Boris Brejcha is a German DJ and record producer. He describes his music style as "high-tech minimal." His style has been compared with DJ Umek, and Solomun. Brejcha frequently wears a joker mask based on a Carnival of Venice design.
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Artist Biography
Born • Nov 26, 1981
Boris Brejcha was born in Ludwigshafen (Germany) in 1981 and already had to experience some strokes of fate in his childhood. At the age of six, he was seriously injured in the Ramstein air disaster and spent months in hospital. Today, he still bears extensive scars from the severe burns. Because of teasing from classmates, Boris withdrew and discovered his interest in music. After a classmate of his brought a "Thunderdome" CD in middle school, he was hooked. He was dying to know how to make this new kind of electronic music.
So at the age of twelve, he started producing electronic music himself as a hobby. He made his first releases in 2006, the same year he had the first performance of his entire career. At the Universo Paralello Festival in Brazil. Since then, his mask is also indispensable. Inspired by the Brazilian Carnival, Boris chose the Joker mask as his trademark. In the international foreign countries his music found fast approval. Numerous gigs, for example South America and Russia, followed. Since then, Boris has made a full-time living from music and has continued to develop as an artist. With the specially created genre "High-Tech-Minimal" Boris gave his extraordinary music a name. He went on to release on Autist Records and later on Harthouse.
Through the music magazine "Raveline" he was named "exceptional talent 2007". When Boris founded his own music label Fckng Serious in 2015, he really took off. He released more music than almost anyone else. He then achieved two notable breakthroughs in his career through the recorded sets with the French streaming channel "Cercle" and his set from the world-renowned electro festival "Tomorrowland". Together, the videos on YouTube have about 140 million views. In the meantime, it is impossible to imagine the music scene without Boris. He has achieved international fame and plays every weekend on the biggest stages in the world. Label bus tours in the nightliner have also taken him across Europe with his c...