Real name: Manuel G. Richter

German electronic musician, born in 1974 in Mühlheim and raised in Hannover. He started with composition of electronic music in the 1990's, when he was back in Dortmund and released his first tape as Xabec in 1997. Around 2000, he moved to Leipzig and founded Underwater Pilots together with Gregoire Vanoli, a music project active until cca. 2008. Then, he did remixes with Anne Clark and established his studio Leaf Audio. He was still active as Xabec during all the time in between.