Grammofon

Göttsching's independence – along with his creative gifts and a joy in spontaneity – made him Germany's most legendary 'Kosmische' guitarist, as well as one of its most influential modern composers and the godfather of Techno

Volker Bertelmann (born 1966) is a German pianist and composer who mainly performs and records under the name Hauschka. He is best known for his compositions for prepared piano.

Blazej Malinowski is a producer, dj, radio journalist based in Berlin. Collector of vinyl records and items with potential to generate music. In his work obsessed by the musical genres related to techno and deep atmospheric forms. Founder of "Why So Silent project" which includes live techno perfomances and silent movies in the background.

Electric Indigo is a DJ, a musician and a composer. The international database for female artists in the fields of electronic music and digital arts, female: pressure, is her project.

Anna Zaradny is a visual artist, composer, improviser, sound art artist, music festival animator, author of installations and objects.

Reinhold Friedl is a performer, interpreter and composer. He founded and directs the ensembles Piano-Inside-Out and zeitkratzer.

Raphael Roginski is a guitarist, composer and performer; improviser, culture animator and musicologist. Since the very beginning of his creative work he has been focusing primarily on improvisation rooted in blues and jazz, as well as on ethnic and folk music.

Tamas Ungvary was born in 1936 in Budapest and has an extensive classical music education. He was a double bass player in the Hungarian Philharmonic before he studied conducting. In the 60’s he came to Sweden and began composing electronic music at the Electronic Music Studio in Stockholm.

Robert Piotrowicz has authored radio dramas, sound installations, and music for theatre productions, and collaborates regularly with other artists on audio-visual performances. As an instrumentalist, Piotrowicz works mainly with his own live performance setup, developed around the electric guitar and analogue modular synthesiser.

Hardly anyone has so decisively formed and shaped the technoscene like Dr. Motte. He is a dreamer and visionary, an ambassador for electronic music world wide.Compelling club-grooves he binds with driven techno beats and fashions underground music accessible to a wider public.

Detlef Weinrich, performing under the pseudonym Toulouse Low Trax is one of the resident DJs at Salon des Amateurs in Duesseldorf, a loose connection of some more, some less professional adventuresome and passionate makers of electronic music.

Lillevan is an animation, video and media artist. He is perhaps best known as founding member of the visual / music group Rechenzentrum (1997-2008).

DJ Olivia aka Olivia Ungaro is a Krakow-based DJ who is part of the Chrono Bross collective. She is a great believer in vinyl and pushing truth through mixing.

One of Europes premier free jazz bandleaders, pianist Alexander von Schlippenbachs music mixes free and contemporary classical elements, with his slashing solos often the link between the two in his compositions.

Jacek Sienkiewicz is one of the pioneers of techno music in Poland. Fascinated by the sounds of Detroit and minimal techno, he began his DJ-ing career in Warsaw in the early 90s, then soon also became a producer. Over two decades he has played at countless parties and festivals, perfecting his own brand of minimal techno through a series of EPs and albums on Sven Vaths Cocoon, as well as his own Recognition label.

Zenker Brothers are Marco and Dario Zenker, techno DJs and producers who also run the celebrated Ilian Tape label. As prolific artists, both solo and together, their profile has been rising steadily for almost ten years, with releases on their own imprint, Tresor and Frozen Border.

Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, or D.A.F was formed in 1978 by Robert Goerl och Gabi Delgado-Lopez. They recorded five albums the first four years and are celebrated as pioneers of electronic music.

MICHAL JACASZEK is a Polish composer and producer of electroacoustic music that combines electronically prepared sounds with acoustic instruments. He is also making music for movies and theatre, a co-curator of C3 Festival, Club Contemporary Classical and a member of the Polish Society for Electroacoustic Music.

Colognes queen of hypnotic minimalism started as a resident dj in Munichs former cult club Ultraschall in 2001. Cio D´Or´s music arises from an idea, which she develops and threads through her own sounds. Emotional, extravagant, charismatic, cinematic, sometimes poetic.

WE WILL FAIL is a project focused on the pleasure of wandering. Field recordings, tape samples, synthesizers and electronic drum kits are mixed together in order to find some peculiar quality, referring to the aesthetics of techno. The person responsible for this project is Aleksandra Gruenholz - a Polish graphic designer, who paradoxically spends most of her time making music.