junkuhn.

Berlin born Junkuhn. started to collect records at the early age of 7 from his first pocket money. Listening to them on his dads stereo. His passion for music was followed by going clubbing at a very young age. In late 93, he had a ground breaking experience when he listened to Jeff Mills in the Berliner Tresor who was mixing on 3 decks, a keyboard and a 909. That was pure live music, just like a band would perform, he says.

Junkuhn. straight away got on the decks himself and started mixing the funky side of techno influenced by early acid house. In late 94, he met DJ Danijel Alpha (Sweden) and became resident at his Berlin club 1200 (Icon). Later he became resident at the TBC Berlin and part of a project run by Dimitri Hegeman (owner of the Tresor Berlin) called Tagesangebot (translated: todays offer). This was followed by several outdoor events like the Wittwien festival. Junkuhns music style became more and more influenced by deep house grooves and breakbeats. Merging his influences by playing and mixing deep house, funky techno and breaks in his sets, he quickly made a name for himself. Creating high-octane DJ sets through extraordinary mixing skills, including 3 decks & EFX mayhem and 10 hour marathons.
Its about giving a live experience to the people, he says. He always pushed his DJ sets further than just playing records and mixing the same 4/4 tempos and sounds together! Junkuhn. played the 96 and 97 Loveparade Berlin and also in 98 alongside DJ Sneak and Gene Farris. In late 98, Junkuhn. decided to move to London. After setting up his own studio there (catrax), he established himself as a versatile producer and remixer reaching from down-tempo groovy house over break beats to funky, pumping techno. In 2001, he founded the underground tech house night Bluebeat. and hosted, throughout 2001/02, a weekly homogenous radio show with his resident DJ Tyrrell from Interfearence on the world-wide www.pulseradio.net.
In 2003, Junkuhn. met fellow DJ and producer Matt James and formed the JJcorp. The team produced, played and promoted an intimate club night called Magua around London. Junkuhn. toured Slovakia in late summer 2003, bringing the unique JJcorp. sound to Eastern Europe. After touring throughout Slovakia, he packed up his studio and moved to Bratislava, Slovakia concentrating his energies more and more towards studio work.
He produces under the name of Junkuhn. including various collaborations with artists like Matt James and also works as a sound engineer under the synonym Sonically Yours for electronic music artists, projects and bands. He returned in mid 2006 to DJ-ing and playing live, pushing the digital DJ revolution of today forward using mainly Ableton Live & TraktorDJStudio3, today Vinyl Records feel like a dinosaur to me, technology simply enhances the possibilities of what we are doing, he says. He is also co-creator, program manager and resident DJ (Running his monthly night called FREAKED with guests like Simon Baker, Matt James, Marvin Shamma, Burnski, Daniel Kyo… ) of the in 2007 established electronic music club SONICLAB, Bratislava. [see top friends section]. He returned to his hometown Berlin in 2008… I made my myspace layout using Pimp-My-Profile.com