Studio K7

Studio K7, also known as Stud! K7 and o! K7, also Studio! K7, is a German record label.

It was originally from the hot spot Café Swing out with in-room video distribution system video United Nollendorfplatz in Berlin- Schöneberg. Due to larger video productions and more luxurious concert recordings, including Berlin Atonal the solid, artistic core decided, consisting of Reiner Bumke, Stephan Guntli, Michael F. Huse and Horst Weidenmüller 1984 establishing the independent video and television production studio K7 - audiovisual communication. ! The name, written as STUD O K7, goes back to the location of the first offices in Berlin- Charlottenburg on Kaiserdamm 7; the prefix in the logo exclamation mark is rudiment of the provided by the designer Petra Bielefeld on the head "i" s: " K7 " "! STUD O K7 " to.

With the gradual dissolution of the partnership between the founding members from 1991 to 1993 was stud! O K7, as the offshoot in 1996 also founded by Horst Weidenmüller! K7 Records, a music label in Berlin operated for electronic music.! K7 is still one of the few remaining completely independent major labels in Germany.

The label moved, inter alia, sound recordings from artists such as Kruder & Dorfmeister, Herbert, Ursula Rucker, Carl Craig, Hot Chip, Stateless, A Guy Called Gerald and many other internationally renowned artists.

1991 began with the publication of the so-called " three -LUX series " and " X-Mix Series", a series of digital video clips, and this specially tuned DJ sets.

Ten years later, the " DJ-Kicks series" was launched. The aim was to create DJ mixes not only for the dance floor, but also for the home stereo system. Such mixes were, inter alia, posted by Kruder & Dorfmeister, Nightmares on Wax, Thievery Corporation, Tiga, Hot Chip, Carl Craig, Henrik Schwarz and the Stereo MCs. To this day, nearly 30 parts of this, perhaps the most durable compilation series of recent decades, published.

The repertoire of! K7 includes different varieties of modern electronic music. After being concentrated in the first years exclusively to the publication of DJ mixes, began to publish regular artist albums from 1996. Since K7 is considered one of the most diverse labels in the electronics sector.

In addition, the sub label Rapster, Strut, Gold Dust Media and Ever belong to the! K7 Label Group. Rapster and Gold Dust Media focus in their publications on the different variants of urban music and published eg Recordings by artists such as Jazzy Jeff, Roy Ayers and Plant Life. Rapster works at his publications closely with the English label BBE together and a number of publications were produced in close cooperation between the two labels. When Ever contrast, are mainly the independent sector allocatable publications. Strut Records, in turn, focuses on the re-release of various music from the 70s and 80s, from Afrobeat to Italian disco. In addition to working for the summer of 2008 on the publication of the first studio album by Grandmaster Flash for years.