Ata

Atanasios Christos Macias

Ata´s main job is actually not the production of electronic music, but to cultivate, to develope and to live it. He started in the late 80's as a DJ in Frankfurt/Main in the rising german - and special Frankfurt-based - house and techno-scene and played on many good parties and in actually every good club in the town and around. At the same time he worked together with Heiko Schäfer ([a=Heiko M/S/O])at the Boy Recordstore in Frankfurt. After quitting their jobs there, in 1992 both founded the leading german recordstore for electronic music in the mid-90´s, the "[l=Delirium]" record store. The shop was also the office for their three labels Ata started together with Heiko in September 1993: [l=Ongaku Musik], [l=Klang Elektronik] and [l=Playhouse]. With the development of special the Playhouse-label he influenced the german and worldwide electronic music in a huge way - and does it still. Together with Heiko Schäfer and [a=Jörg Henze], he was alos DJing through the german club scene as the [a=Delirium Posse] (the guys from the [l=Delirium] record store) or Heiko & Ata, Ata & Jörg (or Heiko & Jörg).
Beside his DJ-activities he founded the first 'real' clubnight in Frankfurt for modern house and deep-house - the Wild Pitch Club at the Nachtleben-Club. After years of extasy and parties he closed the concept an opened, one year later in 1999, the Robert-Johnson in the neighbourhood of Frankfurt, in Offenbach. Through the DJ´s he booked, his own DJ-sets and the club itself he made the Robert-Johnson to one of the most important clubs worldwide for electronic music.

http://www.ongaku.de
http://www.robert-johnson.de
http://www.myspace.com/newkidsonacid