Maral Salmassi Biography:

Maral Salmassi, born on 24^th July 1975 in Teheran, first grew up in Persia and later in Jordan. With the fall of the Shah's regime in 1979, the family was forced to return to Persia and after seven years under the Islamic regime, they managed to escape from a country subverted by the war between Iran and Irak and settled in Germany in 1986.

Among the many characteristically uncharacteristic Techno protagonists in Cologne, Maral Salmassi is the most uncharacteristic one: nothing in her work refers to the specific Cologne style or can be defined as “made-in-Cologne”. On her early label Konsequent Records for example, there were mainly straight Tool Techno releases in style of Berlin-based Tresor label sounds.

Today, Maral produces funky, playful Glamour Techno which is more a combination of New York Wave Disco and French Cut-Up Hop than Cologne Post-Minimal sounds and styles.

Maral Salmassi started her career as a DJ in Cologne in 1994.

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Maral Salmassi Biography:

Maral Salmassi, born on 24^th July 1975 in Teheran, first grew up in Persia and later in Jordan. With the fall of the Shah's regime in 1979, the family was forced to return to Persia and after seven years under the Islamic regime, they managed to escape from a country subverted by the war between Iran and Irak and settled in Germany in 1986.

Among the many characteristically uncharacteristic Techno protagonists in Cologne, Maral Salmassi is the most uncharacteristic one: nothing in her work refers to the specific Cologne style or can be defined as “made-in-Cologne”. On her early label Konsequent Records for example, there were mainly straight Tool Techno releases in style of Berlin-based Tresor label sounds.

Today, Maral produces funky, playful Glamour Techno which is more a combination of New York Wave Disco and French Cut-Up Hop than Cologne Post-Minimal sounds and styles.

Maral Salmassi started her career as a DJ in Cologne in 1994.

In 1997, she founded the label Konsequent Records and became co-partner of Cologne-based Oldschool Electro and Miami Bass distribution Formic Distributions. In 1999, she founded the label Art of Perception with a number of opulent soundtrack series and releases from Jimi Tenor, Kim Cascone, Bochum Welt, Alter Ego, Christian Morgenstern or Andrew Watherall. In 2002, she founded Television Records with releases from artists such as John Starlight aka Zombie Nation, Quesh, Kitbuilders or Codec & Flexor.

Since 2003, she works mainly on own productions as producer and singer and can look back to a number of co-operations with acts such as Ascii Disco, Zombie Nation and Zero Cash aka Fabian Stall. In early 2005, together with Fabian Stall • known for co-/productions with acts and band, for example FM Einheit, Khan (Captain Comatose) and Air Liquide • she founded the band project Golden Days. And in 2007, both founded the label Television Records conceived as a platform for their own solo projects.