I am quite sure that Mario Marino aka Madeo would have loved to see Conchita Wurst's historic victory at the Eurovision Song Contest 2014. My former studio and live act partner Johannes Talirz and me worked with Madeo on several demos in 1991 that never saw the light...
I would like to take the opportunity of today's edition of Sunday Music to celebrate the official video release of Die See im Sinn. This great ambient tune was taken from the no less great album komische welt by Jette von Roth. The idea for this video was...
...are revived every once in a while, when MySpace sends love letters to make you revisit your old page. I particularly liked this one, pictures from my one and only mijkfunk Live gig at Maria Club (now MAGDAlena) in Berlin.BTW, here's the original post to that gig.
Little did Mijk van Dijk and Marcos López know back in June 1992, that they would write a techno classic called Schöneberg only about one year later. MFS Records had just released the ground-breaking compilation Tranceformed From Beyond, often called "the first Trance...
"Oiran do chu", my collaboration with Japanese girl duo DAFTY will be released on SHIBUYA Oiran Warm Up Music Compilation on Oiran Music on April 9th. First announcements in the net are out, like on Natalie, an important music info service in Japan. Japanese fans can...
It's DAFTY days in my studio in Berlin-Schöneberg. Just recently I co-produced a track with them for Oiran Music, the new Japanese label established by Venus, the owner of Oiran, my favourite bar in Tokyo. It's called "Oiran-dochu" and is a celebration of going out,...
As usual the Japanese WIRE festival releases a compilation. When I played there for the first time in 1999 I wrote a tune called Lite My Wire to celebrate the festival and my friends in Japan. This time again I took the opportunity to do something special. I am a big...
"The moonlight in his eyes the spotlight in his eyes, is ecstasy, is honey, distilled from old desire, mixed with liquid fire." This is a first sneak peek on my new collaboration with Berlin's Benno Blome, head honcho of Sender Records. We created two tracks in his...
Remember the time, long before Soundcloud, Traktor and Ableton, when DJ mixtapes were still special? Raw recordings from a night in a club with no strings attached, copied and shared tape by tape like secret knowledge. When Marcos Lopez and me aka Marmion heard a...
2 Decades Of Berlin Club Sound sqeezed into one nice compilation. Also featuring the original version of Marmion's "Schöneberg", the evergreen by Mijk van Dijk and Marcos López. Nerd fact: Schöneberg is the district in Berlin, where Mijk lives and where this track has...
In the September 2012 issue of German De-Bug magazine Alexandra Dröner transcribed an interview she had led with Marcos López and myself about the history of our Marmion track Schöneberg. Here's the link to the article on Marcos' website. The illustration in De-Bug...
On a hot summer day, Mijk van Dijk and long-term friend Joshua Kirkby from Sydney sat down in Mijk’s studio in Berlin and created „Tool“, a slow boogie burner, that Mijk has been road-testing ever since in his NuFunk DJ sets. It was clear that this little gem had to...
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...
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...
Jette von Roth's wonderful groovy tune "Wogen" ("Waves") has been given the remix treatment by Mijk van Dijk, Oliver Ton, Robin Masters Orchestra aka DJ Jauche and Jette herself. Now available on Beatport and your other favourite download shops. Jette also conceived a...
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...
It's about time to introduce you to mijkfunk. Mijk is gonna take off to explore new ground, which is actually going back to his roots: Funk Music. When Mijk bought his first Roland TR-505 Drum Machine back in the late 90s, he wanted to create Minneapolis Funk like...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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