hosted by_
(fka Hosted by Kommerz)
LABEL FOR HIGH QUALITY LO-FI BEATS
We're a label with a focus on instrumental hip-hop music. Some of the artists, who have released through Hosted by_: Bluestaeb, Brenk Sinatra, digitalluc, 7apes, Figub Brazlevic, George John, Katashi Kaitō, Klaus Layer, Modha, Portaledge, Rick Flair, S. Fidelity, Saiko, Saltyyyy V and Yousef Kekhia.
But our teenage dream to start a business as brothers dates back a decade at least. We, Lukas and Jonathan Nixdorff, share our love for hip-hop and music since forever. But thing's had to grow slowly. Fast forward, we moved to Berlin more or less about the same time and became co-founding members Nachtasyl Kollektiv. As a collective we reclaimed abandoned basements and yards all around the city hosting unforgettable raves between 2013 and 2017. At the same time, we organized another legal party series at Mensch Meier. At Am Boden we welcomed acts such as Mama Snake, Catnapp, Viktor, Tereza and many more. At this point we had both started to work in the music industry. Lukas as Manager International Licensing & Marketing at BMG Rights Management and me, Jonathan, as editor (and a bit later as editor-in-chief) at German hip-hop magazine splash! Mag. In order not to be bored of our daytime jobs we started side hustle.: As we were in love with the music, which would later become known as cloud rap, we founded PVDERZVXXER PO$$E, printing our own merch and endorsing artists such as Crack Ignaz and LGoony. Simultaneously, hip-hop producer Bluestaeb and I met at the casino on Potsdamer Platz (real talk!) and decided to try out a management relationship. Shortly after S. Fidelity joined the roster of artists and friends, and Lukas and me realized the time to finally join forces had come. Kommerz started out as Nachtasyl Kommerz, thought as the commercial branch of our non-profit illegal rave collective. In 2017 things got real, when we decided to drop out of our 9-to-5's. To narrow things down we called it Kommerz (and only Kommerz). Besides our management and consulting work Kommerz also became the mothership to our two labels Kommerz Records (our boutique record label) and Hosted by_ (our little hub for lofi aesthetics).
CONTACT HOSTEDBY(AT)KOMMERZ(DOT)FYI FOR EVERYTHING LOFI RELATED
FOR ANYTHING ELSE PLEASE BEEP US VIA HOLLA(AT)KOMMERZ(DOT)FYI
hosted by_
(fka Hosted by Kommerz)
LABEL FOR HIGH QUALITY LO-FI BEATS
We're a label with a focus on instrumental hip-hop music. Some of the artists, who have released through Hosted by_: Bluestaeb, Brenk Sinatra, digitalluc, 7apes, Figub Brazlevic, George John, Katashi Kaitō, Klaus Layer, Modha, Portaledge, Rick Flair, S. Fidelity, Saiko, Saltyyyy V and Yousef Kekhia.
But our teenage dream to start a business as brothers dates back a decade at least. We, Lukas and Jonathan Nixdorff, share our love for hip-hop and music since forever. But thing's had to grow slowly. Fast forward, we moved to Berlin more or less about the same time and became co-founding members Nachtasyl Kollektiv. As a collective we reclaimed abandoned basements and yards all around the city hosting unforgettable raves between 2013 and 2017. At the same time, we organized another legal party series at Mensch Meier. At Am Boden we welcomed acts such as Mama Snake, Catnapp, Viktor, Tereza and many more. At this point we had both started to work in the music industry. Lukas as Manager International Licensing & Marketing at BMG Rights Management and me, Jonathan, as editor (and a bit later as editor-in-chief) at German hip-hop magazine splash! Mag. In order not to be bored of our daytime jobs we started side hustle.: As we were in love with the music, which would later become known as cloud rap, we founded PVDERZVXXER PO$$E, printing our own merch and endorsing artists such as Crack Ignaz and LGoony. Simultaneously, hip-hop producer Bluestaeb and I met at the casino on Potsdamer Platz (real talk!) and decided to try out a management relationship. Shortly after S. Fidelity joined the roster of artists and friends, and Lukas and me realized the time to finally join forces had come. Kommerz started out as Nachtasyl Kommerz, thought as the commercial branch of our non-profit illegal rave collective. In 2017 things got real, when we decided to drop out of our 9-to-5's. To narrow things down we called it Kommerz (and only Kommerz). Besides our management and consulting work Kommerz also became the mothership to our two labels Kommerz Records (our boutique record label) and Hosted by_ (our little hub for lofi aesthetics).
CONTACT HOSTEDBY(AT)KOMMERZ(DOT)FYI FOR EVERYTHING LOFI RELATED
FOR ANYTHING ELSE PLEASE BEEP US VIA HOLLA(AT)KOMMERZ(DOT)FYI