BIOGRAPHY OF MICHAEL BURKAT



Michael Burkat had his first experience with Techno in the early 1990's. After being taken over by the sounds of House and Techno, Michael had his first residency in a small techno club in Dortmund, Germany. There he played his weekly set of House and Techno. At the end of 1996, Michael started working at a record shop at a Dortmund record store, Channel Jam. This position brought him many contacts to the Techno-Scene and made it possible for him to get gigs all over North-Rhein-Westfalen. From these gigs, Michael attracted the attention of "Fine Audio Recordings" and in April of 1999 he was hired as A&R for Fine Audio and Touch Tone Records. In September 1999 Michael released his first record on Fine Audio, which was co-produced by Henry Cullen. Later in 1999, Michael founded "Compressed" Records with Under Cover Music Group. In 2000 Michael build his very own studio and began learning how to work as an engineer. With releases like "Cockfosters (Audio025), "Dark Entries" (Compressed 12), "Closer" (Compressed 15), "Inconstant Places" (AudioLP02) and "Simply Pounce" on the well known Label "Primate", Michael grabbed the attention of the worldwide electronic music scene. As a DJ, Michael has traveled throughout all of Germany and Europe and his sets, like his productions, are compositions of clearly structured sounds, which never bore any dance floor. After a successful 3 � -years work as A&R of the UMCG labels Fine Audio and Compressed, Michael decides to take his own path and separate from UCMG Germany in December 02. He's continued developing his production and Dj-skills over the years and is now successful in his own work with his very own labels. With the founding of his company "Still Music" in February 2003 he has set the basis for further activities. April will bring the launch of his fresh own imprint "Temper Records", which is distributed by Intergroove. "Goodfellas", another imprint, will start in June and Prime is looking for the distribution. The labels "Bound Records" (via Intergoove) & "Northwest Dynamics" (via Triple Vision) are labels that Michael runs together with Lars Klein. These are now to be found under the "Still Music"-roof.


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