Moguai

Not to be confused with the Scottish post-rock band Mogwai.

Moguai
Moguai and Birte Glang (Life Ball 2013)
Background information
Birth name	André Tegeler
Born	9 August
Origin	Recklinghausen, Germany
Genres	Electronica Neo-trance Progressive house Electro house Deep House
Occupation(s)	DJ, producer
Years active	1994–present
Labels	mau5trap, Punx Records, Size Records, Spinnin' Records
Associated acts	Deadmau5, Girls Aloud, Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike, Moby, Fatboy Slim, Tommy Trash, Afrojack, AN21, Max Vangeli
Website	moguai.com

Moguai (born André Tegeler, 9 August, Recklinghausen, Germany), is a German music producer and DJ from Marl. In the early 1990s, Tegeler took the alias Moguai and began organising his own club nights and parties in Ruhrgebeit and Münsterland. He became one of the very first techno DJs in Germany, sharing a platform with the likes of Paul van Dyk, Westbam and Sven Väth. In more recent years, however, Moguai’s sound has developed to include a combination of tech-house, progressive house, big beat and electro house. He has also worked in more mainstream areas of the music industry, producing for the likes of the Sugababes, Girls Aloud and 2Raumwohnung, which earned him double platinum and gold disc awards.

Moguai is one of the most successful German DJs on the international stage, playing in clubs such as Womb (Tokyo), Razzmatazz (Barcelona), Monday Social (L.A.) NRG (Amsterdam), Bed Bangkok (Thailand), Mansion (Miami), Supermarket (Zurich), Club Volume (Seol) and Zouk (Singapore). He also has a huge festival presence, having played at the likes of Sunburn (Goa), EDC (Las Vegas), Summer Days Festival Tour (Australia), Kaballah (São Paulo), Nature One (Kastellaun) and Tomorrowland (Belgium).

Life and career

Tegeler studied for his high-school diploma at the Freiherr-von-Stein-Gymnasium in Recklinghausen, after which he completed a two-year apprenticeship in the family butcher business, making him the youngest journeyman butcher in North Rhine-Westphalia. He then went on to study Law at the Ruhr University in Bochum, which is where he also embarked upon his career as a DJ and music producer.

In 1994, Tegeler, now trading under the name Moguai, teamed up with German producer Jürgen Driessen to release his debut EP, entitled Best Before End, with Important Records. The following year, Moguai set up his own studio with Phil Fuldner, called PUNX Studios. Arguably the studio’s greatest successes were Fuldner’s The Final (1988), which became the theme tune for the cult manga series Captain Future, and Moguai’s Beatbox, which was the first electronic instrumental track to hold 10 weeks in the German top 40.

At the same time, Moguai was making a name for himself as a remixer, collaborating with artists such as Giogio Moroder, Yves Deruyter, Timo Maas, Planet Funk, Talla 2XLC, Cosmic Baby, BBE, Fischerspooner and 2raumwohung. Between 2002-3 he worked with British girl bands Sugababes and Girls Aloud on In the Middle (Sugababes) and Something Kinda Ooh (Girls Aloud), both of which were reworks of two of Moguai’s previous singles U Know Y and Get On. He was awarded double platinum records for both of these projects. Similarly, in 2005, he teamed up with German electro-pop duo 2raumwohnung to create the single Sasha (Sex Secret) on the album Es Wird Morgen, which went Gold.

Since 2009, Moguai has released his music with Mau5trap, run by Canadian superstar DJ Deadmau5. His first EP release with this label was We Are Lyve (2010), which featured the singles Impereal, Nyce and Blau. Currently, the label represents the likes of Foreign Beggars, DJ Aero, and Proxy, but one of its first artists, Skrillex, won three Grammys in 2012, helping secure the great reputation the label enjoys today.

In March 2011, he joined forces with Mau5trap and Beatport to produce an hour-long progressive house mix, Lyve from Beta, recorded at the Beta Club in Denver, Colorado, and edited using Ableton Live software. The set is made up entirely of his own tracks, making it one of the few albums that combines both live and pre-recorded DJing by the same aritst. The success of this album earned him a great deal more international acclaim, with artists such as Britney Spears, Beyoncé, Fatboy Slim, Underworld, Afrojack and Felix da Housecat approaching him for collaborations and remixes. In January 2012 he released Mpire, again on Mau5trap, collaborating with Kosheen, Fiona Cutler, Polina and Tommy Trash.

Radio

Since 2000, Moguai has been a radio DJ and presenter at Radio 1Live (West German Broadcasting) on the 1Live DJ segment, which runs every Sunday from 00:00 to 03:00.The show also features guest DJs, and in the past has included the likes of Avicii, Tiesto, Paul van Dyk, Steve Aoki, Dmitri Vegas & Like Mike, and Turntablerocker. The final hour of the show belongs to the 1Live residents, which include Andhim, AKA AKA, Claptone and Wanklemut.

In 2007, Moguai was made a resident DJ at German radio station MDR Sputnik, where he plays every third Saturday of the month. In 2008, he launched his own monthly radio podcast on Digitally Imported Radio called Punx Up the Volume, which has over 15,000 subscribers worldwide. It can also be heard on the radio in the UK, the USA, Australia, Russia and Brazil. In 2009, he launched an eponymous two-hour radio show every fourth Thursday with German radio station Sunshine Live.

TV

Moderator of...

MTV:

• Chillout Zone
• Party Zone
• Select
• In touch

VIVA:

• 5 hour live moderation of Nature One 2001
• Guest moderator of Mayday 2001
• Clubrotation
• Berlin House

Discography

Singles

Sources:

Release	Title	Artist	Label
1994	Best Before End EP	MOGUAI	Important Records
1995	Torque Flight	MOGUAI	Important Records
1997	Suicide Commando	Echopark	Fuel/Eastwest
1998	Beatbox/Higher	Dial M for MOGUAI	Superfly/Kosmo
1998	Bang the Drum	Dial M for MOGUAI	Superfly/Kosmo
1998	The Final	Phil Fuldner	Superfly/Kosmo
1999	Go high/Are you different	Dial M for MOGUAI	Punx/Kosmo
1999	King of Rock	Dial M for MOGUAI	Kosmo
1999	S Express	Phil Fuldner	Punx/Kosmo
2000	Into Another	Talla 2XLC calls MOGUAI	Tetsuo
2000	Miami Pop	Phil Fuldner	Kosmo
2001	Supernatural	Nature One Inc.	Fuel/Eastwest
2001	The Rock	MOGUAI pres. Punx	PUNX/Eastwest
2001	U Know Y	MOGUAI	PUNX/BMG/ Ministry of Sound Australia
2002	Get:On	MOGUAI	PUNX/Superstar/ Ministry of Sound Australia
2003	Gipsy	Gipsy	Polo/Silly Spider
2003	Freaks	MOGUAI	PUNX/Superstar/ Ministry of Sound Australia
2004	In the Middle	Sugababes	Universal/World
2004	Old N New/ Go ahead	MOGUAI	PUNX/Superstar
2005	Y.E.A.H.	PUNX	PUNX
2005	Live at the Kink Australia	Romeo Engine	PUNX
2005	Sasha (Sex Secret)	MOGUAI & 2Raumwohnung	Punx/It Sounds/Sony BMG
2006	I want, I need, I love	MOGUAI for Sensation White	PUNX/ID & T/ Kontor
2006	Tonight	MOGUAI	PUNX
2006	Ataque	MOGUAI	PUNX
2007	Freaks 2007	MOGUAI & Tocadisco	Superstar
2007	Robot Soul	MOGUAI	Superstar
2007	Something Kinda ooh	Girls Aloud	Universal
2007	Fling	Girls Aloud	Universal
2007	The Beat Goes On	Guiamo	Hope
2008	Diamond Back/Ray	MOGUAI & Zenker	BluFin
2008	Kick Out The Jam	MOGUAI	PUNX/IO Music
2008	Sittin On Chrome	MOGUAI	Kontor
2008	Still Sittin On Chrome	MOGUAI vs. Sebastian Ingrosso	Refune
2008	Wild Thing	MOGUAI vs. Tone Loc	Delicious Vinyl
2008	Beat Box	Dial M for MOGUAI	PUNX
2009	The Trip	MOGUAI	Toca 45
2009	ZYVOX	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2009	Lyve/Impereal	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2009	I.D.Y. (I Dance You)	MOGUAI	PUNX
2009	Oyster	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2010	Nyce/Blau	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2010	8001/Stay Planetary EP	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2010	Get Fresh	MOGUAI	Skint Records
2010	We Want Your Soul	MOGUAI	Size Records
2011	Original Hardcore	MOGUAI & WestBam	Skint Records
2011	Optinuum	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2011	Beat Of The Drum feat. SOFI	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2011	Ya Mama (Push The Tempo)	Fatboy Slim vs. MOGUAI	Skint Records
2011	Oxygen feat. Fiora	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2012	Mpire	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2012	Lyme (MOGUAI's Crushed Lyme Mix)	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2012	In n'Out (Tommy Trash Club Mix)	MOGUAI & Tommy Trash	Mau5trap
2012	Brunette	AN21 & Max Vangeli and MOGUAI	SIZE Records
2013	Mammoth	Dimitri Vegas & Like Mike and MOGUAI	Spinnin Records
2013	Champs	MOGUAI	SIZE Records
2013	PunkOmat	MOGUAI	Punx Records
2013	When I Rock	MOGUAI	Punx Records
2013	Can't Stop feat. Niles Mason	MOGUAI	Spinnin Records
2014	ACIIID	MOGUAI	Spinnin Records
2014	The Future	MOGUAI	Punx Records
2014	Real Life	TsT & MOGUAI feat. Amba Shepherd	Musical Freedom
2014	K I X S	MOGUAI	Spinnin Records
2015	The Zound (Energy Flash)	MOGUAI & Joey Beltram vs. Cobra Effect	Fly Eye Records
2015	Portland	Watermat & MOGUAI	Spinnin Records
2015	Hold On	MOGUAI feat. Cheat Codes	Spinnin' Deep

Albums

Release	Titel	Artist	Label
2010	We Ar Lyve	MOGUAI	Mau5trap
2012	Mpire	MOGUAI	Mau5trap

Remixes

Sources:

Release	Titel	Artist	Label
1999	Sketches in the Spring	Cosmic Baby	Intercord
1999	To the Rhythm	Yves Deruyter	Bonzai Records
1999	Too Much Rain	United DJs for Central America	CDL
1999	Overdrive	DJ Sandy vs. Housetrap	Kosmo
2000	Feel it	Inaya Day	Positiva UK
2000	The Baguio Track	Luzon	Yoshitoshi Records
2000	Light Speed	Oliver Lieb	DATA
2001	7Colours	Lost Witness	EMI
2001	Island	Orinoko	Dance Division
2001	I`m Not Homesick	Santos	ZYX Music
2002	Emerge	Fischerspooner	Ministry Of Sound USA
2002	Ich Und Elaine	2Raumwohnung	It Sounds/Sony BMG
2002	Xpress 2 vs. David Byrn	Lazy	Skint Records
2003	Who Said (Stuck In The UK)	Planet Funk	Illustrious/Sony UK
2005	Die Nacht	Schiller & Thomas D	Universal Music
2005	Geht`s Noch	Roman Flügel	Cocoon Recordings
2006	Casino	NU NRG	Vandit Records
2006	Nichts Von Alledem (Tut Mir Leid)	Rosenstolz	Universal Music
2006	Sweet Child Of Mine	Flat Pack	We Play
2007	Freak in the Morning	Tocadisco
2008	1, 2, 3...	Alexander Marcus	Kontor
2008	Cracks	Meat Katie	Lot49
2008	Tabasco	Kohlbecker & Eilmes	We Play
2009	This Must Be It	Röyksopp	Wall of sound
2009	Hell Yeah	UAF Anthem	Sony Music AU
2009	Release Me	Agnes	Warner Music
2009	Leave Me Amor	Ryskee	We Play
2009	Float My Boat	Lazy Jay	Big&Dirty/We Play/News
2009	Supply And Demand	Fischerspooner	DIM MAK USA
2009	Slide	Funkerman	Flamingo Records
2009	Quadrillion	Big World feat. Markus Binapfl	PUNX
2009	Let`s Get Bleeped Tonight	Dada Life	Big & Dirty
2009	One Time We Lived	Moby	Little Idiot
2010	Dynamik	Michael Woods	Mau5trap
2010	Song For A Girl	Moonbeam	Blackhole Recordings
2010	Black Magic	The Green Children	Knightingale
2011	Get On You	Xpress 2	Skint Records
2011	Zaman	Felix Da Housecat	Doorn Records
2011	Bangduck	Afrojack	Wall Recordings
2011	Diamond Jigsaw	Underworld	OM Recordings
2011	I Wanna Go	Britney Spears	JIVE
2011	Never Will Be Mine	Rye Rye & Robyn	Interscope USA
2011	Best Thing I`ve Never Had	Beyoncé	JIVE
2012	I'm not leaving feat. Martha Reeves and the Funk Bros.	The Crystal Method	Tiny E Music
2012	Keep running the melody feat. Kreesha Turner	Wally Lopez	EMI Spain
2012	Dark Side	Kelly Clarkson	RCA Records
2012	Steve Jobs feat. Angger Dimas	Steve Aoki	Ultra Records
2012	Extreme ways (Bourne's Legacy)	Moby	Little Idiot
2013	You Need the Drugs	WestBam	Vertigo Records
2015	White Clouds	DVBBS	Spinnin' Records

Compilations

Release	Titel	Artist	Label
1996	The Club Tribune	MOGUAI	SPV
1999	Cosmonauts by MOGUAI	MOGUAI	BMG
1999	Dorian Grey Techno Club	MOGUAI	Sony Music
2002	Headliners	MOGUAI	Ministry Of Sound
2002	Live at the K	Ministry Of Sound Australia
2005	Worldleague Vol. I	MOGUAI	Silly spider
2007	Sea of Love Vol. I	MOGUAI	Big City Beats
2008	I Am X	MOGUAI	PUNX/Kontor
2009	Punx Up The Volume	MOGUAI	Ministry Of Sound
2011	Lyve From Beta Denver	MOGUAI	Mau5trap

Sample Packs

Release	Titel	Artist	Label
2009	The Sample Boutique	MOGUAI pres. Loopmasters	Loopmasters
2011	Lyve Elements	MOGUAI	Mau5trap/Sample to Sample