Magda initially connected with T.B. Arthur while he was working at Hard Wax, the infamous Berlin record store. Their first release reflected a shared fascination with live electronics. Blotter Trax then evolved into a driving main floor act with releases on Frustrated Funk (via Rotterdam’s legendary Clone Records), a UK live debut at Fabric, London and their first live tour of Japan. 

Blotter Trax are currently recording an album, featuring contributions from artists including Nina Hynes, Ilhem Khodja, Hannes Strobl and Shigeru Tanabu. Magda and T.B. Arthur recently premiered their new Blotter Trax live set in Berlin and Sofia, featuring this new material. 

Thank you: Sonder Sara, Antonia, Iliyan, Natalie, Maxi Storrs and everyone who came to party that night, what fantastic energy!

Blotter Trax (Magda & T.B. Arthur) Live at Studio EW, Sofia 07.12.19

As long as we have music then we’ll be fine

Nicola Pappolla was born in Trani on 06/10/1993

Music heals the soul. I’m constantly searching and collecting mixes and make endless playlists. Hopefully someone can get as much joy from them as I do. I love it.

Optimo Music proudly presents “Super Conductor”, a double album by Blotter Trax, out June 23rd.
The collaborative project between techno titan Magda, serial underground aggravator Jay Ahern (aka T.B Arthur) and bassist Hannes Strobl, Blotter Trax’s debut album is a pulsating, thrill-in-minute ride that charts the ongoing dancefloor evolution of a band whose days of mystery and mischief are now a distant memory.
While rooted in electro and acid, the album is impressively low-slung, stylish and funky, with nods towards Blotter Trax’s mutual love of Arthur Russell, early ‘80s NYC downtown disco, leftfield new-wave pop and flash-fried punk-funk.

Growing up as a young boy I remember finding my first unconditional love namely music. Thanks to listening to the radio in the early nineties and to check out the record collection of my parents my knowledge and interest for all different kinds of styles of music grew. 

Some years later I started to play with the first Traktor DJ program and took my first steps in becoming a DJ. 

After sometime I saved up enough money to by my first set of record players and took on the challenge of mixing with vinyl. 

Like everyone practice makes perfect and I noticed that I found something where I enjoyed being focussed on for hours which was exceptional for me at that time in my life.

Anyway to make this long story short :) 

Know I'm at the stage that I feel that my mixing skills and feel for music are good enough to share with you all.

Hope you enjoy listening to my mixes and send me a private message for booking ;).

Cheers,

JeanDao