Draft:Klaudia Gawlas

Klaudia Gawlas (* October 25, 1981 in Cieszyn Poland ) is a german techno DJ and electronic music producer.

Biographie
Klaudia Gawlas was born 1981 in Cieszyn in Poland and came to Passau (Germany) with her family in 1990 when she was about 8 years old. In Germany she started experimenting with keyboard and guitar after finding out that in music education you are taught to play other people's music. She preferred to play her own music instead. At the age of 13 she received a Commodore 64 computer, with which she began to create her own first beats. Then she started sneaking into clubs, where she fell in love with the techno she heard there. After her aunt has given her a Jeff Mills tape she was hooked. However, the rest of the hard-working restaurateur's family took a critical view of her fervent devotion to music. They said that music was an unprofitable art.

After her initial training, she went to the USA to find out what she wanted to do with her life. She studied psychology and radio broadcasting there, but instead of a degree, she got a clear idea: she wanted to do something with techno. Whether on the radio, as a DJ, at events, it didn't matter to her. In the USA, she finally came into contact with the techno scene and learned how to become a DJ. When she came back to Germany, with a Pioneer DJM 600 Mixing console as a gift from her American friends, her only dream was to become a DJ and share her ever-growing record collection with the dance floor. She borrowed money for the turntables and practiced her craft. She earned her spurs at the open turntables at Alcatraz in Landau and was heard. The first bookings in Bavaria followed, slowly but surely a network developed until she suddenly won the 2008 Raveline magazine mixtape contest and played on the Ruhr in Love Raveline floor.

Following this, she quickly got big and regular gigs in Germany, including at the festivals Mayday, Nature One, Airbeat One, Time Warp Festival, Sea You Festival, Parookaville, Ruhr in Love, Stuttgart Electronic Music Festival (SEMF) and Love Family Park. Other gigs in Europe where she played were at Tomorrowland in Belgium, Awakenings and Amsterdam Dance Event in Netherlands, Electric Love in Austria, Ministerium Club in Portugal and Ex Magazzini in Italy. Worldwide gigs brought her to Tomorrowland Brasil, Under Club in Argentina and to Panama City In 2019 she played at gigs in Colombia and in New York City.

In 2013, her debut album Zeitgeist was released on Eric Sneo's label Masters of Disaster, including the Club-Hit Papillon.

Solo albums

 * 2013: Zeitgeist (Masters of Disaster)
 * 2016: Vision (Credo)

Singles & EPs

 * 2010: Recycle EP (together with Chris Hope, Abstract)
 * 2011: Playground EP (together with Eric Sneo, Masters Of Disaster)
 * 2011: SZCZ (Abstract)
 * 2013: Ufo Chords (Abstract)
 * 2013: Papillon (Beatdisaster)
 * 2014: This Side (Credo)
 * 2015: Sneaking EP (Kombination Research)
 * 2016: Skala EP (Recode Musik)
 * 2017: Lost Control EP (Masters Of Disaster)
 * 2018: The Siren (Redimension)
 * 2018: ABC (together with Drumcomplex (SLEAZE))
 * 2018: Manifest EP (Backrod)
 * 2019: Revolution March together with Flug (JAM)
 * 2020: Acid Kicks
 * 2021: Momentum EP
 * 2022: Sakura
 * 2023: Crazy
 * 2024: Revolution March together with Flug (JAM)

Media
Videos produced by German-French TV channel Arte showing Klaudia Gawlas at the techno festival Nature-One 2022 and 2023