The Walfisch club was the first after hour institution in Berlin. Located just at the exit of U-Bahn station Heinrich-Heine-Strasse it was in session from 1991 to 1993 (or so) as the first Afterhour club in Berlin. It would only open by 10:00h on Sunday morning and...
Dear All, like probably all of you I feel heartstruck by the events that happened just a few days ago in Paris on January 7th 2015, when brute criminal terrorists slaughtered the good people of French satire magazine Charlie Hebdo allegedly in the name of Allah....
This is the DJ mix of music 4 the microglobe #21, the December 2014 edition as heard live on BLN.fm, cuebase-fm and XLTRAX on Thursday, December 18th. It’s Christmas time and Mijk van Dijk plays music 4 the microglobe, for all people, no matter where they are from or...
This is the DJ mix of music 4 the microglobe #20, the November 2014 edition as heard live on BLN.fm, cuebase-fm and XLTRAX on Thursday, November 20th. November’s here, the days are short and dark and Mijk van Dijk has picked some melancholic tunes that match the...
Enter the Shinto Shrine. Out now only in Japan: a CD with remixed video game tunes all taken from classic games by Square Enix. purveyors of such legendary titles like Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. I however picked a melody I've been listening to so often when...
This is Mijk van Dijk's DJ mix of music 4 the microglobe #20, the November 2014 episode as heard live on BLN.fm, cuebase-fm and XLTRAX on Thursday, November 20th.Moody tracks for November daze!More info and playlists in the radio section of Mijk’s...
Hello Sweeties, on Halloween, October 31st 2014 I played a DJ set with my praxxiz Booking buddies Dr. Motte and Superstrobe at the fine Brain Club Braunschweig. I was a grand night and luckily I recorded my DJ Set. A bit harder than my last monthly mixes, but we...
This is the DJ mix of music 4 the microglobe #19, the October 2014 edition as heard live on BLN.fm, cuebase-fm and XLTRAX on Thursday, October 16th. With several classics by legendary UK Techno act LFO Mijk van Dijk pays tribute to the late and great Mark Bell - one...
Yesterday night's session at LSB_tv was quite amazing: the whole scale was larger, wider, bigger. We recorded in the big studio at Alex-TV and had an impressive video installation. Several acts from the Liquid Sky universe would meet and play. I had just returned from...
This is my DJ mix for the podcast series of my booking agency praxxiz booking. I took the chance out of my regular monthly mixes that always feature the latest promos to mix tracks, that are big in my sets since months with secret weapons from almost 10 years ago and...
Wow, I just found this video on YouTube. On April 25th 1998 I played live in Tokyo at Liquid Room along with Denki Groove, Takkyu Ishino, Toby Izui and Westbam. The party was part of a small tour in Japan called "Tächno Fest" (which is not a spelling mistake but an...
While I was sitting with my Liquid Sky Berlin mate Omsk Information for dinner at Rootz in Kreuzberg the other day (we had those delicious Santa Fé wraps, yummy), he mentioned a multi-racial Jazz Fusion band from Brooklyn, NYC called Snarky Puppy. He said that they...
This is the DJ mix of music 4 the microglobe #18, the September 2014 edition as heard live on BLN.fm, cuebase-fm and XLTRAX on Thursday, September 18th. This mix features 2 extra bonus tracks, ending with "Off The Rails", the brandnew hot hit by Billie Ray Martin...
This is the second appetizer for my Bleibtreu EP on BuFin Records, conceived together with my friend from India Rummy Sharma, produced in New Delhi and Berlin: the title track Bleibtreu.We started the track after a long day of sightseeing in New Delhi.In this video...
Now this was summer 2014. I hope you enjoyed it as much as I did. Especially the last week was a nice payback for some unnecessary cold and rain before. 22 years ago around this time, I was waiting for the release of the Summer Remix EP of my Microglobe track High On...
This is a fine example of our fast and forward internet society: produced in New Delhi and Berlin, either physically sitting in the same studio or swapping files across the web, my friend Rummy Sharma from India and myself produced 3 tracks, that will be released in...
I played the closing set for this year's New Healing Open Air Festival at Badesee Preddöhl in the beautiful North-East German region Priegnitz. I played my favourite deep and melodic Tech House tunes and presented all the 3 tracks of my upcoming "Bleibtreu"-EP (with...
How do you call this melodic, deep, supple sound by acts like Alex Niggemann, Gardens Of God, Ten Walls or Gui Boratto? Deep House? Progressive Techno? Future Trance? Superpitcher, Lauer, Color Ray, Patrick Chardronnet, Nacho Marco, Grum, n'to and Butch & Hohberg...
When I was working with DJ Hell on several common productions in 2007, I suddenly heard bells in my mind. This happens quite often in totally different situations: suddenly a sound or a melody strikes my mind like a comet and I wonder where I know this from. Those...
Just recently I received a promo of a new compilation called "ELECTRI_CITY - ELEKTRONISCHE_MUSIK_AUS_DÜSSELDORF" full of old gems by Düsseldorf based bands from the 70s and 80s like Der Plan, La Düsseldorf, Harmonia, DAF, NEU!, Die Krupps, Liasons Dangereuses and...
Message from the waterfront: don't hang around in the shade. Enjoy your life in the sunshine. Coz like Roy Ayers knows: Everybody Loves The Sunshine. Need I say more? Well, maybe I should tell you a bit about my connection to that song. Back in 88, when the music was...
The latest episode of music 4 the microglobe is now on Mixcloud. It was live on May 19th on BLN.fm at 6pm CET, on cuebase-fm at 11pm CET and on xltrax.com at 11pm EDT. More about the show >>HERE<<. Music 4 The Microglobe #16 (July 2014) by Music 4 The...
Pfhhhh, such a hot day today in Berlin. And here's my perfect soundtrack for a lazy hot sunday afternoon: The Style Council's Long Hot Summer with it's super-elegant bass line and floating arpeggios and of course the golden voice of Paul Weller. In the 80s I was a...
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...
Sunday Music on a Tuesday? Yes, please excuse me, but yours truly was busy watching the Football World Cup Final last Sunday and to jump for joy after the match. I already told you a bit or two about my passion for football and my hope, that the German team might face...
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...
As the nightwings come down slowly upon this Sunday, I am being reminded of an exceptional album by Dutch Jazzrock guitarist Jan Akkerman in conjunction with German musical arranger, orchestrator, conductor & composer Claus Ogerman from the year of 1978. This is...
Yes, it's the World Cup 2014 in Brazil and could I not treat you with some Brazilian flavour in my Sunday Music column? Of course no official World Cup songs or Samba EDM remakes, but some really lovely 60's Bossanova from the original masters. Although I have some...
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