In 1995, he and Mense Reents founded the cult German house-band
Egoexpress.
He and Pascal Fuhlbrügge, a musician from Hamburg and co-founder of the
famous German independent record label 'L'age d'or', formed the German
electro band Sand11.
He is the younger brother of the German painter and musician Jakobus Durstewitz. In the early nineties they had a band together called Das Neue
Brot.