Main Stage - Live at Movement 2010 - Pt 1

Michael Mayer

Kompakt, Cologne

Born and raised in the south-west German black forest area, Michael Mayer had his first encounter with music due to his mother's kitchen radio and some fine German Schlager, just one day after his birth. Afterwards, the obligatory classic musical education (piano, clarinet, saxophone, school choir et al) was followed by the dream to become a DJ and the purchase of his first mixer and a turntable (age: 14). A long lasting odyssee later, Mayer arrived in Cologne, got involved with Delirium Records (soon to be the Kompakt store), teamed up with Tobias Thomas as Friends Xperiment, started playing at parties in Cologne and having guest gigs in Berlin at infamous places like Tacheles and Bunker. His first careful steps in producing music with Reinhard Voigt and Tobias Thomas were dubbed as Forever Sweet, who got signed by Hamburg's prestigeous Ladomat imprint. From then on, there was no stopping him. Over the course of his his long running party "Total Confusion", his genre-defining "Immer" mixes, the Kompakt label and distribution, his numerous productions ("Touch") and remixes (e.g. Superpitcher, Depeche Mode), or the Supermayer project with Superpitcher, Michael Mayer has helped create a unique and lasting part of the 4/4 universe.