Markus Westenweller - whom most simply know as Kwass - officially founded Modular Music Channel in 1996, but had actually began playing his own bedroom-produced CD tracks at countless underground events one year earlier. It was when more and more people began asking if these Detroit style, minimal and experimental tunes were available on wax that he realized his work was stylus worthy. So by 1997 he released his first LP "0621 c.," the same year he threw his legendary O621 Club parties in Mannheim.  And it was at one of these parties that Kwass met DJ LXK for the first time.  They immediately hit it off and shortly thereafter decided to do a project together, the "Kaban 2000" LP, which got released in April 2000 on LXK's  label X-Zel. Additionally in the past two years, artists like Loy Phlox, Beckenhower (Yonderkids) and Strahler 70 have joined the MMC ranks. But Europeans aren't the only ones recognizing MMC as a rising star.  DJ Rush from Chicago, a true Kwass fan, was the first to remix some of Kwass' tracks. His Harlem Congo remixes are already classics, as are Kwass & LXK's "Down by Bass" and Beckenhower's "Rattenfanger" (Kwass remix). The sampler "Dawn of the Recent" sold out six weeks after its release. For those who want to see the captain of the MMC stand up to the dance floor challenge, he spins monthly at Rixs Trier, TV Whatever Club in Mannheim,  Anlage E in Worms .