Burger and Voigt met in the early '80s and eventually found a common passion in music production. As the 1988 acid house explosion took over London, the two made an extended visit, where they reveled in the revolutionary spirit of the city's burgeoning electronic music dance culture. This experience convinced them to begin producing similar musical experiments, with two of Burger's first tracks appearing on Thomas Fehlmann's 1989 Teutonic Beats compilation. By the beginning of the 1990s, Burger and Voigt spawned Trance Atlantic Records, which was based in Belgium at the time, along with the Mono Crome label. After several remarkable releases on this label, including Burger Industries' Vol. 1, the duo moved to Frankfurt, Germany, in 1992.

In Germany, Burger and Voigt began collaborating with Ingmar Koch (Dr. Walker) and Cem Oral (Jammin' Unit) as the Brotherhood of Structure, resulting in the track "We Are Structure" and the monumental Structure label. It was also during this time in Frankfurt during 1992 that Burger released his revolutionary Everybody's Kissing Everyone album as the Bionaut. The following year saw him move to Cologne and set up Delirium -- later to become Kompakt in 1998 -- the record store that would soon ignite substantial interest within Cologne for techno. The second Bionaut album then appeared on Burger's next label, Eat Raw, while he simultaneously ran a magazine called House Attack that furthered the Cologne scene. In the following years, Burger collaborated with a number of artists -- Thomas Heckmann, Air Liquide, Voigt -- for his Ethnik albums and released yet another well-received Bionaut album, Lush Life Electronica, in 1995. Next he collaborated once again with Voigt for the lush Burger/Ink album, Las Vegas, and began work on the album Opportunity Knox, which saw him moving in a slightly new, increasingly melodic direction. In the latter part of the 1990s, both the Las Vegas and Opportunity Knox albums made their way to America through Matador (with Opportunity Knox being re-titled Explosion). It was at this point that Burger began focusing on a new company, Popular Organisation, composed of different sublabels -- Popular Tools, Popular Music, and Popular Sound -- which focused on dance, pop, and experimental sounds, respectively. A division of Sony, his Popular label stands as Burger's latest accomplishment in his slow rise to mainstream consciousness -- a remarkable path when one considers his ability to remain true to his ambitions while still maintaining a major-label relationship. ~ Jason Birchmeier, All Music Guide