[Booking Contact]
luca@k4bookings.com

[About]

Coming from a diverse music background, Gina´s passion has always been the dancefloor.  As a passionate dancer before she started DJing in Berlin, then immersed herself in growing a loyal wide audience and keeping listeners on many sweet places engaged with her aesthetic of the slower side of underground dance music.

Gina is telling melodic deep stories and her devotion to the music speaks through her captivating and powerful sets. 
- But it´s all about the groove, when she’s dropping some low-tempo-deep-house-joints.

After 10 years in Germany's capital, Gina moved to her new adopted city Leipzig to start a club project with two of her best friends - ost:end is the lived utopia of many different cultural workers, curators, producers and DJ´s.

What started as an idea for a club is now a record label, a booking agency and an event collective with an incredible output. Whether it's sets, releases, live talks or events - the ost:end shapes Leipzig's club culture in its own way.

A Kartoffel-sushi-samba.

Booking WW: isabel@stilvortalent.de
Booking NA: contact@zeroagency.com

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2025:

29.04 - Planetarium Berlin 
01.05 - 05.05 - Afrika Burn 
09.05 - After Dust CPT
10.05 - Habitat CPT
16.05 - SVT + Sonicjungle NYC / USA
17.05 - Maraña + Haize - Lisbon PT
24.05 - Rumu - Lisbon PT
30.05 - Lulu Malina Bday - PL 

07.06 - Distortion Cph
14.06 - Südpol + Pastanaga - Hamburg DE
18.06 - SVT @ Fi-  Köln DE
28.06 - Fusion Festival - DE

05.07 - Zero + KaterBlau - Berlin DE
18.07 - Nektar Festival DE
19.07 - Sysiphos DE
20.07 - Gartn - Berlin DE
26.07 - Cala Uma - Sardignia IT

02.08 - VogelBall - Hamburg DE
03.08 - Garbicz PL
08.08 - Summer Contrast PL
09.08 - Züri Street Parade - CH
14.08-18.08 - Bucht der Träumer DE
24.08-31.08 - Burning Man USA

September 2025 

06.09 - HOY NYC 
13.09 - ATCK - Berlin 
18.09 - Studio Berlin 
25 and 26.09 - Sol de Janeiro - Düsseldorf 
27.09 - Banwärter thiel - Munich 

October 2025 

02.10 - 12 years rebellion Renate 
04.10 - Chill Opposite festival Egypt dahab 
17.10 - per anhalter 10 years 
19.10 - Werki Leipzig 
22.10 - ADE - SVT - the other side - AMS
24.10 - ADE - Wolvenroedel - AMS
25.10 - children of panacea - Zürich

November 2025

01.11 - Rock the mountain - Petropolis - BR
08.11 - Rock the mountain - Petropolis - BR 
15.11 - Ritter Butzke - SVT 20 years - Berlin DE
30.11 - Re.set Festival - Tunisia 
01.12 - Kater Blau DE




Kotoe makes you want to move — think disco, feel acid, breathe tropicali. These genres and tempos reflect her beginnings playing booty-body shake with VoodooHop to where she is right now: at the centre of the European dance riot with its clubs of deep beats, mood-encrusted vibes, and nooks and crannies where you can play with anything from lovers to politics between moments inside the music. In this world, Kotoe forged a career of being unafraid to challenge what many came to expect from the Berlin club scene, making her synonymous with dancers looking for more surprise, more genre-bending, and more movement. The latter comes especially naturally for this Japanese Brazilian gypsy: From the Machi's of Tokyo, the Rua's of Rio, and the Strasse's of Berlin, you can hear her footsteps carved into her sound — blooming with life, stories, and emotion.
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Releases: @heshethey @stilvortalent @hugrecords @earthlymeasures @tropicaltwistarecords

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DJ’ing since 1990 and Producing music since 1991, Martin Ikin previously known as;  DJ Mayhem, Indigo, Soul Purpose, Migrant.. and loads more, has spent his life releasing records on many labels and under many aliases. Including, Defected, Nervous, OFF, Get Physical, Exploited, Zrecords, 3Beat, MOS, SwingCity, Hed Kandi, Soulfuric, Sony, Island, Atlantic..etc etc.
Martin's remix credentials include names such as Mariah Carey, Jamiroquai, Joey Negro, MAW, Grant Nelson, Hardsoul and many more...
Trained studio engineer and jazz pianist Martin stepped away from producing and engineering for others and launched his own label Soul Purpose Records in 2003, as a stable for his own productions.
2005 saw Martin adopted his label name "Soul Purpose" as his DJ & Production/Remix moniker, dropping the old school "Mayhem" tag from the early 1990's 
Now Djing & Producing using his real name for the first time ever! Martin kicks of with a Monster release on Andre Crom's OFF Recordings. Watch out for lots of brand new music coming from Martin on some of the biggest labels in the game including more on the mighty OFF Recordings.
As a musician and producer Martin draws his musical influences from the likes of Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Oscar Peterson, Azymuth, Donny Hathaway, Jeff Lorber, Roy Ayers and legendary house masters like Mr Fingers, Marshall Jefferson, Derek May & Kevin Saunderson.

When Leon Michels name first appeared on a record, he was 16. That release was Thunder Chicken, and the group was his high school band, The Mighty Imperials. The record was essentially an homage to The Meters, at the time it was near pitch-perfect for the budding retro-soul scene. While that release was an early step for Michels, aspects of it have almost become trademarks of his work: a unique raw-yet-disciplined approach to his sound and songwriting, and a soulful genuineness that has a sense of humor one minute and a sense of solace the next.

Right from the jump his hustling work ethic was evident, always involved in a lot at once. While finishing Thunder Chicken, Michels began touring and recording with Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings—which he did for the next 7 years. During that time he was also recording songs in a makeshift home studio and preparing for what would be his first full-length record, Sounding Out The City, and the first release under the name El Michels Affair. In 2004, when Sounding Out The City was recorded, Michels’ obsession with Euro Library, American soul, and early rocksteady crept its way into the songwriting and recording aesthetic, the outcome was something Michels appropriately dubbed “Cinematic Soul.” The album was to be the first release on Truth & Soul Records, a new label Michels co founded.

The lo-fi warm recording aesthetic and bottom heavy production alongside the immediate success of EMA’s debut release lead to playing a show with Raekwon of Wu-Tang fame. That show went over so well it lead to a tour with El Michels backing multiple members of the Wu-Tang Clan. It was these shows that ended up laying the groundwork for the release of El Michels Affair’s second full-length, Enter the 37th Chamber, which eventually introduced them to a worldwide audience. While the band’s fanbase went through the roof, the industry also quickly recognized that EMA was a force to be reckoned with. Almost in a domino effect, a huge range of hip-hop artists sampled Michels’ songs, from Ghostface Killah, Just Blaze, and Jay-Z to J Dilla, J.Cole, and Travis Scott.

While simultaneously running a label, playing / touring, and co-producing other artist’s music Michels helped found The Menahan Street Band, co-produced Aloe Blacc’s sophomore smash LP, Good Things, and received a writer credit on Adele’s Grammy-nominated album, 19. Shortly there after Michels found himself on tour with The Black Keys after being cold-called by Auerbach and asked to join them on the road. It turned out that Auerbach was a big fan of the sound and approach of the Lee Fields record “My World”, which Michels produced. When Auerbach was tapped to make Dr. John’s critically acclaimed album , “Locked Down” and Lana Del Rey’s LP, “Ultraviolence”, Michels was brought along to play and add his signature sound. That led to being included in and touring for Auerbach’s psych-rock project, The Arcs, which features Michels as a musician and co-producer. 

in 2016, Michels co-founded Big Crown Records with Danny Akalapse, the second record label Michels has helped build from the ground. Since then, he has produced a majority of the albums from the labels roster including Lee Fields, Lady Wray, Brainstory, Paul & The Tall Trees, Liam Bailey, and Thee Lakesiders.  Michels has also produced records for Beyonce & Jay-Z’s side project, The Carters, Hanni El Khatib, Chicano Batman, Marco Benevento, and Don Toliver.

In 2020, Michels will release the second album of original material under the El Michels Affair moniker.  The Album, entitled Adult Themes, which Michels calls “the soundtrack to an imaginary movie,” creates a lush, evocative, complex and eclectic collection of tunes that will keep your ears on edge as you nod your head.

Bookings: jamila@minor-am.com

Contact & Promos: thisisjesseg@gmail.com

Upcoming:
21.11. Den Anden Side, Copenhagen
16.11. Berghain, Berlin
01.11. Rabbithole, Taipeh
18.10. Apotheka, Manila
11.10. Horn, Bangkok
10.10. Mitsuki, Tokyo
04.10. Nachtparlement, Deventer
27.09. Queerpol, Hamburg
21.09. R0 - Fitzroy, Berlin
13.09. Patio - Lofi, Amsterdam
16.08. K41, Kiev
02.08. Club Raum, Amsterdam
01.08. tba, Berlin
27.06. OXI, Berlin
19.07. Habitat Festival, Hamburg
19.07. Schall im Schiff, München
18.07. Nation of Gondwana
12.07. Nachbar, Amsterdam
29.06. RSO, Berlin
28.06. Nous'Klaer Festival, Rotterdam
13.06. tba, New York
28.05. Ohm, Berlin
25.05. Garage Noord, Amsterdam
17.05. Robert Johnson, Offenbach
11.05. Berghain, Berlin
12.04. Triebwerk, Erfurt
28.03. TES, Tbilisi
22.03.Tilla Tec, Amsterdam
08.03. Radion, Amsterdam
07.03. Panorama Bar, Berlin
23.02. RSO, Berlin
21.02. Basis, Utrecht
15.02. Raum, Amsterdam
17.01. Essaim, Paris
01.01. Den Anden Side, Copenhagen
01.01. Berghain, Berlin

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