Tonight at 11pm CET you can hear me with my Liquid Sky Berlin mate Dr. Walker on the famous German radio show Elektro Beats on radioeins, hosted by Volker Düspohl. We will talk about music and life and of course will play music as well. I intend to present some of my...
Yo, Germany is microglobemeister and Mijk van Dijk likes it. Florian Meindl has got something to celebrate too: 100.000 Facebook follower, that's why he is giving away a great Techno tune for free on his Soundcloud. And Roisin Murphy celebrates her comeback with...
Out now: Billie Ray Martin's new single "After All" with remixes by yours truly on Billie's very own imprint Disco Activisto through Bandcamp. I admire Billie Ray Martin since I saw her perform with her Berlin bands “Billie & The Deep” and “Idiot Cards” back in...
I just uploaded the DJ mix of music 4 the microglobe #15, the June 2014 edition as heard live on BLN.fm, cuebase-fm and XLTRAX on Thursday, June19th. music 4 the microglobe is a one-hour-show featuring Mijk’s favourite music in a DJ mix. Deep House, Boogie, Tech House...
This Sunday I give you an original recording from Kiss FM Berlin, transmitting the Interference Festival during Love Parade 1994 at Tresor - yes, 20 years ago Kiss FM was not yet playing just R&B, but also R&S... 😉 I was jumping in for moderation of the...
As most of you might or should know I am part of the Liquid Sky Berlin collective and good friends with LSB head honcho Dr. Walker of Air Liquide fame. Liquid Sky Berlin is the home for all kinds of disturbing and distorted electronica, but also has a beautiful...
Welcome to the 15th episode of music 4 the microglobe. This is my one-hour-mix show with the best music that I collect each month, play in my DJ sets and feature in my DJ charts. This time I give you latest tracks and remixes by Essay, Alex Niggemann, Markus Homm,...
My friend Javier Garayalde, one of the brothers behind Kyodai and Wagon Cookin' (check their music, they are amazing) mentioned on Facebook that tonight it's Friday 13th AND full moon. Truely a Thriller Night, like in Michael Jackson's famous video. Surely today's...
Today finally the football world cup in Brazil starts. And as much as I'm a fan of football and support the German team, I am shocked like many of you about the way, the "beautiful game" has been taken out of the hands of the people by the leaders of FIFA in...
Today I will play a DJ live set for PK Bar and Berliner Vorwahl, which will be streamed on Electrosound.tv from 7 - 9 pm CET. Video livestream will also be available. I also will give an interview there. So come down to PK Bar at Kreutzigerstr. 22 in 10247...
Have you ever wondered about that quite familiar looking young dude that you always see on the screens of Berlin's Boiler Room sessions, flipping 3,5" floppy disks in an old school sampler and smirking into the camera whilst twiddling knobs on his 303? Yep, that's me....
Mijk van Dijk remixed Bille Ray Martin's new single "After All", a cover version of David Bowie's song from his album The Man Who Sold The World from 1972. Here are all the mixes of Billie's release on her Soundcloud, available from July 13th on her Bandcamp page or...
I just watched a Berlin documentary on rbb (Radio Berlin-Brandenburg) about the music scene in West-and-Eastberlin before the opening of the wall. It is full of great pictures and music and although it's in German language, I recommend it to all you guys'n gals out...
Walfisch Berlin was THE classic Afterhour club in the early 90s in Berlin. Doors would open by 10 am in the morning and the party would be at its peak at 4 pm in the afternoon. The music was new black polished chrome and came over the summer like liquid night. Once or...
Bikini Berlin is your different kind of shopping mall, situated between Gedächtniskirche and Zoologischer Garten. In fact you have a brilliant view on the monkeys rock of the Berlin zoo from Bikini. And if you like unconventional shops selling nicely selected little...
...in Mitte represents so much the state of Berlin in 2014: the old and trashed and revolutionary next to the new and slick and expensive. Gentrification is in full effect. My beloved Berlin is slowly changing into a city that those people who represented it 20 years...
My spaced out ambient DJ set from Liquid Sky Berlin's Psychedelic Kitchen TV/ Radio/ web show is finally on YouTube. 45 minutes of chilled electronica, musically & graphically. On December 6th, Liquid Sky Berlin members like Dr. Walker, Omsk Information, Sense,...
Some of you probably know the book "Der Klang der Familie", named after the famous track by 3Phase feat. Dr. Motte. It's an oral history of the first years of Techno in Berlin, compiled and written by Felix Denk and Sven von Thülen (of Zander VT fame) out of probably...
On Saturday July 27th 2013 I took part at a very remarkable event. Ingmar Koch aka Dr. Walker organized the Telepathic Bubblebath Liquid Sky Open Air Session at ELSE Club, An der Elsenbrücke in Berlin. The idea was to have electronic musicians from over 4 decades...
I was totally in awe when I discovered Michael Rother's first solo album "Flammende Herzen" as a young boy. I tried to learn the beautiful guitar solos on that album, but of course I failed and later decided to play the bass instead. When I had already abandoned the...
Hah, don't worry, I am not gonna move my monthly NuFunk/ Boogie show motherfunk from BLN.fm to another radio station. But I would like to recommend an iPhone app here. As most of you might already know, BLN.fm is a web based radio that you cannot receive on your old...
Late Nite Tuff Guy aus Adelaide/ Australien appeared already in earlier playlists of Motherfunk auf BLN.fm. Now he visited the BLN.fm studio: the successful DJ and edit artist with over 17.000 followers on Soundcloud is on European tour and Mijk van...
Mijk van Dijk will play a live show at WIRE13, the biggest indoor Techno festival in Japan on September 14th 2013. The lineup at Yokohama Arena is amazing. The DJs will be Agoria, Fumiya Tanaka, Bart Skils, DJ Sodeyama, DJ Hell, Josh Wink, Len Faki, Ken Ishii, Matias...
In the September 2012 issue of German De-Bug magazine Alexandra Dröner transcribed an interview she had led with Marcos López and myself about the history of our Marmion track Schöneberg. Here's the link to the article on Marcos' website. The illustration in De-Bug...
My first mijkfunk Liveset. No funky house or funky techno. I call it NuFunk. Live and direct and soon out on my forthcoming label. Stay tuned and don't touch that dial!!!! :-)If you missed it at Maria, here's the original recording. Enjoy a different taste of Mijk.
Yesterday night was special: again I co-produced music for a Michael Michalsky event at the Berlin Fashion Week together with DJ Hell, like the last 3 Michalsky shows before. Just this time, at the Michalsky Style Night at Tempodrom I also produced and performed the...
In 2001, DJ-Mix-CDs were still the hot shit and DJ-sets.com asked me and my dear friend Toby Izui to contribute 2 DJ mixes to their series of city mixes, where one DJ from Berlin would partner with a DJ from another influential Techno city. Other mix compilations...
This is the short movie Femme by Carl Finkbeiner. I did the original soundtrack in 1997. Maybe you recognize some of the sequences, that I used in different tracks of my work? 😉
This was one of the first projects of Studio !k7: the experimental computer-animated movie Escape To Trancyberia, which was released on VHS Video on September 18th 1995. The track listing is impressive, featuring Speedy J, X-Dream, Commander Krilly, Masa and more. I'm...
Marcos López and me were invited to disucss and perform in the music show Eurotops on East-German TV channel MDR. The topic was dance music and how people interact with it. Another guest was Frank Farian, producer of Boney M, Milli Vanilli, and others. Riding high on...
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