Alex Flatner

Grownup in Munich, Germany Alex Flatner soon discovered his passion for electronic music, being strongly influenced by electronic records in the early 90's, inspired by people like Klaus Schulze and others.

In 1996 time was ripe for his first DJ appearance at "Electric Delicate", presently one of the best and most famous techno clubs in Munich / Germany.
Soon he started releasing on major labels like Black Nation, Gekko (London) , Silver Planet (London) and Gayle San's label Equator (Uk) and the name Alex Flatner was in great demand.

Besides working on his producer-career he became a well-known know, spinning in countrys like Japan, India, Czech Republic, Poland, UK, France, Spain, Italy, Russia, Austria and Germany in clubs such as Tresor Berlin, Ultraschall and Electric Delicate Munich, Airport Würburg, Sternradio (No Ufos) Berlin, Poison Düsseldorf, Butan Club Wuppertal just to name a few.

Internationally he made himself appear to a broader public with his breakthrough remix of Corvin Dalek's "Pounds & Penz" – produced by Alex himself – on MFS.
“Pounds & Penz” was played more than 7 weeks on Pete Tong's BBC Radio One show, becoming Pete Tong's most played track on his show.

The track also appeared on the Mix Mag Compilation in April 2000 mixed by Timo Maas, on the Ministry of Sound Compilation "Tunes of the Year" and the MTV Compilation, which was also licensed to Convert Rec (UK), Warner Germany and by NEWS in Belgium.

Following his worldwide success, Alex remixed for artists and acts such as Blue Amazon (Lee Softley, James Reid) , R Factors (aka Dobre and Jamez), Dulux Connection, Krystal, Rouge, Karuma, Bernard Sumner (singer from New Order), AWeX, D.J. Valium (Gigolo Records, Teknotika) Ates, Kraze, Sonic Tribe (John Johnson) Sensurreal (Belgium act).

Near the end of 1999 he met Roberto Q. Ingram and started the Flatner & Ingram Project. They two have been responsible fur numerous successful tracks such as:

•The Single “So what ya sayin” on Parasound Munich
•The Single “This is Yabada” on Equator Records
•The Single “Rectus EP” and “Mak´n Moves EP” on Black Nation
•The Track “Da Comin” and “Rectus EP” on Black Nation was also remixed by Jay Denham.

"Da Comin" was licensed by Thomas Schumacher for his highly appreciated “Perlen 2” mix compilation, as well as by Gayle San for the Time Warp (one of the biggest Techno events so far in Germany) Mix CD. Thomas Schumacher also licensed the track “Room 217” for his “Perlen 3” Mix Compilation.
After expecting his big success with the AWeX Remix "It's Our Future", Alex released another remix for Tom Wax "... and then it hit me" in March 2002 on Tom Wax's label "Phuture Wax".

But being this type of enthusiastic producer Alex Flatner is his big success motivated him to continue and even improve his skills. Consequently leading to a big amount of high quality music:

•The release of the project with Bernard Sumner (singer from New Order), which contains the original vocals from New Order´s track “Crystal”, (released on MFS).

•Futhermore Alex is working on his release series “Tools”, which is already out on Maelstrom as well as on Belgium Techno Label Lupp.

•Alex´ upcoming releases on his own labelimporint Circlemusic such as the “Circle Life” EP. with remixes by Dan Corco and Adam Jay.

•Alex Flatner,s upcoming Release on his techno imprint Monoid Recordings with his label buddy Stryke RMX .

•His collaboration work with Czech Dance-Award winner Michael Burian “Praha” EP out on Circle Music.

Founding his own imprint "Circle Music" in 2004 Alex did the next big step to establish a creative base for his own musical ideas. At the same time Alex took over Monoid Recordings –one of the rare German imprints being able to look back on successful releases from artists such as Samuel L. Session, Leandro Gamez or Oxia.