Spektre's Upcoming Gigs
Sat 28 Mar, 20 
Rotterdam Rave, Maassilo Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Fri 22 May, 20 
Dip Music, TBC, Mexico City, Mexico
Sat 13 Jun, 20 
Verknipt Festival, Recreatieplas Strijkviertel, De Meern, Netherlands
Sat 04 Jul, 20 
Beats for Love Festival, Dolní Vítkovice, Ostrava, Czech Republic
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After beginning life as an experimental side-project for members Paul Maddox and Rich Wakley, Spektre find themselves over a decade later as established and respected features of the Techno landscape.  As a production outfit, they have recently released on such imprints as Elevate, Phobiq and Unrilis, as well as their own Respekt Recordings (now approaching it’s 150th release) to the acclaim of their peers, with the likes of Adam Beyer, Carl Cox and Alan Fitzpatrick among their plaudits. As their near-permanent presence in the Techno download charts confirms, the quality and consistency of Spektre’s studio output is a given.  As performers, Spektre’s unique sound has taken them to some of the biggest and most highly regarded venues worldwide, with frequent bookings by the likes of Space Ibiza, Exit Festival, Pacha Buenos Aires and Burning Man. On stage, their long-standing chemistry and constant desire to experiment always results in an exciting spectacle. Their live exploits are also documented alongside guest slots from esteemed cohorts in a fortnightly Mutual Respekt Podcast, which is syndicated across the globe.

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          The Bucharest native has been Djing since 2009, and first sharpened her Dj skills in the city’s club scene during her recidency  for the clubs and pubs in the Old City and beaches at the Black Sea . On some level, almost all artists are storytellers, but LaOra’s ability to spin a compelling tale using nothing but music created by other people is what  gives her the ability to keep the dancefloor pomped up all over the country from club to club as a headliner starting from 2010 till today. 
          Even as her profile has risen dramatically in recent years, she  hasn’t dipped her toes into the production realm till 2014, LaOra’s focus being entirely on Djing.  In June 2014 LaOra’s making herofficial debut as a producer on natural Rhythm Label with the Ep called “UseMe”  inlc. Remixes from Dj Le Roi, Elio Riso & Chris Von Nuchaku.  Her passion for music  continues to evolve and in 2015 she’s back in the studio producing a new Ep in collab with Viorel Dragu, a collab that unites a commitment to vibrant melodic  vibes, classic drum-machines rhythms and techno bits. 
          Growing up in Romania, LaOra has always been inspired by hip-hop and electronic music, but over the years she’s also developed an impeccable ear for tech house and techno making an appearance on her dj sets with tribal influences , LaOra ensures that things never sound stable by periodically changing up the mood .  Besides  Romania she played in Ibiza, Germany, Italy, Turkey, Jordan and Bahrain. 

Genre: Tech House/ Techno 
Booking : stefanlaura@ymail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/DjLaOraOficial 

Afterlife / Siamese / Upperground / Simulate / Ellum 
Worldwide booking: citizenkain.booking@gmail.com

French DJ/producer/label boss Citizen Kain is the DJ’s DJ – his powerful tracks at the heart of sets by many a top name (Tale Of Us, Maceo Plex, Artbat, Solomun, Mind Against, Adriatique…). He releases on Afterlife, Ellum, Upperground, Siamese, Atlant, plays at global events such as Fusion Festival (DE), Marvelous Island (FR), Ying Yang Festival (Great Wall of China), Les Plages Electroniques, Sunburn Festival (India), Spilt Milk (South Africa), Les Nuits Sonores, Piknic Électronik… while supporting luminaries such as Artbat, Laurent Garnier, Adriatique, Adam Beyer, Maceo Plex, Solomun, Mind Against… 

 Add to that his impressive following on DSPs and honourable history (including jail!) as part of the French illegal rave scene and it’s high time he was more of a headliner in every sense of the word. So, he’s emerging from his ‘eminence gris’ status into the limelight, in time to make his new label’s name UNSEEN (launched Aug 2022 with ‘Kiss Me Again’) well and truly ironic as well as releasing his own new work, remixes and other artists. 2023 sees his track‘Ghosts & Shadows’ drop on Artbat’s label Upperground, after his ‘Ricochet’ dropped March 2023 on Adriatique's Siamese imprint – more big releases TBC amidst a hectic tour schedule.  

SOUND, STORY & EARLY INFLUENCES: Kain describes his sought-after and very strong individual sound as ‘Melodic Techno, always melodic, but with an edge and very groovy rhythmics. I mix genres of Techno, Hardcore, DnB and House from each period of my music development, defining a very fat, high energy sound.’ Other influences from 80s New Wave (Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk…), Punk, and his earliest youth playing guitar in a Metal band also enrich the mix. 

Kain’s childhood passion for making music began at age 10, an electric guitar from his parents leading to forming Metal bands with friends and gigging from age 15. He got the House/Techno bug soon after, and from 2002, he gave up a car factory job for full-time DJ/producing after a small legacy allowed him 2 years free to learn his craft, the one silver lining to the tragedy of losing his mother at age 20. From then on, he earned his living in music. A period of mainly Techno Hardcore/DnB eventually evolved into his current passion, Melodic Techno. 2006 saw his first vinyl release, and from 2007 he released vinyl on high stature labels and began serious touring. From gigs in local bars and clubs, to organising small illegal rave parties and then much bigger illegal events (which landed him briefly in jail!), he has lived his love of music on stage and never stopped. 

Early influences began with Metal, Hardcore and Punk (Biohazard, Sick Of It All, Madball, Agnostic Front, Fugazi, Discharge) while playing in bands, then when DJing it was Electro/New Wave like Depeche Mode, Kraftwerk, Joy Division, The Cure that got him into Dance Music, seeing him through his Techno epiphany. 

RECENT RELEASES: As well as his 2023 July single ‘Ghosts & Shadows’ from a 4track VA EP on Artbat’s label Upperground, and lots more in the works, there was also ‘Ricochet’ March 2023 on Siamese while 2022 gave us ‘DRAG’, and ‘Pancho Villa’ (both on Tale Of Us' Afterlife), his label launch track ‘Kiss Me Again’ on UNSEEN, plus releases on BOg’s Atlant and a second track on Afterlife’s VA compilation, as well as a track ‘Supercycle’ with David Guetta’s alter ego Jack Back. He made his Ellum debut with ‘Charly Charly’ in 2021. His tracks are eagerly snapped up by DJs such as Tale Of Us, Maceo Plex, Artbat, Solomun, Mind Against, Adriatique, David Guetta, Laurent Garnier, Carl Cox, Dubfire, Richie Hawtin, Joris Voorn, Joseph Capriati…

PERFORMANCES: Citizen Kain has shared a stage with all the major artists since 2000, most recently Artbat, Maceo Plex, Solomun, Mind Against, David Guetta, Adam Beyer, Laurent Garnier, previously Richie Hawtin, Sven Vath, Ricardo Villalobos, Carl Cox, Dubfire, Luciano, and earlier, Underground Resistance artists like Mad Mike, Jeff Mills, James Pennington. He has a packed touring schedule for 2023. 

GIGS INCLUDE: Fusion Festival (Germany), Piknic Électronik Montreal, Ying Yang Festival (Great Wall of China), Les Plages Electroniques, Sunburn Festival (India), Spilt Milk (South Africa), Dream Festival (Mexico), I Love Techno (Europe), Sea You Festival (Germany), Marvelous Festival (France), Family Piknik Festival (France), Klubbers Day Festival (Spain), Big Bang Festival (France), Les Déferlantes Festival (France), Burning Beach Festival (Germany), Icarus Festival (Germany), Panoramas Festival (France), Eclipse Festival (Canada), Les Nuits Sonores (France).

Now Citizen Kain has stepped fully out of the shadows, with such a list of achievements and accolades, the sky’s the limit.




Markus M. alias Mark Mayu wurde September 1980 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein (RLP) geboren.

Mitte der 90er trugen die Faszination "Musik" ,  das Palazzo in Bingen und das erste Equipment die Hauptschuld daran, dass eine tolle Musiker-Karriere Ihren Lauf nahm.

Es dauerte 3-4 Jahre, bis die ersten Clubs und Radiosender auf ihn aufmerksam wurden und er zunächst regional eine Gelegenheit nach der Anderen wahrnehmen durfte sein Können an den Decks zu präsentieren.

Pünktlich zur Jahrtausendwende wurde aus ihm ein großer Anhänger der Techno und Hardtechno Scene...

Es dauerte weitere 6 Jahre bis er die ersten Releases  draußen hatte und  Clubs wie das Butan (Wuppertal), das Fusion (Münster) das Pulp Mansion (Berlin) oder das U60311 (Frankfurt) von ihm beschallt wurden.

Zusammen mit DJ-Größen wie Arkus P., Viper XXL, Wittekind, Niereich oder den A-Brothers bringt er noch heute die Crowd immer aufs Neue zur Ekstase, 2008 , 2009 , 2010 , 2011 ,2012 ,2013, 2014 sogar auf der Raketenbasis Pydna des Nature One Festivals.

2011 gründete er zusammen mit seinem Freund und Kollegen Marco Stylez das Projekt "Men vs Machine" welches für puren Hardtechno Sound steht.


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Mark Mayu alias Markus M. was born in 1980 in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine (Rhineland-Palatinate).
In the middle of the 90ies, the fascination "music", the Palazzo in Bingen and his first equipment beared the main blame on the fact that a great musician career took ist course.
It took 3 - 4 years until the first clubs and radio stations took notice of him. So he first regionally got one opportunity after another to present his skills on the decks.
Punctual to the turn of the millenium he became a great supporter of the techno and hardtechno scene.
It took further 6 years until he published his first releases and clubs like Butan/Wuppertal, Fusion/Münster, Pulp Mansion/Berlin or U60311/Frankfurt got filled with sound by him.
In collaboration with great DJs like Arkus P., Viper XXL, Wittekind, Niereich or the A-Brothers he still makes the crowd ecstasiate again and again - in the years 2008 - 2014 even on the missile Pydna on the Nature One Festival.
In 2011 he founded the project Men vs. Machine together with his friend Marco Stylez, which signifies hardtechno...

It’s all about the music. New York stalwart and beloved DJ, Boris, lives by that statement each and every day. He is a man wearing many hats; one as a touring DJ, another as a producer dynamo and lastly as a label boss of Transmit Recordings. A career forged over decades of long nights in the Big Apple’s most revered rooms. From the infamous Roxy to Crobar to the once dominating Pacha NY on 46th Street, Boris maintained a following so devout, so loyal they were truly ‘Believers’. Pioneering a music movement in a city filled with those who have so little time to pay attention, Boris has been a production powerhouse when not performing for the masses. He’s been tapped by industry leaders such as Carl Cox for his label Intec, Dubfire for his label Sci-Tec, Paco Osuna and his Mindshake records, amongst countless others.

His ability behind the decks and in the studio has not only made him a New York favorite, but his music has taken him places all around the world ranging from the shores of Playa Del Carmen to the magical White Isle known as Ibiza. Known to many as the ‘DJ’s DJ’, Boris has had the career most DJs can only wish to have. The trends, they may change but the New York native has stayed true to his drum driven sounds and created his own niche in the wide and vast world of electronic music. Taking bits and pieces from every part of the globe he visits, Boris always maintains a piece of home in his music. 

Even though his career spans nearly three decades, the journeyman DJ has yet to falter. We currently find him playing leading to destinations across the globe and his music is in high demand with forthcoming releases many sought after labels, Boris will is constantly on the tips of the younger generation’s tongue. Why? Because talent, like wine, gets better with age.

NIN3S (aka UNER) is the new alias of one of the most important talents of the last 10 years in the international electronic music scene, UNER. With a classical background including an undergraduate degree in Music Theory & Piano (which he began at the early age of 4), and a Summa Cum Laude graduation in the Art of Mixing from the Berklee College of Music, together with his passion for film scoring and orchestral composition and his love for the art in general led him to focus on this new project and make a big change in his career in September of 2019, after making his first complete soundtrack for an a Polish dramatic film, obtaining since then several international jobs in this new facet.

He is immersed in this and other main musical projects, which combine electronic and classical composition between analog, acoustic instruments and live musicians as well as other artistic projects in the movies industry, arts and live shows.

As a UNER, from debuting in 2009 on Diynamic (Solomun's label), to remixing one of the world's electronic music icons, Laurent Garnier, in 2015, he has had very exciting moments with a brilliant career.
After a life dedicated to music, the rewards came in the form of excellent reviews and audience success, performances around the world and musical releases on the best electronic labels such as Cadenza, Cocoon, Visionquest, or Diynamic, in which he released his debut album “Tune 432", showing his more personal side. In addition, this album showed the continued musical maturity as an artist.
Looking back, we can see that he was one of the top artists on Resident Advisor's annual charts in 2012, in 2013 he was named best newcomer at the Ibiza DJ Awards, and in 2014 the sophistication came with his album, as well as being awarded with more than 10 awards in his career as an international producer and artist throughout all these years. Every milestone reached is celebrated and appreciated, but Manu's ambition made him a stepping stone to the next level. The results are clear: 25 years of career, awards, tours around the world and respect from the music industry. 

Currently, we find Manu completely involved in bringing his knowledge and transferring all his love and passion in all his productions, making a fusion from neo classical composition to electronic music, connecting music with other arts giving that personal and unique point of view that characterizes him. This is how NIN3S was born in the world of arts and comes to position itself in the right place, as he did previously with its other aliases.

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