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Clear The Floor @ Soju Bar, 10.3.2012

Finn Johannsen – Tanzdiele, Kiel, 1996

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

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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″

Your record choice for the lonely island?

“Sister Sledge – Thinking Of You”

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Peter Kruder – Xenomorph / Vespertilio

MACRO M26 Peter Kruder – Xenomorph / Verspertilio

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Finn Johannsen – Tanzdiele, Kiel, 1995

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

Carl Craig Presents Paperclip People – The Climax

Moodymann – The Day We Lost The Soul

Chaser – Sides Of Iron

Terence FM – Stay Around

DJ Sneak – Manos Que Tocan

Blaze – Moonwalk

Edit Etiquette

Contributed some thoughts on edits for Will Lynch’s feature at Resident Advisor.

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.”

Finn Johannsen – To The Bone Guest Mix

Mix recorded for to the bone. Check here for tracklist.

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)