Marco Freivogel is a producer, composer, DJ, live performer and vintage synth collector. Marco's music has received widespread critical praise for its originality, depth and composition, which shows a versatility and openness to stretching the boundaries of both club and ambient music. Making electronic music since he was a teenager in live industrial goth bands, His adult music career was primarily under the alias’s Prequel Tapes and Exercise One; recording and releasing for labels including R’COUP’D (Ninja Tune), Cocoon, Kompakt (as SYCUM), Wagon Repair, Mannequin, Veyl, Crosstown Rebels, Fabric and Midnight Shift. He’s remixed for Shackleton, Fink, Yappa, Depayk & Padberg, Lee Burridge and Francois X among many others. An artist who loves to collaborate, he’s worked with dBridge, Jensen Intercepter, Jonas Karsten, Mathew Jonson, Elif Bicer, Mama, Tiefschwarz and Mare Nero, with a new classical composition project with flutist Adam Sinclaire due in 2024, and another with richie culver in the works.

Marco has a synth studio in berlin, where he works on composition for television and film, his own productions and collaborations, as well as engineering and mixing for other artists and their releases. About Prequel Tapes “Oscillating between utopian to claustrophobic, the evolving synth work, deep techno atmospheres and traces of clangorous energy of early European ambient and industrial tell a distinctly German take, forged between the forest and the autobahn.” - Mat Dryhurst.