DJ Duke – Escape From N.Y. Sensorama – Quarzzeit Circulation – Memory Schatrax – First Heartbeat Kevin Yost – Natural High DJ Sneak – Latin Seoul GU – I Need GU 3-Play – Summer Breezz The Ghetto Kids – Summer In The City Sensory Productions – Houseluck Gene Farris Presents The DEB Project – Visions Of The Future Dave Angel – Fever Suburban Knight – Echo Location Trackman – Don’t Stop Pete Conman – The Range Count LoSoul – Open Door Product Of Da Neighbourhood – Living In Brooklyn Global Communication – The Way Wamdue Kids – Memory And Forgetting Moodymann – I Can’t Kick This Feelin When It Hits René et Gaston – Merluche Ideale Mood II Swing – All Night Long Boo Williams – Home Town Chicago Model 500 – I Wanna Be There Jonny L – This Time DJ Linus – Pleasure Netto – Like Ghosts Projekt: PM – When The Voices Come Faze Action – In The Trees Motorbass – Les Ondes
We go back in the days when DJ rooms only existed as an expanding Facebook page. Finn Johannsen, author, label owner and DJ from Berlin sent us his wonderful room, packed full with records. Of course we’ve had a little interview with him…
Tell us and our readers, when you started DJing:
“I’m playing records in public since the mid-80’s”
What else can you tell us about you:
“I’m an author for several mags (de:bug, resident advisor, sounds like me, groove and numerous other print and web publications). I’m also co-running the label Macro Recordings, and working at Hard Wax. I live in Berlin”
The size of your record collection?
“I think around 8000 records”
What equipment do you use in your room?
“2x Technics SL-1200 MK2 turntables, 1x Ecler SmacFirst mixer, 1x Yamaha RX-495RDS Receiver, 1x Harman Kardon HD7300 CD Player, 2x 1970′s Bang & Olufson speakers, 2x JBL Control 1 Pro monitor speakers, 1x Sony MDR-7506 headphones, 1x Technics Stereo Cassette Deck RS-TR373, 1x Technics Cassette Deck RS-B675″
The first of a series of mixes that contain records I most played at my residency at Tanzdiele club in my hometown Kiel, from 1995 to 2001. The artworks are from a fake newspaper form the future that we made for a sci-fi themed night once.
C. Damier & R. Trent – Morning Factory
Millsart – Gamma Player
Ron Trent – Untitled
Round Two – New Day
Chez Damier & Stacey Pullen – Forever Monna
Wamdue Kids – Dreams
4th Measure Men – The Need
Jellybean – Twilight Dome Pt. 2
Ratcliffe – Grape Soda
The Salsoul Crew – Salsoul Mega Mix / Firebird
Whirlpool Productions – It Happened Last Night
Rockers Hi-Fi – Push Push
Daniel Wang – Not Feeling It
Todd Terry – Melissa’s Dream
Romanthony – Ministry Of Love
JohNick – Play The World
Ultra Naté – Party Girl (Turn Me Loose)
The Mole People – Break Night
Green Velvet – Flash
House Music Lovers – Listen Carefully
The S Man Featuring Orchestra 7 – Rhumba
Wildchild – Renegade Master
Ian Pooley – My Anthem
Seven Grand Housing Authority – Love’s Got Me High
Another prevalent argument has more to do with artistic merit. When Tom Moulton and his peers made the first edits on reel-to-reel tape, they were, intentionally or not, designing a musical experience that had never existed before. The same could hardly be said for many of today’s edits. “You have this glut of edits which are no longer interested in diving deeper and deeper,” says Finn Johannsen, the DJ, music critic and Hard Wax employee. “Back then, there were no computers, so beatmatching and the convenience aspect was not the point of it. Today, there are a lot of edits floating around where the only purpose is to make DJing easier.” He finds many of the arguments in favor of edits “valid but lazy. You can always say ‘It’s always been this way,’ and of course it was, but to make that your main mission… it’s just a question of what you’re aiming for as an artist.”
Peter Kruder – Verspertilio Stablo 9996 – A Spekter – Pipe Bomb Container – Rattler Dresvn Feat. Sensational – Bliss (DJ Sotofett’s Orgel Versjon) STL – Mindbender Helium Robots – Jarza (Theo Parrish Translation 2) Mike Huckaby – Baseline ‘87 Terrence Dixon – The Parkhurst Arttu Feat. Jerry The Cat – Get Up Off It Bernard Badie Feat. Muphan – Bones A Made Up Sound – Take The Plunge (Beat Mix) Answer Code Request – Reflected Gerry Read – Roomland Ike Release – Outrun Wax – No. 40004 A Photek – Sleepwalking (Falty DL Remix) The Exaltics – One Circle Auto – Ms. Minnie Philipp Quehenberger – Uffuff (Patrick Pulsinger Out Of The Box Remix) BMG & Sal P – Credit Card Brandt Brauer Frick – Bop (Pépé Bradock Geoduck Dive) Soundstream – Just Around Reel By Real – Untitled 214 – Drift Divin’ Legowelt – Poverties Paradise Peter Kruder – Xenomorph Simoncino – Inga’s Creme (Chez Damier Morning After Mix Part 1) Norm Talley – Tell Me (Late Night Creeper Version) Drivetrain – Driven Gerd – Palm Leaves (Mr Fingers Afropsycojungledub Instrumental Mix) Cosmic Metal Mother – Time Is Now (Fingers Dub Mix) Aggy – 808 Vybzin June – Lost Area (DJ Sprinkles’ Lost Dancefloor)
Erotek – Computer-Aided Poetic Funk (Afrosyntrix) Urban Tribe – RNA World (Rephlex) Spesimen – Angels In My Room (Pomelo) Erotek – Safe Mode (Afrosyntrix) DJ Godfather & Starski – Jits (D.E.T. Only) B. Calloway – No Techno Like Mine (Electrofunk) Fix – Shaftism (Electrofunk) Urban Tribe – Her (Trust) Hardfloor – The Life We Choose (E.R.P. Remix) (Hardfloor) Bounce – Drop The Ball (Electrofunk) Mr. De’ – By The Pound (Electrofunk) DJ Godfather – First Contact (Breakdown Mix) (Twilight 76) E8 – Micropacer 1 (Marguerita) Nuel – Untitled (Aquaplano) Stingray313 – Who’s Watching The Watchers Clatterbox – Genetic Code (Frustrated Funk) Aaron-Carl – Backslash (Afrosyntrix) DJ Assault – U Can’t See Me (Mo Wax) Erotek – FreqU.com (Afrosyntrix) DJ Godfather & Starski – Another Freaks (D.E.T. Only) Mr. De’ – Bass (Electrofunk) DJ Godfather – Backwerdz (Twilight 76) Erotek – DOS Foot (Afrosyntrix) Jodey Kendrick – Untitled (Rephlex) DJ Godfather & Starski – Moments (D.E.T. Only) Art Of Noise – Moments In Love (ZTT)
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