| MFS | |
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| Founded | 1990 |
| Founder | Mark Reeder |
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| Country of origin |  Germany |
| Location | Berlin, Germany |
| Official website | MFS Official Facebook MFS Official Site |
MFS (Masterminded For Success) is an independent electronic dance music label from Berlin, Germany. Founded by Mark Reeder in 1990, it initially ran until 2008, when Reeder put the label on ice to concentrate on his own music production and remixer career. Reeder reactivated the label in 2018, specifically to release the album Fragment by Chinese band STOLEN.[1]
The label was originally founded by "Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin" the former GDR record company, which made it the very first independent dance music label of East Germany, until the DSB closed down in 1993. After which, Mark Reeder and his partner Torsten Jurk took MFS and carried on as a fully independent label, to launch the careers and release music by some of electronic dance music's seminal artists.
MFS is considered to be one of, if not the first trance label, as it was to be the first to coin the term "trance music",[2] and today, is seen by few as a traditional underground label due to its commercial success. Its main focus from the beginning was trance music, but soon started to release a wide variety of different music within the electronic genres. MFS helped to start many now famous artists at the early stages of their careers such as, Paul van Dyk, Harald Blüchel (Cosmic Baby), Johnny Klimek, Ellen Allien, Dr. Motte, Mijk van Dijk, Humate (Gerret Frerichs, Oliver Huntemann), as well as many others.[3]
- ^ Electronic Sound Magazine Issue 47 (https://electronicsound.co.uk/) p.4
- ^ "Mark Reeder Interview". skileta. 2007-02-17. Archived from the original on 2007-03-16. Retrieved 2009-03-18.
- ^ Reeder hat den technoiden Klang Berlins geformt zitty.de 20 September 2018