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Anyways, like most of us, my Bio is long (probably slightly longer than most, seeing my venerable age ;) So, in short: all the roads I have ever taken have led me to what really makes me happy: djing, making people happy. I have become a sort of joy junkie, addicted to the nearly naked pleasure I read on faces in the crowd – each giving and getting in turn, all sharing the same natural high, closed circuit style.
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Funky disco in my suitcase and love in my head, I took off from Zambia in the 80’s and landed slap bang in the middle of “farmer†Switzerland. However ready I was for the challenges all young mothers and eager homemakers face, I was totally unprepared for the chilly “polite†Swiss attitude towards foreigners. The sheer force of the ensuing culture shock knocked me to my knees where I stayed for almost 10 years.
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Single again, my African soul was still craving human warmth and friendship, and then I went to my first Acid Techno Party, and in somewhat wander, stumbled into Electronic Music.
Hungry for this exciting new sound the techno world had so generously revealed to me, I soon found myself in a continuous search for parties, scouring flyers, in the quest of the acceptance of complete strangers united in one common symbiosis of emotion released by a perfectly placed beat (you ALL know exactly what I’m talking about), friendly, wonderful people.
I went to every rave or party I could find then fate made sure I did the Electronic Music booking for the VeauDoux Club in Monthey, Switzerland for 5 years. Slowly but surely, in a rather haphazardly fashion, I got to know more and more people involved in the making of these dreams (also a hell of a lot of very weird people but we won't go into that now ;) and the trap deliciously closed in on me when I bought my first pair of Technics.
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One day in the late 90’s, a friend rang up and asked for advice regarding the sale of a track that he’d never gotten paid for, and that was when I realised that people were always asking me that sort of professional advice. Unfortunately was a case of the blind leading the blind - my total ignorance was scary and it dawned on me that all those complex questions could be answered if all those directly involved could come together in the same room, meet each other and let natural communication do the rest. So, the idea of EMCS was born (Electronic Music Convention of Switzerland) uniting Swiss collectives and professionals of the industry by involving them all in a common, knowledge-sharing project. Due to a million reasons I can identify now in retrospect, the event proceeded to become probably one of the greatest financial catastrophes in Swiss event history.
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Broken and beaten, I was about to sell my turntables and my soul to a “real†job when I was invited to be resident Dj in the tiny cellar of an old jazz club and La CauseTek was born. To my amazement I discovered that I could in turn make people happy, all those Hiiihaas! and smiling faces got me hooked. Now I play wherever someone will listen. I am still not able to earn enough to only Dj but I hope that I will be able to soon. I am not a spring chick and so in a few years I will have to stop (or maybe I’ll make parties in old age homes) but for now music keeps me on a ball and chain. I have started producing and hope to contaminate you with a beat virus soon!
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