Jon Berry (DE)

Jon Berry is one of the central figures at Kompakt, the celebrated Cologne outfit. Although originally from Canada, his roots in electronic music are tied to New York, which is where he made the transition from punk rocker to raver. Berry fell in with the Brooklyn scene that centred on labels like Lenny Dee's Industrial Strength, with whom he scored his first job in the industry. After some time spent time working in PR, he wound up at the Force Inc and Mille Plateaux stable, and through the latter met Kompakt's Wolfang Voigt. Fast-forward a few years and Berry made a move over to Cologne and was welcomed into the Kompakt family, a position he's now held for the last 11.5 years. He now resides in Berlin and also manages Kompakt co-owner and DJ/producer Michael Mayer.