Axel "Axe" Hilgenstöhler (born August 1975) is a German Record Producer, Mixing Engineer and

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. He is a founding member of the band

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and played guitar with many Bands, e.g. Dog Eat Dog and 50 Cent. In 2003 Afrika Islam founded with Hilgenstöhler the group The Machine.

Biography

Axe received musical education in his childhood. In 1993 he founded together with Steffen Wilmking (later Member of H-Blockx ) the band

. In 2007 Axe started to play the guitar for Dog Eat Dog. Recently Axe is working in many different areas of music production, like musical direction (

Das Wunder von Bern ''The Miracle of Bern'' (german: Das Wunder von Bern) is a 2003 film by Sönke Wortmann, which tells the story of a German family (particularly of a young boy and his depressed ex-POW father) and the unexpected West German ''miracle'' victory in ...

), audio engineering and live mixing ('' Simply Red Farewell Tour'') or incubator (Artisto – ''Revolution'' – The Anthem at Maidan Nezalezhnosti.) He also is the Chairman of the executive board of th
United World Organisation
Axe has worked with musicians and producers like

Afrika Bambaataa Lance Taylor (born on April 17, 1957), also known as Afrika Bambaataa (), is an American DJ, rapper, and producer from the South Bronx, New York. He is notable for releasing a series of genre-defining electro tracks in the 1980s that influenc ...

, Flea ( Red Hot Chili Peppers ), Mastermind ( Public Enemy ),

Chuck D Carlton Douglas Ridenhour (born August 1, 1960), known professionally as Chuck D, is an American rapper, best known as the leader and frontman of the hip hop group Public Enemy, which he co-founded in 1985 with Flavor Flav. Chuck D helped creat ...

, Kool Keith, D-Rock ( Body Count Doug Wimbish, Vernon Reed ( Living Colour ) and Ice-T.

References

External links

AxeTrax Facebook Page
Official Site
Axel Hilgenstöhler
at Discogs

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