Shantel & Amsterdam Klezmer Band

Though his earliest work borrowed from trip-hop and pop, over the years DJ/producer Shantel (aka Stefan Hantel) came into his own as he incorporated Eastern European elements into his music. Though Hantel was born in Frankfurt, Germany, his mother's parents were from the Romanian part of Bukovina and he discovered dance music while studying graphic design in Paris. Back in his hometown he opened the Lissania club, one of the few bastions of earthy grooves in a country obsessed with techno. A noted port-of-call for similar minds like Kruder & Dorfmeister and Howie B, the club's...