Wow. Force Inc./Mille Plateaux is back. I've had the honour to contribute two tracks to their first new compilation "Ultrablack Of Music". Other contributors include my Liquid Sky Berlin tribe members Dr. Walker, 10cars and Twin Peetz. Yes, if you want...
Sub Human Bros – Grateful Life (Mijk van Dijk Remix)
Makoto and Yutaka Sakamoto are the Japanese duo Sub Human Bros. We met in those happy days at legendary culture club house Neu West Berlin in 2015 and finally here's a collaboration: my remix for their wonderful tune "Grateful Life" as featured on...
Kaga Festival Japan
Apart from appearances at DOMMUNE and Oiran Warm Up Radio Show my main occupation on my 30th tour to Japan was my first ever gig at Kaga Music Festival, a beautiful little music extravaganza in Ishikawa prefecture at the Japanese Sea. It's an onsen festival, so taking...
マイク・ヴァン・ダイク x 日本 = 30
■「マイク・ヴァン・ダイク x 日本 = 30 / chapter 1」Talking about Mijk van Dijk Mijk van Dijk (マイク・ヴァン・ダイク)は、1990年以来、ベルリンを拠点に活動するジャーマンテクノのパイオニアの一人である。数あるソロ作品だけでなく、DJ Hell、石野卓球、Thomas Schumacher、Cosmic Babyと言った一流テクノアーティスト達とトラックをプロデュースし、Moby、電気グルーヴ、GTOなどのリミックスも手がけてきた。またMarcos...
DJ Mix from Jauchomatic, Suicide Circus Berlin
On May 12th 2018 I had the pleasure to play again along with my friend DJ Jauche at Suicide Circus in Berlin. It was an oldschoolish event and since I always play early 90s tracks at my annual Walfisch Revival Performances, this time I was eager to play also some late...
New Track: The Night Is Young
Out today: The Night Is Young, my new track on the Blue Arts Music 10th Anniversary Compilation, compiled by label head DJ Tomoya from Fukuoka/ Japan. The night is full of promises for those who are young at heart and mind, because every given night, anything can...
20 Years of Multi-Mijk
Today 20 years ago my first "Best-Of"-Compilation was released in Japan through Sony Music/ Office 7, the CD "Multi-Mijk" mixed by my good friend DJ Toby Izui aka Tobynation in 1998.Toby knows me and my music so well since 1992 and thus he created a DJ-mix...
Mijk van Dijk Japanツアー2017
私は2017年日本ツアーを発表してとてもうれしいです。 今年9月に福岡、大阪、東京を訪れ、新レーベル「microglobe」の音楽を紹介します。 恐れや不安の時には、私たちの心と音楽に私たちの団結を祝福しましょう。 ここに日付があります: 9月13日:Tokyo, DOMMUNE 9月15日:Fukuoka, Kieth Flack 9月16日:Osaka, bar 天空喫茶 9月17日:Tokyo, Wall&Wall...
We Call It Techno
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...
Live @ Tekknozid, Oldschool-Set, 18.02.2017
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...
Merry Christmas everybody!
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...
Raving Iran
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...
Beroshima – Hexaline (Mijk van Dijk Remix)
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...
Sound & Vision Walfisch Revival Party March 2016
Yesterday's Walfisch Revival Party once again meant a back reflection to the Old School. I brought almost only records that I didn't play in my sets from 2015 and 2014 to further complete my narrative of Old School tracks rather than playing the same set again in a...
Mijk van Dijk DJ Set at Blümerant, Berlin, 2016-02-26
My set at Blümerant on February 26th 2016 is now on Mixcloud. Introducing my forthcoming release "Mankind United" with DJ Rummy Sharma on BluFin Records and some of my latest and yet unreleased Techno productions. Big thanks to MAZE Club in Berlin (Sue + Mark),...
Sound & Vision Walfisch Revival Party May 2015
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...
Halloween DJ Set at Brain Club Braunschweig
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...
Cisco Techno Plastic Bag from Tokyo, 2003
Just found this plastic bag from Cisco Techno in Tokyo with promo for my Decade Mashup Mix CD.
Mijk van Dijk DJ Mix June 2014
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...
Berlin Techno Documentary 2014
This is a documentary about the Berlin Techno scene from 2014. Another authentic time capsule which we will watch with bittersweet reminiscence in a few year's time. It's a student's project by Ben Auwerx from France. Yours truly is adding some thoughts about...
Der Klang der Familie – English chapter online
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...
The Evolution Of Western Dance Music
Yes, I do like graphics like this and that's why I wish to share this with you. Although some details here are probably discussable, it shows a lot of connections from the past and pays respect to Africa, where our dance music grooves originally came from. So visit...
Manuel Mind & Valentino Tomasi – Strange Sounds (Mijk van Dijk Boogie Remix) – Le Bal Records 006
I have been in contact with Manuel Mind from Switzerland for a long time. He was one of the earliest supporters of that new sound called "Trance", back in the early 90s, when I did my first recordings a Microglobe and Mindgear on MFS Records from Berlin. When Cosmic...
music 4 the microglobe #1, April 2013 (just the music)
This is just the music of Mijk van Dijk’s radio podcast »music 4 the microglobe«. 1st hour: I House U, 2nd hour: electric – eclectic – essential If you like the full radio podcast, go listen to it here! Follow »music 4 the microglobe« on Facebook! Mijk van Dijk...
Notic Nastic – Illuminati Bitch (Mijk van Dijk Remix) – NN Records
Mijk van Dijk remixes Notic Nastic, the multi-national electronic collective from Berlin and New York City. Illuminati Bitch. So who is Notic Nastic? Musicnewsblog UK discribes them like this: "For those who don’t know, Notic Nastic are an electronic music machine who...
Microglobe – Afreuropamericasiaustralica (The Director’s Cut) – environ-mental recordings 001
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...
Introducing environ-mental recordings
Environ-Mental Recordings is a label from German techno producer Mijk van Dijk, also known as Microglobe. The label is designed to be a platform for digitally re-mastered 90s gems, which were only available as the physical copies on the MFS Berlin label in the 90s....
Eines Tages: Die Pioniertage des Techno
Mijk wrote an article about the "stone age" of Techno in Berlin for the online version of German renowned news magazine "Der Spiegel". Dive into the foundation years of our music. Unfortunately only in German... Harte Beats in herrenlosen Bunkern: Die erste Partys...
Mijk van Dijk – Motherwomb EP – Frisbee Records 073
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...
Phobia – Phobia (DJ Hell-Remix) – Gigolo Records
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...
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