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...
Finally the COMPLETE TV documentation about a typical weekend in the Berlin techno scene from 1993 is online. Some of you might know the video on Google. Well, that is NOT the complete version, the first 2 minutes are missing. Witness a typical DJ day at legendary...
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...
Here's an interview Mijk gave for eventpage, a German electronic music partydate portal. In German language. Main focus is on his project Plato and his work with DJ Hell and Namito. Spacelounge: Du warst einer der ersten Live-Performer überhaupt in Deutschland. Wann...
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...
Here's an interview by Nachtagenten with Mijk van Dijk. Main focus is on his project Plato, in German language. Interview mit Mijk van Dijk | Plato ? Seine Diskographie umfasst mehrere Seiten. Fügt man die zahlreichen Kollaborationen, Remixe und Beiträge zu...
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...
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....
Dutch Web Magazine Laptoprockers did an interview with Mijk about his production work and current projects. In English language. MIJK VAN DIJK IN CONTROL Monday, November 13, 2006 Mijk van Dijk, who has been on the forefront of the Electronic Dance Music scene since...
DJ Hell and Mijk van Dijk have been producing together already back in 1994 on the tracks "Herz" and "Hot On The Heels Of Love" for Hell's debut album "Geteert & Gefedert". Now they stick their heads together in the studio again and here's the first result: a...
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...
Today I gave a workshop at the DJ School G. Martell in Mexico-City together with my friend DJ Klang. I explained my philosophy of DJ and production work and also showed how to quickly mash-up some randomly chosen traditional Mexican music with a modern dance beat....
Here's an interview in German language for MEMI Musicbase. Mijk talks frankly about his new album Everyground, his musical origins and how he works in his studio, all in German language. Mijk van Dijk im Interview In diesen Tagen erscheint mit "Everyground" das...
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...
In 2000 I had the honour to provide music for 2 PlayStation 2 video games: Ridge Racer V, a starting title for the PS2 and Armored Core 2, a robot fighting simulation. I've been a fan of the predecessor of both games, so I was very delighted to work on this. The...
Japanese TV visited Mijk in the summer of 1998 in his Berlin studio next to Wittenbergplatz and produced a nice video feature . Long-haired Mijk explains how he works with drum machines, synthesizers, samplers and Cubase on his first Macintosh computer. Note from...
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? 😉
In November 1996 I toured with my Marmion partner Marcos López through Australia, playing Marmion shows in Brisbane, Adelaide, Melbourne and Sydney. While Marcos was playing a long DJ set, Mijk presented a collection of Marmion tracks plus some of his own...
This was one of the first projects of Studio !k7: the experimental computer-animated movie Escape To Trancyberia, which was released on VHS Video on September 18th 1995. The track listing is impressive, featuring Speedy J, X-Dream, Commander Krilly, Masa and more. I'm...
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...
In 1993, my friend Marcos Lopez and me composed a classic which two decades later still spreads ecstasy and goose bumps on the dance floors around the world. The Marmion Berlin EP was composed and produced in my studio in Schöneberg and hence one...
Little did Mijk van Dijk and Marcos López know back in 1992 that they would only one year later release an EP with a track called Schöneberg which would stand as a classic of Techno music even decades later. In 1992 Mijk had just released his first EPs and in...
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