Acid Maria at Munich nightclub Die Registratur

DJ Acid Maria, born Angelika Lepper, is a German DJ and

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electronic music Electronic music is a genre of music that employs electronic musical instruments, digital instruments, or circuitry-based music technology in its creation. It includes both music made using electronic and electromechanical means ( electroac ...

. Her musical style is between

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempo often varying between 120 and 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time (4/4) and often ch ...

and

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. She became famous as the house DJ of the

Munich Munich ( ; german: München ; bar, Minga ) is the capital and most populous city of the States of Germany, German state of Bavaria. With a population of 1,558,395 inhabitants as of 31 July 2020, it is the List of cities in Germany by popu ...

clubs

Ultraschall Ultraschall (German: Ultrasound, ) was a nightclub in Munich, Germany from 1994 to 2003. The techno club belonged, besides the '' Tresor'' and '' E-Werk'' in Berlin, the ''Dorian Gray'' and ''Omen'' in Frankfurt, and the Munich-based clubs ', ''N ...

and Harry Klein.

Career

Her career began on December 6, 1992, when she performed for twenty people for "Jockey Slut Night" at Club Alcatraz in Munich. In the Munich scene she was next known as a co-owner of a store that sold clubwear clothing. (in German) Acid Maria was the first house DJ of Munich's first techno club Ultraschall since its establishment. She performed and produced projects for

DJ Hell Helmut Josef Geier (born 6 September 1962), known professionally as DJ Hell, is a German DJ. Biography 1970s and 1980s DJ Hell described his musical beginnings in an interview with '' The European'', telling them “I was socialized with ...

International DeeJay Gigolo Records International DeeJay Gigolo Records is a German electronic music record label run by techno artist DJ Hell (real name Helmut Geier). The label was founded in Munich in 1996 as an affiliate of label Disko B. It is Germany's most successful electro ...

label, founded in 1996. She was later house DJ for the Munich club Harry Klein, the

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club WMF and the club event Killekill, as well as the

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club Subway. In between these roles, she toured worldwide, playing at "Festival Tecnogeist 2000" in

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, the Womb Club in

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and Mayday in

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. She has worked with and produced albums with Steve Bug, Markus Güntner, the Teichman Brothers, and Abe Duque. She studied Media Arts and Philosophy and Aesthetics at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design. Between 2004 and 2014, she taught at various universities in Berlin, including at Konrad Wolf Film University of Babelsberg in

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and

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. She is a founding member of the international network female:pressure, an organization for female,

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and

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artists in electronic music. With

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she mixed ''Female Pressure Presents: Welttour'' orld Tourin 2003. DJ Acid Maria lives in

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am Ammersee.

Discography

* 1995: Steve Bug & Acid Maria – ''Toby Nation'' (Raw Elements) * 1996: Steve Bug & Acid Maria – ''Indescreet'' (Raw Elements) * 1998: Steve Bug & Acid Maria – ''You Might Be Surprised'' (Raw Elements) * 2003: Acid Maria & Electric Indigo – ''Female Pressure Presents: Welttour'' (Welttour, True People) * 2005: Acid Maria & Abe Duque – ''Turn down the lights'' (Abe Duque Records)

References

{{Authority control Pseudonyms Feminism and the arts DJs German women artists 21st-century German women musicians