Ata (DJ)

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Ata (actually Athanassios Christos Macias * 1968 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German techno - DJ and - musicians , label - and club operators as well as restaurant and bar owners of Greek descent.

Life

Macias was born in 1968 in Frankfurt am Main , the son of Irene Macias and Athanassios Kontogianis . His DJ career began there in the late 1980s. Together with Heiko "M / S / O" Schäfer , he worked as a resident DJ in the Frankfurt Techno Club XS (later BOX ) in 1992 .

In September 1993 he founded the labels Ongaku Musik , Klang Elektronik and Playhouse together with Heiko Schäfer and after Roman Flügel and Jörn Elling Wuttke (also known as Alter Ego ) joined the team as producers . This was later followed by appearances at Dorian Gray and the Frankfurt Club Omen , before the Wild Pitch Club in FFM's own party series was created.

In 1996 Macia and Heiko launched the party concept The Gift , where DJs like Jeff Mills , Mark Broom and Carl Craig also played . This also made it possible for him to play in the United States (Detroit and Chicago) for the first time.

In 1999, Macias opened the Robert Johnson Club in Offenbach 's Kaiserlei district , in which he has been playing regularly since then. The Robert is one of the best clubs in the world in Germany and internationally. It was voted the second best club in Germany in the 2013 Groove Poll. Berghain took first place .

In September 2010 he opened the Plank bar in Frankfurt's Bahnhofsviertel.

In 2014, the Frankfurt Museum Angewandte Kunst dedicated an exhibition to Macias under the title Give Love Back. Ata Macias and Partners . Among other things, T-shirts, posters, jewelery, record covers and furniture from Macia's cafés and clubs were on display.

Discography

As a producer, Ata was involved in the music projects Delirium Posse (with Heiko Schäfer and Jörg Henze ), Killerloops and Ongaku (with Heiko Schäfer and Uwe Schmidt ).

In 2002 he made a remix for Jürgen Paapes track So far as never before , which was released on the Kompakt label .

literature

  • Ata Macias (Ed.): Come On In My Kitchen: The Robert Johnson Book. JRP Ringier Verlag, 2012, ISBN 3-03764-274-2 .

documentary

  • 2017 I think of Germany at night , director Romuald Karmakar, online

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Ata Macias at munichx.de, accessed on January 19, 2014
  2. ^ Interview with friends of friends from March 19, 2012
  3. ↑ Note from the Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt on the Plank opening
  4. ↑ Give Love Back. From: museumangewandtekunst.de , accessed on September 17, 2014.
  5. ↑ Ingeborg Wiensowski: Exhibition "Give Love Back": This DJ remixed the Applied Arts. In: spiegel.de. September 9, 2014, accessed September 17, 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Ata
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Macias, Athanassios Christos
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German techno DJ and musician, label operator
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main , Germany