German DJ, remixer and producer Michael Mayer is best known as the co-founder of
the independent Kompakt label. Born on December 11, 1971, he moved to Cologne at
the age of twenty and started hosting a radio show, before moving into club
DJing. In 1997, together with Reinhardt Voigt and Tobias Thomas, he formed the
house trio Forever Sweet, which produced the album Geben & Nehmen for the
Landomat 2000 label, before founding the Kompakt label with the former's
brother, Wolfgang Voigt, and Jürgen Paape. Kompakt quickly established itself as
one of the jewels in the techno and house...