Steve Bug
Germany
Germany
Born in the rural area outside Berlin, Ruede Hagelstein moved to the centre of bleeping Berlin eight years ago. After jobs at night-guide magazines and starting his own partyforum www.restrealitaet.de, he finds himself in the middle of the electronic music.
His productions transformed from disco-electro to a more minimalistic house and techno sound, and were supported by Sven Vath and Michael Mayer. Ruede holds residencies in Berlin's Watergate club and Dusseldorf's Harpune.
Matt John is a Berlin based artist who has recorded for prestigious labels such as Perlon and Jay Haze's netlabel textone, as well as for the new Bar25 label. Getting in touch with techno sounds in the mid-nineties he followed his calling for electronic music in starting DJing all over Thuringia/Germany. He loves to communicate with the audience in catching them with his groovy minimal tech house and intelligent techno, further kicking them with new experimental inputs into other dimensions.
Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm.