Monika Kruse & Gregor Tresher

MONIKA KRUSE
Lucky 15 years with breaks, beats and Bleeps
Monika Kruse: DJ, producer, label boss and party host

Since 15 years Monika Kruse has been bringing the dancefloors from Chicago via Berlin to Tokyo to boil. Furthermore she is pushing her idea of Techno-Funk as producer, party promoter and label owner. Her motivation is straight and sweeping "Music makes me happy!"

Consistently she subordinates all her other activities, like her career as a model, which she started as a 4-year-old advertising for a german childrens food product, but, that suddenly ended. "My agency kicked me out cause I only showed up for castings, when I ran out of money for vinyl."

Native of Berlin she has been taking part in the development of electronic dance music in Germany since 1991. First as a resident DJ at the Parkcafe and as a member of the legendary Ultraschall crew in Munich, since the middle of the 90ies she has also become an international booked DJ.
In the meantime she has moved her homebase back to Berlin, her DJ skills are requested and admired from clubs and raves from all over the globe.
From a residency at belgiums Fuseclub to illegal raves or representing German Dance Culture for the Goethe Institute up to japans monster rave WIRE.

GREGOR TRESHER
In the field of electronic music, Gregor Tresher is by no means a debutant. For more than seven years the thirty-year old DJ and producer from Rhine-Main area gathered merits modernizing the algorithms of electronic music. It has been his "Still EP" in 2005 that upgraded him into the Champions League of European Techno producers and many highlight releases like "Neon", "Full Range Madness" or "The Now People" on labels like Great Stuff, Datapunk, Cocoon or Terminal M convinced the readers of German magazine "Raveline" to vote him as "Best Producer 2006".

It is no surprise that past year 2006 was one of the most successful in Gregor _s career so far. Besides his cooperation with London _s well known DJ Billy Nasty, showing first encouraging results with a row of releases, it was mainly his double-12inch "Neon" on Datapunk being one of the big summer anthems 2006. Also, the inspiring connection to Sven Vaeth _s Cocoon Recordings led to another highlight: "Full Range Madness" on Cocoon _s Compilation F. Shortly after that Gregor released "The Now People / Battery" on the Munich based label Great Stuff Recordings, followed by the collaboration with Israel's newcomer of the year Guy Gerber: "Open The Gates".

In 2006 Gregor played all the major events like Mayday, Nature One or the Street Parade and also all the prime European clubs like Fabric London, Fuse Brussels, Loft Barcelona or the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt. A great reward for an intensive year: Besides being voted as Best Producer he also received high rankings in the categories "Newcomer 2006" and "Best Track 2006" ("Full Range Madness") in "Raveline Magazine".

Gregor's musical roots have always been Electro. With his project "Sniper Mode", he tried to achieve an aesthetic development of the motorbeat from the beginning, releasing several records on Frankfurt _s electronica label Elektrolux and it _s sublabel Mikrolux. However, Electro has never been a fixed category for Gregor _s production and DJ-ing, but more of an open reference-system between past, present and future of electronic music.