Maximilan Lenz, aka Westbam, is a German DJ who has become a key figure in the
techno music scene in his homeland. He learned to play the guitar, drums and
synthesiser as a young man and for a while performed punk rock as Frank Xerox.
He had stints with Andreas Bleckmann in Anormal Null and Kriegsschauplatz, which
broke up in the early 1980s. As a DJ, he garnered attention at Berlin's Love
Parade rave parties and set up a rave called Mayday. After releasing several
tracks including 'The Roof Is On Fire/And Party', which went to number nine on
Billboard's Dance Club Songs Chart in...