mijkfunk's second release on nuFunkFiles (AKA nuFF) ties in where "Are Friends Digital?" ended: again no House nor Techno but more NuFunk from Berlin. Written in early 2010 "Kids Want Revolution" seems like the definite description of what we see on the streets of the...
April 7th 2010 was a disasterous day for Japan. An earthquake and a tsunami hit Japan and destroyed the coastal region north of Tokyo. The nuclear reactor of Fukushima was damaged and leaked. Since Mijk is connected to Japan since 1994 through many gigs and...
In the advent of the forthcoming debut album of The Chaenge, the duo of Florian Schirmacher and Mijk van Dijk you can catch a glimpse and things to come on this video taken on their live performance at Zur Seuten Deern in the heart of the infamous Reeperbahn in...
Mijk got a brandnew bag. "I just felt that I finally had to follow my first love in electronic music, which was the Boogie Funk of the early 80s and of course Prince, Prince, Prince." Before House music, he played the bass in local Funk bands. So Mijk started a party...
When Mijk van Dijk DJed at Tokyo's super club WOMB during his tour through Japan in November 2010, he was filmed by the good people from Red Bull TV for their program Night Flight, that transmits complete sets from the best DJs of the world in the best clubs in the...
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...
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....
My first mijkfunk Liveset. No funky house or funky techno. I call it NuFunk. Live and direct and soon out on my forthcoming label. Stay tuned and don't touch that dial!!!! :-)If you missed it at Maria, here's the original recording. Enjoy a different taste of Mijk.
It's been almost 7 years since the last offering of remixes for the Marmion classic "Schöneberg", produced by Marcos Lopez & Mijk van Dijk back in 1993. We think it was worth the wait since the new versions by no other than DJ Hell, Abe Duque,Donnacha...
Yesterday night was special: again I co-produced music for a Michael Michalsky event at the Berlin Fashion Week together with DJ Hell, like the last 3 Michalsky shows before. Just this time, at the Michalsky Style Night at Tempodrom I also produced and performed the...
The Chænge is a dynamic NuFunk duo from Germany. Singer and keyboarder Florian Schirmacher is recently getting all deserved attention for his vocal-and-production work in projects like Wareika, Federleicht, Hatikvah, Glowing Glisses and Prime Origin, resulting in...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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....
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...
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