ivo leksan

biography:
ivo was born in 1975 in ol' eastern germany.
in 1981 he was 'exchanged' and started living in west germany.
with early roots in hip hop he started to work as a dj in 1991.
after a year in the US he came back from new york state in 1993
and discovered a weird thing called electronic music or 'techno'.
he began to buy jungle records and later acid tunes.
1994 was really wild with the big raves running in the HANNOMAG
where djs like timo maas, asem&aki, steve mason and many others played.
in 1995 after finishing school he started to play house/techno in public
using the homemade event 'klubhaus' with his best friends.
changing local residencies followed including meeting warren d. in 1996
in the very popular 'cafe europa' who was resident there together
with andre michelle, stefan born and jeremy gurl.
things got really wild with being part of the cafe specially the 'Church of House' afterhour on sunday which could go on to 21:00 on sundays.
after the closing of the cafe by officials ivo got started playing over
in the underground 'neuroserve' where he met gipetto.
inbetween there where a few other spaces to play like the 'cafe stahlblau'
and warren took over the residency of timo maas in the 'musicbox'
(timo thanks again your a great guy).
meanwhile the neuroserve was a lot of fun to be with as it was like a small family
and an institution for the area
as one of the few clubs where detroit orientated sound was played
as well as an output for the few small independent labels
which were run by local artists at that time.
eventually the club had to close(with a sweet little razzia), too.
ivo had the idea to start a company to organize parties and do bookings
together with tomas aka gipetto from the old neuroserve.
ivo's skills in graphics design and later programming
helped to form the trademark * arted with the reputation it got today.
meanwhile many different places where played.
* arted was formed in 2000
with gipetto being employed as the main booker.
at the same time they supported the 'trakt'.
after that one shut down * arted ran their own parties in the druckluft,
waldfrieden and supporting other locations including the NATURE ONE('00/'01).
unfortunally ivo had to part from gipetto in late 2000.
he was a promoter and supporter of many events in that time.
as well as spinning in the 'waldfrieden' which is mainly psytrance/goa orientated.
he played the chilloutzone most of the time
and enjoyed the total musical freedom.
same goes for the 'electromorph' parties
which focused to merge techno and industrial sound.
but it seemed stur and rene iwer where planning to finally open up their own club.
in 2003 the 'labor' opended after a hard year of preperation.
two parties each week continually(razzia nr.3 btw) but closed down
after one year exactly. after that things got a lot calmer again.
inbetween * arted managed to have the remix of one of warren's tracks
released by monoid with a LOT of help from sven dedek who also did the remix
(your the MAN sven! :D )
later ivo took off three years appearing as a dj due to private reasons.
in the end of 2007 ivo received the eventoperator(IHK) certificate.
in 2008 a new club opened its doors called 'TRONIX'
ivo did the light design and is tech. lead for the TRONIX
as well as spinning there once in a while.
now the TRONIX is up and running for more then a year.
currently ivo is working on achieving more certificates for work,
fixing up his studio with further missing components and
also revitalizing the NeuroSurf! event series
to give artist who played for the old neuroserve e.V.
a platform of reappearance.
the most inspiring quote ivo heard from one of his best friends:
"I don't know anyone else who did so much for techno!
If there would be a party thats 200km away and a chinch cable is missing
he would jump in his car and bring it there..."
maybe he should name his first album "the driver"?
it may be fitting ^_°
former residencies + tech. lead:
'Klubhaus' - BI ('96)
'Neuroserve e.V.' - BI ('96-'99)
'Café Europa' - BI ('97/'98)
'Café Stahlblau' - BI ('98)
'SAM'S' - BI ('99+'02/'03)
'Waldfrieden' - Wehdem ('99/'01)
'TRAKT' - BI ('00)
'druckausgleich' - OB ('00)
'electromorph@AJZ' - BI ('00-'02)
'LABOR' - GMH ('01-'03)
'TRONIX' - BI ('08-now)
other venues/locations/cities played:
10|40 e.V. - Leipzig
Acient People - Ibiza (Spain)
Bad Oeyenhausen
Blasheim
Breipott - Berlin
Brockhagen
Christopher Street Day ('01) - Bielefeld
Chatanooga - Bielefeld
Efes/PLURX - Luedenscheid
Elfenbein - Bielefeld
Forum e.V. - Bielefeld
Jahnplatzforum - Bielefeld
LIBRO Bookshop - Bielefeld
LKW Waschstrasse - Bielefeld
Mingles Club - Guetersloh
Musikbox - Minden
Nature One - Camping Village/ILT Tent/TRESOR Bunker ('00+'01)
Reaktor - Vlotho
Silo 1 - Toeging
Soap Club - Hannover
Sounds - Bielefeld
Suess war gestern - Berlin
Goettingen
Heidelberg
Porta Westfalica
Walsrode
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