Aleksey
Nationality: AUT
Style: House / Deep House / Progressive House / Tech House
Born in 1984 in Bischofshofen, Aleksey was fascinated by electronic music even as a child. At the end of the 90s at the latest, after the first visit to the legendary “Cave Club” in Salzburg, it was clear where the journey should go musically.
In his early 20s, he finally bought his first DJ equipment and started spinning vinyls with old-school purism. Shortly after the first engagement as a Resident DJ in the sacred catacombs of the Cave Club followed.
Visiting various festivals and parties at home and abroad, he acquired the necessary creativity to finally organize the first public event in his home town after smaller private parties in 2009. 10 years later it was time to start the association “artem sonitus” together with some friends.
His style of DJing is difficult to describe, as he’s moving in several genres. But the most beloved style is house with deep, driving bass.
Bon Ajvar
Nationality: SRB
Style: Pretty much anything with a 4/4 beat, but mostly Deep House / Tech House / Melodic Techno
Bon Ajvar has been involved with music since he was 11 years old – back then he discovered synthesizers and keyboards for the first time and played around with them for quite a long time. But he definitely discovered his real love for electronic music a lot earlier, when he was about 5 or 6 years old and his dad gave him a then-current Future Trance CD.
At the age of 19, he discovered DJing and producing electronic music through a good friend. Since then, everything has taken its course and he has played countless gigs at different locations in and around Salzburg. A big highlight was the Electric Love Festival 2015, where he was played in the Circus Club.
He has also attended a lot of festivals and parties at home and abroad and this has only strengthened his love for music and for DJing.
For Bon Ajvar there is only one rule when DJing : he wants to bring as much emotion into his sets as possible!
Daniel Morgenstern
Daniel unleashed his DJ skills in 2008, embracing the timeless art of mixing: dubbing, spinning, cutting, and scratching with unparalleled skill – no syncing, just raw talent.
With extraordinary residencies at Austria’s finest clubs such as Planetarium, Flex, Pratersauna, Sass, Postgarage, Die Kantine (in Vienna, Linz, and Salzburg), Fluc, Volksgarten, and Grelle Forelle, Daniel paved his way to international acclaim, gracing renowned venues like Papaya Club, Rocker 33, Schmitz Katze, Hive, Rote Sonne, Harry Klein, Aquarius Club, and Pacha Sharm el Sheikh, to name but a few. His electrifying performances also lit up festivals such as Urban Art Forms, Spring Festival, Tomorrow Festival, Creamfields Central Europe, Sonne Mond Sterne, Beatpatrol, and Loveweek Festival.
Beyond his prowess as a performer, Daniel has played a pivotal role in shaping club culture. Whether as a booker, event organizer, or radio host, he has left an indelible mark on the Austrian scene for over 15 years, particularly in Vienna, Graz, Linz, and Salzburg. Currently holding the esteemed positions of booker and designer at the globally respected club DAS WERK, Daniel continues to push boundaries and elevate the art of DJing to new heights.
Functionist
The DJ and voice of FM4 Unlimited, Matthias Schönauer aka FUNCTIONIST is known as an openminded, curious and versatile musiclover who knows how to get his crowd moving. From big club nights to his radioshow and festivals he provides a high quality selection from his extensive music collection.
In his sets today he likes to play a flexible mix of all variations of dance music that fits to his personal musical story as well as his biography. The half swedisch/austrian startet in the 90s as a hip hop dj and soon discovered his love for techno, disco, house, worlddance, global dance, technodisco, and much more. listen for yourself: At a party or on the radio – every friday from 7-10 pm on Radio FM4.
Freund der Berge
Nationality: AUT
Style: House / Deep House / Tech House / Progressive House / Techno
Freund der Berge, a DJ from St. Johann im Pongau, was born in 1992. In his childhood he already kept listening to electronic sounds, mostly when he entered the room of his 10 years older brother DJ Markowitsch. He was always fascinated by the stories his brother told him about the Love Parade in Berlin or other raves he attended.
When he finally accompanied his big brother to various festivals and raves for the first time, he was straight in his element. His passion for music is not just limited to electronic sounds, he also likes rock, metal and hip hop. But his great love was and still is the electronic sound. During sports he likes to listen to the sets of his favorite DJs to get some sound inspiration and to add new tracks to his collection.
At the age of 25, he finally decided that he wanted to learn how to mix and studied the matter more closely. After about a year he finally had his first gig before the Corona Pandemic threw a spanner in the works. But he is ready for the future and looking forward to lots of mindblowing parties!
Kristian Martin
Nationality: AUT
Style: Deep House, Afro House, Tech House
Kristian Martin, born in Vienna/Austria is playing Sets in Clubs, on Electronic Festivals und Radio Shows.
Markowitsch
Nationality: AUT
Style: Deep House / Tech House / Techno
Markowitsch started his DJ career in the summer of 2005. Born in Salzburg in 1982, he was enthusiastic about electronic music at a very young age. When Marko got two turntables and a mixer more or less as gifts in 2005, his love for black gold (vinyl) grew.
After initial difficulties, the Reloop decks were exchanged for the legendary 1210s from Technics, and the adjustment of the black vinyl disks ran as if by magic. Initially still “straight” techno in the record case, Markowitsch acquired more and more electro and deephouse or techhouse records and so his record collection grew like his love for playful electronic music.
Gradually, the dynamic DJ from Pongau got gigs in the city and state of Salzburg, and after a very short time as a DJ, he was playing music in the legendary Cave Club, Rockhouse, Jazzit and many other clubs and events in the entire Salzburg area and in Innsbruck. His edifying sets make you want to dance and have been broadcasted on FM4 and Soundburg Radio.
In the winter of 2008/2009, he founded the company with some of his friends. The DJ portal RE:FUSE, which is marking another step in his DJ career. The collective of creative minds around RE:FUSE organized many events in the Pongau area back then. During this time, digital DJing with CD players also became more and more popular and did not stop at the RE:FUSE DJ collective.
In 2019, Marko founded the association artem_sonitus with friends, which organized many small but also larger events, including the legendary “Supergau” parties in the power plant in Bad Gastein.
Marko has been an enthusiastic fan of electronic music since the 1990s, since 2005 he has been active on the decks, as an organizer and promoter, and there is still no end in sight. Marko is always happy to animate his audience to celebrate and to make the crowd boil.
…in this sense: Party on, duuuuude !!!
Mela Leøne
Mela Leøne found access to music very early. Already as a small child she learned different instruments and later she did music studies in pop singing as a main subject. She found access to electronic music when she was listening to the humming sound of the basses in Techno clubs. Once she tasted blood, Mela has been igniting the dance floor herself since March 2022. Besides Vienna’s biggest clubs like Grelle Forelle, Pratersauna, Sass, and many others, Mela has had the chance to show off her skills behind the DJ booth at events with international acts like Whebba, 9×9, Chris Liebing, Umek, or Christian Smith headlining.
Mela has been igniting the dance floor herself, offering a unique sound concept that culminates from oriental, magical sounds to an overture of melodic, raw driving techno in an explosive load of fast, hard and groovy beats.
Since August 2022, Mela Leøne has been part of YN COLLECTIVE, and since March 2023, she has also become a coach for the DONNADECKS project, teaching female newcomer DJs in Vienna about music theory and behind the decks. Currently, Mela is collaborating with a producer and sound engineer from Colombia on her own tracks, aiming to personally contribute to the world of electronic music.
Modumodi
Philippe & Xaver Lapierre aka MODUMODI, brothers aged 29 and 24, grew up with the electronic music world. The influences of electronic music from their father Makossa, also known for his collaboration with Megablast and his radioshow FM4 Swound Sound (since 1992) on radio FM4 was a significant impact for their further development.
The pair decided at the beginning of 2017 to embark on their first joint musical project, which was celebrating its premiere at the Lighthouse Festival in Croatia. Since then they have regularly djing at festivals and clubshows in locations all over Austria together.
Modumodis music style ranges from Downtempo to Afro House, Deep House, Disco and Breakbeat.
NOMAD GROOVES
NOMAD GROOVES aka Maurizio Lee
Born in Colonia, Uruguay, he began to develop his taste, interest in music and instrument studies at a very young age. Since then he has been fascinated by different cultures and their beats and rhythms. Caught up in the need to discover more NOMAD GROOVES, Maurizio moved to Barcelona, Spain, an international melting pot, influenced by various musical trends and artists.
In 2004 he began his artistic career, he launched the first sessions of him as a DJ entertaining the public of a well-known club called Palm Beach. Trapped by the dream of turning passion into a profession, he went to the Costa Brava. As his life progresses, he stayed another 9 years, he became a vinyl player playing records on one of the most popular nightclubs on the electric scene such as the 900 House Club.
The artist NOMAD GROOVES Aka Maurizio Lee was born, ready to express his musical talent and introduce the underground style in the nightlife of Spain. He made a name for himself in the great Barcelona and since 2012 where he produced in collaboration with the Murcian label Mona Records Spain.
2015 was the time to leave behind the life of the big city and attracted by surfing to venture into uncharted territories. Fuerteventura, a Spanish volcanic island, which is still little explored in the party scene, has piqued his interest. He became a member of the Samsâra 108Crew, an old group of friends connected through his passion for Minimal, Microhouse and Underground music.
And today the best known electronic music sound system on the island for what is called IN THE MIX! Music & Culture (created in 2019) hosting major events. His parties with international guest DJs quickly became so successful that today they only work with exclusive guest lists.
EUPHORBIA is currently a new project created with friends where they make private and exclusive parties where they share with International Artists whom they invite to share this experience in an incredible desert and lunar place.
Also QUADROPHENIA.FTV [Co-Founder // Resident] is a Bar / Mini Club where weekly you can find him and his friends Djing Set on Vinyl, today the Underground Music scene on the Island and with a different concept than what you can normally find in the night life of Corralejo, Fuerteventura.
And musically speaking his exquisite selection of rhythms, synthesizers, elegant sounds, with minimalist touches, his exuberant passion for what he does, as well as his fresh taste and fun personality certainly make NOMAD GROOVES an esteemed artist and Host with an excellent reputation among DJs and much appreciated by the local and international community.
Pumpin Chris B.
Nationality: AUT
Style: Deep House / Deep Tech / Tech House / Raw Techno / Oldschool Techno
Pumpin Chris B. – the name definitely says it all! Genre monotony is an absolute no-go for the pioneer of the Pongau techno scene: It doesn’t matter whether it’s a chill out area or a techno bunker, the most important thing is that the music is pumping and grooving! Because even after several years behind the decks, Chris is still addicted to the 4/4 beat.
The DJ from Pongau already played hundreds of gigs in all parts of Europe and has held residencies at various clubs and venues, for example: Propaganda, Zulu Club, Rotation Group, Cave Club, Wired, Refuse, Fortissimo and the DJ association artem sonitus.
The highlights of his DJ career are definitely his gig at OffPop! Music Day Festival in Berlin with 50.000 people and his gig at Lampiončki Festival in Maribor, Slovenia in front of 5000 people.
Randaleo
One thing you must know about Leo a.k.a. “randaleo”, she really knows her tracks. She loves vocals which she can not resist singing along, in front and behind the decks. Depending on mood and setting you get sunny and sweet melodies, dirty and flirty vocals, hard and dark baselines – and of course there can always be a pinch of trash.
Leo is a newcomer DJ, she participated in Donna Decks FLINTA* workshop in autumn and since then you find her behind the decks.
Chiara Allnutt
Raised in the depths of Berlin, now based out of Vienna, Chiara Allnut pursuits multiple artistic avenues, with a contagious passion. Seeing her behind the decks, you can’t help but be drawn in by the energy she pours into her music and her sets, making it impossible not to dance your heart out and move your feet, leaving no shirt dry for long.
Come join her on her next ride, forming connectivity through beats, bass and emotions.
