WIR booking - News


[January 2010] - Gabriel Ananda & Marcel Janovsky are going to tour Down Under
Sprinkling a lot more then fairy dust, Gabriel Ananda and Marcel Janovsky go back-2-back for an extra magical dj experience in Australia.

15 Jan - Barsoma - Brisbane
16 Jan - Civic Theatre - Sydney
17 Jan - Rainbow Warmer - Melbourne
24 Jan - Rainbow Serpent Festival - Victoria
25 Jan - Geisha Bar Northbridge - Perth


[October 2009] - Sarah Goldfarb is preparing his debut album
Jean-Vincent Luccini will adopt his female alter ego alongside new talent JHK for his debut album release. Heartbeat City will be out in January 2010 on Treibstoff. Read more about and give a listen...


[September 2009] - Whats cooking this week: Gabriel Ananda starts Basmati
After whats felt like a good 9 months and running break Gabriel Ananda gives live to his brand new exiting youngster: Basmati Records. The first release Bell-Schnee is out now and so put that pressure cooker and enjoy...Its hot!


[August 2009] - WIR booking welcomes Franklin De Costa
His music is delightful frisky and outstanding fragmented produced, he neither loses himself in annoying alarums and excursions, nor attemps to suggest sexyness by means of sleek ironed and vainglorious hardness. Despite of the modernity of the production this toughness never throws itself on to the neck of a trespassing trend.
Let's review what happend so far...


[August 2009] - 12 years Treibstoff - Labeltour
WIR booking is happy to announce the 12 years of Treibstoff tour, offering best playing-fields for a high class labelnight event with outstanding artists and a magical dj and live experience. From November 2009 until February 2010 the Treibstoff label artists are available for a Treibstoff labelnight booking.
Visit for additional info about the label, the tour and the artists.


[July 2009] - 12 years Treibstoff - Celebration
Born by a summermood, the Cologne based label has become an unforeseen life-task for the inventor: Nowadays TREIBSTOFF looks back to a catalogue of almost 100 releases and spawned a league of masters in the past 12 years. Robert Babicz, Maetrik and Gabriel Ananda, just to name a few label-acts, highly recommended by the national and international dance music scene. Treibstoff celebrates its 12th anniversary together with Mathew Jonson in August during the c/o Pop Festival. Click for more info...


[June 2009] - Dave Ellesmere - Remix out on Rekids
Toby Tobias debut album 'Space Shuffle' was received fantastically well last year by the fans and press - one of the best debut electronic albums of 2008 get’s remixed by three top remixers. Dave Ellesmere kicks things off with a rolling and grinding remix of Schoon. Dave has over 25 releases to his name and together with 2000 AND One had the massive hit Pecan in 2006. UK independent label Rekids is owned and run by Matt "Radio Slave" Edwards and James Masters. Read some DJ feedbacks...


[June 2009] - Basmati - The new label by Gabriel Ananda
Now Techno has its own fair trade. Basmati, the new label by Gabriel
Ananda (artist direction) and Marcel Janovsky (management), does not indulge in pretentious bragging. So, what's it all about? Well, the music, of course. And only the music. Organic stuff, so to speak. Tracks made by pure immersion. No plans, no blueprints. Just going with the flow, unleashing the inner krautrock while staying true to the basics of techno. Gabriel and friends at their best. Inhale. Enjoy listen to the music!


[June 2009] - Daniel Mehlhart - Upcoming release on WIR
Daniel Mehlharts latest release on WIR will be out mid of July inclusive a remix by Gabriel Ananda. Once again great stuff from that young talent straight out of Frankfurt. Take a listen...


[June 2009] - Marcel Janovsky - Okay Remixes out soon
Treibstoff Rec. teamed up with the netlabel activists from Foem.info to look out for fresh and hungry talent, ready to dismantle one of labelhead Marcel Janovsky's most accomplished tracks. The nationalities involved range from Spain, the Netherlands or Great Britain to Sweden, Slovakia and even the USA, as the handpicked young guns did their respective thang to Marcel's 'Okay' without ever loosing the floor out of earsight. Read more...


[June 2009] - Marcel Janovsky & Gabriel Ananda are podcasting
UMP3.de podcast series goes to the next round. After some years, some partys, drinks and other changes - now joining Marcel Janovsky & Gabriel Ananda with their back-2-back DJ set. Take a listen...


[May 2009] - Rene Breitbarth's DEEP DATA label goes vinyl
Rene Breitbarth's 'Sphere EP', which brought the succesful start of the primarily digital only-label, will be available on vinyl from 9th June onwards. Read more about and take a listen...


[May 2009] - Sarah Goldfarb - New release on 200
Sarah Goldfarb who has released on well-renowned labels such as Treibstoff, Dumb Unit, Trapez, Curle, Roman Photo and Sinergy will release his latest record 'Too Slow' on the Cologne-based techno label 200 in early July.
Read more about and take a listen...


[April 2009] - Treibstoff Rec. @ SONAR 2009
Treibstoff Rec. will join SONAR 2009 in Barcelona on two Label Showcases with Marcel Janovsky and Gabriel Ananda performing their awesome Back-2-Back set.
Thursday,18.06.09: TAKEOFF @ La Casita, El Prat de Llobregat
Friday, 19.06.09: MiniComio @ Exclusive Boat Party


[April 2009] - WIR booking welcomes Dave Ellesmere on the roster
Dave Ellesmere has performed internationally under a number of guises. Releases have been playlisted by a host of acclaimed DJs worldwide with material on high profile labels such as Intacto, Kanzleramt, Connaisseur, 100% Pure, Remote Area and Djax-up. Daves music doesn´t just fill techno people with enthusiasm, it also pleasures the nu jazz or downbeat scene. Welcome Dave! Let's review what happend so far...


[April 2009] - PollerWiesen-Ambient PickNick
Das 1. PollerWiesen-Ambient PickNick der Saison 2009 findet am 17.05.09 @ Sundown Beach Club in Köln am Escher See statt. WIR booking ist gleich mit drei Künstlern dabei: Marcel Janovsky, Rene Breitbarth und Gabriel Ananda. Weitere Infos via pollerwiesen.de


[April 2009] - WIR booking welcomes Yapacc on the roster
Yapaccs organic live sound describes a wide bow hitting minmal funk and melodic techno at one time, we call it techhouse flavoured by a funky-melodic charakter. We feel proud to have him on board now!
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[April 2009] - Marcel Janovsky - Interview on FOEM
He is the labelhead of Cologne’s label Treibstoff that fueled us along the years with more than 80 releases from top artists like Robert Babicz aka Rob Acid, Gabriel Ananda, and Maetrik among others. There aren’t many interviews with him out there so FOEM gets as much as they can out of him. Read the full interview on foem.info


[March 2009] - Rene Breitbarth - New release on Treibstoff
It's a miracle that somehow René Breitbarth found the time to produce a 12inch for Treibstoff, as his brandnew label Deep Data keeps him quite occupied. It's a wonder too, that the man also delivered his probably best work to date. Read more about on myspace.com/treibstoffrecordings


[March 2009] - Maetrik - New release out on Dumb Unit
Texan native and prolific producer Maetrik shared with "Envy" and "Sweet Lovin" two of his strongest tracks with Dumb Unit and poses a perfect kick-off for an interesting year in techno. Read more about on dumb-unit.com


[March 2009] - Gabriel Ananda - New release out on Traum
"Eucalypse now!" is the long awaited second part of the collaboration between Dominik Eulberg and Gabriel Ananda. The first part "Kirschplunder & Jasmin Tee bei Gabriel" was recorded at Gabriel Ananda´s studio in Cologne. The follow up "Eucalypse Now!" was recorded at Dominik Eulberg´s studio and comes along with two long epic and enthusiastic mixes on vinyl and an alternative mix on the digital side, which is more reduced and late night. Read more about on traumschallplatten.de


[March 2009] - Animaltek - New release out on Flow Records
Always creative and surprising Animaltek duo, goes deep and dark on this techy delirium, wobbly basslines percussive melodies and weird sounds its what we can expect of the boys. Read more about on flowvinyl.com


[March 2009] - Daniel Mehlhart - New release out on Kindisch
"Fine arranged melodies from multiple sound sources", as stated in his biography, are the building blocks of which Daniel Mehlhart considers to be the essence of good music. Putting what he preaches into practice has affirmed the 22-year-old Swiss born as one of the most exciting new talents in the underground Tech-House movement. Although his second release on Kindisch is out on the streets. Read more about on kindisch.net


[March 2009] - Swat Squad & Sarah Goldfarb - Remixes out on Pulsewith
The new Pulsewith release 'Unpredictable Changes' is ready to burn the dancefloors and comes around with two remixes by the WIR Booking artists Sarah Goldfarb and Swat Squad. Read more about and take a listen...


[February 2009] - Rene Breitbarth - New release on Deep Data
Deep Data is Breitbarths digital only artist label, his new platform for deep club music beside his output on labels like Treibstoff, Sub Static and Dessous. Up to date he is out with the 4th release "Press Play". Read more about and take a listen...


[February 2009] - Raysoo - Dj & Producer hits the WIR booking roster
WIR booking welcomes Malaysia based DJ and producer RaySoo on board! RaySoo is one of Asia’s upcoming DJs. His unique and quirky sense of electronic house music has taken him the world over.
Read more about RaySoo...


[February 2009] - Gabriel Ananda & Marcel Janovsky - back-2-back Tour 2009
Gabriel Ananda and Marcel Janovsky are going to tour Europe from March until may 2009. Whenever two artists like Gabriel Ananda and Marcel Janovsky pool their skills together, it will transform their extraordinary performance into a unique and magical experience. The style of their back-2-back DJ set will be refreshingly different from the common Techno mainstream and is ripe with a musical intelligence and spirit well beyond Gabriels and Marcels versatile musical taste. abriel Ananda and Marcel Janovsky will perform a 4 up to 6 hours back-2-back DJ set. Following tour dates are confirmed so far.

27.02.09 - Traunstein - Kavka Club
06.03.09 - Berlin - Dice Club
14.03.09 - Bingen - H1
21.03.09 - Regensburg - Ponyhof
28.03.09 - Augsburg - Orange Club
03.04.09 - Ekaterinburg - Club Shock
11.04.09 - Schwerin - Gerberei
24.04.09 - Catania - Sobha
25.04.09 - London - Ministry of Sound
09.05.09 - Liverpool - The Magnet
23.05.09 - Stuttgart - Romy S.
29.05.09 - Bukarest - Studio Martin
30.05.09 - Cluij - Club Midi
20.06.09 - Lyon - Ninkasi Kao
05.07.09 - Leeds - Mint Club
17.07.09 - Douala - Ravensburg

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[February 2009] - Maetrik - Australia Tour 2009
WIR booking artist MAETRIK is going to hit Down Under on his upcoming Australia Tour in February. From mid February on MAETRIK will perform four gigs.

14/02/09 - LAB feat. Maetrik - Miss Libertines - Melbourne
15/02/09 - Earth Freq - S/E QLD - Brisbane
20/02/09 - Minimal Exposure - Velvet Lounge - Perth
21/02/09 - Deep As Fu*k - The Bunker - Sydney



[February 2009] - Sarah Goldfarb is going to tour Mexico
WIR booking artist Sarah Goldfarb is going to meet some beautiful seńoritas on his upcoming Mexico Tour in April 2009. From early April on Sarah Goldfarb will perform six gigs. Pull down your sombreros in your face for a groovy fiesta. Laid back but Funky!

02.04.09 - International Playskullbot Night @ Rioma - Mexico City
03.04.09 - Nu Rockers Aniversary @ Balcones del angel - Morelia
04.04.09 - Sarah Goldfarb @ Playa del carmen - Queretaro
09.04.09 - Sarah Goldfarb @ Bar Americas - Guadaljara
10.04.09 - Sarah Goldfarb @ Aura - Monterrey
11.04.09 - Sarah Goldfarb @ Tampico - Tamaulipas