For the past decade, Mad Decent has been invading your ears with fresh sounds. With humble beginnings in Diplo’s Philadelphia studio, Mad Decent’s unwavering mission is to highlight underground, genre-blurring sounds. Mad Decent tops iTunes, Beatport and Shazam charts worldwide with #1 Dance tracks and albums with releases from artists like Major Lazer, Dillon Francis, Grandtheft, Party Favor, NGHTMRE and Yellow Claw. Mad Decent is also home to Good Enuff, a launchpad for artists breaking the norm; notable releases include Bauuer’s “Harlem Shake” and DJ Snake’s “Bird Machine.” As an extension of the Mad Decent sound, Mad Decent Block Party was established in 2006 and now spans across North America and India.

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L12 was born in 1990 and grew up in Heilbronn, Germany. During the 90s his parents as well as his grandmother used to have a turntable and a vinyl collection in their living room. So he grew up listening to Vinyl. Raphael was always impressed by the turntable's technology and his interest in mixing grew more and more after he moved. First from Heilbronn to Mannheim and one year later to Heidenheim. During that time he heard a track that made him find his style in Techno Music: Dubfire-Grindhouse (Planet Terror Remix). The pressure and drive, the stomping bassline that forces you to dance in kombination with the leading dark vocals, awoke in him the ambition to start mixing.

At the beginning he started mixing various kinds of electronic music. Like Drum 'n' Bass, Tech-House , Deep House. But he fall in love with as he calls the 'typical club sound' produced by artists such as Daniel Steinberg, Sascha Braemer, Adam Port.

With his first turntables and a couple of vinyls he struggled through a kind of love-hate relationship in order to master his skills. Because of his will ambition and his love to electronic music he always improved.

With time, the constant improvement in mixing, listening and the discovery of new artists such as Octave One, Chris Liebing, Pfiter, Monoloc, Brian Sanji, Len Faki, Rebekah he realized that the club music he knew was not good enough. This new sound Raphael fall in love with, made him upgrade his Vinyl collection and find his personal style that he has till now.

Nowadays Raphael is also mixing digitally using Traktor and a controller. He also makes his first steps in Techno Production by converting his over the years gained experience, in a digital form, in this area he is bringing in his personal touch to sound. Dull, raw, impulsive yet with a build in touch of emotion.

Raphael L. personally loves the analog sound. Partly someone could compare his sound to the sound of the Classic Detroit sound. Like Jeff Mills and Plastikman.

Through his ambition, will, hard work and love for Techno he made a name in the scene and played at various gigs such as:

Der Ponyhof (Darmstadt)
Gaswerk (Weimar)                                                                                      Bukowski (Heilbronn)                                                                                    Badeanstalt (Nördlingen)                                                                                      Die Lola (Aalen)
Kulturbahnhof (Mittelsinn)
L Club (Würzburg)
Tanz Haus West (Frankfurt)
MTW (Offenbach)
Klangkeller (Fulda)
Nachtleben (Frankfurt)
Elfer (Frankfurt)
MysteryForest (Secret)
Radio Radar (Darmstadt)
Kulturbahnhof (Mittelsinn)
B30 Disco Park (Laupheim)
Zappa Kulturbetrieb (Schwäbisch Gmünd)
Technoides Beben (Alpha Club/Schwäbisch Hall)                                             UFC Festival (Innsbruck)                                                                      "Hauptsache es klatscht"  (Jenseits/Darmstadt)                                        Meteor Club (Lengfurt)
Felsen (Heidenheim)
Populär (Heidenheim)
Congcress Center (Heidenheim)
Rössle (Neresheim)
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Regarded upon his 2006 arrival as a promising beatmaker looming in the shadows of J Dilla, Madlib, waterfalls and Dabrye, Steven Ellison -- known as Flying Lotus -- nullified all comparisons only two years later with Los Angeles. On that album, his first of five for the Warp label, Ellison distilled a uniquely crisp, spasmodic, and heady sound with elements of hip-hop, avant-garde jazz, IDM, and dubstep. While the abovementioned producers fueled Ellison, he had also been excited as a youngster by the '90s West Coast rap classics that combined programming and live instrumentation. His sound continued to develop as he put his own twist on the approach, recording with a crop of jazz musicians including the indispensable likes of bassist Thundercat and strings master Miguel Atwood-Ferguson. This process began with the turbulent 2010 set Cosmogramma and peaked in terms of acclaim in 2014 with You're Dead!, which crashed the Top 20 of the Billboard 200 and spawned the Kendrick Lamar collaboration "Never Catch Me," a Grammy nominee for Best Dance Recording. Ellison devoted a few years to various forms of film work and the operation of his revered Brainfeeder label, and returned in 2019 with Flamagra, his second consecutive album to top Billboard's Dance/Electronic chart.

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