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The story of Kitty-Yo began in Mitte in Germany after the wall came down and everything started to be the most changing, inspiring and flexible place on earth. At least for a while. Clubs and bars and venues popped out everywhere and culture and subculture were exploding in all kinds of directions. This spirit was driving Raik Hoelzel around.

In 1993, he was running a weekly radio show at "OFFENER KANAL" (kind of free frequency for everybody who wants to do radio) and was doing events and stuff for the new artist squad Tacheles and once he went out in the Eimer and somebody handed him a very small but very asthetical flyer. It announced a Surrogat show. When he went to the gig he found an explosive strong vibe based on minimal hardcore. The interesting structured aggression had him intrigued and so he went to the band after the concert and invited them to his radio show. That was when he met Patrick Wagner and they started to exchange ideas, and Patrick introduced Raik to other artists such as Wuhling and Kerosin.

Raik decided to produce a fanzine he called kitty-yo-k. Until then he had made his living in a second hand bookshop and when he left he took his shares and invested them in a production of 3 singles. He went into the studio to give Surrogat the possibilty to record their music. Ooops suddenly Kitty-yo was born !!!

The name is taken from the lyrics from the first 10" "90's vs 80's" track "Tail Light" from the american band "Girls Against Boys". Raik found the story of this track quite interesting. There was a party guy always running and the Kitty YO was rather acting in the background, rather thinking, rather considering and questioning things and it just seemed the perfect name for the label !!!

. Kitty-Yo philosophy: they host human beings aka artists. They want to release music, look for for creative people, try to find them and want to be found by them. They produce records and try to spread them around the world... records are about music and a lot of similiar important things. They consider ourselves as culture heads as we influence listeners. MUSIC is Zeitgeist. They try to catch it and document it on silver or vinyl.