Born 1967 in Dortmund, Germany. Grew up in the local punk scene, playing in bands and publishing fanzines. Formed a hiphop live band in 1994 and started a PR agency with my wife, working for Earache Records, Sony / BMG, Alpha Comic Verlag (U-Comix, Heavy Metal) and more.
In 1996 I started my own hiphop/electronica/leftfield label Deck8. In 2002 I closed Deck8 after the illegal download crisis hit the market badly. A year later I joined the heavy metal Century Media Records and became their head of A&R in 2007.
In 2019 I moved to Nuclear Blast Records where I’m still working as an A&R and Head of Catalog.
Avid vinyl collector and still working on a book about the albums from the year I was born – see
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