German electronic pop duo 2raumwohung aka Inga Humpe and Tommi Eckart just released their 8th studio album Nacht und Tag. The opening track "1993" also carries some inspiration from "Schöneberg", the tune I wrote with my friend Marcos López under our moniker Marmion...
The video premiere of the second a glow single monsters is out NOW: the very fashionable KALTBLUT Magazine presented the stunning video that was created by Cologne-based visual artist Uli Sigg in close collaboration with Jette and myself. Jette sings about the...
This is the Dusty Dub Mix I played live on Liquid Sky Berlin presentzzz on April 21st during Superbooth17, featuring new and classic dub tech tunes. I was much inspired by the beautiful dub excursions that our LSB family member Twin Peetz played at the Ambient Jam...
This is my jam for "Liquid Sky Berlin presentzzz" , the radio show by the Liquid Sky Berlin posse on Alex Berlin radio 91,00 FM from our show on April 14th 2017. Lots of classics from 1992 to 1994 that fit so well in 2017. Hope you enjoy this as much as my "When 303s...
I did this DJ Mix for "Liquid Sky Berlin presentzzz", the radio show by the Liquid Sky Berlin posse on Alex Berlin radio 91,00 FM on March 3rd to celebrate "303-Day". The Roland TB-303 is without a doubt one of the most influential bass-synths of all times and still a...
In 2008 the fine documentation "We Call It Techno" was released on DVD. It was to my knowledge the first proper documentation of it's kind with many to follow.It included a lot of video footage from a time, when there were no smartphones with cameras yet...
I'm happy to come back to Salon zur Wilden Renate for a DJ set at Metro, together with Frank Muller aka Beroshima and Alex Cliche at Schwarzer Raum on Saturday, February 25th 2017. After my spontaneous B2B set with Frank at Ralph Ballschuh's...
I just discovered this nice preview for my DJ gig at Salon zur Wilden Renate together with Frank Muller aka Beroshima and Alex Cliche on Saturday, February 25th 2017. Check out the online article by Freshguide...
I played live at the Old School Party Tekknozid last Saturday. So much love, so much sweat, it was just great! Thanks to Tekknozid head honcho Wolle XDP, for whom I played already almost 25 years ago at Wizzzard and Tekknozid X. A big thank you also to the...
I'm gonna play an Old School LIVE-Set as LoopZone at Tekknozid on February 18th, just like almost 25 years ago. It's gonna be all live with hardware machines and no strings attached. The Wizzzard-Party at Quartier (which is now Wintergarten) on February 29th 1992...
Looking forward to play LaLeLu at Humboldthain Club Berlin on Friday, January 27th 2017. That's tonight, folks. 😉 Also playing: FreedomB (Heinz Music, Lapsus Rec.) KNIPP (White Mouse Rec. / Lalelu) Aantigen / NTGN (Zoned Rec. / Klangwild)...
My dear friends, 2016 has been quite a rough ride, hasn't it? Hard to swallow all the negative that has been thrown at us: - dangerous warfare in Syria and Ukraine with the superpowers involved - fake news and info wars over the interpretive authority - worldwide...
It's the time of year again: Christmas season is here. Back in the early 90s, the discontinued Boom Magazine invited several activists from the Berlin club scene for a Christmas photo shooting: DJ Terrible as the little Jesus baby, Heike Woosey and Uwe...
My dear friends and fans in Germany and abroad, I am still shocked about the horrible assault on the Christmas market at Berlin’s Breitscheidplatz, an iconic square in the heart of Westberlin, that I know by heart. I will never be able to understand the hatefulness of...
Strange and mysterious things happen in the autumn-coloured forests of Oberhavel in the far north of Brandenburg. Problems shrink and people get lost. Like in this wonderful video that Gernoto shot for perfect, the first single of my new duo a...
a glow are singer/songwriter Jette von Roth and DJ/producer Mijk van Dijk from Berlin. Together they produce crackling campfire electronica. „perfect“ is the first single release from their upcoming debut album „Of The Undergrowth“. After two instrumental solo albums...
Yesterday night I played once again together with my friend Harald Blüchel aka Cosmic Baby at the Liquid Sky Berlin Ambient Underwater Candlelight Jam at Maze in Berlin. In 1992 we conceived together an early milestone in electronic music history: the compilation...
This is my set from my belated B*day party. Big thanks to my boys Ralph Ballschuh and DJ Jauche for their wonderful sets. I truly had a blast, also thanks to the wonderful crowd at Süss.War Gestern in Berlin. Hope you enjoy the mis as much as me and the people dod at...
I played my first techno liveset this year at Kassablanca Jena, performing a journey through my music from the last 25 years and also introducing the forthcoming first EP on my label microglobe productions called "Peace 4 All". The motivation for the choice of tracks...
Today I would like to post a recommendation for "Raving Iran", a movie about the Techno scene in Iran, a country where you can end up in jail when you follow Techno. I watched a preview of this with my friend DJ Namito who had left Iran as a teenager soon after...
What a fine 15th Walfisch Revival Party that was on September 23rd 2016 at KitKat Club Berlin. Steffi, Jay & Felix for the first time ever opened both floors, since it was the 5th birthday of this wonderful Old School Techno event series. Duck, Der Würfler,...
This month's DJ mix is my full set from Sisyphos Berlin, last weekend on Scheune-Floor, September 24th 2016 I opened up the floor, building from an ambient electronic classic by Thomas P. Heckmann and then played a couple of hypnotic and deep tunes before reaching...
Here is finally the August episode of my radio show music 4 the microglobe. This is episode 41, syndicated to BLN.fm with German presentation and cuebase.fm and XLTRAX in English presentation. This time featuring new tracks and remixes by The Glitz, Rick Wade, Todd...
Happy to present the July episode of my radio show music 4 the microglobe- This is already episode 40 and will be syndicated to BLN.fm with German presentation and cuebase.fm and XLTRAX in English presentation. I needed to pick some soothing music first, due to all...
I wrote an article for Bonedo about a phenomena that has been happening since years and that I also perceive in my own way of DJing: after years of laptops in the DJ booths, more and more DJs rediscover the joy of using the hardware players, that are supplied by the...
Last week on June 15th I played a special vinyl DJ set for the presentation of the brandnew and very limited Technics SL-1200 GAE turntable at Kisuna Arts & Records Pop Up Shop in Berlin-Mitte, actually also using it in my set. For those of you who could not come...
Football fever and terror threats, should we cheer or should we cry? Mijk van Dijk gives you music 4 the micro globe, music for all people, regardless of nation, race, religion or sexual orientation. Deep, profound, sentimental and powerful and as usual "in the mix"....
My friend Peter C. Krell is hosting a vinyl records pop up shop at Kisuna Arts & Records Pop Up Shop in Berlin-Mitte this week. This is about the art of crate-digging, but also introducing the brand-new Technics SL-1200 GAE turntable, which has such a high price...
DJ Tomoya aka Reqterdrumer from Fukuoka runs Blue Arts Music, a label for Japanese techno. I already participated in 2015 with my remix for Tomoya's track Torrent Of People. Now Blue Arts Music is releasing exclusive remixes of Version Of Reality by Hiroshi Watanabe...
Some of you might know that I originally moved to Berlin in the 80s to study at the Freie Universität Berlin to become a journalist. I wrote for music magazines like Network Press, !Hype, Cut and Frontpage, met and interviewed artists like De La Soul, Digital...
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