Mathis Johnsen

At the end of the 80s, he came up against electronic music for the first time. He specially was interested in broadcasting called "Electronics" on radio station DT64, because at that time it was difficult to receive vinyl records in Eastern Germany. He could purchase his first vinyl record shortly after the historical fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. It was "a broken Frame" by Depeche Mode.

Afterwards he was more and more interested in Clubsounds like Acid House and Techno music. In 1995 he got his first turntable, and he firstly experienced producing music on a C64.

Over the 90s he mostly was on the move around Thuringia as "Deejay". In 2005 he moved to Jena, where he quickly enjoyed the musical underground of "Kassablanca Club" and the Label "Freude am Tanzen. In 2006 he and his friend Jan Kose' founded the Netlabel "auflegware". Since then he is the leader of the musical design, development and labelmanager.
In 2007 he moved to Weimar - the Capital of Culture . In Weimar he quickly could cotton on to the small but nice electronic music scene.
His musical style have generally not changed - he has sticked to his musical principles of Groove, Soul and Beat, although he lived through a few metamorphoses. It is difficult to describe the style of his music. Basically it is House Music mixed with elements of Dub, Minimal, Jazz and Funk, Afro and South American styles.
Mathis describes himself and his music: "The most important things are to remain true to yourself and to play the music that you love and you can identify with. This is a kind of honesty. I love honest music."