31 Facts About Mark Reeder

Mark Reeder was born on 5 January 1958 and is a British musician and record producer.

At a young age, Reeder became interested in progressive rock and especially early electronic music.

Mark Reeder has been living and working in Berlin since 1978.

Mark Reeder is the founder and owner of the German electronic dance music labels MFS and Flesh.

In 1991, Mark Reeder discovered the teenage Paul van Dyk, guiding and paving his way to build up his international DJ superstardom.

Dave Haslam's book Adventures on the Wheels of Steel: The Rise of the Superstar DJs describes how Mark Reeder initiated and successfully outlined van Dyk's early career from 1991 until 1999, and through Mark Reeder's respected status and extensive music industry contacts, van Dyk was able to climb the ladder to success and reach his current superstar status.

Mark Reeder has been a participant and behind the scenes influence for many now-famous artists, spread over a wide cross-section of contemporary musical genres.

Mark Reeder formed the punk band The Frantic Elevators together with Mick Hucknall and Neil Moss in Manchester, early 1977.

In 1981, Mark Reeder formed the synthpop-rock duo Die Unbekannten, together with Alistair Gray, and then drummer Thomas Wydler joined, Die Unbekannten became a trio.

Meanwhile, Smirnoff Wall of Sound film 2008 described Mark Reeder to be one of the Godfathers of the early electronic music and gothic rock scene.

In 1983, Mark Reeder helped put together the Berlin Special of The Tube, a UK Channel 4 TV pop programme, which he co-presented together with Muriel Gray.

Mark Reeder had contacts to the East Berlin underground new wave music scene and travelled a lot to East Berlin for concerts.

Mark Reeder eventually helped to bring Die Toten Hosen over to East Berlin for their two secret gigs in 1982 and 1988, the 1982 gig being the first concert by a western punk band in East Berlin, disguised as a religious service.

Mark Reeder is recognised as the only Englishman ever to have had the privilege to make a record in the East, because literally days after finishing recording the album, the notorious Berlin Wall fell.

Mark Reeder managed to convince them to allow him to set up a new electronic dance label office in the "Abhor Raum 101" situated in the building directly behind the Reichstag.

In December 1990, Mark Reeder founded his own electronic dance music record label "Masterminded For Success" or later known as MFS.

Mark Reeder had a gift for uncovering the hidden talents of many early techno and trance artists.

Mark Reeder once stated in an interview together with DJ Paul van Dyk,.

Mark Reeder ran both his labels with an unconventional approach and a passion rarely seen in the music industry.

Mark Reeder was deeply devoted to all his artists and was involved in almost every aspect of their musical productions, from their concept, recording and mastering, to PR texts, as well as their artistic cover-design ideas.

In 1993, a trance music documentary Berliner Trance was born, presented by Mark Reeder, directed by Ben Hardyment.

Mark Reeder reactivated MFS in 2018, specifically to release the album Fragment by Chinese band STOLEN.

Mark Reeder worked with German filmmaker Joerg Buttgereit on many of his film and theatre projects Nekromantik 2 and his sound is reminiscent of the 80s electronic rock-disco sound with a modern flair.

In December 2011, Mark Reeder released his second studio album "Five Point One", a selection of his recent remixes.

Mark Reeder attended the first electronic dance music conference VIBRATO 2000 in New Delhi, India, and then London Calling in UK.

Mark Reeder has given lectures and workshops at the Tecnogeist, San Luis Potosi and G Martell College of Music and Audio in Mexico City.

Mark Reeder initially studied advertising design, but disillusioned, left the Ad industry to work in a Virgin Records store in Lever Street, Manchester.

Mark Reeder created all his labels' adverts and wrote the majority of the copy and record texts.

Mark Reeder additionally supplied designer Marc Schilkowski with design ideas although Reeder almost never credited himself on the records.

Mark Reeder was actually involved in the creation of virtually all the MFS and Flesh record graphic designs:.

Mark Reeder has worked as a researcher and has been interviewed and quoted or being a main subject in many book publications.