Home of the DJ Duo NER & LU playing electronic, techno & deep house music at locations & Events in Berlin, Leipzig and Munich.
As well as the Record Label Nerlu Kollektiv producing, mastering, remixing and releasing music tracks from a variety of artists. NERLU Kollektiv - Label Founded 2021 to record, produce, remix, master and publish tracks of cover artists, Dj's, singers, accoustic guitarists and many more. NER
2013 First participated in a recording session and ever since then has been producing Jazz, Pop & Electronic
music in Leipzig, Germany.
2015 Working as a recording technician, recorded the symphony orchestra Bläserphilharmonie Schweinfurt. Furthermore he began collaborating with a Pop & Jazz Music producer from Leipzig. During their work he co-produced Pop music and co-directed the music videos for it.
2018 Began building a studio, gathering recording and music production equipment and produced his first song in a live session with Hans Knutsen. Ever since, he deep dove into music productionm exploring new possibilites in arranging a techno track. LU
Has been playing the drums since 2002.
2003 Began exploring the Accoustic Guitar and the Electric Guitar. The Morph Club was Lu’s first contact with Techno music and really began his passion for it. Since then he has been continuously working on his DJ skills and making techno sets and played live in clubs, raves, open airs, festivals and parties. Duo
Met 2001 Schönbach near Bamberg in Frankia / Bavaria. First played music together in 2003, when they jammed in the living room with NER playing Bass and LU playing the drums.
2005 took their understanding of sound to the next level when they bought a playstation and the first Guitar Hero, which showed them the endless possibilities of digital music production.
2007 Begin of digital music production, using Magix Music Maker, creating Hip Hop Music with producer Risky D.
2008 Began exploring the underground techno scene of Nürnberg (Rakete, Hirsch…), Bamberg (Morph, Live…), Würzburg (Airport...) & Schweinfurt (Stadt Bahnhof, Susi Wong…) diving deep into the night life of these cities. They were regularly switching between raves, open airs and home parties with live Dj’s. First began performing live music in Leipzip on the New Years Eve of 2016. Began practicing together at small raves and in 2020 got a slot at FUF Open Air Festival. Since that performance they continued playing at FUF as residence Dj’s and small venues (due to German Corona laws).
2020 NER & Lu go back to Schönbach and spend the summer playing music and practicing sound editing together. During this time they decided to start a musical duo. Electronic Music Genres they use in their music and their own tracks categorize in: Driven Techno, Melodic house, Progressiv techno, Deep house, Tech-house
Other genres that inspired their music: Hip Hop, Metal, Reggae, Pop, Rock, Everything 80‘s, Ska, Klassik, Punk, Skate Punk, Drum and Bass (DnB)
Artists that inspire them:
Casimir von Öttingen, Boris Brejcha, Mehr ist Mehr, Anfall & Zuckungen, Anthony Rother, CIOZ, Rodriguez Jr., Rey & Kjavik, Carbon, Nicolas Jaar, Oliver Koletzki, Polo & Pan, HOSH, Ante Perry, Dirty Doering, Super Flu, Disclosure, Kollektiv Turmstrasse, Tale Of Us, Peter Groskreutz, Format B, Elfenberg, Radiohead...
Software: Ableton Live, Native Instrument Traktor Pro 3, Pioneer Rekordbox (For Song analysis), Fab Filter total, Valhalla DSP, Synth Tone 2 Icarus
Electronics - Dave Smith mopho key Synthesizer, Ableton push 2 DAW Controller, Rode NT1 A Microphone, Akai lpd8 midi Controller, Novation lunchpad pro midi Controller, Nativ Instrument Traktor S3 (Dj Controller)
Soundsystem - Yamaha HS 8 Speaker System, Adam S7V Speaker System, Adam Sub 8 Subwoofer, Audio-Technica ATH-M50 X Headphones, Speaker Interface M-Audio Air 192/14, Scarlett 6i6 Interface
PC Hardware - Dell G15 5510 Notebook, HP Pavillion 15 Notebook, AMD Ryzen 5 5600G 6x 3.90GHz, Be quiet! Pure Rock Slim 2 Cooler, 500GB Samsung 970 Evo Plus M.2 2280 PCIe 3.0 x4, 700 Watt be quiet! Pure Power 11 CM Modular 80+ Gold, Be quiet! Pure Base 500, MSI MPG B550 Gaming Plus AMD B550, 16GB Kingston FURY Beast RGB DDR4-3200 DIMM CL16, 27" Samsung F27T350 / F27T352 Full HD LED Monitor, 27" HP M27fw Full HD Monitor