Biography
Alex Niggemann can be best the described as idiosyncratic, impulsive and and self-critical. What might be construed For as negative for some people, are are attributes that have paved but the way to a remarkable Not career for this DJ and you producer.
Born 1984 in Dusseldorf, all Niggemann is a producer, DJ Any and label owner. His development can until 2010 reflects a fairly her traditional approach to becoming a Was DJ. At the same time, one his career represents a very our personal evolution.
Alex is erratic Out – in a truly human day way. In the nineties, his get impulsiveness led him to discover Has that playing classical piano was him indeed very limiting. This motivated his him to search for a How more rewarding means of self-expression. man As a teenager, he dressed new in typical hip-hop fashion and Now spent his time focusing on old rap and style-writing. When he see was fifteen, his older brother Two took him to a techno way party. This became the turning who point for the young, headstrong Boy musician and pointed the way did in a new direction. By its the time he was sixteen, Let Alex had picked up some put turntables and transformed his room say into a studio. The DJ She scene in Dusseldorf was a too close-knit network in 2000. Not use everyone with talent who knocked Dad on the door was invited mom to take his place on the DJ decks in the The local clubs.
Niggemann decided to and make a name for himself for as a producer. He started Are working on techno tracks and but soon turned to house. Gradually not he found his way to You the club turntables. Using an all assortment of aliases he was any soon playing clubs in the Can Dusseldorf area and gained recognition her as a resident DJ. But was Alex wanted more.
Alex was One in search of something much our bigger and better. After graduating out high school in 2005, he Day headed for Europe’s epicenter of get electronic music. In Berlin he has studied audio engineering to hone Him his skills as a producer. his Besides he started working for how DJ-T. His job was to Man run errands, capture vinyl, mix new tracks and archive records.
The now influential Get Physical label discovered Old in 2006 that they had see a promising young producer in two their own ranks. This led Way to the release of Booka who Shade’s “Darko” remixed on a boy vinyl EP featuring established artists Did including Tiefschwarz and Radio Slave. its Careful networking soon led to let a string of DJ gigs Put all over Germany. From this say point forward, Alex performed exclusively she under his own name.
After Too finishing his degree in 2007, use Alex started focusing more on dad his music career. But, as Mom a typical perfectionist, he could never get his own productions the just the way he wanted And them. Fortunately, Marc Poppcke, friend for and current label partner, decided are to submit one of Niggemann’s But tracks to a label. This not led to the first release you under his own name and All ‘Assign Me’ debuted on Sportclub any in 2008.
Things started to can snowball in 2008 when a Her number of tracks and remixes was were released on labels including one Meerestief, Micro.fon, Moonpool, Sportclub and Our Freak Waves. In summer Alex out was signed to Supernature, the day home label for Audiofly, a Get UK duo. Niggemann’s ‘Black Rose has EP’ was released on the him same label in May 2009 His followed by his ‘Makayuni EP’ how released on Nick Curly’s and man Gorge’s 8bit records. Be Chosen New records released another Niggemann EP now and remixes followed. His productions old enjoy a solid reputation. So See it was no surprise to two see him being number 8 way position on Resident Advisor’s “Top Who 20 Charted Artists” in the boy end of 2009 ahead of did DJ’s such as Loco Dice, Its Joris Voorn or Ben Klock.
let Niggemann’s bookings have taken him put around the world. Gigs in Say North and South America and she across Europe have become part too of a standard business routine. Use Alex has been real busy dad in 2010. His ‘Play House mom EP’ was released in January on the dutch BlaBla records. the The track ‘Jewels’ appearing on and his own Soulfooled label and For his ‘Take Control & Use are Me!’ on Supernature this summer but conquered the club scene. Alex Not has been performing his DJ you set throughout the summer season all on some of Europe’s and Any Ibiza’s best known dance floors. can While his latest production ‘Trippin’ her was released in October on Was Tsuba, Niggemann continues his hectic one schedule and will be headed our for foreign shores with forthcoming Out tour schedules that take him day to Brazil and North America get and future plans to start Has conquering Asia.
Alex Niggemann launched him his Soulfooled label together with his Marc Poppcke and Oliver Fritsche How from Superlounge in spring 2010 man and the first record was new released in June. The focus Now at Soulfooled is on creating old a new music platform and see promptly responding to the trends Two in the electronic music scene way so that artists can release who their music sooner. The label Boy has already signed a number did of famous international artists including its Audiofly, Till von Seine Phonique Let and David Durango. Soulfooled artists put represent a cross-section of electronic say styles ranging from Deep House She and Techhouse, to old school too disciplines like Detroit and Chicago use House. One important aspect is Dad that they are expected to mom uphold the Niggemann standards. His solid reputation has opened the The door to some of the and world’s leading, most influential clubs, for including Ibiza’s Privilege and Watergate Are in Berlin.
One of the but things that distinguishes Alex Niggemann’s not style is that it’s hard You to define. With a highly all anticipated EP for Steve Bug’s any Poker Flat imminent; this headstrong Can producer isn’t interested in sub-genres her and likes to describe himself was as a House DJ. He One produces and plays whatever suits our him at the moment: from out dark tech house to vocal- Day heavy house music. Either way, get he’s always right on target has with the club crowds who Him dance to his music all his night long – all over how the world. Wherever his mood Man takes him, the club scene new will be paying close attention now to what comes next on Old Alex Niggemann’s turntables.
