MFS

MFS (Masterminded For Success) is an independent electronic dance music label from Berlin, Germany. Founded by Mark Reeder in 1990, it initially ran until 2008, when Reeder put the label on ice to concentrate on his own music production and remixer career. Reeder reactivated the label in 2018, specifically to release the album Fragment by Chinese band STOLEN.
The label was originally founded by "Deutsche Schallplatten Berlin" the former GDR record company, which made it the very first independent dance music label of East Germany, until the DSB closed down in 1993. After which, Mark Reeder and his partner Torsten Jurk took MFS and carried on as a fully independent label, to launch the careers and release music by some of electronic dance music's seminal artists.
MFS is considered to be one of, if not the first trance label, as it was to be the first to coin the term "trance music", and today, is seen by few as a traditional underground label due to its commercial success. Its main focus from the beginning was trance music, but soon started to release a wide variety of different music within the electronic genres.
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== Links To Peel ==
Always on the lookout for new music from Germany, Peel played MFS releases regularly over the decade from 1992, including early records from the likes of Paul Van Dyk, Cosmic Baby, Ellen Allien, and Corvin Dalek. In the new century, singles and albums from the Berlin-based operation appeared in monthly Peel's Record Box picks for the BBC website, where MFS was selected as a Peel Label Of The Month.
The DJ was also acquainted with Mark Reeder, the Manchester-born long-time Berlin resident who ran MFS. Reeder had earlier been a member of Frantic Elevators, as well as Factory Records representative in the divided former German capital, and was played by Peel as a member of Die Unbekannten in 1982 and 1983. On 10 October 1992, Peel interviewed Reeder in a special live show from Berlin, broadcast as part of a BBC Radio campaign on work opportunities in Europe.
thumb|right|300px|Peel in Berlin with MFS head Mark Reeder, from 1.37
The pair appeared together again in the 1996 TV documentary Travels With My Camera: Autobahn Blues, with Reeder taking Peel to a flea-market and then Potsdamer Platz in the heart of reunified German capital, before going for a beer and walking together by the former Checkpoint Charlie and remnants of the Berlin Wall.
After Peel's death in 2004, Reeder was among those who posted tributes on the BBC website, emphasizing the DJ’s role in promoting anti-establishment music behind the old Iron Curtain:
“Not many people in the UK are aware just how immensely important John was to the Eastern Europeans, and his contribution to the fall of communism too. It seems incredible, but it is the truth. I firmly believe that he was one of the subliminal driving forces that eventually toppled the communist regimes of Eastern Europe. [ … ] Through music, I had made many politically "dissident" friends in the east of Europe (East Berlin, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Poland) and they were all really driven by the music John played. All were hardcore fans, and each religiously listened to his BFBS & BBC (World Service) radio programmes - even though it was forbidden, recording his shows onto cassette to be clandestinely distributed to their friends.”
== Sessions ==
*Corvin Dalek (1 session, 2002, recorded at the MFS Studio in Berlin)
== Festive Fifty ==
*No known entries
== Plays ==
(Plays by Peel of single-artist releases on MFS. Please add more information if known.)
;1992
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*16 February 1992: Neutron 9000: Which Way Are You Going? (12" - Back With A Vengeance ) MFS
*02 May 1992: Futurhythm: Transmanic (12 Inch – Sonic Mind Explosion) MFS
*09 May 1992: Futurhythm: 'Transmanic' (12 inch - Sonic Mind Explosion) (MFS) 
*30 May 1992: Voov: It's Anything You Want It To Be, And It's A Gas (Strobe Light) (12" - It's Anything You Want It To Be, And It's A Gas) MFS
*06 June 1992: Voov: 'It's Anything You Want It To Be, And It's A Gas (Strobe Light) (EP-It's Anything You want It To Be And It's A Gas)' (MFS)
*12 June 1992: Voov: 'Smoke Machine' (12" EP 'It's Anything You Want It To be And It's A Gas') MFS
*26 June 1992: Neutron 9000: Tranceplant (12") MFS
*28 June 1992 (BFBS): Cosmic Baby: Cosmikk Trigger I (12" - Transcendental Overdrive) MFS
*04 July 1992: Voov: Strobe Light (12" - It's Anything You Want It To Be, And It's A Gas) MFS
*10 October 1992: Cosmic Baby: Oh Supergirl (12" - 23) MFS (Live show from Berlin, part of a BBC Radio campaign on work opportunities in Europe. Also broadcast on Radio 4U Berlin. Includes interview with Mark Reeder an ex-pat living in Berlin - who created the MFS label)
*10 October 1992: Volumina: Alright (12") MFS
*16 October 1992: Cosmic Baby: Oh Supergirl (12" - 23) MFS
*24 October 1992: Volumina: Alright (12") MFS
*[[06 November 1992]: Microglobe: Beat Tuition (12" - High On Hope (The Summer Remixes) MFS
*07 November 1992: Visions Of Shiva: Perfect Day (12") MFS
*08 November 1992 (BFBS): Microglobe: Beat Tuition (EP - High On Hope: The Summer Remixes) MFS
*13 November 1992: Volumina: Alright (12") MFS
*15 November 1992 (BFBS): Volumina: Alright (12") MFS
*05 December 1992: Nights of Pan: Far Beyond Space And Time (LP - Into The Great White Light) MFS
*20 December 1992 (BFBS): Cosmic Baby: Eurovoodoo (CD - Stellar Supreme) MFS
;1993
*23 January 1993: Nights Of Pan: Far Beyond Space And Time (12"-Into The Great White Light)' (MFS)
*05 February 1993: Loopzone: Home is Where the Hartcore Is (12") MFS
*06 February 1993: Loopzone: Guilty Of Seduction (12"-Home Is Where The Hartcore Is)' (MFS
*19 February 1993: Loopzone: Home is Where the Hartcore Is (12") MFS
*20 February 1993: God's Brain: Virtual Love (12") MFS
*21 February 1993 (BFBS): Loopzone: Home Is Where The Hartcore Is (12") MFS
*21 February 1993 (BFBS): Loopzone: Guilty By Seduction (12") MFS
*26 February 1993: Boom Operators: The Block ' (12") MFS
*27 February 1993: Boom Operators: Metamorphia (The LSA Flatline Mix) (EP LSA) MFS
*08 March 1993 (Ö3): God's Brain: Virtual Love (CDS)' (MFS)
*14 March 1993 (BFBS): Boom Operators: The Block (12" - LSA) MFS
*18 March 1993 (BBC World Service): Boom Operators: The Block (12" - LSA) MFS
*26 March 1993: Boom Operators: The Block (on MFS Records of Berlin)
*06 April 1993 (John Peel Is Jakki Brambles): Boom Operators: The Block (single) MFS
*03 September 1993: Loopzone: Highway 2000 (12"-404) MFS)
*03 September 1993 (BFBS): Loopzone: unknown () MFS
;1994
*20 May 1994: Microglobe: Environ-Mentality [Act 1] (12 inch - Think & Dance EP Vol.1 )’ MFS
*11 June 1994 (BFBS): Microglobe: Environ-Mentality (Act 1) (12" - Think & Dance E.P. - Vol. 1) MFS
*08 July 1994: Cal-Q-Lator: ‘Dr Bradford (12 inch )’ MFS
*23 July 1994 (BFBS): Cal-Q-Lator: Dr Bradford (12") MFS
*11 November 1994: Voov: Angels Lust Expansion (12 inch – Grau 1 )’ MFS
*19 November 1994 (BFBS): Voov: Angels Lust Expansion (12"-Brau 1)' (MFS)
*25 November 1994: Mystic Force: Clearlight (12" - Psychic Harmony) MFS
*02 December 1994: Effective Force: My Time Is Yours [The End Amen] (12 inch - My Time Is Yours ) MFS
*03 December 1994 (BFBS): Mystic Force: Clearlight (12" - Psychic Harmony) MFS
;1995
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*29 September 1995: Jay Ray: Shearwater (12 inch-Activated)' (MFS)
*29 September 1995: Ellen Allien: Coloured Strobes (EP-Yellow Sky Vol. ii) (MFS)
*06 October 1995: Mijk Van Dijk Presents Microglobe: The Gap [DJ Hell Remix] (12 inch - More Afreuroparemixes Vol. 2 - Another View) MFS
*13 October 1995: Mijk Van Dijk Presents Microglobe: Change Within (3 Phase Remix) (12" - The Afreuroparemixes Vol. 2) MFS MFS
*28 October 1995 (BFBS): Cal-Q-Lator: 30/60/90 Degrees (12"-Wash Malfunction)' (MFS)
*28 October 1995 (BFBS): Mijk Van Dijk presents Microglobe: 'Home (Positive Thinking Remix) (CD-Afreuroparemixes And More - A Different View)' (MFS)
;1996
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*February 1996 (BBC World Service): Voov: Voovland (shared 12" with Commander Krilly - På Svenska / Voovland) MFS
*20 April 1996: Jay Ray: Nádraží () MFS
*23 April 1996 (Radio Mafia): Jay Ray: Nadrazi (10", MFS
*27 April 1996 (BFBS): Jay Ray: unknown (MFS)
*07 July 1996: Paul Van Dyk: Seven Ways (album - Seven Ways) MFS
*13 July 1996 (BFBS): Paul Van Dyk: 'Seven Ways (2xLP-Seven Ways)' (MFS)
*15 September 1996: Paul Van Dyk: ‘I Like It (2xLP - Seven Ways )’ MFS
*29 September 1996: Paul Van Dyk: Heaven (album - Seven Ways) MFS
*October 1996 (FSK): Ten Forward: Patterns Of Force (12") MFS
*06 October 1996 (BBC World Service): Paul Van Dyk: Seven Ways (LP – Seven Ways) MFS
*10 October 1996 (BFBS): Paul Van Dyk: Heaven (2xLP-Seven Ways)' (MFS)
*03 November 1996: Ten Forward: Patterns Of Force (12 inch )’ MFS 
*16 November 1996: Jay Ray: Thrill Of The Chase (CD – November)’ MFS
*07 December 1996: Jay Ray: Mk II (LP - November) MFS
;1997
*25 March 1997: Paul Van Dyk: Forbidden Fruit [Fruit Of Love Mix] (12 inch)’ MFS
;2000
*27 June 2000: Berlin Mitte Boys: Berlin Mitte Boy (12") MFS
*03 October 2000: Tarantella: Substance (MFS Flesh)
*11 October 2000: Cybersecrecy: Turn Off The Light (12" - You're Right / Turn Off The Light) MFS
*12 October 2000: Cybersecrecy: You're Right (12 inch) MFS
*28 November 2000: Kama Arts: Kick It (12") MFS
*13 December 2000: Cybersecrecy: You're Right (12”) MFS
*20 December 2000: Kama Arts: Kick It (12 inch – Donnervogel) MFS
;2001
*16 August 2001: Electromajk: Orgazmiczech (Hands-On Mix) (12") MFS
*28 August 2001: Electromajk: Orgazmiczech (12) MFS
*21 August 2001: Circuit Boy: The Door (Planet Tweak Mix) (12") MFS
*21 August 2001: Chab: Tunnelling (12") MFS
*22 August 2001: Cybersecrecy: The Colours Of Progressive (12") MFS
*30 August 2001: Kama Arts: So Nah! (12") MFS
*06 September 2001: Electromajk: Orgazmiczech (12") MFS
*27 September 2001 (Radio Eins): Chab: Tunnelling (12") MFS
*10 October 2001: Chab: Tunneling (12") MFS
*16 October 2001: Cybersecrecy: Colours Of Progressive (12" single) MFS
*26 December 2001: Kama Arts: 'Plattenbau (12 inch)' (MFS)
;2002
*05 March 2002: Black Emanuelle: Madonna (12") Flesh / MFS
*06 March 2002: Eiven Major: From Dusk Till Dawn (12" single) MFS
*25 June 2002: Flatner & Ingram Project: Crystal (12") MFS
*July 2002 (FSK): Flatner & Ingram Project: Crystal (12") MFS
*10 July 2002: Flatner and Ingram Project: Crystal (12") MFS
*11 July 2002 (Radio Mafia): Flatner & Ingram Project: 'Crystal (12")' (MFS)
*24 July 2002: Lunic: Bang on Target (12") MFS
*25 July 2002 (Radio Mafia): Flatner & Ingram Project: 'Crystal (12")' (MFS)
;Other
*Peel Out In The States (Program 06): Boom Operators Featuring The Boom & Voov: The Block (12" - LSA) MFS
== Compilations ==
(Plays by Peel of multi-artist releases on MFS, including split singles and mixes)
	
	
(v/a 12" - Malaria! – Delirium: Remixed, Remade, Remodelled) MFS
*08 August 1993 (BFBS): 3 Phase: Prophet (Will Keine Propheten Falschen Brauchen)
*14 August 1993: 3 Phase: Prophet (Will Keine Propheten Falschen Brauchen)
*21 August 1993 (BFBS): 3 Phase: Prophet (Will Keine Propheten Falschen Brauchen)
(split 10" - Club European Vol. 6) MFS
*10 February 1996: Voov: Voovland
(10" split single - Club European Vol. 4) MFS
*29 April 1996 (BBC World Service): Jay Ray: Nadrazi
(split 12" - Club European Vol. 1) MFS
*12 May 1996: Positive Thinking: Grecian 2000
*18 May 1996 (BFBS): Positive Thinking: Grecian 2000
(split 10" single - Club European Vol. 5) MFS
*02 June 1996: Ellen Allien: Atomique
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(Corvin Dalek mix CD - Assorted Stadtansichten - A Journey Through Berlin) MFS
*16 November 1999: Denki Groove: Niji (Takkyu's "Wire" Loop)
*16 November 1999: Cal-Q-Lator: Can We Go Now? (Original Mondosmix)
*16 November 1999: TR727 vs Abyss: Kick Down
*16 November 1999: Namito: Deerooz (Part 1)
*17 November 1999: Chris Zippel: 'Eternum (Organic Version)
*17 November 1999: Namito: Deerooz (Part 1)
*17 November 1999: Cosmonaut: Parovoz
*18 November 1999: Krilly & Zetti: 'Süßwaren (Bambini Mix)
*18 November 1999: Liquid Crystal: 'Looking For Love (Reconstruction Mix)
*18 November 1999: JFK(3): Falling Love
== Peel's Record Box ==
*October 2000 (Peel's Record Box): Alex Flatner - Wet And Hard' (MFS/Flesh) (album)
*December 2000 (Peel's Record Box): Cybersecrecy - You're Right' (MFS) (single)
*March 2001 (Peel's Record Box): Corvin Dalek - The Atheist' (MFS/Flesh) (single)
*June 2002 (Peel's Record Box): Loknar & Polansky - Dark Mirror (12")' (Flesh/MFS)
== Links ==
*Wikipedia
*Discogs
*Official site 
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