XPQ-21 are a German electronic body music band, led by Jeyênne. They are best known for their club hit "White And Alive", a hit on the Deutsche Alternative Charts in 2002,,"Rockin' Silver Knight" and "Dead Body", DAC hits in 2006. History XPQ-21 is first and foremost Jeyênne. Mastermind, producer and singer. Enfant terrible and Techno Raver of the first hour. Jeyênne started in the German dance music scene as a hiphop DJ in 1987, later moving to techno. He started recording under his own name in 1992. In the 90s as The Jeyênne, one of the greats in the rave and techno scene, with numerous vinyl and CD releases. Touring with Prodigy and Moby, DJing at festivals with greats like Carl Cox, Richie Hawtin, Ellen Allien... With appearances on MTV and VIVA TV, Mayday, Loveparade and much more. From the 2000s onwards, touring the USA and Europe and mutating into electro-industrial-dnb-cyberpunk-goth with XPQ-21. In 1995 he met former member Nicque and formed XPQ-21 as a duo. They released their first single A Gothic Novel in 1998 and their album Destroy To Create in 1999. Nicque left in 2003 and the band since then has been Jeyênne with backing members. Live members have included Annelie Bertilsson (Cat Rapes Dog, And One) who first replaced Nicque, Martin Hillebrand, Moritz Zielke and Alex Gsell. After a long break and several other projects by Jeyênne, XPQ-21 are back 2022 with the new single Machines (on their own label Monsters & Heroes). Machines builds the bridge between their past album ALIVE and XPQ-21 from here and now. A downtempo-industrial-cyber-goth track about a science fiction that is no longer a fiction. In April 2022 Machines climb the Deutsche Alternative Charts (DAC) (German Alternative Charts) to No. 2. On 27 January 2023 XPQ-21 release the next single Temptation after their long break. The single was already catapulted from 0 to 1 in the DAC charts in the second week of January. Jeyênne is currently working on the 5th XPQ-21 album to be released in summer of 2023. Instruments Jeyênne combines analogue synthesizers (Korg Monopoly, Roland 909, 808, 101, Roland TB 303) with digital gear and sequencing on Apple Macintosh, typically working in Logic Pro, now Ableton Live. He also works with software from native instruments, soundtoys, fabfilters, audiorealism, intelligent sounds and music, vital, u-he, valhalla and D16. Related activities Jeyênne has run the EMS - Electronic Music