Michael Reinboth is a Munich-based DJ, music journalist and label founder who in the early 1980s co-founded the influential Elaste fanzine, connecting deeply with Germany' s punk and new-wave subculture, and later established the pioneering electronic label Compost Records. Thomas Elsner is a Munich-based art director, designer, photographer, and independent publisher who co-founded the influential New-Wave and punk magazine Elaste, helping to shape the visual and cultural aesthetic of Germany' s early subcultural scene. Ian Moorse (born 1959 in Munich) is a multifaceted actor, musician, and editor who, through his involvement in the fanzine Elaste and the underground cassette scene, forged a strong connection to Munich' s early punk and new-wave subculture. Christopher Roth was born in Munich, Germany. He lives and works in Berlin. His practice may be best understood as a kind of proactive intellectual scholarship that combines the factual and fictitious, with both analytic and poetic qualities. Roth' s work seeks to understand how information, words, pictures and ideas are received, travel and are mediated at a constantly accelerating pace. Since the 1990s, Roth has focused on the " emptiness" of single images and certain generic imagery that surround us.