n 1992 - whilst studying human medicine - fascinated by the early Techno and House records on R&S, Plus 8 and Underground Resistance, Romboy decided to begin producing himself. Along with his friend Klaus Derichs, he bought the legendary Akai sampler S1000, the Roland TB 303 bass line machine and a mixing desk: “We spent our very last money and produced some freaky underground records for labels like See Saw, Adam & Eve and Rising High. When the musical success began I stopped studying.”
In 1994, Romboy and Derichs founded their own label ‘Le Petit Prince’. The label quickly became one of Germany’s most popular underground outputs, with Groove magazine charting it as the second most popular label in 1995. It went on to release tracks from Microwave Prince, Emmanuel Top, Thomas P. Heckmann and Phuture until its demise in 2000.
Around the same time as he formed Le Petit Prince, Romboy also began djing, frequently playing at the Techno parties in around Düsseldorf and making his festival debut at the Tribal Gathering in Munich in 1994 (“One of the first great parties I played”). Now, Romboy regularly travels around the globe at clubs including The Rex in Paris, Fabric in London, Berghain in Berlin, F.U.S.E. in Brussels and Sullivan Room In New York to mention a few. “Basically I love to dj all over the globe because I like the way that everybody understands and lives the same language, the universal language of techno or house music.”
Romboy began his second label Systematic in 2004, with the first release ‘Every Day In My Life’ produced by Romboy and Booka Shade. Romboy then went on to collaborate with people like John Dahlbäck, Abysm and Detroit legend Blake Baxter for the label, whilst also releasing EPs from Robert Owens, Stephan Bodzin, Gui Boratto, Spirit Catcher and Dusty Kid. Romboy also released his debut artist album ‘Gemini’ on the label in 2006 to great critical acclaim.
Through both his solo releases and his collaborations, Romboy has also released on labels including Ovum, Simple, Brique Rouge, Tronic, 20:20 Vision and more. A regular collaboration is that with Romboy and Stephan Bodzin, the two have released records together on Systematic, 20:20 Vision and Bodzin’s own imprint Herzblut, with ‘Atlas’ and ‘Callisto’, being two of their biggest releases so far. “All my other collaborations have been done with singers as I love to include the soul caused by the voice in electronic music; it’s definately my style and passion, soulful techno and house.”
In June 2008 Romboy released his second artist album on Systematic called ‘Contrast’, produced in cooperation with his friends and studio mates 45 Rocks. The album brings forth vocal collaborations with artists including Chelonis R. Jones, again Blake Baxter and Mr. K-Alexi from Chicago. “I have chosen the name ‘Contrast’ because I read a scientific report where they said that human beings need contrasts to be happy, and now it’s a part of my life philosophy. Apart from this I really think that the tracks on the album are pretty different too. When you listen to ‘Sonora’ and afterwards to ‘Elif’ it is a high contrast. But I like it and I hate to repeat myself and that’s why I always have to produce new things and ideas so that it’s hard to put me in one category.”
After launching his weekly radio show "Systematic Sessions" in 2009 which is broadcasted by almost twenty different radio stations all over the world and a temporarely move to New York with his family, Marc and his mate Stephan Bodzin released their long awaited album "Luna" including all their songs and more than 20 remixes of the highly profiled artists like Moritz von Oswald, Robag Wruhme, Martin Buttrich, Roman Fluegel and many more. The release of the long player was accompanied by a two months lasting and unique live tour all over the globe...
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