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Uschi Classen has been involved in a multitude of influential projects during her career. The talented composer has been working together with the well-respected Ballistic Brothers and the Black Science Orchestra, where she picked up Mark Woolford as engineer and mixer for Classen Collective. Moreover highly reputed acts such as Ashley Beedle, Maria Nayler or Andrea Parker made use of her impressive writing skills. Even Channel 4 commissioned her with the soundtrack for "High 5”, an extreme sports programme.

Besides the ambitious support as a composer and performer she has given to several artists a number of interesting remix versions rank among her projects. When doing the remixes she didn’t shrink from a musical diversity that covers a wide range. So a series of totally different acts left their songs to Uschi Classen, among them Innercity, British teenie idols East 17, Terence Trent D’Arby, Urban Species, the Manic Street Preachers, Olive, Freakpower, Gabrielle or Jodeci.

Together with Danish DJ and producer Tonny Svensson and Mark Woolford, member of the Ballistic Brothers and the Black Science Orchestra she founded the Jazz-Funk oriented Classen Collective, whose uplifting track "Close To Greatness” has successfully been tested on the dance floors of numerous clubs by London based DJs such as Gilles Peterson, Ross Allen and Ashley Beedle. .