Finn Johannsen – Back To Front

Posted: June 11th, 2004 | Author: Finn | Filed under: Mixes | Tags: Armando, Front, Hamburg | No Comments »

I’ve been to countless clubs in my life, but Front Club in Hamburg, which ran from 1983 to 1997, is still the best club I ever had the privilege to witness. This mix contains some personal faves played there in the late 80s to early 90s, a period I particularly loved. I was young, fresh in love and the music might have been called house, might have been called techno. In fact, nobody really cared.

The photo depicts the sign from the club’s ladies room. Front started out as a gay club, later women were tolerated, but the ladies room was still mostly occupied by men. Again, nobody really cared.

One morning after dancing there all night long, I woke up lying on the floor of a friend’s appartment, and the sign was stuck on the front of my t-shirt. I had no idea whatsoever how it ended up there. I will post some more background on the club at a later point, but this incident sums up the place quite adequately.

101 – Rock To The Beat
Foremost Poets – Reasons To Be Dismal?
Jam To It Again – Aquarius
Kenny Dope – Jam The Mace
House Of Venus – Dish And Tell
No Way – Sound In The Air
Royal House – I Can’t Quite Understand
Rhythm Warfare – Two Notches
Cybersonik – Technarchy
Mental Mayhem – Joey’s Riot
The Untouchables – Trippin’
Armando – 100% Of Dissin’ You
33 1/3 Queen – Searchin’
Steve Poindexter –Work That Motherfucker
Outlander – Vamp
Sound Factory – Cuban Gigolo
Bizarre Inc – Playing With Knives
Steve Poindexter – Computer Madness
N-Joi – Malfunction
Bobby Konders – Let There Be House
Brian Harris – H2O
Earth People – Reach Up To Mars

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