Hamburg is the second largest city in Germany and its harbour is the second largest and most important port in Europe after Rotterdam. Hamburg is musically known for giving the Beatles a start to their career in the early 1960s. They lived in St. Pauli and played at clubs like the Indra, the Kaiserkeller, the Top Ten Club and the Star-Club, which was located in the district near the perhaps most famous street of Hamburg, the Reeperbahn. In recent times Hamburg is known for some of the most popular German hip hop acts, such as Fünf Sterne Deluxe, Samy Deluxe, Beginner and Fettes Brot. The city always has a big alternative and punk scene which gathers around the Rote Flora, an occupied former theatre located in the district of Sternschanze. Some of the musicians of the famous electronic band Kraftwerk also came from Hamburg. Hamburg is also famous for its original kind of German alternative music called Hamburger Schule ('Hamburg School'), a term used for bands like Die Sterne, Tocotronic, Blumfeld and Tomte.
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Isolée is a minimalist house producer whose music is reminisent of indie electronic pop music of the early eighties and ambient techno from a decade on. Isolée is credited with creating the very first microhouse record to reach the club charts. Müller's first Isolée material appeared on Playhouse in 1997. Isolée full-length album...
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Sven Wegner | |||
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Through releases on Lebensfreude, Moonbootique Rec and through his remixes of Thomas Schumacher, Monosurround, or Fünf Sterne Deluxe, Sven Wegner a.k.a. Foxy Push is a well established name in Hamburg's techno scene, regularly playing the city's clubs like Waagenbau, Hafenklang or Tanzhalle.
According to his motto 'rock and kick...
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DJ Koze | |||
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One of Germany's highest valued producers and an illustrious entrepreneur in the music scene. He has come a long way since he already was a star in early German Hip Hop times with a 2nd place in the German DMC Championships in 1990, his combo Fischmob and their numerous album releases. But this Marrakesh born music lover has/had more...
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International Pony | |||
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International Pony is a electro-funk band from Hamburg, Germany consisting of DJ Koze (turntables), Cosmic DJ (percussion/vocals) and Erobique (keys). Their debut 12" 'A New Bassline For José' and the corresponding longplayer 'We Love Music' were released in 2002 and greatly appreciated even across the German borders. Many remix...
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DJ DSL | |||
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Vienna's finest beat-smith and #1 hip hop DJ first entered the music business in the late 80s. Together with his teenage friends Peter Kruder, Rodney Hunter and Sugar B he formed the first Austrian hip hop band, the Moreaus. While concentrating on DJing at the beginning of his career he now shifted his main focus to production. His...
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Extrawelt | |||
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If there was a rookie of the year award in electronic music, Extrawelt would have surely been nominated in 2005, when their first release 'Soopertrack' proved highly successful. Further productions on Cocoon and Traum Schallplatten display their ability to produce minimal but yet deep and hypnotic Techno and have earned them a...
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Stimming | |||
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Diynamic |
Deep and dubby house is the order of the day. Stimming has released a number of EPs on house labels such as Diynamic, Freerange and Dessous peddling his off kilter sound that sits somewhere just outside your normal 4/4 house fare.
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Kollektiv Turmstrasse | |||
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Musik gewinnt Freunde |
Christian Hilscher and Nico Plagemann hail from the German part of the Baltic Sea, where they have started producing music together in the late 90s. Having moved to Hamburg since, the two founded their own net-label No Response in 2003, followed by Musik...
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Tensnake | |||
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Rocking out of Hamburg, Marco Niemerski, better known as Tensnake, is the man responsible for 'putting a smile on your face' tracks like 'Hanselstadt' off his Fried Egg EP, which suggests a tropical backdrop for the dance floor in which everyone dancing has one of those drinks with an umbrella in it. Tensnake's latest offering, 'In...
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Lawrence | |||
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Dial |
Recording both under the names Lawrence and Sten, Peter Kersten has released three acclaimed long players and numerous singles so far, all showcasing his own unique brand of deep techno and house. He co-runs two highly recommended labels: Dial and...
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Xenia Beliayeva | |||
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Systematic |
Originally from Moscow, Xenia Beliayeva discovered her passion for music in the mid nineties and worked almost every angle of the music industry, including a traineeship at VIVA TV, a part time job in a CD rental agency in Cologne, as a freelance promoter...
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Solomun | |||
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Diynamic |
Hailing from the heart of Bosnia, Mladen Solomun is a passionate DJ and a major influence on the house music scene in his city of residence, Hamburg, Germany. For many years now Solomun is hosting his own club, 'DIY', and founded his own acclaimed label...
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Black Van | |||
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DFA |
Black Van is the new project of Hamburg, Germany, based producers Kris Menace and KoweSix, also known as one half of successful electro pop duo Moonbootica. After Kris applied his remixing skills to LCD Soundsystem's 'North American Scum', the pair was...
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Die Sterne | |||
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German indie band Die Sterne was founded in the late 1980s by singer and guitarist Frank Spilker in his hometown of Bad Salzuflen, a small West German spa resort, which by a twist of fate became a nucleus for the German indie pop movement via its influential Fast Weltweit label. Like many protagonists of the Fast Weltweit scene (e.g....
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