Axel Hilgenstöhler


Axel "Axe" Hilgenstöhler is a German Record Producer, Mixing Engineer and Guitarist. He is a founding member of the band Thumb and played guitar with many Bands, e.g. Dog Eat Dog and 50 Cent. In 2003 Afrika Islam founded with Hilgenstöhler the group The Machine.

Biography

Axe received musical education in his childhood. In 1993 he founded together with Steffen Wilmking the band Thumb.
In 2007 Axe started to play the guitar for Dog Eat Dog.
Recently Axe is working in many different areas of music production, like musical direction, audio engineering and live mixing or incubator
He also is the Chairman of the executive board of the .
Axe has worked with musicians and producers like Afrika Bambaataa, Flea, Mastermind, Chuck D, Kool Keith, D-Rock and Ice-T.