MANON
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After successful Terminal M nights in Berlin and Zurich in 2009, Manon, Monika Kruse & Erman Erim Live will expand their Terminal M night schedule followed by new nights f.e. in April in Lausanne. New release on Terminal M will follow this spring / beginning of summer ...
BIOGRAPHY
"Music means freedom to me and nowadays the
influence of the music emerges in every single sphere."
Manon aka Manon Maeder has been part of the Swiss
techno and house scene since the early nineties. In the late nineties
she was already knee deep in productions and released tracks for
various national compilations like "Kaufleuten" as well as
international compilations like "Island – Vol.2". Manon regularly plays
at many big name clubs and festivals like Cocoon Club, Time Warp,
Panoramabar, Hive and many more.
Manon made her first steps into the "World of Vinyl"
at the age of seven when she spent her first savings to buy disks
instead of dolls.
Music has become the most important thing in her life and she built up
her whole social environment around. As luck would have it she got the
opportunity to play her first records at her home base at the age of 15
years. Nowadays it's getting clear that this first "steps" as a DJ
finally were the beginning of her present carrier.
During her education in gastronomy Manon made her
first attempts to illegal parties at the "Dampfzentrale" and the
"Bluelight" in Berne/Switzerland. It was during this period that she
discovered her passion about electronical music. The founders of the
"Bluelight" opened one of the first House and Techno locations in
Berne, the "Aare Bar". Manon has been working there for one year as
leader of the bar. After going abroad several months she came back and
took over a bar of her parents. Chairs have been replaced by a DJ desk
and a dance bar and after hour location was born in which well-known
names from the national and international DJ scene were guests.
Zurich became the mecca of electronical music in Switzerland. Due to
private and professional reasons Manon decided in
1993 to move to this city.
Because of her job at the record shop and her involvement in the
legendary after hours at the "Oxa" in Zurich/Switzerland and the "Tarot
Club Grodoonia" in Rumlang/Switzerland she finally decided to do her
hobby as a profession. Thanks to her first resident job at the
"Kaufleuten" Club in Zurich and various gigs at insider parties of
friends such as "Dekadance", Massive Ursive
Primitive" and "Life is a Bitch" she established her carrier in the
Swiss and later on also in the international DJ scene.
It was in 1996 when Manon started producing and
1997/1998 her first production "Midweeker" has been released on the
"Silvester Party Compilation" from Sensor Club/Switzerland.
"The Fly" from 1998 has been published on (Muve, Zurich/Switzerland) in
the same year and was followed by her chill out mix compilation "Ossul
El Dorado".
In 1999 her first international release has been published. The record
"Unwirklich" (Gem Records, Frankfurt/Germany) has been licensed for
different mix compilations. The latest licensing of "Unwirklich" has
been realised in the summer 2005 for "Island- Vol.2" mixed by Paul
Lomax, Ibiza/Spain.
2001 "Keep the Green Clean" (Muve, Zurich/Switzerland) has been her
last release before she made a longer break in producing due to
familiar reasons.
Since 2005 she's working more actively in the studio again. In
collaboration with Pascal Feos she published their joint record "Out of
My Head" (Level Non Zero, Frankfurt/Germany). followed by her first
remix "Midnight of My Life" from Triosomie 21 (Chromo Music,
Paris/France) in 2006.
Working and performing together for over a decade, Manon
met Monika Kruse and her Terminal M label.
Unsatisfied with the arbitrariness of today 's techno sound they have
created something different with lots of style, beauty and truly
memorable. Manon has managed to redefine our
perspective of today's techno releases and presented "Inkulu"
in 2009 as one of her first sophisticated releases on Terminal
M.
More to come this year ...
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Markus Nisch and Monika Kruse know each other for over a decade.
Both based and lived in Berlin and celebrated and enjoyed Berlin's
excessive nightlife and shared the same distinctive ideas about
clubbing and music.
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