I recently tested the wonderful Varia Instruments RDM40-Rotary Mixer for Bonedo and recorded a short vinyl set that I would like to share with you. I grabbed a few techno 12's from the shelf, that I loved to play around the edge of the millenium in clubs like Tresor...
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...
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 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...
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...
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...
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...
This is just the music of the August 2013 episode 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 with presentation and IDs, go listen to it HERE! Mijk van...
music 4 the microglobe, the long hot summer edition, live on cuebase-fm again this Sunday, August 4th at 10pm CET (Berlin time). What a way to chill out from your weekend! Transmission on XLTRAX from Canada is every Thursday 11pm EDT. That’s Friday 5am CET (Berlin...
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...
Soon out on DVD: a spectacular documentation about the very first years of the German Techno scene, done by the team who is also responsible for the brilliant Slices-DVD-Music Magazine. It's called "We Call It Techno" and besides early film footage about those...
The latest issue of Berlin city magazine Zitty 11/2007 (available from May 24 to June 6) features an interview with Tanith, Wolle XDP and Mijk van Dijk about their impressions of the first days of Techno in Berlin along with many oldschool pictures by nightlife...
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