Martin 101 is an avant-garde pop singer and artist. Born as Martin Wolfgang Herbert Meister in Vienna

Vienna

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, Austria, on May 24, 1971. With a distinctive look, attitude and charisma Martin Meister became a well sought-after character for the media, advertising and music circuit. Growing up in Vienna, he moved and lived in London between 1992–2002. Kate Moss

Kate Moss

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 discoverer Corinne Day

Corinne Day

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 pictured Martin.

Actor and model

Meister for Vogue

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Italia (2004). Celebrity photographer Rankin perpetuated Martin Meister in 2000 in his book 'Rankin Works'. This photo has been published since regularly all over the world in books and magazines including Creative Review, Stern Portfolio, Le Monde 2. In 1998 Martin Meister appeared as a cameo with Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg

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 in Madonna

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's 'Drowned World/Substitute for Love' (pop video directed by Walter Stern). Directors such as John Maybury

John Maybury

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 ('Love Is The Devil' with Daniel Craig

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) Jonas Akerlund

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 plus companies including Sony, MTV had Martin on feature. Other pop videos in appearance include Timo Maas

Timo Maas

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 “Shifter” (Warner Music 2002) or Martin’s own feature pop videos “Martin101 – Dangerous Cat” (2007), “Martin 101 – Follow Me“ (2010) and so on. In 2010 Martin Meister played a character in the Austrian TV series Tom Turbo

Tom Turbo

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Music career

Aside Martin Meister started his musical career as “Martin 101” http://www.martin101.com in 1996. The on Deep9 Records released electronic club track 'Shining' started his road trip beyond urban dance floors. Performing major venues and hype party spots across Europe such as the Ministry Of Sound

Ministry of Sound

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 (for Pushca 1997), The Garden Club Vienna (Kinky Disco 1998), The Eves Club (London 2001&2002), Freedom (London 2000), Battersea Power Station (1996), The Cross (London 2003), and forth on. 2003 got him a live radio broadcast on KroneHit from the world's biggest charity event 'The Life Ball

Life Ball

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', co-hosted by Sir Elton John

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. A star studded yearly fashion event at the historical and glamorous Rathaus, Vienna. His single Sweet Dreams made it onto the 'Top 100 Dance Charts' in 2009. In 2010 Martin 101 released his single Follow Me produced by Supermax

Supermax

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remixer and producer Thomas Ranosz, also known for his work with Depeche Mode

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's Christian Eigner

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Singles

• "I Own Me" (1999)
• "Shining" (2000)
• "Electrofunk / Tonight" (2001)
• "Dangerous Cat" (2005 & 2007)
• "Play My Drum" (2007)
• "Sweet Dreams / Addicted To Myself" (2009) iTunes
• "2nd Skin" (2009) iTunes
• "Follow Me" (2010) iTunes
• "Elektrofunk" (2010) iTunes
• "Play My Drum" (2010) iTunes
• "Dangerous Cat (Special Edition)" (2010) iTunes
• "Straight To You (Vintage Extended Version)" (2011) iTunes

Albums

• High Fidelity (2007) iTunes

Appears on compilations

• Winter Music Conference 2001
• Best of Electro Pop, Vol.01 (2009)
• Best of Electro Pop, Vol.02 (2009)
• Top 100 Dance Charts (2009)
• Electro House Tunes, Vol. 1 (2009)
• Electronic Sound Clubbing (2009)
• World's Largest Club Collection (2009)
• Miami Dubbing (2009)
• Electronic Featured (2009)
• Catwalk Tools: Germany's Next Electro Sound (2010),
• From Dance To Electro House: Vol 1 (2010)
• House & Vocal House Vol 9 (2010)
• Miami Clubbing 2010 (2010)
• Electro House Club Tunes, Vol.04 (2011)
• Best Of Electro House & Dance 75 Tracks (2011)