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Electronic Beats
Telekom Electronic Beats (TEB) is an international music marketing program of Deutsche Telekom AG focusing on electronic music and international club culture. The program was founded in 2000. It comprises a media portfolio and has been organizing events such as concerts, festivals and club nights with mainly electronic music artists throughout Europe. Publishing TEB's media portfolio and formats have changed and developed since the start of the program: “Electronic Beats TV” is one of the longest running video magazines in electronic music. The format started in 2000 with a weekly TV show moderated by Ill-Young Kim and broadcast by VIVA and Viva Zwei. From 2005, it was published as a quarterly DVD magazine called ''Slices''. The DVDs were available for free through distribution in boutiques, cafés, bars, clubs etc. mainly in Central and Eastern Europe. Since 2015, all content is hosted on Youtube. In February 2018, TEB’s YouTube channel was awarded the YouTube Silver Creato ...
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Deutsche Telekom
Deutsche Telekom AG (; short form often just Telekom, DTAG or DT; stylised as ·T·) is a German telecommunications company that is headquartered in Bonn and is the largest telecommunications provider in Europe by revenue. Deutsche Telekom was formed in 1995 when Deutsche Bundespost (at that time a monopoly under state ownership) was privatized. Since then, Deutsche Telekom has featured among Fortune 500 companies, with its latest ranking at number 62 (in 2022). The company operates several subsidiaries worldwide, including the mobile communications brand T-Mobile. As of April 2020, the German government holds a 14.5% stake in company stock directly, and another 17.4% through the government bank KfW. The company is a component of the EURO STOXX 50 stock market index. History The Deutsche Bundespost was the federal German government postal administration created in 1947 as a successor to the Reichspost. It was also the major telephone company in West Germany. On 1 July 19 ...
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HVOB
HVOB (for Her Voice Over Boys) is an Austrian electronic duo founded in Vienna by Anna Müller and Paul Wallner. Biography Anna Müller and Paul Wallner founded HVOB in 2012. The duo focuses on "restrained and minimalist" electronica with the use of vocals. After releasing music on SoundCloud they were discovered by Oliver Koletzki, a German dance and house music producer. Koletzki contracted the duo and they later appeared at the Melt! Festival. Their first EP ''Dogs'' was released in 2012. In 2013, the band released its first album ''HVOB''. Their second album ''Trialog'' released in 2015 was said by American Thump magazine "as a contender for an 'Album of the Year' award". In 2015, the duo toured India and went to various cities including Bangalore. The duo has been "voted as one of the best live acts in the world". In 2017, the group released their third album, ''Silk,'' with collaborator Winston Marshall. Jamie McNamara of BeatRoute describe the first track on the album ...
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Tiefschwarz
Tiefschwarz () are a German house group consisting of brothers, Alexander "Ali" (June 7, 1967-) and Sebastian "Basti" (December 28, 1969-) Schwarz, which formed in Stuttgart in 1996.IMO Records"Tiefschwarz Biography", ''IMO Records''. Retrieved on 17 April 2011. Peter Hoff, who runs the Benztown studios in Stuttgart, joined later, and completed the first Tiefschwarz production team. Their name means "deep black" in German, and is a combination of the brothers' surnames, and their love of deep house. Their earliest productions were released on the Continuemusics label in 1997, and their first taste of a well-respected label was with their ''Music'' track on François Kevorkian's Wave Music label in 1999. The team released their first album, ''RAL9005'' on the Four Music label in 2001, which was later licensed to Derrick Carter and Luke Solomon's Classic Recordings label. Tiefschwarz continued to release on Classic until its collapse in 2005, as well as releasing on labels such ...
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Phillip Boa
Phillip Boa (born 18 January 1963, in Dortmund, West Germany) is a German independent music songwriter, musician, singer, guitarist, composer and producer. His current name is unknown after two divorces and name changes. Phillip Boa lives in Dortmund, Hamburg and on the island of Malta. As a songwriter Boa has written over 400 songs, and 21 of his studio albums made it to the top 60 of the charts. He has received several "Album & Single of the Week" awards in British magazines like ''NME'', ''Sounds'' or ''Melody Maker''. The musical style followed by Boa and his band Phillip Boa & The Voodooclub was described in a review by ''NME'' as "a cross between B52's and Captain Beefheart". The style of his lyrics is a mix of irony, love songs, sarcasm and is often of bizarre and deranged content. Music In 1985, he founded the independent band ''Phillip Boa and the Voodooclub''. With their album ''Hair'' and the single "Container Love", they experienced a commercial breakthrough and inte ...
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Virginia Jetzt!
Virginia Jetzt! was a German Indie-Pop band founded in the small town of Elsterwerda in Brandenburg in 1999; the quartet dissolved in October 2010. The band has released four albums so far, their 2003 debut album ''Wer hat Angst vor Virginia Jetzt?'' — a reference to the Edward Albee play ''Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?'' — followed by ''Anfänger'' (English: ''Beginner'') in 2004, ''Land Unter'' (English: ''Land Under'') in 2007, and "Blühende Landschaften" (English: "Blooming Landscapes") in 2009. ''Anfänger'' spawned three single releases; "Ein ganzer Sommer" (German Charts # 28, 2004), "Das ganz normale Leben" (# 72, 2004) and "Wahre Liebe" (# 49, 2005). In 2005, the band represented Brandenburg in the Bundesvision Song Contest 2005, with the song "Wahre Liebe", placing 8th with 54 points. January 2007 saw the band release their album ''Land Unter'', containing the singles "Bitte bleib nicht, wenn du gehst"(German Charts The GfK Entertainment charts are the offi ...
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Rammstein
Rammstein (, "ramming stone") is a German Neue Deutsche Härte band formed in Berlin in 1994. The band's lineup—consisting of lead vocalist Till Lindemann, lead guitarist Richard Kruspe, rhythm guitarist Paul Landers, bassist Oliver Riedel, drummer Christoph Schneider, and keyboardist Christian "Flake" Lorenz—has remained unchanged throughout their history, along with their approach to songwriting, which consists of Lindemann writing and singing the lyrics over instrumental pieces the rest of the band has completed beforehand. Prior to their formation, some members were associated with the punk rock acts Feeling B and First Arsch. After winning a local contest, Rammstein was able to record demos and send them to different record labels, eventually signing with Motor Music. Working with producer Jacob Hellner, they released their debut album ''Herzeleid'' in 1995. Though the album initially sold poorly, the band gained popularity through their live performances and the al ...
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Popkomm
Popkomm was an international trade show for the music and entertainment business during the 1990s and 2000s, and also integrated a congress and festival. It was held in Cologne for most of its existence, later moved to Berlin with entries from at least 55 other countries. History Popkomm first took place in Düsseldorf in 1989, and at the time was a meeting place of little-known independent musicians. In 1990 Popkomm moved to Cologne, and had already become an international meeting place of the industry. Cologne hosted the show until 2003 when then relocated to Berlin in 2004. In Berlin the event developed into one of the three biggest international music b2b events, until the organizing Popkomm GmbH postponed the event in 2009 for one year due to reclining revenues. In 2010, Popkomm was reactivated as part of the umbrella brand and took place at the Berlin Tempelhof Airport. The final event was in 2011, after which it was shut down. The congress The Popkomm Congress was a ...
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Chicks On Speed
Chicks on Speed is a feminist music and fine art ensemble, formed in Munich in 1997, after members Australian Alex Murray-Leslie and American Melissa Logan met at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts. Though Chicks on Speed reached cult status throughout the 2000s as catalysts of the musical genre electroclash, the band was founded and more broadly, performed as a multidisciplinary art group working in performance art, electronic dance music, collage graphics, textile design and fashion. History Co-founders, Melissa Logan and Alex Murray-Leslie were art students at the Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, when they met in 1997 at one of the Academy's parties. Murray-Leslie then invited Logan to join an illegal bar she founded, named "Seppi Bar" that same year. Logan and Murray-Leslie began working as a group at Seppi Bar to create art exhibitions and host illegal parties. Murray-Leslie founded "Seppi Bar", which was originally named "Maria Bar" earlier, in 1994, with friends Barbara ...
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Kid Loco
Jean-Yves Prieur, Kid Loco is a French electronic musician, DJ, remixer and producer. He was born on 19 June 1964 in Antony, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Allmusic considers his style to be similar to Air and Dimitri from Paris. His best-known album is '' A Grand Love Story'' (1997), and he has also compiled and mixed a DJ mix album for the Another Late Night series on Azuli Records. He has worked with Jarvis Cocker (of Pulp), with Italian band The Transistors ( Maurizio Mansueti and Luca Cirillo) and Glasgow bands A Band Called Quinn and Mogwai, and produced the album '' Too Late To Die Young'' by the British group Departure Lounge. Discography Albums * ''Blues Project'' (1996, Yellow Productions / East West Records) * '' A Grand Love Story'' (1997, Yellow Productions / East West Records) * '' Jesus Life For Children Under 12 Inches'' (1999, Yellow Productions / East West Records) * '' Kill Your Darlings'' (2001, Yellow Productions / Atlantic Records) * '' Confessions of a B ...
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Sofa Surfers (band)
Sofa Surfers is an Austrian band that plays a mixture of rock and electronic music floating between trip hop, dub and acid jazz. They have also composed film scores. Members *Markus Kienzl *Wolfgang Frisch *Michael Holzgruber *Mani Obeya Several guests cooperated on the album ''Encounters'' - for example Sensational, Oddateee, Jeb Loy Nichols, DJ Collage, Lil Desmond Levy, Junior Delgado, Dawna Lee, Mark Stewart and MC Santana. On the album called Sofa Surfers sings Mani Obeya. Discography *1997 ''Transit'' *1999 ''Cargo'' *2000 ''Constructions: Remixed & Dubbed'' *2002 ''Encounters'' *2004 ''See the Light'' *2005 ''Sofa Surfers'' *2010 ''Blindside'' *2012 ''Superluminal'' *2015 ''Scrambles, Anthems and Odysseys'' *2017 ''20'' :Soundtracks: *2000 '' Komm, süßer Tod'' *2004 ''Silentium'' *2009 ''Der Knochenmann'' *2014 '' Das ewige Leben'' *2015 ''Focus Focus, or its plural form foci may refer to: Arts * Focus or Focus Festival, former name of the Adelaide Fring ...
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Kosheen
Kosheen are a British electronic music group based in Bristol, United Kingdom. The group consist of singer-songwriter Sian Evans, songwriter-producer Markee Ledge and producer-songwriter Darren Decoder. The name Kosheen derives from the name of a North American Apache warrior, Cochise. When in Japan, it was discovered that a combination of the Japanese words for "old" (古, romanised transliteration "ko") and "new" (新, "shin") would make "Kosheen" in Japanese. History ''Resist'' (1999–2002) Their first album, ''Resist'', was released in September 2001 on Moksha recordings/BMG and reached number eight in the UK album chart. ''Kokopelli'' (2003–2005) Their second album, ''Kokopelli''—released in August 2003 on Moksha Recordings/Sony and named after a mythical Native American spirit—focused less on drum and bass beats and more on guitar riffs and darker-toned lyrics. It outperformed its predecessor in the UK album chart by reaching number seven, and the single "All In ...
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LTJ Bukem
Daniel Williamson (born 20 September 1967), better known as LTJ Bukem (), is a British drum and bass musician, producer and DJ. He and his record label Good Looking are most associated with the jazzy, atmospheric side of drum and bass music. Life and career Bukem was trained as a classical pianist and discovered jazz fusion in his teenage years, having a jazz funk band at one stage. By the late 1980s, he decided to become a DJ and gained fame in the rave scene of the early 1990s. His stage name came from his nickname "Book 'em" which derived from the TV show Hawaii Five-O where the character Steve McGarrett would say "Book 'em Danno" when someone was arrested. As a producer, he released a series of drum and bass tracks such as "Logical Progression" (1991), "Demon's Theme" (1992), "Atlantis" and "Music" (1993). His most notable release was the track "Horizons" (1995) which attained considerable popularity, using the main melody from Lemon Sol's song "Sunflash". He then dipped i ...
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