Jens Mahlstedt
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Jens Mahlstedt (born July 1964 in Bremen ) is a German techno - DJ , music producer and remix Artists.
biography
Mahlstedt began his DJ career in 1987 in the Berlin club Beehive. Through the organizers he also came to Hamburg and became resident DJ in the Opera House for a long time . From 1989 he performed regularly in his hometown of Bremen, where he and Steve Bug have organized the T-Dance once a month in the Disco Modernes since 1993 . Mahlstedt also began his regular composition work for the theater in Bremen : What you want from William Shakespeare in the Bremer Schauspielhaus received updated incidental music in 1990.
During Mahlstedt's appearance at the Love Parade in 1992, he met the producer Gerret Frerichs ( Humate ), who offered to help him with his own productions. During the years of collaboration that followed , the single Loops & Tings , released under the name of Jens , emerged alongside many other productions and became one of the greatest techno hits from Germany. There are now more than 40 remixed versions of this piece. From 1994, Jens Mahlstedt the bonus CDs mixte the first five editions of the Trance Nation - Compilation series. Remix work for Lazonby, Yello , Josh Wink and others. a. followed. In 1995 he moved to London. The following year he was commissioned to work with Thomas Schumacher on the music for a new production of Shakespeare's Hamlet . At the beginning of 1998 Mahlstedt produced a new version of the music by Clockwork Orange for the new theater production by András Fricsay for the Dresden State Theater .
In 1998 his first album ( Monkey Island ) was released. Since then he has also produced grooves for Steve Mason's label Experience . With Mason he also publishes music under the pseudonyms 2 Bald Men (German: two bald men ) and Sly Fidelity & Clubfoot . In 2000 he remixed My Fair Lady at the St. Pauli Theater in Hamburg. Schiller's Don Carlos received a Mahlstedt soundtrack in 2004 and then ran for three seasons at the Wiesbaden State Theater .
Mahlstedt now lives in Northern Germany again. He regularly produces music for the theater, such as Shakespeare's Der Sturm , which was staged in 2005 at the Wiesbaden State Theater, and Dürrenmatt's Die Physiker 2005 at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . Carlo Goldonis Sommerfrische (directed by Thomas Klenk) was shown at the Gandersheim Cathedral Festival in summer 2014 . In 2016 music was created for the world premiere of Karsten Laskes Terrorkind , directed by Tim Stefaniak (Würzburg) and Die kleine Hexe , directed by Ulrich Cyran (Alzenau).
Mahlstedt has been teaching music for experimental fashion shows at the Faculty of Media, Information and Design at the University of Hanover since 2007 . The results of this activity were productions for the Kunstmuseum Celle in 2007 and the Museum August Kestner in Hanover in 2008, the annual Hanover Fashion Prize since 2009, Light On Hanover in the New Town Hall of Hanover 2011, Restlos in the representation of the State of Lower Saxony in Berlin in 2012 and 2013, Nach Neuem Traditional costumes in Bückeburg Castle and Anglomaniacs & Union Jackets in the Lower Saxony State Museum in Hanover 2014. New traditional costumes were shown in 2015 at the Berlin Fashion Week and the 2015 Expo in Milan.
supporting documents
Web links
- Jens Mahlstedt's website
- Jens Mahlstedt at Discogs (English)
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| SURNAME | Mahlstedt, Jens |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German techno DJ, music producer and remix artist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 1964 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bremen |