GEBRUEDER TEICHMANN
DJ duo – noland / berlin, germany
Gebr Teichmann DJ RIDER
Gebr Teichmann Sinfonie RIDER
Gebr Teichmann Robyn Schulkowsky RIDER
Biography
The brothers Andi & Hannes Teichmann, also known as Gebrüder Teichmann, are electronic musicians, DJs, and the driving force behind various music-related projects and events.
Since the late 1990s, they have been deeply rooted in Berlin’s underground scene and DIY culture, driven by a lively curiosity and love for music and sound, as well as the social connections that come with them. Andi & Hannes began DJing around 1995 in their hometown of Regensburg, where they also organized their first parties and started producing electronic music.
Their DJ sets reflect three decades of musical encounters—personal journeys and shared experiences spanning continents and traditions. From the early days of the Berlin club scene through intensive collaborations and travels from Pakistan to Angola, to Chicago house and contemporary music, as well as Yoruba rhythms and electroacoustic experiments.
As live electronic musicians, the brothers have collaborated with numerous artists from various genres and traditions.
These collaborations include hip-hop, contemporary, traditional, and experimental music with partners such as the American percussionist Robyn Schulkowsky, the German Krautrock band Embryo, the Detroit-based artist, DJ, and label owner Gary Martin aka Teknotika, the electronic music group Jahcoozi, and their multi-instrumentalist father Ulrich Teichmann. Interdisciplinary collaborations stretch from the Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum of Contemporary Art to the Berlin State Opera and the contemporary dance institution Tanzfabrik Berlin.
In the German silent film classic Die Sinfonie der Großstadt (1927, directed by Walter Ruttmann, 65 minutes)—an extraordinarily experimental and remarkable work thanks to its rhythmic montage—the camera takes the viewer on a journey through a day in 1920s Berlin, from dawn to dusk, portraying the rhythm of the metropolis with its inhabitants, offices, and factories, the brief lunch break marked by the chiming of the clock, before the day finally gives way to the wild nightlife in all its facets.
The film is soundtracked by DJ duo Gebrüder Teichmann, featuring vinyl (!) records reflecting Berlin’s subcultures and experimental sounds. This live-performed collage draws on Berlin’s history from the 20th century to the electronic present and weaves it together with Ruttmann’s images.
Today Die Sinfonie der Großstadt is often watched as a filmed time capsule, providing a historical filmed record of the city of Berlin in the mid 1920s. Over 30% of central Berlin was leveled by the end of World War II, which dramatically changed the face of Berlin from that depicted in this film forever. Many places and buildings that did not survive the war appear in the film, such as the Anhalter Bahnhof train station, and the Hotel Excelsior located opposite, once the largest hotel in Europe.
The brother’s label NOLAND was founded in 2016 as a platform for a new musical language to articulate a 21st-century transcultural underground: the “Interground,” which encompasses fragments of traditional and contemporary music as well as club and experimental electronic music.
Since 2015, Hannes Teichmann has been hosting the Audiovisionen series for live electroacoustic music at the Kulturraum Zwinglikirche in Berlin.
