Nicolas Stefan / KOMPAKT - K2 - MBF 

Der Rheinländer Dj und Produzent Nicolas Stefan sammelt seit seinem 12. Lebensjahr Schallplatten. Die entstandene Sammlung bereichert seine Sets um manchen ungeahnten Moment und vergessenen Klassiker! 
Mittlerweile in Köln lebend ist KOMPAKT ein wichtiger anlaufpunkt mit wöchentlichen besuch im Plattenladen. Als Produzent hat er neben Veröffentlichungen auf Labels wie KOMPAKT, K2, MBF oder Kittball bereits zwei mal einen Platz auf der alljährlichen KOMPAKT TOTAL Compilation ergattert. Seiner heimatstadt Solingen weiter treu ergeben veranstaltet er dort seit mehreren Jahren die Reihe UNDERGROUND MOVEMENT.

Born in 1979, Matt is mixing since 1993. He had his first paid gig on Juli 17th 1993, after which many homies aksed him to play on their parties. At the age of sixteen, he was booked to his first official club-gigs.

2009 he began to study "Digital Music Production" and married his wife Verena, who was at that time a well known DJane using her Alter Ego "Lucy van Dura". Lucy was spinning at the decks since 2001 already. Both had started their career with pure vinyl mixing in perfect beat.

2010 Matt sold his first tracks to a webdesigner from munich and to a mobile game publisher at hamburg.

In February 2013 he published Ozymandias, his first single using his alter ego Matt van Dura. It contains a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley, which was read by Matt himself and later sung by his DJ-Buddy Groovechiller.

On March 28th 2013 the follow-up Gilgamesh was released to iTunes, Beatport, Junodownload and many other shops. It was already licensed by Heineken Deutschland and Klang ID Berlin for their Heineken UEFA Ibiza Final Compilation mixed by Steve Paris. 

The Remixes of Ozymandias, containing Groovechillers vocals, were released in April 2013.

One year and many gigs later, Matt finally teamed up with his spouse Lucy, now an even more famous DJane, than in 2009. She had already remixed Ozymandias and Gilgamesh.

They succesfully published their first joint project, the "Heiss" EP in May 2015.

This colaboration was so succesfull indeed, that they decided to work on that way. So they concentrated on music production.

In only 9 months they produced a completely new album, with the working title "Smoke, Dust 'n' Drinks".

In summer 2015 Matt and Lucy decided to found a project with their coproducer and DJ-Buddie Groovechiller. The aim of this project is to built live playable versions of their existing tracks and to produce more common works of Groovechiller and the vanDuras. This group is called "The Looped Society".

They use the following instruments and equipment live in th club, on stage and in Studio:

Korg mikroKORG
Korg Electribe ESX1
Korg KAOSSILATOR PRO
Korg KAOSS PAD 2
Korg nanoKONTROL 2
Korg volca beats
Korg monotron DELAY
Roland JD-Xi
Roland Aira VT-3
Akai MPD 26
Yamaha RM1x
Waldorf Rocket
Waldorf Streichfett
Boss DD7
Novation MiniNova
Novation Launchpad mini
Novation Launchkey
OTO Machines Biscuit
Reloop KeyPad
Behringer BCR-2000
Alesis ModFX Philtre
Alesis ModFX Phlngr
Alesis ModFX Bitrman
Alesis ModFX Ampliton
Alesis AirFX
Alesis MultiMix 6
Ecler Nou3
Pioneer DJM 600S
Pioneer DJM 250
Pioneer CDJ 400
Technics SL1210 MKII (4x with Ortofon Concorde DJ-S)
Ibanez GRG 170 DX
Monzani MZAS 233
OLP Ray 4
Allen & Heath Zed14
Mackie Onyx 1640i
Ableton Live Suite 9

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