Apologies for the stagnation on our webpage. We are working on a complete fresh-up at moment.

Check the new video work of Offenbach-based film maker David Jahn.

Notice: We realized the possibilty of uploading demos via Soundcloud makes it too easy. In our Dropbox we have hundreds of tracks, we never have the time to listen to. Many of this tracks are made by people who just started producing and think they have to send us every … [more]

With Connaisseur029 we present „Alex Flitsch meets…”, a 12″ series, where label head Alex Flitsch will collaborate with several well-known artists from his circle of friends, beginning with Audiofly. For part two, Alex hooked up with Mutant Clan, the project by Timo Maas and Santos. Release in autumn. More collabrations … [more]

We welcome New York DJ legend Tedd Patterson to our artist pool. His release “Hubble”, featuring two strongly 90ies-influenced dub cuts, somewhere between House and Techno, will be released on Supérieur soon.

We welcome whizz-kids Pol_On from Poland on Outils du Connaisseur. For more info, please check their artist page here.

Cologne-based dj and producer Martin Beume, who kicks off our new sub-imprint Outils du Connaisseur, is a new member of the Connaisseur family now.

Starting beginning of October, we proudly present our new sub-label for House-related tools and dubs: Outils du Connaisseur. For this year, please look forward to great releases by Martin Beume and the first solo-project by Afrilounge member Liapin.

Please welcome Mutant Clan, the new project of Timo Maas and Santos to the Connaisseur family.

In 2002 Eduard Hartter, Richard Rotfuß aka Richard Liapin and Markus Liefke aka Liefko founded Afrilounge. With this, the three friendly djs and producers established a solid basis in order to bundle their creative energy and to share their predelection for electronic music.
 
After two years of common producing in the studio, they contributed their first track, „The Dude”, to the Full Body Workout compilation of Berlin`s Label „GetPhysicalMusic”. … [more]

For Alex Flitsch, music is an obsession. For more than 15 years, the label owner of Connaisseur Recordings has been firmly rooted in the electronic music scene. Living in Frankfurt by choice, the studied advertiser has been working as a DJ since 1994 and is an enthusiastic collector. In his DJ career he played in clubs in almost all of Germany as well as in cities like Miami and Hong … [more]

Andrès Garcìa has been working as a professional musician since 1992, composing for theater, contemporary dance, film and for other musicians and artists in contemporary art. He plays electronic music live, using a lap top, keyboards and other electronic equipment.
 
Andrès has participated in different musical projects and bands, in a diverse range of genres, including jazz, rock, pop and latin music.
 
In 1992 he founded the … [more]

Arthur Pochon (aka Art Bleek) started studying piano at age 6. He enrolled in the conservatory at age 9 to study saxophone and music theory. He graduated from the prestigious institution 12 years later. During his years of study, Arthur played in various musical ensembles, ranging from chamber groups to full orchestras. He listened primarily to classical, jazz, world as well as electronic music and started composing original … [more]

New York based South African, Brendon Moeller has been seriously producing since 1994. His compositions have been released on Francois K’s Deep Space Media; Third ear Records, Echocord, Mule Musiq, Eskimo recordings and then some. He records as Brendon Moeller, Beat Pharmacy and Echologist. Dub, techno, jazz, afrobeat and psychedelics are inspirations that appear in most of his music. Whether it be serious dancefloor bizniz, or dubbed out downtempo, his … [more]

Chymera hails originally from Cork, the real capital of Ireland. Throughout his teen years a disciple of metal, industrial, alternative and folk, in 2000 he was bitten by the electronic bug. Although he flirted with various styles over the first couple of months he quickly latched onto the dynamic power and emotion of techno. That summer he purchased his first set of decks and threw himself into mastering the … [more]

The Carreer of Dani started in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1992 just by 14 years old, Dani listened to the tapes that to gave him his older brother of return of the underground parties of the time. The sound of Dani comes from house and with time and the evolution of electronic music continues having important shades within his sets.
 
From the 1995 to the 1997 Dani to presented and … [more]

“Daso is considered one of the most talented newcomers of the past few years. Out of nothing, his debut record Daybreak was released on My Best Friend in 2005. Soon after, two more releases on My Best Friend followed, as well two on Conaisseur so far. Daso’s records vary in style from minimal to house. His great talent shows when Daso performs live. Thoughtfull minimal, extatic rave and hard techno; … [more]

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“I get restless when I can’t work on my own melodies. It’s such a good outlet for my emotions”. There you have it in a nutshell. Dutch Estroe lives for her music. It’s electronic, it’s beat driven and it’s full of emotions.

 
Together with techno hotties like Anja Schneider, Mistress Barbara and Monika Kruse, Dutch. Estroe belongs to an elite club of female DJ’s that made it … [more]

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Federleicht, the music duo full of smart understatement, announces its latest release for 2008. Built on minimalist structure, transparent rhythms and varying mood and tempo, Federleicht, or ‘light as a feather’ in English, claims its position as a star of electronic music.
 
Far from the typical restrictive club style, partners Florian Schirmacher and Marc Bammann developed a project that reflects another sphere of sound—their blending works seemingly so easily, … [more]

Daniel Girresser and Michael Erb get to know each other at a party. Both are thrilled by the new clubsound expanding into Europe from Detroit and Chicago. Fascinated by the complexity and the aesthetics of electronic music, they decide to start an own project.
 
Already a DJ, Daniel owns a lot of vinyl and a sampler. Michael, a former guitar player, calls an Atari ST and a collection of effect … [more]

Jochen Trappe was the first newcomer on Connaisseur. At the early age of five, he played the trumpet, however his enthusiasm for electronic music soon led him in other directions. At the age of 15, he took his first steps towards music production with his own computer.
 
Today, the student of computer sciences is so adept, that he will occasionally program his own music software.
 
Our man from Kiel, in … [more]

Kollektiv Turmstrasse is a project by Christian Hilscher and Nico Plagemann from Lübeck/Hamburg. It all started as a typical apartment-sharing community in 1999. Both had been infected early by electronic music. Chris through his passion for collecting records and Nico through the early Tracker- and Demo scene.
 
True to the slogan “Youth explorers” they brew sounds inside the KTS laboratory, influenced by the Basic Channel at that time. Relatively quickly … [more]

Eric Estornel, under the names MAETRIK, MARIEL ITO, and simply ESTORNEL - has been contributing to his musical world around him since 93. First a dj, and later developing his skills as a producer, Eric has always searched for the future of electronic dance. Not being confined by rules of styles or genres is most important to Eric, as he makes his way through a political and fickle industry.
 
Eric … [more]

Mark August’s style drifts somewhere in between detroit, house, techno, deephouse, minimal and sometimes a little underworldesque progressive. Mainly somewhere in between. At the late age of 21; Mark discovered quality dancemusic through some friends of his. It was carlcraig’s “69-Desire” on one late morning, after one of his first all-night- long-dance experiences that triggered the whole journey. It blew him away, and still does.
 
This also was the … [more]

Due to his musical family Markus Mueller, born in the North of Bavaria in 1978, got in touch with music very early in his life. Fascinated by his father’s piano playing he started taking piano lessons at the age of seven. Classical music and making music with instruments enthused him for many years, and the musical skills and knowledge gained during this time were to be of great use later … [more]

A serious career in producing electronic music almost always starts in a club: everyone knows the story of his first night out at some legendary place, sometimes behind the turntables, more often than not in front of them. Everybody remembers how this sound hit him for the first time, how the doors to the paradise of the steady bassdrum opened.
 
The hero of our story found its initiation at … [more]

New project of Timo Maas & Santos. More info soon…

Patrick Chardronnet, quietly finding his inspiration amongst thousands of mighty firs in his unassuming home in southern Germany’s Black Forest, has caused quite a stir since his first release ‘Ledge’ on Raummusik. He started out only privately making music at home with the gear he managed to buy while working in maintenance at an industrial plant, however one day he met a guy at a party in Cologne who … [more]

Twenty-three-year-old newcomer Pele was born and still lives in the picturesque south Bavarian town of Rosenheim, incidentally the same city the famous act Funkstörung comes from.
 
Positive from the start that his place is to be found behind the decks, he spends several years DJing in and around Bavaria and Austria and co-hosting many parties in the region.
Two years after having bought his first production equipment at the age of … [more]

Plasmik are the brothers Roman and Marcel Fritz. Both originate from Black Forest`s finest city Freiburg, located close to the swiss border. In the middle of the 90ies they got infected by the dry, deep and organic Techno, which was imported from the USA at that time. So they started to buy records and to produce with simple sequencers and drumcomputers. Later both went different ways. Roman studied classical guitar, … [more]

The Pol_On are Kacper Bogacz and Michal Piotrowski. Kacper is a graduate of the Academy of Jazz Music in Katowice and a respected jazz musician who became known to a wider audience for serving its own live acts as Piroman vs. Pan K together with Marcin Romanowski. Michal - dj Mike P - is without a doubt one of the key players of Warsaws techno/house club scene. Over the last … [more]

Rekleiner is a collaboration between Stuart Geddes, Anthony Middleton & Luca Saporito. All three of them are important players within the UK/ London underground club scene.
Since 2003 Anthony and Luca have been working under their other alter ego, Audiofly, which has been going from strength to strength recently, with support from many key players in the House music industry. Recent remixes such as Kenzo _Working it out , on Music … [more]

Raphaël Ripperton started his dj carrier in 1993. He also makes collaborations (Lazy fat People) & remixes for Laurent Garnier , Xela Saitta, Beanfield, Oliver Lieb (aka Solieb), Spencer Parker, Catalyst, Shinedoe, Sam K, Radioslave, Lee Van Dowski, Undo, The Viewers, Stickroth & Ercolino, Robert Babicz, Patrick Chardronnet, Sebbo and released his projects or remixes on famous labels like: Crosstown Rebel (UK), STHLM audio (CH), Connaisseur Rec (GER), Freedom soundz … [more]

Sebastian Roya is a 24-year-old fellow from the beautiful island of Gran Canaria in Spain. In 2006, Patrick Chardronnet discovered this unpolished diamond during an after party while Sebastian was playing an amazing long DJ set, almost only with his own tracks. Right after that, Sebastian was asked to release his very first track… on Connaisseur Recordings!
 
Although he has always been influenced by the progressive sounds, his productions are … [more]

“Simon Baker is fast becoming a major player in the global electronic community. Working steadily through the ranks at 2020 Vision after producing his first single “The Lip Trick” in 2004 he has worked, fine-tuned and greatly improved his production skills gaining worldwide respect with a bang this year”(Word & Sound-Germany-Sept 07)
 

Simon has been collecting and playing records for over 15 years. A versatile and passionate DJ, he doesn’t … [more]

Veteran globetrotting DJ, producer and remixer, Tedd Patterson is internationally recognized as a leading talent in the dance music scene and has become renowned for his infectious signature sound, which reflects a diverse array of influences and transcends simple categorization. His wickedly innovative sets are an intoxicating blend of contemporary and classic dance music styles that seamlessly meld driving percussive tribal beats, minimal techno textures, throbbing progressive house, soaring Afro … [more]

When you enter the sound of Wareika, vibrations envelop you as you feel the spirit of the music. The collaboration-celebration of Florian Schirmacher, Henrik Raabe and Jakob Seidensticker listened and searched for the perfect music fusion before finding their way. They are inspired by the spirit of the music, which enables them to keep balanced. It is through their constant experimentation and relationship to their instruments, such as the … [more]

ZoëXenia began her music career from a young age, as a singer / songwriter with various rock bands in her teenage years.
 
That is, until she first heard housemusic.
 

Caught by this new sound, and longing to be more than a singer in a band, she began to develop her own electronic style as a producer - a hybrid of rolling bass, mysterious soundscapes and funked-up beats. She uses … [more]