Musically I came from an indie/soul background. Since the mid 80s, I've been following hip hop and house/disco closely. The time I had starting playing at the milk! was an adventurous time for music. I was eager to pick up the vibe. I played a pretty wild mix of the things I was so much attracted to: indie dance remixes, post Chicago/acid US house, Sheffield bleep, London breakbeat, proto jungle, UK hardcore, Detroit records, European techno, Italo house and I don’t know what else …
The milk! is still considered to be one of the important venues in the German club history, not least because it’s said that Sascha and I were the first to really succeed with UK breakbeat and early Jungle in Germany. The club was featured on four pages in the February/match 2007 issue of the Groove magazine, for more milk! nostalgia try to grab a copy from a friend (probably have to mention that it was written by myself) …
Pretty busy times followed, we even played Mayday in 1992. Each Friday, we hosted the XS club in Frankfurt from 1993 until summer 1994. Jungle had become dark and formed a world of its own. I still followed what was happening on the scene, but as jungle (or then drum'n'bass) and other genres of music could no longer live peacefully together on one dance floor, I decided to stop playing it. Instead I returned to what I regarded as my roots.
Various residencies later, my friend Sebastian 'Seebase' Dresel and I finally had realized our idea of a kind of post-rave successor of the milk! with the Boogiebar in March 1997 (the nights were held in Mannheim's 'Lagerhaus', it lasted until late 2000). It was incredibly successful from the very beginning on. The queues on the door were often sheer endless. Which is even more remarkable for various reasons: we never announced our dates in magazines, guest DJ appearances were even rarer than in the milk!, there were no DJ names on the flyers, and we were not flooding the world with flyers. It was a word of mouth thing. Instead of flyers, we were using invitations. Similar as in the the milk!, the main room was in a basement with low ceiling, and the sound system was really huuuuuuuge! There were only a few clubs in Germany that could compete with the intense sound of the Boogiebar main floor. I still feel blessed that I had the honour to play in this club. There was nothing coming close to the Boogiebar.
Apart from being a rather un-professional DJ, I was part of Groove magazine's editorial staff from 1994-1999. Since 1997, I have also been writing bits and pieces for Spex, including the columns "Loaded", "Full Swing" and now "Direct Cuts" (alternating with Gerd Janson).