April 7th 2010 was a disasterous day for Japan. An earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan and destroyed the coastal region north of Tokyo. The nuclear reactor of Fukushima was damaged and leaked. Since Mijk is connected to Japan since 1994 through many gigs and...
Mijk van Dijk presents Motherfunk on BLN.fm, this time dedicated to the late Loleatta Holloway, who died on March 21, 2011. Her songs will be with usforever, especially her voice, that has been sampled off acapella tracks more often than probably any other female...
Mijk van Dijk presents Motherfunk on BLN.fm, this time with new Swedish Funk dynamite. Amalia and Opolopo both released magnificient albums within the last 3 months, both produced by Peter Major aka Opolopo and both released by Munich-based Tokyo Dawn Records. Mijk...
In the advent of the forthcoming debut album of The Chaenge, the duo of Florian Schirmacher and Mijk van Dijk you can catch a glimpse and things to come on this video taken on their live performance at Zur Seuten Deern in the heart of the infamous Reeperbahn in...
Mijk van Dijk presents Motherfunk on BLN.fm. This time it's all about edits on Mijk's show motherfunk on BLN.fm. Mr. van Dijk dug out some nice gems from Soundcloud and the Blogs and talked to Alkalino and Jack Tennis. And he'll drop favourite new tunes by Oliver,...
Mijk got a brandnew bag. "I just felt that I finally had to follow my first love in electronic music, which was the Boogie Funk of the early 80s and of course Prince, Prince, Prince." Before House music, he played the bass in local Funk bands. So Mijk started a party...
Jette von Roth's wonderful groovy tune "Wogen" ("Waves") has been given the remix treatment by Mijk van Dijk, Oliver Ton, Robin Masters Orchestra aka DJ Jauche and Jette herself. Now available on Beatport and your other favourite download shops. Jette also conceived a...
Mijk van Dijk presents Motherfunk on BLN.fm and met Chromeo, the Montreal duo we all love, to talk with them about The Funk right before their great show at Club Maria in Berlin. Check the highlights of the interview and of...
Mijk van Dijk presents Motherfunk on BLN.fm and had the pleasure to meet Jimmy Edgar from Detroit, now located in Berlin by choice and creator of one of the master pieces of 2010-NuFunk, his great album XXX on !k7. Boogie down, funksters! PLAYLIST 1. Spirit Catcher –...
When Mijk van Dijk DJed at Tokyo's super club WOMB during his tour through Japan in November 2010, he was filmed by the good people from Red Bull TV for their program Night Flight, that transmits complete sets from the best DJs of the world in the best clubs in the...
It's about time to introduce you to mijkfunk. Mijk is gonna take off to explore new ground, which is actually going back to his roots: Funk Music. When Mijk bought his first Roland TR-505 Drum Machine back in the late 90s, he wanted to create Minneapolis Funk like...
Environmental thinking is a big issue right now and most of us understand that we can‘t go on living how we are, wasting the many precious resources of our planet and leading irresponsible lifestyles. Mijk van Dijk dealt with these issues 15 years ago on his...
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.
It's been almost 7 years since the last offering of remixes for the Marmion classic "Schöneberg", produced by Marcos Lopez & Mijk van Dijk back in 1993. We think it was worth the wait since the new versions by no other than DJ Hell, Abe Duque,Donnacha...
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...
The Chænge is a dynamic NuFunk duo from Germany. Singer and keyboarder Florian Schirmacher is recently getting all deserved attention for his vocal-and-production work in projects like Wareika, Federleicht, Hatikvah, Glowing Glisses and Prime Origin, resulting in...
Mijk's 4th 12" is out on BluFin-Records from Cologne now. This time it's all about the piano. Just like "Ebony & Ivory" live in perfect harmony on the keyboard of Stevie Wonder & Paul McCartney, Mijk rediscovers the magic of the gospel-influenced House piano...
Here's a recording of Mijk's live set at Distillery Leipzig from October 17th 2009. Invited to play his classic tunes at the 17th anniversary party of legendary Distillery club in Leipzig/ Germany he decided to revamp the music to today's standards. So this is all at...
Some of you might already have heard it in the clubs: Mijk van Dijk will give his debut on DJ Good Groove's legendary Frisbee Records label with his "Motherwomb-EP" featuring the tracks "Anticipation" and "Motherwomb", catalogue number #073. The title refers to Mijk...
DJ Hell and Mijk van Dijk remixed "Phobia" by Phobia. This was one of the very first tracks to influence trance producers and it still sounds as fresh today as it did when first released in ’91 on Cyclotron / Rising High Records. Tobias Freund aka Pink Elln aka Phobia...
Over 5 years after their "Härter"-Release on Confused Records, Mijk created a bass-heavy production with long-term buddy Namito, who is just recently going through the roof with his fresh new "Joujou-EP" on Kling Klong Records. "Bassfood" features sub-sonic bass...
To kick off 2007 in style Mijk's first release in this year will be an EP together with Berlin DJ legend DJ Rok on Gigolo Records #205, featuring their original plus remixes by both Rok & Mijk. Jackin' frenzy for this millenium! Gigolo #205 is out now and...
Mijk created a new 2-track 12" called "Denn es ist wie es ist, weil Du bist wie Du bist" (German for: "Cause it is what it is, since you are the way you are"). It's out now on BluFin-Records from Cologne. The fat vinyl mastering has been provided by Martin Eyerer....
Mijk van Dijk debuts with a new project on Dutch label Big & Dirty Records. Out since a couple of days and it performs really well: "Tune Of The Week" on the Dance-Tunes Webshop. High in the Top 15 of the Minimal Charts at Beatport. That's of course the new "Bass...
After a gig in Stuttgart, Mijk went to the studio together with Kling Klong boss Martin Eyerer for 2 days. On the first day, they worked with Cubase on "Closer". The phat bass line is provided by a real Minimoog synth tweaked by Mijk. In the meantime Martin was in...
Superstition Records from Hamburg is celebrating their 10 years anniversary in grand style. Label head Tobias Lampe asked Mijk van Dijk to do a mix CD in a similar fashion like his track "Super 100" of the 100th release compilation which was constructed only out of...
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 is a recording of Kate Bathgate's show Tranzmission on 3RRR Community Radio Melbourne Australia from June 19, 1994. I played a guest DJ set 2 days after my live show at Club Infinity in Melbourne during my first tour to Australia. My DJ mix starts at 46:30 min....
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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