How I see House
I am fascinated by entertainment: feeling exactly what House is about together with the guests. Whether it is a handful of guests or thousands - the commitment and energy are the same.
I play House in a very broad sense. Today Funky House is my focus, Piano and Uplifting House almost always come with it, but it can also go Tech House, Future House or Melodic. And if you want it more commercial, you get Dance on top - the right sound for every occasion. Not being stuck in one niche is what makes up my style.
How I build an evening
I like to work in familiar melodies and hooks so people recognise them - but always in a House and club sound. How the evening sounds depends on the concept and the guests: sometimes more club, sometimes more commercial. After 29 years on the decks, I know what an evening needs.
From Funky to Hard House
- Funky & Disco House - groove, horns, disco samples - the focus of my sets for packed floors.
- Piano & Vocal House - big voices and piano chords, anthems the whole room sings along to.
- Uplifting House - melodies that lift you up - the goosebump moments at Primetime.
- House Classics - Chicago, New York, the 90s - the roots, in the original or freshly mixed, on vinyl if you like.
- Tech, Future & Melodic - more drive or more depth, when the concept of the evening calls for it.
- Hard & Euro House - evenings in the sound of back then - superclub disco, Dance and Hands Up.
- Dance - for everyone who wants it more commercial - well-known Dance tracks mixed with House grooves.
Where House comes from
At the end of the 70s, disco is at its peak, and Studio 54 in New York stands for that era. At the Paradise Garage, Larry Levan shows how a DJ can tell the story of a whole night. Frankie Knuckles takes that spirit to Chicago - and there, in the 80s, House is born: drum machine, basslines, soul in the voices.
For me, “Only House Music” by Mr. Jack sums up what House means - spoken in the original by Chuck Roberts.
In Germany, House reaches the superclubs in the 90s and 2000s, and with them a huge audience. Today it lives on especially strongly in intimate club nights.
What shaped me
I started out in the superclubs: Hands Up, Dance, Big Room Trance and the Black room. I was inspired by DJs like K.K. Project, Woody van Eyden and Tonka. I was already playing Vocal and French House back then, just not as much as today. I have not forgotten those roots.
I was shaped by records like Vitamino “What I've Got”, Robin S “Show Me Love” and Tonka “She Knows You”. From the Dance era, it is K.K. Project “Everything Counts”, Southside Spinners “Luvstruck” and Jordan & Baker “Explode” - whose theme I later got to reinterpret myself with my official remix of “Dare”.
New to House?
My motto: House from slow to fast, from soft to hard. To get started: my Mixes and Releases.