NIK! - „dinky darkness & twisted sunshine“
DJ & producer Nik! has been causing disturbance with his sets, sounds and events for years. As one half of the DJ-tag-team The Dean Soniks (w/ Soult), as promoter, as a co-founder of the label Hula Honeys or as solo-DJ : his activities are always about the connections between related music and styles, about music between tradition and innovation, about heavy basslines and hymns. He is known for sets that oscillate between styles - bring things together - opening windows to musical dawn, or doom. His Releases and Remixes on Hula Honeys and Quiet Records develop their grooves based on Dub, HipHop and Electronica. Nik! has shared the stages of clubs and festivals in Switzerland, Germany, Hungary and Latvia with names like Mouse on Mars, Laurel Halo, DMX Krew, NHK'Koyxen, Addison Groove, Donna Summer, Dimlite, Funckarma, Cylob, Ceephax, Wisp, Karl Marx Stadt or Otto von Schirach.

Feldermelder is the one-man project of Manuel Oberholzer, which he started in 2001. He first got in touch with electronic music through the almighty Amiga 500 in the late 80’s. Years of experimentations and a heap of useless, he now found his unique formula for darkish mixture containing elements of French piano-cafe-music and atomic sound scapes. By merging different analog sound sources with the infinite world of computers, he keeps his sound alive and digitally sophisticated at the same time. Besides that he is prone to occasional speedmetal-grindcore electronic outbursts. Manuel Oberholzer, (*1979) has played as a bassist in various instrumental groups from early age. As from 1999, he began to dj and to promote electronic events at the internationally renowned Fri-Son club in his hometown of Fribourg. A year later, he launched his electronic live-act Feldermelder, mainly playing in venues of the French part of Switzerland. In 2002 he became the main booker at Fri-Son. Simultaneously, he’s still active with a number of band projects, above allBLACK CARGOES with his brother. After years of experimentation with guitars, drummers and jazz pianists he how returns to his main interest, the electronic music.