Andreas kicked off his career with booking underground shows and publishing music fanzines in the early 1990s, leading to becoming a music journalist for VISIONS Magazine and a PR manager at EFA Distribution before he started his own label Exile On Mainstream and the agency Southern Records Germany. Southern did provide several services such as distribution, label management, PR and tour booking. Southern closed in 2013 and Andreas joined Optimal Media as senior manager in sales, customer service and quality assurance until 2022. Since 2022 Andreas works as a consultant for Europe’s biggest vinyl broker Keyproduction as European Operations Manager and Vinyl Guru. Keyproduction works with a wide array of pressing plants, and Andreas’ job includes customer service, process management and quality assurance. Apart from this day job, he still runs Exile On Mainstream Records with now well more than 100 releases under his belt, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the label in 2024. He also writes as a freelance journalist for MINT – a magazine dedicated to everything vinyl. In his free time, he climbs up mountains in summer and skis them down in winter.