Patrick Graeser

Patrick Graeser (27) is a young and ambitious artist from Berlin’s vibrant club scene. He hails from the town of Fürstenwalde, 30 kilometres east of Berlin. Back in 2001, Graeser began putting on club nights there with Berghain residents Marcel Fengler and Marcel Dettmann before they all relocated to Berlin.

Between 2001 and 2004, Patrick regularly provided warm-up sets for the popular clubs Polar TV and Stern Radio where he first met a host of international dance music luminaries. By 2005, he had secured a residency in the renowned Weekend Club at the legendary Poker Flat “Basic Nights”, mixing alongside the likes of Steve Bug and Martin Landsky. This period shaped Patrick musically, as he seized the opportunity to trial his own productions and experiment with audiences in his sets and further hone his mixing skills.

It wasn’t long before Patrick came to the attention of big-name event organisers and he was soon manning the decks at a string of festivals such as “Sonne, Mond und Sterne”. The Coke DJ Culture Club Tour then took him to clubs from Hamburg to Munich with the Detroit legends Theo Parrish, Robert Owens and Omar S.

In April 2008, Graeser released his first track, “I’m very close”, on Hamburg’s hottest dance label Liebe*Detail to critical acclaim, earning him a place in the DJ charts and playlists of many international artists. Patrick is currently hosting the MEET: MAERTINI night at Watergate in Berlin together with Clé and Mike Vamp (Maertini Broes) and busy crafting new productions for a number of German and international music labels. Founded in 2008 with Mike Vamp the Berlin Label “Nights In Gale” (in German: “Naechte Im Sturm”) recordings, NIG.