The largest city in former East Germany (discounting the divided Berlin), Leipzig has always been the cultural centre of the region and home to famous musicians such as Johann Sebastian Bach and Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy. Since the end of the GDR, Leipzig was quick to establish a lively electronic music underground, its famous Distillery being the longest running techno club in East Germany.
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Deep deep house. Releasing mainly on his own Moon Harbour label, Matthias Tanzmann has carved a career creating deep, playful house with genuine warmth, depth and the ability to create some serious damage on the dance floor. His remix output is nothing...
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Jens Kuhn, also known as Lowtec & Red Sparrow and one part of the Out To Lunch collective, started DJ'ing in 1992. Always in search of new dimensions of sound, he started to produce in 1995. His releases found a home on labels such as the above mentioned...
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Performing and recording his self-declared 'minimal skills music' since 2003, Leipzig based Kassem Mosse has been maintaining a low profile for himself, although his genre-defying releases on Workshop, Nonplus and his own Mikrodisko label have been...
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Over the past years Leipzig based producer Daniel Stefanik has established himself as one of the most noteworthy producers from the Eastern parts of Germany. The breadth and scope of his productions continues to impress: from minimalistic dance floor...
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Recording as Surphase as well as under his real name, Marko Fürstenberg has become one of Germany's most prominent producers of dub-inspired techno in recent years. Born in Thuringa, East-Germany, Fürstenberg started producing early tape demos under his Dolby guise, but it wasn't before hooking up with renowned netlabel Thinner in...
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Good Guy Mikesh and frequent collaborator Filburt are two music lovers who met in Leipzig and decided to pool their creative energy. Combining disco, pop, soul and house in their charismatic productions for Permanent Vacation, Mirau and Broque, the pair has one become of their home city's most exciting underground acts, and remixes...
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After a few years of experimenting with different equipment and styles, from Gabber over digital hardcore to electronica, Leipzig's Jan Gleichmar a.k.a. Disrupt came to love dub and reggae with all his heart. In 1998 he met Rootah at a construction site...
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Leipzig based Sven Tasnadi started DJing in 1995, inspired by acid, Chicago house and eventually minimal techno sounds. He hooked up with Daniel Stefanik for his first EP, 'Borderline', which appeared on Cargo Edition in 2007. From that point things quickly went uphill for Tasnadi, with his solo productions and collaborations with...
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