Boris Brejcha

Boris Brejcha (Czech pronunciation: [ˈbrɛjxaː]; born November 26, 1981, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German DJ and record producer. He describes his music style as "high-tech minimal." His style has been compared with DJ Umek, and Solomun.

Brejcha frequently wears a joker mask based on a Carnival of Venice design. He has performed at clubs and festivals around the world, including Tomorrowland and Coachella. Boris founded the label Fckng Serious in 2015 with Ann Clue and Deniz Bul. He performed for the first time in Ibiza in August 2019, at Hï Ibiza club.

On 24 January 2020, Brejcha released his sixth album Space Diver as his first album for Ultra Records.

In 2021, Brejcha was 42nd on DJ Mags Top 100 DJs.

Boris Brejcha was born in Ludwigshafen (Germany) in 1981. At the age of six, he was seriously injured in the Ramstein air show disaster becoming badly burnt and spent months in the hospital. He states in an interview:

At the age of forty, Brejcha still bears extensive scars from the severity of the burns.

Brejcha was inspired to learn how to make electronic music in middle school after a classmate of his brought a "Thunderdome" CD. At the age of 12, he began producing electronic music himself as a hobby.

His first release was in 2006. That same year, he performed his first festival at the Universo Paralello Festival in Brazil. Since then, his Joker mask - inspired by the Brazilian Carnival - has been his trademark. In the international foreign countries his music found fast approval. Numerous gigs in South America and Russia soon followed.

Since then, Boris has made a full-time living from music and has continued to develop as an artist. With the specially created genre "High-Tech-Minimal" Boris gave his music a name. He went on to release on Autist Records and later on Harthouse. Through the music magazine "Raveline" he was named "exceptional talent 2007".

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