Techno Producer, DJ - SF Bay Area
Co-Owner / A&R @ Fierce Animals
Labels:
Mainground Music
Extima
Fierce Animal Recordings
Black Snake Recordings
Kaligo Records
Red Channel Records
Dark Face Recordings
+ More....

Music is the air I breathe.

Exploring the depths of dark organic, melodic techno, indie and dark disco.

Get ready for deep groovy thick multi-layered yet energetic dance music with slight touch of darkness 😈

As a producer, musician, DJ and serial collaborator, Chris Schwarzwälders distinctive style of deep, restrained house is hard to pin down, but you’ll always know it’s him when you hear it. 

Born in Frankfurt am Main in the 80s, he started playing hiphop in the 90s. While making beats on his MPC2000, he dropped into Offenbach’s Robert Johnson club and fell in love with techno. 

In 2009, Chris moved to Berlin and started DJing at KaterHolzig, where he found a group of people who thought about music in the same way he did. In contrast to the trends of the late 00s, the sounds being made from this little paradise on Berlin’s river Spree were slower, softer, and more soulful than a lot of what was being played in clubs at the time. 

It was here that Chris began to cement his reputation as both a solo producer and collaborator, who was capable of bringing his trademark sounds to a whole number of side-projects - many of which have gone on to play to crowds around the globe. He joined the Feathered Sun collective in 2013, together with a group of friends including Acid Pauli, Nu, Jo.Ke and Raz O’Hara. Dreamy, groovy and often improvised, the collective represented a special kind of musical freedom in which a group of producers came together to create something new in a singular, live moment. 

At the same time, Chris’ friend Mira was making moves of her own, and they started to play back-to-back sets, soundtracking the legendary Monday mornings of KaterHolzig, and now, Kater Blau. The two, who are both residents at Kater Blau, have now been playing together internationally for almost a decade, and have formed a common musical understanding that translates throughout every one of their sets - deep, clubby and melancholic. This partnership has also carried on into the studio, where they have collaborated on numerous hits. 

His most light-hearted side comes out in collaboration with Iannis Ritter, where the two musicians take on a weirder, more melodic & electro approach than Chris’ other proejcts. 

If you were to ask him, Chris would describe himself as reserved, logical, rational, melancholic and humorous. Which is why you’d never hear him telling you about the hundreds of nightclubs and festivals he’s played around the globe, or the number of hits he’s had with his productions. If you’re lucky though, Chris might tell you about his favourite synthesizers, and get lost in a conversation all about electronics and sound. Which is exactly where Chris wants to be - lost in electronics and sound.

Laura Nordman-Sabia aka LottaNotta, is a San Francisco based artist/musician who composes and producing electronic and shoegaze music. 
Growing up on Long Island, New York, she was exposed to early electronic music by her audiophile father, including Kraftwerk, Walter Carlos, Tangerine Dream and Jean-Michel Jarré. In college, where she studied photography at RISD, she played bass in punk and indie bands. Then moving to NYC, her bands were more influenced by shoegaze and space rock. 
Laura’s deep interest in collecting vinyl has prompted her to transport her collection after a stint in Germany, to San Francisco. With a vast collection of record albums, these musical influences can be heard in her songs. 
Her interest and introduction to computer based music and music producing software has prompted her to forge her way into the digital recording realm.

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Vinyl DJ Jason Xman, a well known fixture in the west coast rave scene in the 90’s is back after over 20 years. Specializing in Techno, Trance, Acid and Breakbeat.

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