a simple devotee


https://www.discogs.com/user/Roldan23/collection

Pretender of the underground  
⠀⠀⠀⠀ 💿🎚️🎛️🎚️💿
 ⠀⠀⠀ Nutt'n but Cutt'n

https://www.instagram.com/julianekrnth?igsh=cWoxZG1wdm83bnJo&utm_source=qr

Bookings: 
booking@jon-hester.com

Participation | Rekids | Klockworks | Tresor 
Deeply Rooted | Odd Even

Hailing from the Midwest US, Jon Hester is an embodiment of the movements, sounds, and attitude that have continued to push techno and house forward. His energy and enthusiasm brought him all the way from beginnings in Chicago and Minneapolis to his present home base of Berlin.

With music released on Rekids, Klockworks, Deeply Rooted, and performances worldwide at clubbing institutions such as Berghain Berlin, Rex Club Paris, fabric London, and Vent Tokyo, he is equally keen for the fresh intensity of newer clubs dotting South America and South Africa. Jon continues building on the very expression he connected with more than 25 years ago via his label, Participation, an outlet for his own output as well as collaborative efforts with fellow artists in the global techno and house community. The collaborations are realized through a reciprocal exchange of sketches between artists, with artwork consisting of a simple one-line drawing from Hester himself – underscoring the directness, honesty, and immediacy of the music presented.
 
Participation launched in October 2023 with a solo EP from Hester, followed by collaborations with Panorama Bar favorite Cassy, Madrid Techno figurehead Tadeo, Tokyo's legendary DJ Shufflemaster, Swedish mainstay Joel Mull, UK phenomenon The Advent, Icelandic icon Exos, American live act Lady Starlight, and Uruguayan upstart William Arist. With more projects in the works, Participation will continue to inspire, surprise, and delight listeners around the globe, with the impressive depth and breadth of Hester’s tastes and abilities on full display.

Struggle often creates art, and for Maeghan Donovan, the artist known as Maedon, this certainly rings true. Splitting her time between grimy Baltimore and filthy Philly while learning the craft, her 2018 arrival in NYC confirmed her emergence into the scene, pushed along by a partnership with Brooklyn/Berlin techno powerhouse Sonic Groove and its head Adam X. A longtime student of industrial and wave music, it was this combined with the tough techno pioneered by this NYC institution that brought her to new breakthroughs and an international audience.
 
Three years later Maeghan forges ahead to the next phase of her career on the heels of a well-received collaborative full-length with Adam X as Maedon-X and a freshly minted residency, both courtesy of the legendary Tresor. Confirming her voice with finessed production and raw, autobiographical and political content, she launched her Rant & Rave imprint in 2023 seeking to platform female artists alongside established and new voices in artistic techno and industrial music. Assuring her future as the world falls apart, Maedon’s bracing sound and undeniable skills are a story now unfolding, with its beginnings already written in grit.

The Key to the Soul is MUSIC


Musik ist der Schlüssel zur Seele!

Followers of Jon Hester