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,...
The Neu West Berlin adventure continues tonight. This weekend we will take you a wonderful journey through sounds and motions and all around the world. Today, Friday February 20th it's gonna be all Kampai and Kombanwa, since we will host 3 great Japanese artists in...
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...
To all my Chinese friends and fans: Happy Chinese Year Of The Goat! May it be filled with peace, joy, good luck and good health! And may we meet all soon again!
Welcome to Neu West Berlin. A place in the East of Berlin, where things are slightly different than in other places of Berlin today. It's a temporary place for contemporary cultural actions: art, food, drinks, life, music. A house full of artists, musicians, freaks...
Yesterday I was invited to take part in a press conference on the presentation of Berlins Weg in die Wolken, a new book by Hagen Liebing about the Europa Center building in the West of Berlin, which was erected in 1963. Several contemporary witnesses like the...
1. Luca C & Brigante feat. Roisin Murphy – Invisions – Hot Creations 2. Vincenzo – Into My Heart – Anjunadeep 3. Raoul French – Fastwalker (Jamie Anderson Remix) – Outland Records 4. AFFKT – Txuribeltz (Darlyn Vlys Remix) – Kling Klong 5. Oliver Lieb – Convolution...
I'm looking forward to play again in my "fatherland" The Netherlands after many many years at The Promised Land Open Air Festival between Amsterdam and Haarlem on Juni 13th 2015.Other acts include my friend Dr. Motte from Berlin, Julian Liberator, Sonic Solution,...
1998年代後半に、日本のテレビ番組に出演した時の映像です。ベルリンのKu'damm横にあるスタジオで撮影されました。是非楽しんでください！ 英語のオリジナル記事 日本語訳、岸本 豊 完全な映画！ テクノで踊るラブパレード...
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...
In 1991, a few years after I left Jetzt! (see my story about Jetzt! << here), Bernd Begemann asked me if we could record a song together. It was the year after the German reunification and German nationalist feelings started to grow again here and there. Bernd...
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....
Yesterday I attended the "Trans-Europa-Express" show of Kraftwerk's 8-concert series at Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Each concert puts a different of their classic albums in the spotlight. The Neue Nationalgalerie will be closed for renovation after these concerts,...
In June 2014 Mijk van Dijk gave an interview to Italian DJ Mag which was published in the issue #42. So far this was only published in paper print, not online. By friendly permission of DJ Mag Italia we are now able to post the first big feature of Mijk van Dijk in an...
僕が初めて日本でプレイしたのは、ちょうど20年前でした。その後26回来日し、この素晴らしい国で多くの友達と強い絆を結ぶことができました。 どうしてそうなったの？と時々聞かれるので、今日はぜひこのお話を紹介したいと思います。 当時フロッグマンレコードの佐藤大さんと渡辺健吾さんに招待され、渋谷クラプクアトロでプレイさせてもらいました。以前から友達であるToby Izuiさん(Tobynation)が、フロッグマンレコードに僕を紹介し、彼らとコンタクトを取ってくれていたのです。...
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!...
Dear All, I wish you a Happy Year 2015! May you rise above your shadow and be able to do the things you want to do with the people you care about. I feel that 2015 will be a year of decisions and future developments. The past year 2014 has been very exciting for me....
On Sunday December 28th I attended the 31C3 (31. Chaos Computer Club Congress) in Hamburg. My friend Daniel Domscheit-Berg showed me and my son kindly around and the whole experience was very impressing to say the least. Today I watched 2 online presentations that I...
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...
Exactly 20 years ago I played in Japan for the first time. Since now, I have travelled 26 times to Japan, made many friends and built a strong bond with that amazing country. Sometimes I am asked, how this all happened. I'd like to share this story with you...
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...
1. Tome R – Prixie (Jamie Anderson Remix) – Family Grooves 2. Funk D’Void, Andres Aguirre & Tweakers – Easy Tiger – Outpost 3. Röyksopp – Sordid Affair (Maceo Plex Remix) – Wall Of Sound 4. Bwana – Flute Dreams – Aus Music 5. Anja Schneider – Jimmy – mobilee 6....
It's Christmas time and people are taking their ideas of Christian tolerance to the streets. Or better: not! While self-proclaimed "European patriots" are moaning about their fears of an "Islamistic infiltration", the children of the microglobe know better: we are one...
When thinking about the PEGIDA movement in Germany, I always have a song by Heaven 17 from 1981 in the back of my head: (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang. To me it's the best anti-fascist song ever written because it's focus is on togetherness. "Brothers,...
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...
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...
Just in case you are still looking for Christmas presents: why not give the gift of music history: oral history about the earliest years of Berlin Techno, right before and after the wall came down some 25 years ago. The fantastic book Der Klang der Familie named after...
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...
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