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The Modernist
Biography
Under the monikers Burger Industries, the Bionaut, and the Modernist, Cologne, Germany's Jörg Burger has proven himself one of the city's most prominent and influential techno producers and composers. Burger's collaborations with fellow Cologne native Wolfgang Voigt (a.k.a. Mike Ink) shaped their individual careers as well. Initially inspired by the pop scene in London, where both Burger and Voigt resided in the early '80s, the pair became acid techno converts when they returned to Germany.

By 1988, they were recording electronic music influenced by both pop and acid techno, though Voigt's music had a minimal, rhythmic bent while Burger's was warmer and more melodic. Two of Burger's early tracks appeared on the 1989 compilation Teutonic Beats, which was produced by Thomas Fehlmann. Two years later, Burger and Voigt formed their first label, Trance Atlantic, on which Burger released Burger Industries: Vol. 1. In 1993, after a move to Frankfurt to work with Air Liquide's Jammin' Unit and Dr. Walker and the creation of two other labels, Structure (which released Burger's first Bionaut album, 1992's Everybody's Kissing Everyone) and Blue, Voigt and Burger put their collaboration on a temporary hiatus.
Selected Discography

Explosion
1999