Klaus Jankuhn (born 12 January 1965) is a German record producer and musician, considered a pioneer in the early German

techno Techno is a genre of electronic dance music (EDM) which is generally produced for use in a continuous DJ set, with tempos being in the range from 120 to 150 beats per minute (bpm). The central rhythm is typically in common time ( ) and often ...

scene. He mostly worked for the artists of the rave label Low Spirit, producing artists such as

WestBam Maximilian Lenz (born 4 March 1965), known by his stage name WestBam, is a German DJ and musician. He is the co-founder of the record label Low Spirit. Career Lenz started his musical career in 1978 in the punk scene of his birth town Münster ...

Marusha Marusha Aphrodite Gleiß (born 18 November 1966), known by her stage name Marusha, is a German-Greek electronic music disc jockey, producer and television presenter who had hits in the mid-1990s including her 1994 single "Somewhere Over the Rainb ...

or DJ Dick. Together with WestBam he also founded the project

Members of Mayday Members of Mayday was a German techno project by Klaus Jankuhn and WestBam. From 1991 until 2013 the Members of Mayday created the official hymn of the annual Mayday Rave, which at the time was Germany's largest indoor rave A rave (from the ...

Life

Klaus Jankuhn grew up in

Münster Münster (; ) is an independent city#Germany, independent city (''Kreisfreie Stadt'') in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is in the northern part of the state and is considered to be the cultural centre of the Westphalia region. It is also a ...

, where he befriended with WestBam. Both started producing tracks for the early techno and rave scene. Around 1986 he moved to Berlin. One of their first tracks ''17 – This is not a

Boris Becker Boris Franz Becker (; born 22 November 1967) is a German former professional tennis player. He was ranked as the List of ATP number 1 ranked players, world No. 1 in men's singles by the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP). Becker won 49 c ...

Song'' was released in 1985 under the moniker ''Cowboy Temple''. Soon after Jankuhn, WestBam, Fabian Lenz and

William Röttger Wilhelm Christian "William" Röttger (1948 – 28 February 2015) was a German label owner, music manager and gallery owner. Röttger co-founded the influential German techno label Low Spirit and managed the music festival Mayday (music festival), M ...

founded the label Low Spirit. Jankuhn and WestBam also produced the anthems for the annual Mayday festivals (as ''

'') and

Love Parade The Love Parade () was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany. It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled ...

s (as '' The Love Committee'').

Awards

* 1995: Echo Pop as "Best producer national“ * 2003: Dance Music Award as "Best producer" (shared with WestBam)German Dance Award 2003
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References

1965 births Living people German record producers German techno musicians People from Münster {{Germany-musician-stub