Why it is important again today to live the values of the Techno movement
I don’t know anyone who questions his streaming habits. Do you? Hardly anyone realizes how harmful online streaming is to climate, be it series, movies, music or other digital content. No matter how environmentally conscious we try to give our best for sustainability in everyday life, we eventually reach a Read more…
When you enter the universe of the Techno and House DJ culture of Berlin, you will inevitably come across Oliver Marquardt alias DJ Jauche. His desire to become a DJ sprouted already in the mid80s, still in the GDR. Before the fall of the Wall, DJ Jauche completed an apprenticeship Read more…
Kay-Uwe Lenk aka DJ DASFAX At the time, a lively scene was developing in Berlin around a new subgrenre of Techno: Electroclash – as celebrated by Fischerspooner with elements from Punk, New Wave and Electro. Clubs like the WMF or the Cookies were among the most prominent players of this new musical current with DJ Hell – who already played the Read more…
Kay-Uwe Lenk aka DASFAX The Techno scene had its dark sides. It was also the case in Hanover’s Techno scene – the abuse of hard drugs. My friend Daniel perished from it. It wasn‘t my thing to party during the week. I preferred to flood my ecstasy hangover with plenty Read more…
Kay-Uwe lenk alias DASFAX As a youth of the mid80s who took an increased interest in experimental music, I experienced how influential acts such as Anne Clark, New Order, Depeche Mode or Soft Cell – representatives of the electronic avant-garde of their time, parallel to mainstream music – became my favourite musical genre. Their Read more…
Since Techno music arose in Detroit more than 30 years ago, a complex number of generically related music styles have been created. From that time on, Techno music producers and DJs followed their intention to produce the sound of the time in accordance to their musical likes and to give Read more…
The summary of Detroit techno history The young Techno-Heads of Detroit did not want to hand over their brainchild to the big capitalist music publishers dominating the market and let adhesion contracts deprive them of their creativity and intellectual property. The musicians known as the Belleville Three launched their own labels. One Read more…
Kay-Uwe Lenk alias DASFAX My love for electronic music began during the mid80s. In the Techno and House music clubs of Germany, eclectic musical currents developed, and the sound which influenced me most came from Berlin, Detroit and the UK. This sound is still playing a major role in my current DJ sets. The master keywords of my Read more…
The negative impact of the Corona crisis is difficult to grasp at the moment, and what lies ahead shakes any self-confidence, sets feelings astray or petrifies us. But it is time to recover from the palsy, to take the instructions from those in power seriously and to stop physical contact Read more…
The radio show Electrifying Mojo by Charles Johnson in Detroit with its versatile program represented a fundamental idea which was liberated from the predominant conventionalizations. Not only was the music selection unorthodox – with a mixture of Kraftwerk Prince , B-52s or Parliament – but Johnson also spoke about issues like tolerance, respect and solidarity. And this message Read more…