Biography

Sonic Climax is an explosive combination of solid DJing skills, captivating tunes and a seasoned dynamic stage presence, pushing crowds to shift up gears and really loose themselves in dance. He's been named Master Music Journey Maker by friends, a description that resonates.


Growing up in a musical family in Germany, Bernd started playing drums and percussion as a kid. With the advent of electronic dance music he sold his drums to purchase turntables and a mixer in 1994.

Bernd soon found dance parties and festivals to be his natural habitat, where he could flourish and expand not just his, but also other's consciousness. Mostly active in the underground techno scene, he played countless gigs in Europe before moving to New Zealand in 2001 and subsequently shifted his focus to Psychedelic Trance.

Initially he focused his DJing on the more progressive side of Psy-trance, yet hugely enjoying ecstatic dancing to Full-on. 

In more recent years the Sonic Climax sound has clearly moved up to the 143-148 BPM Full-on range, and is colorful, mostly uplifting and highly energetic while still dropping down into more progressive territories every so often to create contrast ... and hence traction on the dance floor.

Bernd’s deep sense of rhythm combined with a keen analytical mind enable him to continually whip out lengthy, structured mixes creating a seamless journey for the crowd to dive into. Being a highly passionate dancer and not shy to express on stage, Sonic Climax truly inspires souls on the floor to join the mutual and abnormal freedom of movement that is THE DANCE !!

Sonic Climax is a regular feature at Lost In Paradise, Dimension and Trancevaders. He's headlined GWP Festival in New Caledonia, featured at the first four AUM Festivals, and going further back in time, Twisted Planet, Splore, Dreamweavers and Cyberculture to name a few. For a number of years he was also co-host and resident DJ at Rural Remix Productions.

His influence in the Auckland psy-scene really goes back a long way and spans the whole spectrum!

Over the years Sonic Climax has warmed up dance floors for names like Atmos, Mad Maxx, Antix, Boom Shankar, Chicago 1200 Mics, Tripswitch, Aum Shanti, Rinkadink, Spectrasonic, Suduaya, Interpulse, Young Kim, Tetrameth, Megapixel and many more ...

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