Volker Strifler is a German musician listed in MusicBrainz with the disambiguation "Modern Electric Blues" — a phrase that, unlike a lot of terse database entries, actually tells us something concrete about his musical identity even without a genre tag attached to the record itself.
What "Modern Electric Blues" Signals
The blues has splintered into many regional and stylistic branches over the decades — Delta, Chicago, Texas, British blues-rock, and so on — and "modern electric blues" as a self-description typically signals an artist working within the genre's core electric-guitar-and-band tradition while updating its production and arrangement sensibilities for contemporary audiences, rather than aiming for strict period-accurate revivalism. It's a common framing among European blues musicians who draw on American blues tradition but perform and record it through a modern lens.
A German Blues Voice
Germany has a long-running and active blues scene, with festivals, clubs, and touring circuits that have supported both homegrown and international blues acts for decades. Strifler's listing as a German artist working in this space places him within that broader continental blues tradition, distinct from but related to the American source genre.
An Artist Worth Further Listening
Beyond the area and disambiguation, this MusicBrainz record doesn't include tags, aliases, or life span information, and no further verifiable detail turned up in research. What's here is enough to place Strifler confidently within the modern electric blues lane — a worthwhile starting point for listeners exploring how European musicians have carried the blues tradition forward, even where a fuller biography isn't readily available.