Simon grew up in Burscheid near Cologne and considering this project, he will probably never really leave the place where he grew up.

Spending so many wonderful times between country and city, between school and leisure time, these memories are closely linked to hometown.

Simon has played keyboard since he was 8 years old. Although the passion for keyboard and piano playing never really developed, it was his teacher at the time who introduced him to the production of electronic music. Even if it didn’t look like anything bigger would ever grow out of it, some friends were also enthusiastic about music and so they started many small projects, jammed together and wrote songs.  Some of them you can still find on Soundcloud today. Every small step in this direction has awakened the passion for music more and more and opened up the interest for off-beat genres.

It must have been in the summer of 2014 when he played the first set at a garden party with his friends. This laid the foundation for NAGELSBAUM, although it was not clear at that time that this would one day be his life center. In search of a new apartment, he found one just outside the city limits of Leverkusen. He has passed here by bus very often, it was one stop of many.  Massiefen, Kuckenberg, NAGELSBAUM.

Simon now lives in Leverkusen, just a stone’s throw from his original home. But even if the place has changed, the music remains.

It feels strange to write about myself in the third person, but that’s how you write bios, I guess.