BluFin Records from Cologne is a fine label for Techno, Tech and House, established by Andrea Engels in the 00 years. I released my first EP on BluFin in 2006. It was called Denn Es Ist Wie Es Ist, Weil Du Bist Wie Du Bist EP (BluFin 017, roughly translated: "It is...
It’s Old School months on my microglobe. Although I am still „forcing the future“ (old Frontpage motto), I like to play occasional old school sets. Not out of pure nostaligica: sometimes it’s good to step back and look at the bigger picture. As Westbam put it in his...
Electronic Beats is about to release a book about the classic Roland synthesizers, drum machines and effects. The book is a tribute to the golden age of Roland Instruments that changed the ways of electronic music as well as to Mr. Ikutaro Kakehashi himself, the...
Spring is here and the time is right for dancing in the streets. Or protesting. In Spain people do this because of rigid demonstration laws already via hologram. Green Velvet & Carl Craig release their Riot House Tracks on Relief Recordings and the mini album...
Bass Works Recordings is a respected Techno label from Japan, which is relatively unknown in Germany. However, they are already celebrating their 100th release now with this compilation called "Nessie". I'm proud to be featured on this compilation with a remix that I...
Many many new albums by Clemens Neufeld, Oliver Schories, The Glitz,and a fantastic cover version of a Frankie Knuckles classic are the highlights of the latest music 4 the microglobe. Trippy House & Techno Tracks presented by a sniffy Mijk van Dijk, and as always...
AMA's (Ask Me Anything) seem to be very much en-vogue these days. Edward Snowden recently did one on reddit, US-pres Barack Obama did it  and last Tuesday Tanith invited me to an AMA on his website. You guys asked a lot of interesting questions and you can all read it...
I just discovered this Techno Lexikon at a friend's place, published by Raveline Magazine back in 1998. Funny to read about myself from the perspective of a point of time passed long ago. Makes me think of what I was doing in 1999 and 2000, if I took the right path,...
He just earned the Grammy Award in the category "Best Dance/ Electronic Album" for his long awaited long player Syro released on Warp against such competition as Deadmau5, Little Dragon, Mat Zo, Röyksopp and Robyn. A couple of weeks ago he released 110  unreleased...
Mijk van Dijk presents the first episode of music 4 the microglobe 2015. The first episode after "Charlie Hebdo". Without fear, but high on hope and confidence. Power To The People! With new tracks by Roisin Murphy, Steve Bug, David Keno such as old Techno heroes...
My dear friends and fans from Japan, O-genki desu-ka? I'm very happy to finally present to you : my microglobe website in Japanese language!!! All my Microglobe? Well, unfortunately not. (-_-) However, with the help of good friends from Japan I will present...
-- It's kinda strange when you find your very first demotape from 1987 with a paper cover produced at the copy shop priced with € 75,- on Discogs. This analog music cassette contained 5 songs with German lyrics recorded with my band JETZT! in 1987. JETZT!...
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...
Dear Friends around the microglobe, a remarkable year 2014 has almost come to an end. I wish you a Happy Christmas and a wonderful start into a super New Year 2015 with these two tracks of my  Xmas Carols EP on BluFin Records. SInce I produce music I've always wanted...
Yours truly is truly happy, that BluFin Records has conquered the top position of the DCC (Deutsche Club Charts) label charts. Congratulations to label boss Andrea Engels, what a nice Xmas gift. I've been releasing on BluFin Records since November 2006 with my Denn es...
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...
November's here, the days are short and dark and Mijk van Dijk has picked some melancholic tunes that match the season.So sit back where it's warm and dry, cuddle your cat or dog and groove with Mijk through the evening. And don't forget: „We are the microglobe”....
I moved to Westberlin in 1985 to study at the Freie Universiät Berlin (abbreviated FU Berlin, sic....). Coming from a small town in Nether Saxony in the north of Germany,  Berlin was the total cultural opposite of life as I knew it before. I had just made my driver's...
This forthcoming Friday on the 31st of October the praxxiz gang will raid Braunschweig's Brain Klub. With yours sincerely will be  the legendary inventor and mentor of Loveparade Dr. Motte and amazing live act Superstrobe. Come down and party with us! Join the event...
Once again on October 25th I'm gonna join Dr. Walker and my Liquid Sky Berlin family for an ambient electronica session at LSB-TV. You can watch this live on Alex TV in the Berlin cable TV network, listen to it on the radio on Twen.fm or just on the almighty internet...
I am very happy to play in Vienna once again after many years on October 24th 2014 at Weberknecht. With me are DJs Peter Pan and Tom Silver. It's gonna be a sweet night of hot House music. Come down and party with us!
The track Herz was conceived by DJ Hell and Mijk van Dijk in 1994 and originally released on DJ Hell's debut album Geteert und Gefedert on Disko B. It was produced in Mijk's LoopLab in Berlin-Schöneberg, the same studio, where Microglobe's album...
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...
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...
1. Solee - Lost (Neo Romantic Trance Rework) - Boxersport 2. Guy Gerber & Puff Daddy - Terminal K - Rumors 3. Billie Ray Martin & Aerea Negrot - Off The Rails - Disco Activisto 4. Dr. Motte & Gabriel Le Mar - Fever (Pascal FEOS Remix) - praxxiz 5. Crom...
Peter Kirn of createdigitalmusic.com pointed me on this wonderful advert for the Yamaha DX100 synthesizer, a truely iconic piece of music instrument history. The "Solid Bass" sound found in the Yamaha FM 4-operator synths like the TX81Z, the FB-01 or the DX100...
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...
Long in-depth interview with Mijk for Thomann's videoblog page and C-Tube with deep and personal  questions and revelations for Mijk's fans - if they can read German...... Read the full interview...
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