Kris Menace

Kris Menace
Kris Menace at Mayday 2015
Background information
Birth name	Christoph Hoeffel
Also known as	Black Van, Love on Laserdisc, Stars on 33, Cut Glass, Menace & Lord
Born	1980 Landau in der Pfalz, Germany
Genres	Nu-disco Progressive house
Occupation(s)	Songwriter Record producer Remixer
Labels	Compuphonic, DFA, Size, Pias, Work It Baby, Blood Music, Newstate, Kontor, Permanent Vacation, Defected, Vulture
Associated acts	Alan Braxe, Felix da Housecat, Rex the Dog, Patrick Alavi, Romanthony
Website	krismenace.com

Kris Menace (born Christoph Hoeffel) is an electronic musician and music producer.

Christophe Hoeffel began to work as a producer and writer in the mid 1990s for different projects and started using the pseudonym "Kris Menace" in 2005.

Menace's debut single (in collaboration with his friend Lifelike), "Discopolis", was released on Alan Braxe's label Vulture Music in 2005 and was one of the most anticipated house tracks and an Ibiza anthem within the same year. "Discopolis" was later picked up by Defected Records and re-released with various remixes (Kerri Chandler etc..) and a video directed by Seb Janiak.

Menace later formed his label "Compuphonic" and continued to release singles under its imprint. In 2006, his track "Jupiter" became one of the most downloaded tracks on the electronic music download platform Beatport. In 2006, Kris also started DJing with Alan Braxe, who was part of "Stardust" with Thomas Bangalter from Daft Punk, and together they released the single "Lumberjack" in June 2007 on Vulture Music.

In 2008 he teamed up with the UK band Spooky to release the track "Stereophonic", which became UK's buzz charts nr.1 during the WMC and voted for being one of the hottest records of 2008 for DMC as well as with Felix da Housecat to produce the house anthem "Artificial" or Rex the Dog to produce "POW!"

Kris Menace contributed remixes for Depeche Mode (Mute), Robbie Williams (EMI), LCD Soundsystem (DFA), Röyksopp (EMI), Kylie Minogue (EMI), Underworld (Pias), and many others.