POPNONAME aka JENS-UWE BEYER was born on the little island Fehmarn in the Baltic Sea. Now he lives in Cologne. Apart from his regular releases on KOMPAKT’s Pop Ambient series, he has had a number of 12″ on Cologne-based labels, among others FIRM and ITALIC. His debut album WHITE ALBUM (ITALIC) was released in 2007, and got loads of positive reviews from the German and international press.

Currently being released is his new album SURROUNDED BY WEATHER along with two 12″ remix maxis and a bonus ep also on ITALIC. He recently did two remixes for the German band “Klee” (Universal) following a couple of remixes and releases on different labels.

JENS-UWE BEYER can already look back on a number of live performances, e.g.: New York (Bunker), Cambridge (Middlesex Lounge), Monterrey (Mexico, Aura Club), Guadalajara (Mexico, Bar Amerikas), Thessaloniki (Liebe), Paris (Le Pulp), Porto (Passos Manuell), Amsterdam (Paradiso), Copenhagen (Culture Box), Vienna (Icke Micke), Moscow (Solyanka), Hamburg (Übel & Gefährlich), and Berlin (Panorama Bar). Upcoming shows include Moskau (Propaganda), Tokio (Seco), and London (The End).

He is working with a lot of musicians such as Jan Philipp Janzen (Von Spar), Michaela Dippel (Ada), Volker Pannes (DeePulse), Axel Willner (The Field), and Jörg Burger (The Modernist), as well as artists like John Harten (Public Folder), the fashion designer Daniela Görgens (Little Red Riding Hood), Christian Schäfer (C/O Pop), Jürgen Stollhans (Dokumenta), and the theater director Christian v. Treskow (Wuppertal).Together with the artist duo Graw Böckler (Raum für Projektion) he is presenting the video series UNAUTHORIZED COMMERCIALS as a live performance. The short films are released weekly from 11.11.08 until 21.04.09 via internet on www.popnoname.de.