Steve Lawrence

My first experiences
Everything began 1981 at the tender age of 12 years as I made my first scratch and mix experiences with my first plastics compact system and the help of the ..Phono/Tape..-switch. When the switch was broken after 3 month I knew that I possessed the will and ..the power.. to higher musical tasks. So I ordered myself my first ..DJ.. equipment consisting of two Technics SL-BD 3-record players with belt drive and revolving pitch, any mixer and usual stuff which still belongs to it.
Some years later, 1987, I got my first job in Hamburg at the most announced club of the city the ..TOP 10.. at the Reeperbahn. Fat celebrations, much to drink and a woman occasionally too.. ;o) .. exactly the same I had imagined myself a life as a DJ.
"Acccciiiiiiiddddd !!!"
Then the time of Acid came and much more technoid sounds, which pulled me into their spell. With Jens Lissat I made my first producer experiences and was booked thereafter also by many others because of till then learned scratch skills among other things to support their productions. Together with my youth friend David Fascher (the only one and several times DMC-DJ-Mix champion) I also took part in some DJ-competitions, from which I won few.
It followed a break for a couple of years I retired myself from the public, because I had so many other things on my mind. But for me at home I never stopped to serve music..
Sunday afternoon in Hamburg
In 1996 I just wanted to go again into the offensive and opened a small club at the ..Kiez.. together with a friend, which was called ..ZB-Club... With this opening I wanted to pursue my strategy to don..t run through the clubs of the city in order to distribute Tapes in begging way but the owners of clubs should come in order to hear me.
We still had one problem: how do we get 100 people into our store and how do we escape from competition?
After some considerations we had the solution: we only opened just Sundays and also starting only from 14 o'clock!!! As turned out it was an ingenious concept, because all of celebration-addicted junkies of the town which couldn..t sleep yet came to us.
By our success the other club owners became naturally also curious and appeared in our club. As it should be different.. Thereby I got many other bookings and developed and established since that my standing in Hamburg, by the way where I come from.
Likewise I appeared since then in many clubs of the republic and could also experience some foreign country bookings, f. ex. as one of the Headliners at the first ..Loveparade.. in Zagreb, Croatia an open air event in a football stadium. For me it was an unforgotten experience until today.
Table dance at DOLLHOUSE?
Any time I was asked by an acquaintance whether I wouldn..t have desire to make music in a table dance store after its description which ever didn..t exist in this way in Germany. Spontaneously I said yes and so began my 4 year old activity at Germany..s most well-known table dance store ..DOLLHOUSE.... Probably it is redundantly to be said that ..work.. was a lot of fun to me but the shade side the medal I naturally couldn..t play there my kind of sound but rather a commercially held program.
Good music got a name: ..CreamCrusher..
After 4 years I wanted to break out and didn't let enslave me for this money any more. Together with a good friend who was also fed up with these ..commercial open-plan disco music.. we opened ..CreamCrusher.. few doors further. It was our goal to establish progressive sound (of House, Trance, Electronic and Psychedelic) succeeded to us also. So the name ..CreamCrusher.. became the guarantor for better, more fastidiously, not mainstream-oriented music to our guests.
Today we are recognized of Hamburg..s scene and press as the almost only serious club.
..MUSIC ISN..T ONLY JUST A PASTIME FOR ME, BUT MY ELIXIR OF LIFE, WITHOUT IT LIFE WOULDN..T BE CONCEIVABLE AND MUCH MORE EMOTIONLESS. TO EMOTIONLESS..
(I thank the one who invented the note..)