Moderat

Editorial / 2009 / Berlin
Published in Groove / Cover Story / Berlin

Moderat are an unlikely but highly rewarding match in Berlin's electronic scene: one third Apparat, two thirds Modeselektor, Moderat fuse the melodic and melancholic pop of the former with the head-on stomping beats of the latter. The results are, well, slightly melancholic but always head-on.
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Sissel Tolaas

Editorial / 2009 / Berlin
Published in mono.kultur / Berlin

Sissel Tolaas has dedicated her life to something we all take for granted: the sense of smell. Obsessively researching and exploring our most primal and yet unnoticed sense in all its facets, Tolaas has shared her research in many ways: from research projects with hospitals and institutions such as MIT or Harvard, to commercial projects for the likes of Adidas, Comme des Garçons and Louis Vuitton, to art exhibitions at the MoMA New York or the Third Berlin Biennial. Tolaas is fiercely passionate and outspoken on the power of smell, and how paying greater attention to it might just change our lives.
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Richie Hawtin

Editorial / 2008 / Berlin
Published in The Wire / Cover Story / London

Not only is Richie Hawtin one of the most popular and sought-after DJs around these days, he's also constantly pushing club music further and further into the digital age. Always one of the first to embrace new technological possibilities, as DJ and as a producer, he is one step ahead while remaining true to his roots witnessing the birth of techno in Detroit from the very beginning.
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Carl Craig

Editorial / 2008 / Berlin
Published in The Wire / London

Carl Craig has always been at the source of the last musical revolution: still based in Detroit, the birthplace of techno, Craig has become the most successful peer of the second generation of producers and DJs, releasing his first EP in the early 90s. A man with ecelectic tastes, he is known for opening up electronic music to jazz and world beats, within his own work as well as on his imprint Planet E.
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Moritz von Oswald

Editorial / 2009 / Berlin
Published in The Wire / Cover Story / London

Few producers have had such an impact on the sound of techno as Moritz von Oswald, better known as Maurizio. Co-founder of the short-lived but highly influential techno label Basic Channel in the 1990s, as well as the ensuing imprints Chain Reaction and Rhythm and Sound, von Oswald has forged a sound that took electronic music beyond the dancefloor, into adulthood.
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