Boris Brejcha

{{short description|German DJ and record producer|bot=PearBOT 5}}

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Boris Brejcha

| image = Boris brejcha 2017 03 12.jpg

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1981|11|26}}

| birth_place = Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Rhineland-Palatinate, West Germany

| genre = Minimal techno, Tech house, Electro house, Progressive house, Acid techno, Dutch house

| occupation = {{hlist|DJ|record producer|}}

| label = Harthouse

}}

Boris Brejcha ({{IPA|cs|ˈbrɛjxaː}}; born November 26, 1981, in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) is a German DJ and record producer. He describes his music style as "high-tech minimal."{{Cite web|url=https://djmag.com/longreads/alternative-top-100-djs-2019-powered-beatport|title = Alternative Top 100 DJS 2019, powered by Beatport|date = 30 October 2019}} His style has been compared with DJ Umek, and Solomun.{{Cite web |last=Grossane |first=Mark |title=Artists Who Sound Like: Boris Brejcha |url=https://www.magneticmag.com/2022/06/artists-who-sound-like-boris-brejcha/ |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=Magnetic Magazine |date=10 June 2022 |language=en-us}}

Brejcha frequently wears a joker mask based on a Carnival of Venice design.{{Cite web|url=https://mixmag.net/feature/boris-brejcha-interview|title=Boris Brejcha: "People love to see that an artist has some kind of identity"|website=Mixmag|access-date=2019-11-04}} He has performed at clubs and festivals around the world, including Tomorrowland and Coachella. Boris founded the label Fckng Serious in 2015 with Ann Clue and Deniz Bul.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fckng-serious.de/boris-brejcha|title=Boris Brejcha|website=FCKNG SERIOUS|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-04}} He performed for the first time in Ibiza in August 2019, at Hï Ibiza club.{{Cite web|url=https://www.essentialibiza.com/news/boris-brejcha-brings-hi-tech-minimal-brilliance-to-hi-ibiza/|title=Boris Brejcha Brings Hi-Tech Minimal Brilliance To Hï Ibiza|date=2019-08-19|website=Ibiza 2019 - Club Tickets - VIP Tables - Clubs & VIP - Essential Ibiza|language=en-US|access-date=2019-11-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191104230201/https://www.essentialibiza.com/news/boris-brejcha-brings-hi-tech-minimal-brilliance-to-hi-ibiza/|archive-date=2019-11-04|url-status=dead}}

On 24 January 2020, Brejcha released his sixth album Space Diver{{Cite web |date=2022-06-14 |title=Boris Brejcha, Armin van Buuren to headline Montreal's ELEVATION 002 |url=https://dancingastronaut.com/2022/06/boris-brejcha-armin-van-buuren-to-headline-montreals-elevation-002/ |access-date=2022-06-25 |website=Dancing Astronaut |language=en-US}} as his first album for Ultra Records.

In 2021, Brejcha was 42nd on DJ Mags Top 100 DJs.{{cite web |title=Boris Brejcha {{!}} Top 100 DJs 2019 |url=https://djmag.com/top100djs/2019/85/Boris-Brejcha |website=DJMag.com |language=en}}

Personal life

Boris Brejcha was born in Ludwigshafen (Germany) in 1981. At the age of six, he was seriously injured in the Ramstein air show disaster becoming badly burnt and spent months in the hospital.{{Cite web |title=Biography |url=https://www.borisbrejcha.de/biography |access-date=2022-03-30 |website=Boris Brejcha |language=de-DE}} He states in an interview:

:This was a special incident in my life. I was alone, I was a little boy and I was in an extreme situation.

At the age of forty, Brejcha still bears extensive scars from the severity of the burns.{{Cite web |title=Boris Brejcha |url=https://www.fckng-serious.de/boris-brejcha/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=FCKNG-SERIOUS |language=en-EN}}

Brejcha was inspired to learn how to make electronic music in middle school after a classmate of his brought a "Thunderdome" CD. At the age of 12, he began producing electronic music himself as a hobby.{{Cite web |title=Boris Brejcha |url=https://www.fckng-serious.de/boris-brejcha/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=FCKNG-SERIOUS |language=en-EN}}

His first release was in 2006. That same year, he performed his first festival at the Universo Paralello Festival in Brazil. Since then, his Joker mask - inspired by the Brazilian Carnival - has been his trademark. In the international foreign countries his music found fast approval. Numerous gigs in South America and Russia soon followed.{{Cite web |title=Boris Brejcha |url=https://www.fckng-serious.de/boris-brejcha/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=FCKNG-SERIOUS |language=en-EN}}

Since then, Boris has made a full-time living from music and has continued to develop as an artist. With the specially created genre "High-Tech-Minimal" Boris gave his music a name. He went on to release on Autist Records and later on Harthouse. Through the music magazine "Raveline" he was named "exceptional talent 2007".{{Cite web |title=Boris Brejcha |url=https://www.fckng-serious.de/boris-brejcha/ |access-date=2023-06-03 |website=FCKNG-SERIOUS |language=en-EN}}