Currently residing in the heart of Berlin, Germany, HARDY HARD is turning those knobs doing the job . He grew up in Dresden, East Germany, where he had very limited access to foreign music under the communist regime. Nonetheless, soon he tumbled upon radio stations broadcasting the most cutting edge music of its time. The path was paved for a lifetime profession of producing and playing records all around the globe.

After the Berlin Wall came down in 1989 Hardy Hard’s DJ career started taking off. In 1991, he established himself in the music scene under the name “HARDSEQUENCER”. A few of his most known releases of that time are: “Noise is the message” Fire 101, “Amiga EP” Fire 102, Ear to Brain (1992/93).

He remixed and produced songs for artists like Yello, Westbam, Moby, Africa Bambaataa , Marusha, Jan Delay, to H-Block. One of his weekly DJ residencies in 1995 was at the infamous Club E-Werk in Berlin. Having played national and international around the globe his name became a regular on events like the Loveparade, Mayday, Nature One, Air-Rave and so on.

In 1998 his personal music sequence had evolved and he renamed his artist name to “HARDY HARD” representing his new beats. Ever since, he has been seducing crowds with his unique accessible style of music on thousands of dance floors.

http://www.hardyhard.de

Hardy Hard on MySpace

Electric Kingdom

Richard Bartz

Richard Bartz’ roots strike back into the early 90s. Counting sweet 14 years, he climbed the toilet window and sneaked into the now-legendary “Ultraworld” parties, hiding all night long behind the bass speakers. The German techno scene was just about to emerge and Richard absorbed every little beep he could get. Until he got caught by party organizer Upstart - who promptly took him under his wings. In the following years, accompanied by Upstart and his friend DJ Hell, he rapidly grew to a live act and producer of international top ranking. In the process, he became one of the founders of “Munich techno” – a powerful, groovy, and highly influential variant of what was then called “funky techno” and is nowadays established as “minimal”.

Having had amazing success with his first releases on Disko B under his pseudonym Acid Scout, Richard Bartz founded his own record label Kurbel in 1995. On Kurbel Records he started by releasing many of his own tracks which are now considered classics like Style Wars E.P, Ghettoblaster II and The Traveller. Pretty soon, Richard’s label became the romping place for red-hot artists like DJ Hell (Take A Shot / Break The Rulez), and Heiko Laux (Souldancer), as well as the just emerging Christian Morgenstern, Savas Pascalidis, and Lars Sommerfeld.

While still producing and remixing, from 2000 on, Richard Bartz mainly concentrated on his live performances. In 2002, his tremendeous success got bookmarked with the release of his Live At Cocoon Club Ibiza CD on Sven Väth's label Cocoon Recordings. In the following years, Richard took the step beyond electronic mainstream and released his neo-disco-tech album Midnight Man (2004) and the completely analogous produced album Big (2005). Richard Bartz’ live performances are pure energy. Bringing 15 years of experience, he never dared to rest on his laurels. Reinventing his sound over and over again he matches the desires of his audience and leaves the crowd screaming for more.

Munich Techno on MySpace

Richard Bartz on MySpace

Kurbel Records

Todd Bodine

Born in Berlin, Todd Bodine is a musical child par excellence of Germany's capital of electronic music. Strongly influenced by the atmosphere after the fall of the Berlin wall he took his first credits as a resident DJ in the world famous Tresor Club. The place where he performs his actionloaded DJ-sets once a month untill today.

But that's just one side of Todd's musical activities, being a DJ on the floors of international known clubs in Barcelona, Paris, Tokyo or Rio de Janeiro, just to name a few. Beside this career he's active as a producer since the year 2001 - and that with great success.

Without a doubt Todd Bodine has his own place in the rows of Berlins most important producers - on the one side as a heavily booked DJ, on the other side as a profilic producer or as an energetic live performing artist - whatever he's about,
"it has to rock!"

http://www.todd-bodine.de/

http://www.myspace.com/toddbodine

http://www.discogs.com/artist/todd+bodine

Frank Mueller

FRANK MÜLLER promoted his sound as DJ and as high-quality live act in all the countless major venues around the world where techno is celebrated. Gaining a status as a techno-pioneer in countries like France, Japan and Germany FRANK MÜLLER has been a resident DJ at Mayday, Europe’s biggest indoor rave and now is a resident at the WIRE Festival (Asia’s biggest indoor-rave, Japan). Nowadays he is hosting residency nights in Tresor and Club Maria, both based in Berlin.

The artist BEROSHIMA is praised for his diverse performance and unique electronic music style, where multiple layered grooves, whirling bass-lines, dashes of melody strings evolve out of the wide range out of a since 20 years expanding record box. His world map has spread over Europe, Asia, Japan and South America which he is exploring with his musical compass. Loving to produce music in his gear factory, filled with original & geek equipment, where styles are without limit and genre.

”Let people wave! is all that matters", he says.

http://www.beroshima.com

http://www.myspace.com/beroshima

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Beroshima

Timo Maas

Timo Maas is just bloody brilliant. An excellent DJ, a fantastic producer, and a really nice bloke. Der Shreiber (I doubt that's the correct spelling) is like someone hitting you over the head with a brick, but in a nice way. All the stuff on 'Loud' is most excellent, especially the relentless progressive pounding of 'Manga', the dodgy breakbeat of 'That's How I've Been Dancing' and the 'what the hell is going on here?' of 'We Are Nothing'. And don't get me started on his remix of Azzido Da Bass's 'Doom's Night'

http://www.timomaas.de

http://www.myspace.com/timomaas

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Timo+Maas

Alex Bau

• What could you say about a guy, being "on board" for more than 10 years, travelling around half of the world with his sound and who is about to break up barriers between minimal, technotic sounds and straight techno? Words can not equal the experience you can make when you meet alex in the mood for "clubbing". Crunchy, bleeping sounds, half an hour later you can not be sure to be safe from stright techno and finally he`s playing some even trancy tunes, and the only comment you can get from him is: "Why not, if it fits?" Every single mix sounds incredibly tight, an absolutely precise feeling for the next best possible record for the moment is his trademark. Like a maniac he is controlling the dancefloor, cooking it up and finally giving it the relief by giving it the chance to explode. His very versatile productions for his own label Toneman but also for world-famous labels like Zenit, Ante Zenit, Chris Liebing`s CLR and many more exactly show what he is all about: Fighting purism, combining styles, showing that one artist can have different faces and even being able to combine them without loosing credibility. Why? Because it`s fun. For the artist, for the dancefloor. Why focussing on "Minimal", "Techhouse" or "Techno" if you can have all?

http://www.alex-bau.de

http://www.myspace.com/alexbautechno

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Alex+Bau