions and remixes are played by techno’s most prominent names. Being a resident at Berlin’s prime techno club Berghain since its opening in 2004 keeps him […]
Miami Born Producer, DJ, and Ellum label boss Maceo Plex is one of techno’s most inspirational success stories, beginning his career as a DJ in 1993 playing a mixture of electro, detroit techno, and house.
Mano Le Tough has become one of the shooting stars of the international dance music scene. His impact has been so great that Kristian Beyer of Âme claimed recently in an interview that: “ Thanks to Mano Le Tough , I have no fears for the future of House “
Born and raised in the area of Hanover, Germany, Marc early discovered his passion for electronic music, growing up with the likes of Pink Floyd, the Alan Parsons Project and similar artists due to the listening habits of his parents.
Marc Houle has been wowing audiences for over a decade with a live performance that is constantly evolving night after night, in city after city, at clubs and festivals worldwide.
Ruff, rugged and raw. Mentioning Marcel Dettmann as well as his feeling for and vision of electronic music, his way of dealing with it, is impossible without these attributes.
Martin Buttrich is famously as fluent behind a mixing console as in front of a virtual drum kit. That technical prowess, combined with a fascination for music of every shape, has resulted in outstanding releases on influential labels such as Planet E, Four:Twenty, Cocoon, Poker Flat, Nervous and Desolat. He’s also put his sonic thumbprint on many big ticket artists, notably receiving a Grammy nomination for a Tori Amos remix in 2003.
The “Matador” project was born in Dublin in 2006, created by Gavin Lynch as a guise for the writing and release of music created in the early hours.
Depending on whom you ask, Matthew Dear is a DJ, a dance-music producer, an experimental pop artist, a bandleader. He co-founded both Ghostly International and its dancefloor offshoot, Spectral Sound. Hes had remixes commissioned by The XX, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Spoon, Hot Chip, The Postal Service, and Chemical Brothers; hes made mixes for Get Physicals Body […]
Matthew Hawtin’s creative oeuvre incorporates the visual and audible explored through different mediums.
Life has been changing quite dramatically for a 25 year old British-Japanese, producer/dj by the name of Maya Jane Coles on the brink of the release of her biggest body of work to date; her debut album “Comfort” things look set to keep on changing…
Grenoble born Caroline Hervé, aka Miss Kittin has over the past years become one of the most inspiring DJs and voices to emerge within the electronic music scene. Alongside long-time production partner The Hacker, tracks such as ‘Frank Sinatra’ and ‘1982’ propelled them into the spotlight, whilst further collaborations with fellow feline Felix Da Housecat’s […]
Neel is an artist who pays close attention to the technical aspect of sound whether producing in the studio, DJing or playing live around the world. His considered output fuses rhythm and texture with techno and ambience in hugely captivating ways, as proved by his latest LP Phobos, which was well received by all media […]
Ness began his electronic music journey in the late 90’s and his evolving interest and passion soon encouraged him to start a dj career experimenting with various genres – from trance to pure experimental.
Producer, DJ, Singer and without doubt one of the most influential voices in the underground electronic world.
One of Spain ́s most representative DJs and producers, so much so that he has forged a very important position among the European artists with greatest projection worldwide.
Petar Dundov runs his own ‘Neumatik’ studio in Zagreb where he works as a sound engineer as well as producing his own take on techno, ambient and electronica, much to the liking of respected artists such as Carl Craig, Sven Väth or François K.
Richie Hawtin is many things – an extraordinary DJ, creator of the ENTER. Experience in Ibiza, mastermind behind the Minus label, technological innovator, art aficionado, style icon. Before this, though, and perhaps most famously of all, he was and is Plastikman, an electronic music phenomenon whose followers are legion and fanatic. Between 1993 and 2003 […]
Emerging into the underground electronic music scene in 2010, the sounds of Martin Jenkins’ Pye Corner Audio were first heard through his self-released Black Mill Tapes.
Randall M, a Hip-Hop DJ in Orlando at the time was brought by friends to Space Miami where he was introduced to the sound of underground house and techno.
A longtime collector of music, Recondite had his first experience with drum machines and hardware synths just a few years ago in a small studio next to the forest in lower Bavaria. It wasn’t long after that he moved to Berlin to build up Plangent Records, where the artist rapidly established his name.
Rødhåd has been socialized by Berlin’s looptechno nights and always finds the perfect balance of timeless techno to lift the dancefloor higher and higher. His style is always deep, powerful and melancholic – from dubtechno to techno and back to house. A technological society, a mechanist present, an industrial era… long and dark nights, warehouses, […]
Hodder grew up in wild Wales on a steady diet of 60’s music, glam, punk and disco. Having moved to London and been thrown out of his final indie guitar band in the mid 1980’s for “liking Prince”.
Skream’s sound and approach might have evolved significantly over the years, but the music of Skream, aka Oliver Jones, is still meant to be physically experienced as much as heard. His productions and DJ sets are possessed of a uniquely rude, rave-inspired energy, making his natural habitat a packed, kinetically charged dancefloor. T hat characteristic […]
Solomun plays a major role in redefining European house music with productions, remixes and DJing by taking the very building blocks of house and deftly reconstructing them with a modern twist. A respected underground producer for a number of years, his stratospheric rise in popularity kicked off in 2012, already before the reader’s polls of […]
A dynamic producer with a firm understanding of what it takes to move a dancefloor, Subb-an’s music has more than a little mystery about it. His productions are deep, raw, soul heavy and although always achingly relevant, glance backwards through a long lineage of house masters. As a DJ, his sets pass between house and […]
A man whose commitment has influenced electronic music all over the world: Sven Väth. Unerring visionary and global player, possessing the most legendary reputation imaginable. Charismatic head of Cocoon, Ibiza pioneer and universally loved. Enigmatic figurehead of the German techno scene, passionate DJ pioneer and for many of us simply „Babba“.
All good music should tell a story. Tales of experience. Tales of joy. Tales of love lost and won. A Tale of Us.
.thejass. is a DJ, visual artist, and video director based in Brooklyn, NY USA whose underworld creations take a firm place in the dark subconscious. DJing experimental electronic music that is built up with cinematic soundscapes, taken down with deep ambient, then dragged around with drone metal, a .thejass. DJ mix creates a haunting experience for the mind.
It took tINI only a few years of playing in clubs to become one of Germany’s most highly acclaimed female artists in techno and house music.
Andreas Tilliander has since the debut album “Ljud” (2001), continuously developed and modified his sound. It has sounded pop on “World Industries” and noise on “Hateless” (the latter under the Mokira monicker), but it has never sounded as the record to be released in the end of January next year (a 12″ with remixes by praised artist Morphosis will be out as soon as 28th of November).
The words “world-renowned” and “influential” get thrown around all too often these days, to the point of almost becoming cliché. While few artists actually measure up, all it takes is one look at Victor Calderone’s 20+year track record and the facts speak for themselves. From past collaborations with some of the biggest names in pop […]
Donato Dozzy and Neel are Voices From The Lake, a duo that has redefined techno both in the live arena and in album format.
Wehbba is one of Brazil’s main electronic music ambassadors. Born Rodolfo Wehba, in São Paulo, this former dentist has been spinning house and techno music records for about a decade, working the crowds worldwide ever since his first international records got released, back in 2006. Wehbba has been an active producer for the past 8 […]