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For Alex Flitsch, music is an obsession. Since the early nineties, the label owner of Connaisseur Recordings has been firmly rooted in the electronic music scene. Living in Frankfurt by choice, the studied advertiser has been working as a DJ since 1994 and is an enthusiastic collector. In the course of his DJ career, he has played in clubs in almost all of Germany, many in Europe as well as in cities and countries like Miami, Hong Kong, Moscow and Mexico.
The connaisseur, originating from the Afrilounge DJ-Collective in Pforzheim, close to the Black Forest in the south of Germany, has long had the desire to start an own label. The final trigger was the circumstance that three acts from his close circle of friends, Patrick Chardronnet, Markus Müller and Afrilounge, were shining with first class releases on well-known labels like Poker Flat, Get Physical and Traum Schallplatten.
Connaisseur Recordings’ very first release "Eve by Day" by Patrick Chardronnet already made it one of Germany’s most popular new labels with a cosmopolitan character. It is cited in one breath with labels such as Border Community, Crosstown Rebels and Get Physical. The renowned german GROOVE magazine called it "the housey counterpart to Border Community” and the DE:BUG "The new R&S".
Stylistically seen, Connaisseur aims to serve the market with versatility, without neglecting the sound aesthetical continuity of the release policy. The emphasis however, lies on House, soulful Techno and Minimal, although other influences and fusions are deliberately sought. Grand emotions, packed in a minimalistic sound structure, with the strategy of not only picking up current trends, but actually generating own.
Alex’ DJ sets are always a wild bunch of new and old, famous and not so famous future classics, club anthems and collector’s secrets; Versatilely mixed and passionately presented - Connaisseur-like.
