Stefan Ludley

Biography:

Stefan Ludley was born 1969 in Frankfurt am Main. His mother infected him with the "technovirus", when he was 6 Years old, with good, old Jean-Michelle Jarre Records like Equinox .
1983 he started djing in different Youthclubs . He collected sounds like skinny puppy, front 242, chris and cosey and of course acidhouse . In the early 90's, when trance and techno where hosted in Frankfurt in legendaery clubs like the Omen and Dorian Gray, he was working for the well knowen records company " Logic Records" ( Harthouse and Eye Q neighbours) and he had his first club bookings in the "Grube " in Sauerland and the Secret Garden in Limburg. At this time he was the pioneer of the psycedelic trance sound in the Rhein-main area.

1995 he started his own parties in the middle of Frankfurt. " Biology Uk" has been the first "Goa Partys " in the Town. After this; many Frankfurt Clubs and djs where interessted in Stefans sound and partyconcepts ! He played in famous clubs like Dorian Gray and XS and played with Famous Djs like Carl Cox, Sven Vaeth, Laurent Garnier....; on big raves like time warp ( 20.000 people) and also allways on small underground partys. 1996 he was resident in three different clubs. Then a big radiostation (HR3) invited him to play his set on the club-night ( listend by over 100.000 young german raver ) . After this, he had national and international bookings. Since today he is a resident of the clubnight.
Since 1997, he was member and resident of the nada-brahma party community. They created big open air festivals like "Klangwelten" and "the Elements of Life".

He made his first remix with Substance T and played on differend trance festivals all over europe. In 1999 he founded the first Psycedelic Trance label hosted in Frankfurt am Main (Psylofant Records), toghether with Germans famous female live act Lava 303 . Psylofant Records crossed the border between party and politics and released revolutionary cds like the "holidays in kosov@". He is also a member of the crossing-bridges group and helps creating a festival in the deep Kosova.

The style of DJ Stefan Ludley is always different and depends a lot on the audience he is playing for. He is always prepared to play a full-on psy set, fluffy morning sounds or what ever the pleople want to hear: " its not me who is playing, its the audience. I am just the key between them and the Universe " is Stefans meaning about his djing. After nearly 15 years of professional djing he reached the status of a master and teacher for other djs. He is also well known for his trippy and funny ambient sets.