![]() Played in Die Unbekannten and Shark Vegas. Was Factory Records German Representative. Worked at Virgin Record shop in Manchester from 1972-78.įounder member with Mick Hucknall (Simply Red) in The Frantic Elevators. In May 2020, MFS released their new album, Children of Nature.Lives in Berlin since 1978, Studied advertising design. In February 2018, STOLEN came to Berlin to record their second album FRAGMENT with Reeder.Īfter a 10-year hiatus, Reeder decided to reactivate MFS especially to present the new STOLEN album vinyl release.Īfter working together with acclaimed Lithuanian pop-singer Alanas Chosnau on the spy film song for French cold war thriller Le Chant du Loup (The Wolf's Call) Reeder and Chosnau decided to record an album. For this release.ĭuring an extensive two-month B-Movie/ DJ tour of China in 2017, Reeder discovered radical young Chinese band from Chengdu, called STOLEN. In July 2017 he released “Mauerstadt” again on Kennen, featuring his songwriting, production and collaborations with Manchester legends New Order and The Inspiral Carpets, as well as with The KVB, Maja Pierro, Queen of Hearts, and Ekkoes. New Order loved B-Movie so much, they used scenes from it for their Singularity music video, for which Reeder also made a highly acclaimed remix. In 2015, he starred as the main protagonist in the documentary film about his life in cold war Berlin B-Movie: Lust & Sound in West Berlin. This album features his remix of John Foxx’s legendary hit Underpass, as well as remixes for Depeche Mode, Pet Shop Boys, Anne Clark and Die Toten Hosen. In 2011, he released FivePointOne – an album of 5.1 remixes produced in wrap-around DOLBY surround sound. In 2008, he made an album of retro-remixes for Blank & Jones (for the album ReOrdered) which also featured his reworking of A Forest, with new vocals by Robert Smith of The Cure. Reeder is also an established remixer producing numerous remixes for such established artists as New Order, Depeche Mode, The Pet Shop Boys, Yello, John Foxx, Anne Clark, or Die Toten Hosen, as well as for a ton of new and lesser-known artists. He composed music for films including the music score for Joerg Buttgereits controversial film “Nekromantik 2” and “Captain Berlin vs Hitler” (2008) and for his own 2015 documentary film about 80’s West-Berlin music scene “B-Movie (Lust & Sound in West-Berlin). A new label for a new, yet provocative idea: Wet&Hard which he had conceived together with Hungarian DJ Corvin Dalek. ![]() MFS helped to launch the careers of many, now famous artists and DJs, such as Ellen Allien, Cosmic Baby (Harald Bluechel), Dr Motte, Effective Force (Johnny Klimek), or Mijk van Dijk and the teenage Paul van Dyk. In autumn 1989 he was invited by the East German authorities to produce what would become the last album of communist East Germany – “Torture” by Die Vision for the then communist state-owned record label AMIGA.Īfter the fall of the Berlin wall he founded the first East German electronic music label MFS (Masterminded For Success) which he started in December 1990. In 1987, Reeder formed a new project Alien Nation, a purely electronic project, created to explore the newly emerging acid house sound. Reeder reformed Die Unbekannten into Shark Vegas and released their one and only single You Hurt Me on both Factory (FAC111) and Totenkopf (TOT11). He co-organised the first ever ultra secret underground punk concert in an East Berlin Church with Die Toten Hosen in 1983. Was live sound engineer for the Die Toten Hosen (and on a couple of occasions for Einstuerzende Neubauten). He managed all-girl avant-garde group Malaria! German representative Joy Division and later, Manchester record label, Factory Records.įormed darkwave band Die Unbekannten (The Unknown) Reeder’s own clandestine musical career has spanned over more than four decades.įounder member of The Frantic Elevators together with Mick Hucknall (Simply Red). Mark Reeder is a musician and record producer from Manchester, living in Berlin since 1978. ![]()
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