Hysteric Maniacs! This time Lars Klein...

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by Mauro Calleja

Friday, 10 September, 2004

As expected and long awaited Lars Klein will be in Malta on 9th October courtesy of Hysteric Maniacs.

Born in Dortmund (in the huge industrial Ruhr area), Lars Klein soon became infected with electronic music when he first listened to the vinyls of Jean-Michel Jarre. In the Mid-80s, he got in touch with House music and it was labels such as "DJ International" and "Trax" who left their deepest traces with their impelling and propulsive electronic sounds without any vocal knick-kack whatsoever.

Equipped with turntables and a tape deck, he began to produce a series of amateur mix tapes which his friends and mates received with much enthusiasm. In the early 90s, he had his first DJ bookings which marked that Lars was set for his musical career.

In 1994 he had assembled his first studio equipment, and he immediately began to work hard at developing his production skills. In December 1995, a breakthrough in his Djing was achieved when Lars was booked for an extensive DJ Tour in Lithuania and throughout Germany. In 1999, Lars started working for an important record store in Dortmund, which strengthened his already existing contact with the former A&R of Fine Audio Recordings and Compressed Records.

This contact lead to his first official 12" vinyl on Compressed Records which was released in September 1999. Further releases on FINE AUDIO and other labels such as BOUND and COMPRESSED were soon to follow. Now Lars is a much requested DJ worldwide. In March 2004 he established his imprint "LK Records". Pounding stuff to be expected.

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First of all don't forget tomorrow the return of Spacid at Liquid, courtesy of Squadron.

Date for the Hysteric Maniacs event is 9 October at Liquid at Lm5.50.

Main room for the night hosted by Hysteric Maniacs themselves is as follows: Adrian V, Duo Blank, JD Frank, Teksurgeons, Lars Klein (2hrs), Madame Mandy & Steve Zina, & finally Reuben Lee (live) expect hard pounding techno!

The second room hosted by Overview will consist of Manthrax, Daniel Jose', D-Traum, A-I, Junior B And Danjeli Vs Treble Maker (Live).