Apparat
	Homelabel Shitkatapult	Sascha Ring, a.k.a Apparat, regards his move from the provincial backwaters of eastern Germany to Berlin in 1997 as one of the best decisions he has ever made. Since 1999 he runs, together with T.Raumschmiere and Daniel Meteo, the Berlin based record...

	Modeselektor
	Homelabel BPitch Control	The insight that producing intelligent dance music does not necessarily rule out a self-depreciating sense of humour and an insatiable taste for partying might be Modeselektor's prime achievement and the single most important ingredient of their...

	Basic Channel
	Homelabel Basic Channel	Basic Channel is the project of Moritz von Oswald and Mark Ernestus, owners of Berlin's well known record store Hardwax and the Dubplates & Mastering studios. Commonly credited for developing the dub-techno style with their first releases in 1994 and...

	Rhythm & Sound
	Rhythm & Sound is the name used by Basic Channel's Mark Ernestus and Moritz von Oswald for their dub reggae productions, which join a slowed down Basic Channel sound with the vocal talents of original dub reggae artists like Cornell Campbell, The Chosen Brothers, and Sugar Minott.

	Pole
	Homelabel ~scape	Stefan Betke, a.k.a. Pole, must be considered one of the most influential figures in the German electronic music scene, not only for his unique production work, but also as co-owner of the ground-breaking ~scape label and as a gifted mastering engineer...

	Ricardo Villalobos
	One of the currently hottest names in electronic dance music, Ricardo Villalobos was born in Santiago de Chile, but raised in the vicinity of Frankfurt, where his family moved to after the military coup of 1973. Villalobos has become something of a global techno evangelist in recent years, travelling the world with his record bag...

	Tiefschwarz
	Tiefschwarz was formed in 1996 by two brothers - Alexander and Sebastian Schwarz - who have been successful DJs for over a decade. Peter Hoff, who runs the Benztown studios in Stuttgart, completes the Tiefschwarz production team. Ali and Basti came up with the name for their project after a DJ Gig. Tiefschwarz, which is German for...

	Dirt Crew
	Homelabel Dirt Crew Recordings	Consisting of Berlin-based producers James Flavour and Break 3000, the Dirt Crew has quickly become synonymous for a new breed of electro-flavoured house music. After releasing their first two EPs 'Cleaning up the Ghetto Part 1+2' on the My Best Friend...

	Sasse
	Homelabel Mood Music	Owner, A-R, main producer of Mood Music and all-around good guy in the business since 15 years, Sasse a.k.a. Freestyle Man is cooked in quite a many musical soups since he started DJing in the late 80s. Coming from the nordic country of Finland, he is...

	Henrik Schwarz
	Combining a sense for deepness and soul with impeccable production skills has established Henrik Schwarz firmly at the top of the international deep house elite. In 2005, he was chosen to compile one of !K7's exclusive DJ-Kicks compilations, a chance he used to pay tribute to his diverse musical influences ranging from Moondog over...

	Jesse Rose
	Since his move from London to Berlin in 2006 and next to being a well known producer and frequently booked DJ throughout the world, Jesse Rose quickly established himself as stronghold in the city's club scene with his regular club night at the Panoramabar. It is called 'Made To Play', like one of his labels, and promotes his own...

	Kiki
	Homelabel BPitch Control	Kiki is an acclaimed producer and and a DJ based in Berlin. He was born as Joakim Ijäs in Finland and is famous for his versatile wildstyle productions which are a mixture of hi-nrg-tech-house, glamour, mystery and hilarious sampler explosions. Kiki's...

	Simon Baker
	Homelabel Infant	Simon Baker is fast becoming a major player in the global electronic music community. Working steadily through the ranks at 2020Vision after producing his first single 'The Lip Trick' in 2004 he has worked, fine-tuned and greatly improved his production...

	Redshape
	Homelabel Present	Masked producer Redshape first appeared on the scene in 2006 and his elegant productions of Detroit-influenced techno had people immediately guessing about the origins of this mystery man. His productions have so far appeared on labels such as Delsin,...

	Efdemin
	Homelabel Dial	Philipp Sollmann releases under the name Efdemin since his debut 'Joni' on Dial Records in 2001, showing his very own production approach combining the past, present and future of techno and house music. After his track 'Bergwein' became a big hit in 2006...

	Boys Noize
	Hamburg born Alexander Ridha had a couple of Club House hits (Topless, Fame) at the beginning of the millenium as Kid Alex. Since his move to Berlin he calls himself Boys Noize. After a pretty impressive list of outstanding remixes for amongst others Depeche Mode, Bloc Party und Justice brought him not only an electrified crowd but...

	M.A.N.D.Y.
	Homelabel Get Physical Music	Alter Ego of Patrick Bodmer and Philipp Jung, co-founders of Get Physical Music, electronic producers and remixers du-jour. M.A.N.D.Y have a unique electronic sound that is as funky as it's dark. And very very danceable.

	Eric D. Clark
	Homelabel Firm	Eric D. Clark is a Jack of all trades. Together with Hans Nieswandt and Justus Köhncke he set out from Cologne to bring his philosophy of House music to the world under the name Whirlpool Productions, dropping the international smash hit "From Disco to...

	Smash TV
	Homelabel BPitch Control	Smash TV was started by Berlin-based musicians Holger Zilske and Michael Schmidt, the latter leaving the group after the first couple of releases, including the highly acclaimed 2001 album 'Electrified.

	Tigerskin
	Tigerskin is the alter ego of German producer Alex Krüger (a.k.a. Dub Taylor and Korsakow). Releases on labels such as Morris / Audio and Dirt Crew Recordings under his diverse monikers have made him one of the respected producers in the German electronic music circuit. Born and bred in Berlin, Alex has been carefully...

	TokTok
	Berlin based TokTok collective started out with rough analogue acid techno on labels like Acid Orange or Parsec before being signed to BPitch Control and scoring a massive chart hit with 'Missy Queen's Gonna Die', recorded together with Soffy O. They haven't dropped the ball ever since, releasing mostly on their own TokTok...

	Robosonic
	Homelabel Diskomafia	Berlin-based duo Robosonic consists of DJs Sacha Robotti and Cord Henning "Schall" Labuhn and is dedicated to a modern and mashed-up style of techno and electro. Ecstatic and eclectic but nevertheless reflective, as their record artwork mocking book...

	P.Toile
	Homelabel Trenton Records	From Berlin to Beirut: If you're are lucky you'll meet P.Toile with her record bag somewhere along the way. With a history as a record shop owner ("Startbeat" in Kiel), DJ and promoter, Claudia Marquardt got into production in 2005, with her fabulous funk...

	Dan Curtin
	Homelabel Metamorphic Recordings	Dan Curtin's fascination with music was sparked when he discovered East Coast hip hop while still in primary school. Hip hop, along with new wave, electro, and other sonic innovations of the Eighties began to loom large in his life, and it was only a...

	Mocky
	Mocky (real name Dominic Salole) first got international attention with his infamous Zoo concerts in 2001-2002. His first Album "In Mesopotamia" found a following of loyal fans who appreciated the interesting mixtures of sound and the songwriting and introspective rapping. The suprise success of his song "Sweet Music" proved the...

	Stewart Walker
	Homelabel Persona Records	After selling his guitar and abandoning lead singer and rock ambitions in 1993, Stewart Walker started to assemble a synthesizer-based hardware studio. He'd work his supermarket job during the day and come home to a dim room with blinking lights. Starting...

	Touane
	Homelabel Persona Records	Touane is producer and DJ Marco Tonni, born in 1979 in Rimini, who after a few years of living in Bologna left Italy for good in 2004 and settled down in Berlin. After fulfilling the cliché of an Italian emigrant in Germany by working as a pizza maker,...

	James Flavour
	Homelabel Dirt Crew Recordings	Being around the Berlin nightlife for a couple of years James continously presents his own style of house music to the audience. In 1997 he started DJing at the famous Tresor Club where he plays on saturdays once a month. His dirty and funky sets made him...

	Khan
	Homelabel I'm Single	Raised in Frankfurt, Germany to Turkish-Finnish parents, Khan is an extremely prolific producer. Describing him as a restless vagabond is not really quite enough. He's a world resident (currently based in Berlin, after previously residing in New York,...

	MIA
	Homelabel Sub Static	Leaving her home-base Cologne in 2004 for German capital Berlin, Mia has become one of the leading figures of the international minimal scene within recent years. Her productions, most prominently her recent album 'Bittersüss', blend a dubby minimalist...

	Captain Comatose
	Homelabel Playhouse	Captain Comatose are Khan & Snax releasing funky and effective Disco House since 1999 on labels like Playhouse, Kitsune and Mille Plateaux.

	Tom Clark
	Homelabel Highgrade Recordings	Tom Clark started his DJ career in 1993, soon thereafter gaining a residency in one of Berlin's most legendary clubs at the time, the 'E-werk'. Due to the enormous influence of this club, he started spinning in almost every location in Berlin, Germany and...

	Siriusmo
	Despite a number of prior contributions to Sonar Kollektiv or Bungalow, it was Siriusmo's brilliant remix of Modeselektor's 'Silikon' off their 2005 hit album 'Hello Mom!' that put the young Berlin based producer into the spotlight. His intricate brand of sample-heavy electro-funk continues to amaze - check his 'Allthegirls' EP for...

	Sun Electric
	Sun Electric released their first record on the legendary Belgian R&S Records label in 1990. Their first release 'O'Locco' received a great amount of attention, especially by The Orb's Alex Paterson, who considers Sun Electric as the co-inventors of ambient house. After years of extensive touring all over Europe, Japan and the US the...

	T.Raumschmiere
	Homelabel Shitkatapult	T.Raumschmiere is a man with many faces. You can see him either as drummer of his punk rock band The Crack Whore Society, as label boss and producer for his own Shitkatapult record label or as promoter of various club events in Berlin. T.Raumschmiere is...

	Dixon
	Homelabel Innervisions	This boy is a disc jockey in the truest sense of the word. His infamous 'Off Limits' DJ-mixes placed him firmly on the international map and his Wahoo project cemented his reputation as a soul boy. He now runs the label Innervisions together with Âme,...

	Memory Foundation
	Homelabel Central	Owners of the influential Central label, the Memory Foundation are Michael 'Duke' Peter and Martin Retschitzegger, also known as Hi-Lo, Ratio or The Skinless Brothers. The duo started out in 1995, recording for Robert Hood's genre-defining M-Plant...

	Jan Jelinek
	Homelabel ~scape	Jan Jelinek's approach is all about the transformation of sounds, about devising a method for translating the pathos of old Motown records or the excesses of funk into abstract, reduced electronics. More recently he has begun to work with loops, with...

	Reynold
	Homelabel Trenton Records	Sam Rouanet, who records under the name Reynold, has pioneered the minimal techno sound in Paris before moving to Berlin a few years ago. He runs the Trenton Records label and is part of the successful minimal house duo Duplex 100.

	Cassy
	Cassy was born in England and raised in Austria by a Caribbean father and an Austrian mother. After a few attempts at the university in Vienna and a Drama Training London she finally decided to fully concentrate on music. She moved to Berlin in 2003 and after a while gained her reputation as a house and minimal DJ. She has become a...

	Heiko Laux
	Homelabel Kanzleramt Music	Heiko Laux started his label Kanzleramt in 1994, in order to release his own material. His releases of powerful techno soon earned him the nickname 'The Hessen Techno Tiger' and in the meantime his label developed itself to one of the most important...

	Paul St. Hilaire
	Homelabel Burial Mix	To many the silky voice of Paul St. Hilaire, a.k.a. Tikiman, is more than familiar. Originally from the Caribbean he now resides in Kreuzberg, Berlin, from where he serves as the royal bard for many Rhythm & Sound productions as well as recording under...

	Electronicat
	Homelabel Disko B	Electronicat came to life in 1997 when Fred Bigot started mixing samples of vocals, guitars, analogue syths and drum machines to create a pounding, fuzzy, wah-wah distorted psychedelic electro sound that became his trademark. Since a few years he has...

	Daniel Meteo
	Homelabel Meteosound	Known as a huge influence within Berlin and as a driving force behind the Shitkatapult label's activities, Daniel Meteo's the master of dub and reggae, but infamously mistaken to be at home only in those genres. Meteo runs his own label Meteosound as part...

	Georg Levin
	Georg Levin is an unbelievably talented singer, songwriter, producer, and multi-instrumentalist based in Berlin. After some highly credited 12"s of which '(I Got) Somebody New' was even licensed to Masters At Work's MAW Records, he released his debut album 'Can't Hold Back' in October 2003. His unique style of 80s influence soul with...

	Break 3000
	Homelabel Dirt Crew Recordings	Peter Gijselaers, a.k.a Break 3000, started his music career as bass player in the indie/dance outfit 'Swains' in 1989, then soon got involved in house and techno production for the belgian 'KK' label. After DJing for several years he started releasing...

	Florian Meindl
	Homelabel Flash	In the beginning of his career the Austrian born Florian Meindl started producing music in the minimal/techno/house, nu-jazz, hip-hop, experimental and drum & bass genres. Besides positive aspects like the experiences out of the diversity of these...

	Nick Höppner
	Homelabel Ostgut	Head of the Ostgut Ton label and a longstanding constant as a DJ and producer for many years, Nick Höppner has kept himself busy with his highly credited project My My, together with his collegues Carsten Klemann and Lee Jones or as solo artist with fine...

	Prosumer
	Homelabel Ostgut	Achim Brandenburg (aka Prosumer) comes from Saarbruecken and now lives in Berlin. He is an expert in classic Chicago house and Detroit techno, but likewise embraces the classics of dance music never too shy to play tracks of the rich pop history. He...

	Len Faki
	When Len Faki moved to Berlin in 2003, he already looked back to years of fruitful productivity and the management of two highly acclaimed techno labels: Monoid and Feis. There, he had attracted artists such as Samuel L. Session, John Selway, Umek and The Hacker, with numerous releases. His move to Berlin marked a decisive...

	Marcel Dettmann
	Homelabel Ostgut	Three hours ago he had caught the last train after a gig in Leipzig, heading for his set in Berlin the very same night. But Dettmann missed to get off - and suddenly has found himself stuck at dead end Hamburg main station: no trains till morning, no one...

	Ben Klock
	Homelabel Ostgut	In his DJ sets Ben Klock is aiming at creating an atmosphere that is based on a deep sound, accumulating over long phases into something euphoric in order to explode at the end. In brief: Euphoria with a rough bass. Even a party atmosphere where hands...

	Tama Sumo
	Homelabel Ostgut	Tama Sumo is a phenomenon in the already colourful world of DJs and their capital Berlin. Having been a resident at the famous Tresor from its beginning until it closed down she sharpened her skills to such extent that it is no exaggeration to call her...

	Marcel Fengler
	Homelabel Ostgut	Marcel Fengler´s musical influences present themselves double tracked. His early teenager years are stamped by HipHop from crews like NWA, Gang Starr and A Tribe called Quest, who have been his undisputed heroes. Even today, Fengler spins some HipHop, but...

	Dapayk
	Homelabel Mo's Ferry Productions	Over the course of time, Niklas Worgt has used his share of project names. His most well known would have to be Dapayk. Since 1993 Niklas has crafted his own tracks. Cuts with Drum&Bass and Breakbeat sport the same difference as Pumpin' Techno and...

	Fenin
	Homelabel Shitkatapult	Lars Fenin became involved in making music as a guitarist in several of his home town Hamburg's post-wave/reggae-bands during the late 80s. After several visits to Berlin in 1992 he decided to move there and found himself in a rapidly developing...

	Booka Shade
	Homelabel Get Physical Music	Arguably Germany's most famous musical Export since Kraftwerk. Booka Shade cemented their position in dance music history with the release of 'Movements' in 2006, their second album, and first full-length studio effort. With their 3rd album released in...

	DJ T.
	Homelabel Get Physical Music	Co-founder of Get Physical Music with Booka Shade and M.A.N.D.Y., DJ T. is know for his slick, early electro and disco influenced productions, all brought together on his must have debut album, 'Boogie Playground'.

	Argy
	Homelabel Cocoon Recordings	Jumping to the attention of everybody with his debut release Love Dose, remixed to huge effect by Luciano, and played everywhere from Sao Palo to Salford, Argy could not have made a bigger splash. Releasing records and remixes on Morris Audio, Poker Flat...

	My My
	Homelabel Playhouse	As My My Carsten Klemann, Lee Jones and Nick Höppner have built a reputation as Berlin's hottest house producers over the last few years, releasing on Playhouse and most recently Ostgut Ton, which is managed by Nick Höppner himself.

	Frivolous
	Homelabel Karloff	Daniel Gardner, a.k.a Friviolous, is best known for his releases on the Karloff label and most recently on ~scape, where he delivers his own version of experimental house that stretches the definition of the genre as far as possible. His tracks liberally...

	Falko Brocksieper
	Homelabel Sub Static	Co-owner of Sub Static label, Falko Brocksieper has been a busy man over the past years. With his productions he managed to define his own style of hypnotic minimalism and analogue sound aesthetics. Being a skilled DJ as well, he is a man in demand behind...

	Ellen Allien
	Homelabel BPitch Control	The First Lady of German techno with an ongoing career for over ten years, DJ, producer, BPitch Control label boss and A&R Ellen Allien is well known not only to regular followers of the electronic music movement. She has come a long way from her first...

	Monika Kruse
	Homelabel Terminal M	Former First Lady of Munich's techno scene Monika Kruse now resides in Berlin, from where she runs her Terminal M label and travels the world as a busily booked DJ.

	Oliver Koletzki
	Homelabel Stil Vor Talent Records	Originally born in the West German town of Braunschweig, Oliver Koletzki moved to Berlin once grown out of his C64 and German hip hop days to study music and create some of his own. Hanging out at Berlin's Watergate club he got inspiration for his track...

	Phon.o
	Homelabel Shitkatapult	With a number of releases on labels such as Detroit Underground and Shitkatapult, Phon.O, or Carsten Aermes to his mum, has pioneered a tough electronic sound that sits somewhere in between the twin towers of house & techno. Getting his break...

	Aaron Hedges
	Homelabel District of Corruption	Aaron Hedges has done a lot with his love of music. With both inspiration and motivation, he said good-bye to his friends and family in Washington, DC in 2004 and made the 5000-mile move to Berlin. With his laptop, music, and purpose in mind; Aaron knew...

	Jahcoozi
	Possibly the epicentre of the current 'Berlin bass' trend, Jahcoozi are a band formed by Oren Gerlitz, Robot Koch and London born singer Sasha Perera, mashing up broken beats, heavy basslines and Sasha's smooth vocal style.

	Peter Grummich
	With releases on Shitkatapult, Morris Audio and District Of Corruption, Peter Grummich champions the hard, Teutonic heart of techno. As far as away from the clicky, fashionable sounds of now, as is possible Peter Grummich remains fresh by sticking to what he knows, and does, best; techno to punish your mind, and your feet at 8am in...

	Seelenluft
	Homelabel Klein Records	Probably the only zero" artist who has recorded music for a synchronised swimming team, Seelenluft straddles many styles of electronic music. From easy listening inspired albums, trumpet playing alter egos and crazy funk Seelenluft's output is anything...

	Sascha Funke
	Homelabel BPitch Control	A kind of techno that sways between the polarity of emotional overload and concrete rationale - hence immediacy, which is what Sascha Funke is all about.

	Substance
	Homelabel Scion Versions	Long-standing member of Berlin's Hardwax posse, DJ Pete a.k.a. Substance started recording memorable abstract dub techno releases for Basic Channel offshoot Chain Reaction during the mid-90s, both alone and together with long-time friend and partner...

	Jay Haze
	Homelabel Tuning Spork Records	Berlin based Jay Haze is one of the more ambitious figures on the city's music scene. His recent 'Love & Beyond' album took in 3 CDs worth of material, as well as a number of complementary remixes from the likes of Ricardo Villalobos, with whom he also...

	Quarion
	Homelabel Drumpoet Community	Alter ego of nu-jazz producer Laneq. With a focus more on the deeper side of house and techno, Quarion's productions and remixes on the labels such as Drumpoet Community and Kompakt have quickly found themselves a cult following.

	Phonique
	Homelabel Dessous Recordings	Coming first to everyone's attention with the release of his debut album Identification in 2005, Phonique quickly established himself as a DJ and producer at the forefront of techy, electronic club music. His most recent album, 'Good Idea' saw the man...

	Shed
	Long-standing member of Berlin's Hardwax posse, Shed runs his own labels Soloaction and records for Dutch Detroit-techno outfit Delsin Records. His highly acclaimed debut album 'Shedding The Past' has just appeared on Ostgut Ton.

	Steve Bug
	Homelabel Poker Flat Recordings	Hairdresser, DJ, mega label boss. Steve Bug's ascent to the top of the dance music tree did not really start out in the same way as most of his contemporaries. With a recording career that stretches back over 15 years, a literal age in dance music terms,...

	Pacou
	Homelabel Tresor	Born and bred in Berlin, Pacou joined the Tresor family in the mid-90s, releasing his debut album 'Symbolic Language' in 1997. Besides Tresor he has recorded numerous 12" for Dutch label Djax-Up-Beats and famously co-produced Juan Atkins' 'The Berlin...

	Anja Schneider
	Homelabel Mobilee Records	Head of the Mobilee Records family, radio producer and world class DJ, Anja Schneider could take the crown of hardest working girl in Berlin. Along with label mates, Pan Pot and Sebo K, Anja's trademark blend of party techno and underground house has seen...

	Pan-Pot
	Homelabel Mobilee Records	Part of the close knit Mobilee Records family, Pan-Pot may be named after an innocuous piece of studio gear, but they are anything but boring studio geeks. Being able to channel the enthusiasm and party spirit of their live DJ sets into their consistently...

	Sebo K
	Homelabel Mobilee Records	Providing a slightly more mature counterpoint to Mobilee Records label mates Pan-Pot, Sebo K's productions are still aiming straight for the dancefloor. Crisp beats, and top drawer production means that Sebo K can also be found releasing his distinctive...

	Khan Of Finland
	Homelabel I'm Single	The newest project of versatile techno poster-boy Khan, Khan of Finland is an acoustic three-piece featuring the beatboxing skills talents of Mark Boombastik, Boris Bergmann on piano and of course Khan himself on cymbal, ukulele and vocals.

	Gebrüder Teichmann
	Homelabel Festplatten	Born and raised in the Bavarian town of Regensburg, brothers Andi and Hannes Teichmann got an early start in making music, playing guitar and singing in the punk bank Totalschaden at the age of 13 and 10. Developing a love for electronic music, the...

	CLP
	Homelabel Shitkatapult	No rookies in the field of tricky beats and booty-shaking bass, Chris De Luca and Phon.O have earned their credentials as part of Funkstörung and as Shitkatapult's master of broken beats, respectively. The two have teamed up in 2006, firmly dedicating...

	Daniel Haaksman
	Homelabel Man Recordings	Few individuals can claim to have done as much for the exchange of musical ideas across the globe as DJ, producer, remixer and label owner Daniel Haaksman. His involvement in remixing duo Haaksman & Haaksman (alongside his brother Felix) and compilations...

	Dinky
	Homelabel Vakant	Born in Chile, Alejandra Iglesias moved to New York in the mid-90s, originally to pursue her studies in dance. Her existing ties to the techno and dance music scene however soon intensified: As part of the Sonic Groove crew she started to become an in...

	Seth Troxler
	Born in Kalamazoo, MI, Seth Troxler (or Sex Trothler on occasion) is now preaching his tricky house sound from Berlin, Germany. He has recorded for a wealth of renowned labels including Circus Company, Wagon Repair, Leftroom, and Dumb Unit.

	Kid606
	Born in Venezuela and raised in California, Miguel Depedro now resides in Berlin and is more commonly known as Kid606, an artist name he adopted to bring his uniquely reckless fucked up and beautiful music to our fucked up and beautiful world. Inspired by the best of electronica, punk, jungle, hip hop, bass, dancehall and techno,...

	Todd Bodine
	Homelabel Highgrade Recordings	Despite his English-sounding nom de guerre, Todd Bodine belongs to an increasingly rare breed of Berlin-based techno producer who were actually born and bred in the city. He has first made his mark on the scene as a DJ in the legendary Tresor club and is...

	Märtini Brös.
	Homelabel Poker Flat Recordings	The artists behind Märtini Brös are DJ Cle and Mike Vamp, both long-standing protagonists of Berlin's techno scene. Their successful Märtini Brös. project was brought to life in 1998 and combines hedonistic electro-house beats with occasional self-ironic...

	René Breitbarth
	Homelabel Treibstoff	Originally from Cologne, René Breitbarth first got into Techno in the early 90s at places like the legendary Space Club and the Warehouse. In 1997 he founded the Treibstoff label, along with Marcel Janovsky, for which he has recorded well over a dozen...

	nsi.
	Homelabel non standard productions	non standard institute is the partnership of Tobias Freund (Tobias.) and Max Loderbauer (of Sun Electric), and if you know these names, you will know to expect only the unexpected from their collaborative productions. On recordings for Cadenza, Sähkö and...

	&Me
	Homelabel Keinemusik	Perhaps more so than his understated name suggests, &Me is an important figure in Berlin's techno scene. He frequently collaborates with Terranova artists Fetisch and Kaos, Gigolo's DJ Hell, and is further associated with the fresh Berlin Mitte label...

	Paul Kalkbrenner
	Homelabel BPitch Control	From acclaimed DJ to rave victim and back - this story is told in 'Berlin Calling', the motion picture in which Paul Kalkbrenner has recently given his lead actor screen debut. In real life Kalbrenner is an equally acclaimed artists, whose minimalistic,...

	Miss Fitz
	Originally hailing from Israel and now residing in Berlin, Miss Fitz is one of the great new talents to watch out for.

	Housemeister
	Homelabel BPitch Control	Berlin DJ veteran and producer Housemeister made a name for himself with his energetic and outgoing performances filling the gaps between Techno, Electro and Punck. After making his first appearances on Berlin's BPitch Control label he now releases on...

	Robot Koch
	Homelabel Robots Don't Sleep	Mastermind behind Berlin bass crew Jahcoozi and post-rock rap outfit The Tape vs. RQM, Robert 'Robot' Koch explores the ground between fragile hip-hop beats and all-out sci-fi booty grime. He has recently set up his own label, Robots Don't Sleep.

	Shackleton
	Homelabel Skull Disco	Co-running the Skull Disco label together with Appleblim, Sam Shackleton has been a tremendous influence on the world of dubstep within recent years. Known as the master of big basslines, Shackleton has been carving out his own brand of eclecticism,...

	Exercise One
	Homelabel Lan Muzic	Berlin techno duo Marco Freivogel and Ingo Gansera have made a name for themselves through enigmatic live acts and a wealth of releases for Mobilee Records and their own imprint Lan Muzic. With their long expected debut album 'In Cars We Rust' Exercise...

	Christoph de Babalon
	Homelabel Cross Fade Enter Tainment [CFET]	Don't let this young gentleman's elegant appearance fool you: Christoph de Babalon has been responsible for some of the darkest industrial breakcore tunes ever programmed. Together with Paul Snowden he founded the Cross Fade Enter Tainment [CFET] label in...

	Scuba
	Homelabel Hotflush Recordings	Paul Rose a.k.a. Scuba is one of the most notable artists boldly expanding the dubstep sound universe. His own productions as well as his label Hotflush Recordings regularly explore the tangents and off-roads of the style, incorporating influences like...

	Jazzanova
	Homelabel Sonar Kollektiv	This Berlin based DJ/Producer ensemble, consisting of Alexander Barck, Claas Brieler, Jürgen von Knoblauch, Roskow 'Sygaire' Kretschmann, Stefan Leisering, and Axel Reinemer, are among the forerunners of nu jazz, chillout, and jazz house styles of music....

	Monolake
	Homelabel monolake / imbalance computer music [ml/i]	Every producer of electronic music has at one time or another meditated on the medium and tools of the trade (computers, synthesizer, mixers, etc) necessary for making sounds, and how their manipulation by the inspired controller (you) creates, as if...

	Moritz von Oswald
	Starting his career as a drummer in influential German new wave band Palais Schaumburg (alongside Thomas Fehlmann among others), Moritz von Oswald first became known to a wider public through the Basic Channel project, which he initiated during the early 90s with long-time partner and owner of Berlin's famous Hardwax record store,...

	Bloody Mary
	Homelabel Contexterrior	No stranger to the diverse movements within the creative process, nor how the fruits of expressive labour are inspired and, ultimately, manifested across a wide spectrum of art/life experiences, Bloody Mary produces techno that flourishes through her...

	Ekkohaus
	Homelabel 2020Vision	Ekkohaus, or Kostas Tassopoulos if you prefer to call him by his real name, professes his techno and house productions as 'Music from the other side of the fence.' Listening to his tracks, many of which are infused with quirky vocal samples, makes one...

	Mika Vainio
	Homelabel Sahko Recordings	Also known as Ø, Mika Vainio is one of the most celebrated audio artists of our time, best known as half of the ground-breaking duo Pan Sonic (formerly Panasonic), which he started together with Ilpo Väisänen in 1993. With a background in industrial music...

	Tarwater
	Homelabel Morr Music	Consisting of Bernd Jestram and Ronald Lippok, Tarwater records experimental pop music in a slightly more playful and organic fashion than Lippok's second band project, To Rococo Rot. After the demise of the Kitty Yo label, Tarwater are re-releasing their...

	The Whitest Boy Alive
	Homelabel Bubbles Records	Started by Norwegian hipster Erlend Øye in 2003 as an electronic dance music project, The Whitest Boy Alive has evolved into a full blown band over the years, gaining wide-spread popularity with their unique blend of melancholic pop-funk. Helmed by Øye on...

	Namito
	Homelabel Kling Klong	Ali Khalaj, a.k.a. Namito or namTRAK, has been involved in Berlin's club scene for almost two decades, keeping a down-to-earth attitude, despite the large amount of attention his club-freindly productions have been receiving. A former Tresor resident,...

	Sven Weisemann
	Homelabel Mojuba Records	An integral member of Berlin's Mojuba Records crew, Sven Weisemann explores deep and dubby house and techno in his productions as well as in his DJ sets. Playing piano, acoustic guitar and percussion, all of which were self-taught, Weisemann's musical...

	Agaric
	Agaric is the recent project of highly productive Swede Patrik Skoog, dedicated to a deeper and dubbier variant of the percussive Scandinavian techno he championed earlier in his career. Agaric currently resides in Berlin and releases for labels such as Sunset Diskos and Kontra-Musik.

	Daniel Wang
	Homelabel Environ	Though Daniel Wang was born in California, he spent the first 8 years of his life in Taiwan. Wang returned to California for highchool, and upon graduating, continued his education in New York and Chicago studying psychology and literature. It was in the...

	Thomas Fehlmann
	Homelabel Kompakt	Born in Zurich in 1957, Thomas Fehlman has been involved with, and making, electronic music since long before most of us ever bought our first electronic records. In 1979 in the large port city of Hamburg, Fehlmann founded the avantgarde band Palais...

	Thomas Schumacher
	Homelabel Spiel-Zeug Schallplatten	With an Atari computer (a dinosaur by the standards of today's music making elite) and a fresh passion for the mesmerizing drum and percussion driven techno and acid house tracks he heard a DJ play in his home town of Bremen, Germany in 1987, Thomas...

	MRI
	Homelabel Resopal Schallware	MRI's inventive breach into the world of electronic music in 2000 by way of their first album, 'Rhythmogenesis,' capped off the beginnings of a new genre, now known as microhouse, by blending the moody sounds of old house, dub, and the more contemporary...

	Raz Ohara & The Odd Orchestra
	Homelabel Get Physical Music	Ever since Patrick Rasmussen, better known as Raz Ohara, moved to Berlin back in 1994 at the age of 18 his life has revolved around music. From his first forays as part of a hip-hop crew the gifted vocalist quickly got into production himself, leading to...

	Luna City Express
	Homelabel Moon Harbour	With their debut album 'Hello From Planet Earth,' Luna City Express have solidified (or put on wax for you old schoolers) their 10 year musical partnership, and the LP is proof that good things take time...and space. The tracks on 'Hello From Planet...

	Plastikman
	Homelabel Minus	Part of Detroit techno's second wave of artists in the early 90s, Richie Hawtin is a universally acclaimed DJ and producer, the founder of Plus 8 with John Acquaviva and Minus, as well as the man behind Plastikman. Plastikman is Hawtin's outlet for his...

	Jeff Samuel
	Homelabel Trapez	Originally hailing from Cleveland, Ohio, Jeff Samuel was exposed to music from both Detroit and Chicago early on, with both cities located within driving distance from Cleveland. Samuel's stand-out minimal techno productions quickly found prominent...

	Magda
	Homelabel Minus	Magda is easily one of the most acclaimed DJs Richie Hawtin's Minus camp has given rise to in recent years. Born and raised in the Polish town of Zywiec, Magda's parents moved to the US when she was nine - first to Texas, then to Detroit, where one of...

	Richie Hawtin
	Homelabel Plus 8	Over the course of a career spanning two decades, Richie Hawtin has earned his position as one of the most prominent figureheads of contemporary electronic music. Born in Banbury, England, his family moved to Windsor, Canada, in the late 1970's, where...

	Marc Houle
	Homelabel Minus	Marc Houle grew up in Windsor, Canada with computer games on the brain, New Wave music in his ears, and Detroit as his back yard. Influenced early on by the synthesized sounds of Depeche Mode and Kraftwerk, his love for technology-tinted music was then...

	Mike Dehnert
	Homelabel Fachwerk Records	One of the most noteworthy producers to recently emerge from Berlin's sprawling techno scene is Mike Dehnert, DJ, producer and owner of the increasingly well known Fachwerk label. Striking a balance between deep dub-techno elements and the raw energy...

	DJ Kaos
	Berlin resident Dennis Kaun a.k.a. DJ Kaos is a true jack of all trades: The former member of Terranova was notably influenced by hip-hop at a time when the genre was still a wild mixture of everything that DJs got their hands on. This wildstyle approach has been the basis of Kaun's productions for the past 15 years: From his jazzy...

	Mark Henning
	London's Mark Henning Sargent has risen up as one of the underground's true players, recording for a volley of acclaimed international labels. Born in 1977 to English and German parents, he has spent most of his life in England, though has never forgotten his German roots and has recently relocated to Berlin. Having released his...

	Cylob
	British electronic musician Chris Jeffs, better known as Cylob, has been releasing his varied blend of 8bit electronica, pop-tinged electro and left-field breaks since the early 90s, most notably on Aphex Twin's Rephlex label and his own imprint, Cylob Industries. Despite having produced some harsher, more experimental music as well,...

	Black Meteoric Star
	Homelabel DFA	Black Meteoric Star is the solo project of Rhode Island born musician, producer and artist Gavin Russom, appearing on New York's well respected DFA label. Russom's creative drive first expressed itself in his teen age years, when he took to experimenting...

	Pawel
	Homelabel Dial	Also recording his music under the name Turner, Paul Kominek uses his Pawel alias for his releases on Hamburg's revered Dial label. Born in Poland, and raised in Frankfurt, Kominek produces a broad spectrum of music, and his vita includes successful film...

	Deadbeat
	Deadbeat is one Scott Monteith, a long time Montrealer and recent Berlin ex-pat who has been releasing his own special blend of dub laden, minimal electronics since 2000, for labels such as Cynosure, ~scape, and Wagon Repair to name but a few. Whether crafting kaleidoscopic house and techno, snap-clap digital dancehall, or impossibly...

	Ewan Pearson
	One of the UK's most gifted DJs and remixers, Ewan Pearson has lent his skills to music by the likes of Depeche Mode, Chemical Brothers, Seelenluft, Cortney Tidwell and the Junior Boys. His productions under guise like Maas, World of Apples, and Partial Arts have appeared on many of the world's most respected labels, including Soma...

	Adam Port
	Homelabel Keinemusik	His name is Adam Port and he plays house - the message on his promo stickers is no empty claim, as anyone who has heard the up-and-coming Berlin DJ and producer play out can attest. Part of the Keinemusik crew, Adam's recordings have also appeared on on...

	Rampa
	Homelabel Keinemusik	If you've come by Berlin, chances are that youʼve heard of Rampa before. Sure, heʼs known for coming up with the most elaborate 'staches in the game, heʼs got imposing skills when it comes to throwing BBQs and riding scooters and whatnot,...