Monika Kruse
Diskjockey. Deejeuse. Deejette.
Whatever you call it..
..there are many DJs around – but just a few ones have really inspired & formed the whole Techno & House scene. Monika is one of them with years of experience.
But let´s start her story from the beginning. Just after finishing her college-time Monika had follow her real interest: music. In the beginning of 1991 she started to DJ in the Babalu-Bar/Munich playing HipHop, Funk and her first influential houserecords.
Just after this first step into new kinds of music she got already a DJ-Residency at the Parkcafé/Munich. Nevertheless she wanted more than just a plain bookings and joined the Ultraworld-Crew at the End of 1993. This crew organised the first techno-parties in Munich and later they opened up the legendary Ultraschall-Club (Summer `94) at the old airport Munich-Riem. Since then she is a Resident-DJ at the Ultraschall club and took their solid underground style to many clubs in germany and later on worldwide.
Her own musical ambitions started with buying her first keyboard (a Roland JD-800) and a co-Production with Richard Bartz aka Acid Scout which was released in spring 95 on the Pomelo Compilation Nr.1 from Austria.
In the year 1995 Monika was responsible for the A&R department of Kurbel-Records which is a stronghold of modern german techno till today. Further internationalen DJ-gigs took her to raves & clubs of european capitals like London, Stockholm or even to the hometown of housemusic, Chicago.
On her search for more thrilling party-locations Monika organised her first streetcarparty in mid `95, where she rented an official trolley and transformed it to a pounding club on wheels. Since then this party was made just 5 times to keep it a real party-highlight. Other more or less illegal partys were made in old powerplants or in old military bunkers, always with a real underground flavour.
At the start of the year 1996 she also took part at a music-exchangeprogramm by the german Goethe-Institute in London together with T-Power, Mixmaster Morris, the avantgarde-group Oval, Being and Atom Heart (who now lives in Chile).
New musical output appeared as further co-operations with Ingmar Koch aka Dr.Walker on “Robot Wars”(Smi):e-Records) and the first output from her own studio in Munich lead to a contribution for the second Loop Complation on Seretonin-Records (New York).
After moving to the new german capital Berlin she worked for the internationally well known label Studio !K-7 helping them on distribution or organising K7 artisttours throughout germany.
At the end of 1997 the german label Fine Audio Recordings contacted Monika concerning the release of a new Mix-CD series and this lead her to DJ-Mix-Series Vol.1 giving her the possibility to display her musical spectrum out of classic tunes and up to date DJ-Tools. This CD has already sold more than 9000 copies without promotion or promo-budget which speaks for itself.
Her reputation as a versatile DJ was manifested again at the end of 1997 when she was voted into the Top 5 of the leading german House & Techno-DJ by the readers of the german GROOVE-Magazine. Just one year later she was voted on the third position in the same category just behind Sven Vaeth and DJ Hell, being the only women in the first 40 places.
While working in her own home-studio based in Berlin with a new 32-Channel-Mixer and several drummachines to find new exiting patterns another important record in Monika´s carrier was released: The Frankfurter based label Frisbee Records (initiated by DJ Good Groove) came out with “Monika Kruse in Voodooamt” (partially made together with Patrick Lindsey) in February ´98 and just half a year later another track by Monika was on the Frisbee-Records Tour-CD. This contant stream of quality was followed by the 3-Track EP “Hoschi pres. Monika Kruse” on the british label Primeevil. After the Frisbeerecord Monika Kruse returned to Patrick Lindsey´s studio in autum`98 to record a tribute for “the last night” of the famous Omen-Club in Frankfurt. It was released on Lindsey´s School-Label and after several weeks of extensive club-play this EP entered the german dancecharts DDC-Charts on place number 24. In Oktober 99 she introduced on her Brasiltour her follow up “Monika Kruse im Voodooamt part 2″ (Frisbee) and the first edition was sold out in the first week. Due to the brilliant success of her first Mix-CD on Fine Audio Recordings the austrian XXX Recordlabel choosed Monika to record a Mix-CD for a big party in April`99 and when the international lifestyle-magazine MAX compiled a Berlin-Cityguide edition Monika was displayed as one of the leading creative talents in this pulsating city. In April 2000 another cooperation with Patrick Lindsey “U like / Sommergewitter” was released on patricks new Technolabel, called Trackland.
In April she played the first time live for the most important official radiostation HR3 Clubnight in Frankfurt, a radiostation, which won already a few prices concerning their support in youthculture.
In 2000 Monika started her own label. Inspired of her travels, she called her label Terminal M. Her first record “Needlehopper” Monika Kruse @ Voodooamt was released end of may.
Another dream of her came true at the loveparade 2000 in Berlin, where she had the honor to play at the finalparty of the parade at the statue together with only a few djs like Carl Cox, Takiu Ishino, Hell in front of 1.5 Million people and several TV stations.
In Oktober she will release another Mix CD on Terminal M called “Monika Kruse on the road vol.1″ and her promotiontour will bring her for the first time to Japan.
Monika Kruse – Dj Set at Ultraschall Munich Germany 30-06-1998
Monika Kruse – Dj Set at RAI Amsterdam NL 17-12-2006
Monika Kruse – Dj Set at Sensation White LTU Arena Duesseldorf 31-12-2007
Monika Kruse – Live at Dance Valley, Amsterdam NL 14-07-2007
Monika Kruse & DJ Ana – Live at Harry Klein München 27-05-2007 (Part 1)
Monika Kruse & DJ Ana – Live at Harry Klein München 27-05-2007 (Part 2)
Monika Kruse & DJ Ana – Live at Harry Klein München 27-05-2007 (Part 3)
Monika Kruse & DJ Ana – Live at Harry Klein München 27-05-2007 (Part 4)
Monika Kruse & DJ Ana – Live at Harry Klein München 27-05-2007 (Part 5)
Monika Kruse – Live at Electro Legia Birthday 07-04-2007 (Part1)
Monika Kruse – Live at Electro Legia Birthday 07-04-2007 (Part2)
Monika Kruse – Trekstor Mix Session on SSL 29-12-2008
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Delicious Housetunes on MS1 Radio 23-10-2008
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Global Alliance on Kiss100 18-10-2008
Monika Kruse & Anja Schneider – Dance under The Blue Moon 21-09-2008 (part1)
Monika Kruse & Anja Schneider – Dance under The Blue Moon 21-09-2008 (part2)
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Klubbers FM 05-09-2008
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Maxima FM 05-09-2008
Monika Kruse – In The Mix at Komisch Elektronisch 04-09-2008
Monika Kruse – Live at SpinClub Ibiza Sonica Radio 22-08-2008
Monika Kruse – GuestMix on Big City Beats on BigFM 13-07-2008
Monika Kruse + Benna – Live at Harry Klein Munich 15-03-2008 (Part1)
Monika Kruse + Benna – Live at Harry Klein Munich 15-03-2008 (Part2)
Monika Kruse + Benna – Live at Harry Klein Munich 15-03-2008 (Part3)
Monika Kruse + Benna – Live at Harry Klein Munich 15-03-2008 (Part4)
Monika Kruse – Live at Studio 80 Amsterdam 18-12-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Trektor Mix Session on SSL 25-12-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set for Raveline Mix Session 00-12-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Dance 4 Life Radioshow 22-11-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at In Session Radioshow 25-10-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set TSUGi Podcast 09-10-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Blind Spot Show on Prenston FM 02-102-009
Monika Kruse – Live at GZG Club Amsterdam 21-06-2009 (Part1)
Monika Kruse – Live at GZG Club Amsterdam 21-06-2009 (Part2)
Monika Kruse – Live at Space Ibiza 04-09-2009
Monika Kruse – Listen To Minimal on We Love House 10-07-2009
Monika Kruse – Listen to Minimal on We Love House FM 13-06-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Listen to Minimal on WLH.FM 06-06-2009
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Listen To Minimal on WLH.FM 29-05-2009
Monika Kruse – Live at Tour & Taxi´s 15 Years of FUSE Brüssel 25-04-2009 (Part1)
Monika Kruse – Live at Tour & Taxi´s 15 Years of FUSE Brüssel 25-04-2009 (Part2)
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Clubbin Ladies Night on SlamFM 12-04-2009
Monika Kruse – Live at Timewarp Maimarkthalle Mannheim 04-04-2009
Monika Kruse – Live at Sensation White Chile at Cultural Center Santiago 14-09-2009
Monika Kruse – Smirnoff Nightlife Exchange Special 24-11-2010
Monika Kruse – Live at The Alexander Theatre, Johannesburg 26-11-2010
Monika Kruse – Live at Nature One 31-07-2010
Monika Kruse – Live at Space, Ibiza 09-08-2011
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Coxy Days Radio 01-09-2011
Monika Kruse – Live at Century Circus, Nature One Festival 05-08-2011
Monika Kruse – DJ Set at Mix Mission on Sunshine Live 25-12-2012
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Monika Kruse – Live at Nation of Gondwana 22-07-2012
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Monika Kruse, Dapayk – Live at Beatport, Berlin 04-07-2012
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Monika Kruse – Live at Loveland, Queensday (Oosterpark) 30-04-2012
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Monika Kruse – Live at Time Warp, Mannheim 31-03-2012
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