When the Love Family Park celebrates its 30th anniversary on July 25 and 26, the lineup features a name that doesn't exactly sound like a Berghain regular: Felix Lobrecht (37). The comedian and podcaster will be performing at the techno open-air festival in Frankfurt's Rebstockpark, joining scene heavyweights whom no one would have expected to see him alongside on a poster just two years ago.
Under his stage name Azzel 447, Lobrecht will play a so-called back to back, or B2B for short, with Swiss DJ Ueberrest in Frankfurt. The anniversary program is packed with prominent names: techno legends like Sven Väth and Ricardo Villalobos meet current top-tier acts like Charlotte de Witte, Solomun, and I Hate Models. The fact that a stand-up comedian completes the lineup is sure to generate buzz.
From Jokes to Beats
Gemischtes Hack and Lobrecht fans have followed the musical journey the comedian has been on for the past year. In 2025, Lobrecht also publicly announced through his own Instagram account that he would increasingly dedicate himself to making music and producing his own techno tracks in the future. Lobrecht owes his entry into the scene in no small part to a good friend: Max Kobosil. The producer, who like Lobrecht grew up in Berlin-Neukölln in 1991, is one of Germany's most influential techno DJs and founder of the R Label Group and the 44 Label Group.
There, Lobrecht also released his first track Quietsch under the name Azzel 447 in August 2025, followed by Komm together with rapper Juju 44. The latter has already accumulated over one million streams on Spotify.
Lobrecht himself has described how bumpy his first attempts at the decks were. At the afterparty of the 44 Label Festival in Junkyard Karlsruhe, he was allowed to play two of his own tracks on the main stage at the GOTEC club at the beginning of Ueberrest's set.
I was in a panic
On the podcast Gemischtes Hack, the 37-year-old recounted: I asked myself shortly before whether I should do it. On the other hand, I really wanted to know if it would work, and it was so much fun. He wasn't alone: I can't even operate all of this yet, he admitted.
The nervousness remained nonetheless. I was in a panic, Lobrecht said. He kept imagining pressing the wrong button and accidentally restarting the song. He explained everything to me, but at some point we agreed that he would do all the important things and I would just adjust the bass a bit.
Festival Season Launched as Techno DJ
By now, he sounds much more confident. In mid-June 2026, Lobrecht took the stage at the Hive Festival, once again side by side with Ueberrest, and this time had more to do than just adjust the bass. On Instagram, he thanked everyone afterwards effusively for the crazy good feedback and expressed his amazement: seeing thousands of people dancing in the heat to exclusively self-produced tracks was a surreal amazing feeling.
He also expressed gratitude for the warm reception in the scene and the opportunity the 44 Gang has given him. And festival season has only just begun for Lobrecht: at the end of July, Azzel 447 will perform at Open Beatz in Nuremberg, followed by an appearance at SonneMondSterne in August, Thuringia's largest electronic music festival. And then Frankfurt.
The fact that Lobrecht can currently put so much energy into music also has a practical reason: his podcast Gemischtes Hack is currently on summer break. The seven summer episodes that have been running since June 16 were pre-recorded by him and Tommi Schmitt at a finca in Italy.
The format, which the two have been releasing weekly since 2017, is a success story in itself. According to Spotify's historical all-time rankings, Gemischtes Hack is the second most-streamed podcast in the world - globally just behind the US show The Joe Rogan Experience. In German-speaking countries and Europe, the duo of comedian and TV host has been breaking all records for years.
