Johannes Ismaiel-Wendt is professor for musicology at Stiftung Universität Hildesheim. He teaches and gives sound-lectures on aesthetics and sociology of electronic music, and his research focuses on music as/and postcolonial knowledge production. He is the author of tracks’n’treks. Populäre Musik und Postkoloniale Analyse (Unrast: 2011). 2010–2012 he was academic advisor at Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin for Global Prayers and Translating HipHop.