Sender Berlin

Sender Berlin was formed as a trio in 1998. It included Hendrik Vaak (HendriX), Torsten Litschko (Stassy), and Alexander Lukat (Luke). Initially, Sender Berlin was a typical promotional project - each week the trio organized "Headquarters Nights" parties at the Berlin club Tresor. Hendrik and Lukat already had years of DJing experience by that time, but until 1998, nobody had heard of Sender Berlin. Soon the guys decided to try their hand as authors and created their first techno track, which was included in the 1998 compilation "Headquaters-The Album," released under the same Tresor label. The unexpected success of this composition made the trio rethink their direction. And here’s what they came up with: to make Sender Berlin a headquarters for young Berlin electronic musicians. From then on, it became impossible to understand how many people are involved in Sender Berlin and are working in its studios. The most famous young talent to emerge from the "Sender Berlin" school is Alexander Kowalski. His techno, which many call "cosmic," is adored by superstars like Sven Väth and Laurent Garnier, while Kowalski himself is the driving force behind the reputable techno label Kanzleramt - in 1999, he was known only at that mentioned Berlin studio. Incidentally, Kowalski still collaborates successfully with Torsten Litschko from Sender Berlin in the duo Double X. But back to the trio, which in March 1999 released their first longplay "Spektrum Weltweit." "Sender Berlin is a collective that in today’s "advanced-fashionable" times is probably not the most famous, but that absolutely does not diminish its high musical merits. Those who have heard the album "Spektrum Weltweit", which once came out on Tresor, will surely agree with me," says Magic B, a veteran of Russian DJing who played at Berlin's Tresor and organized the first DJ store in Russia, "DiskoсxiD" - "This album has it all: from electronic downtempo, minimal in the normal sense, dub techno to melodically groovy tech-house and Detroit techno." To promote this musical cocktail, in the same 1999, "Sender Berlin" established its record label with the telling name unGleich - "Unequal."