Name: Front 13.Geburtstag 1996 by Boris Dlugosch
Duration: 1 h 40 min 34 s
Description: A year before it's closing we celebrated FRONT's 13th Birthday in march 1996. Enjoy this recording of legendary club FRONT in hamburg.

Thank you to my biggest fan, Thomas Fath, for finding this gem in your Tape Collection.

FRONT 05.06.1994 Boris Dlugosch

Another tape provided by Thomas Fath - Thank you

Boris FRONT 1993

A night at the FRONT Club in Hamburg in Dec. 1992 ! Mixed live with 2 Thorens TD524 and a mixer. Special thanks to Olaf Richter for the tape!

FRONT Saturday 5.12.1992

Danke an Maja für das schöne Tape und an Merve fürs digitalisieren!!

Silvester an der FRONT Dlugosch 31 12 1995

A year before it's closing we celebrated FRONT's 13th Birthday in march 1996. Enjoy this recording of legendary club FRONT in hamburg.

Front 13.Geburtstag 1996

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MIXED EMOTIONS 15 years later. 

A long time ago, in another lifetime, i had a big nightclub in Montreal called Sona, and i djed at that night club every friday night from 3-7am….
it was about a hundred times less glamorous than it sounds. yes i was an owner and a dj but i was also playing techno to a big room that mostly wanted house, and i had already had my glory years as a young rave dj, and all in all i was starting to wonder where it was all heading. Musically i was playing less and less inspiring music to less and less inspired people, myself included. Inspiration has a cycle to it, and around 99 i was at a low point. But slowly in the background , gaining momentum….there was a new sound creeping in (as is always the case, you have to listen very carefully to hear it) ….. those strange records you secretly love, but for some reason feel afraid of playing. they feel too weird, or too challenging, so you put them on a tape…. or you listen in the car, building up a whole fantasy of how glorious the world would be if you could just play THOSE tracks.The tracks i was slowly building up could be loosely called electro. Not the classics really, not straight 808 or Miami bass,  but a new strain with a heavy 80’s influence…. Dutch records from emerging masters like I-F, and german ones introducing Kraftwerk inspired kids like Anthony Rother: crucially a generation of techno and house kids looking for something more. they were small records, B-sides, delicate, hand picked. I felt nobody cared…. but i was in love. 

Turns out it was my turn to do a mixcd, which was a big deal at the time, at least for me. Because i owned the label, and the club, i could indulge in the classic textbook indulgment move: a DOUBLE album. i wanted to hedge my bets. I also wanted to introduce myself to the world. CD1, since forgotten to history, was the sound of what i was playing at Sona at the time…..good techno, early Swedish stuff, some classic bombs, solid late 90’s techno. it was “good”. i’d give it a solid 7 on 10. at best. 

But the second CD….. this was my baby, my labor of love, my manifesto….. i took all those special records i had been saving, and put them together. hiding in the musical shadow of the “safer” mainroom CD, i did what you should always do anyway— i just played what i truly adored. 

i called the second disk “electro-funk” and the whole package was called MIXED EMOTIONS, a reflection of my state of mind at the time (at a key moment in the artwork process, i heard Michael Douglas prophetically say ”mixed emotions” in a movie, sealing the deal). I was really happy with the results, which even included some very basic stabs at production (an intro)…

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Tiga - Mixed Emotions (CD2 Bonus Electro Funk)  15 years later.

Feel free to help completing the tracklist via the comments. I will add them here:

1. STATIC - The Native Dance // Strictly Rhythm
2. D-MAGNIFY - Manifestation
3. HEYCHILD - Heychild's Theme // Network
4. STEVE POINDEXTER - Night Flight
5. HI-RYZE - Ride the Rhythm // Brainiak
6.
7. KENNY "DOPE" GONZALES - Angelo's Groove // Dopewax
8. FRIENDS OF MATTHEW - Out There // Pulse-8
9. RADICAL RHYTHMS - What's that ?? // SLK Records.
10. ADÉ - Free your Soul // Shut up an Dance
11. BOBBY KONDERS - Let there be House // NuGroove
12. OCTAVE ONE - I Believe // Transmat
13. STEVE POINDEXTER - Mental Problems
14. INDIAN OCEAN - School Bell // Sleeping Bag
15. MIKE DEARBORN - New Dimensions // Muzique Rec.
16. ARMANDO - Snare your Ass off // Warehouse Rec.
17. PLEZ - Can't Stop // Plezure Rec.
18. FOREMOST POETS - Reasons to be dismal // NuGroove
19. M.T.S. - Time to Overload // Razor Records
20. ARMANDO - Circus Bells // Dance Mania
21. EMF - I Believe // Parlophone
22. SANDÉE - Notice Me // Fever Rec.
23. REVELATION - First Power // Atmosphere Rec.
24. UNTOUCHABLES - Trippin // Strictly Rhythm
25. SIR LOUIE-N-PRIME - Get Up And Move //DNA Rec.
26. NICOLETTE - Single Minded People // Shut up and Dance
27. BIZARRE INC. - It's time to get Funky // Blue Chip
28. SUBURBAN KNIGHTS - The World's
29. BROOKLYN FUNK ESSENTIALS - Change the Track // Minimal Rec.
30. BREAK THE LIMITS - Fire Away // BTL
31. STATIC - (Oh, again ?? Must have been brandnew that night!)
32. THE PRINCE & THE WIZARD -  The Music is Kickin // City Limits
33. DREAM 2 SCIENCE - My Love turns to Liquid // Power Move Rec.
34. ROOTS FOUNDATION - Aye-Le // Cabaret
35. S.POINDEXTER - Computer Science // Muzique Rec.

FRONT Dlugosch 09 03 1991

"Entschuldigen Sie, bitte, ich suche eine Partey in Jena Citey"

Eine legendäre Nacht, von der man sich noch heute in Jena erzählt. Lange in Kisten verschollen, gibt's den Mix von DJ Koze aus dieser Nacht jetzt für alle. Here comes the sun...

Bericht: www.szenemag.de/mag/html/reviews/r2002/021221kassablanca/review.htm

DJ Koze at Kassablanca, Jena (21.12.2002)

first hour of my set at Watergate on January 12th.

WatergateNacht-1sthour

Dieses Tape wurde mir von Frank Seidel zur Verfügung gestellt. Danke!

Attitude FRONT Boris 22.12.1993

FRONT Boris 14 01 1989

One of Germany’s leading house music lights, Boris Dlugosch’s chameleon-like approach has helped him to amass an incredibly enviable catalogue of grooves that continues to grow every year.

Releasing on illustrious labels like Gerd Janson's RUNNING BACK,  Classic Music, Defected, Suara, Toolroom Records and Poker Flat Recordings in recent times, Dlugosch’s chunky basslines, crisp percussion and earworm melodies have found their way to all corners of the house music scene. His successful working relationship with Purple Disco Machine yielded L.O.V.E. and Set It Out, which both hit the #1 spot on Traxsource and the Top 5 on Beatport, as did Peppermint Jam’s 20th anniversary remix package of his classic Keep Pushin’.

Keep Pushin’ was the track that broke him through onto the global house scene in the mid-’90s in a big way. Germany wasn’t exactly a hotbed of house music talent at the time—making him somewhat of a rarity—and it soon became clear with further anthems like Hold Your Head Up High that he was a producer with a serious sense of musicality as well as dancefloor prowess. After this series of club smashes, the big-name remixes started to roll in: Aaliyah, Mary J Blige, Adeva, Randy Crawford… and then came that remix for Moloko’s Sing It Back, a huge crossover track that became the official radio version and hit #4 in the UK Singles Chart. Next came reworks for Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Jamiroquai, Mariah Carey, Moby…

Eventually growing wearisome of the declining funky house / garage sounds of the era, Dlugosch discovered a new-found love for the French electro scene in the mid-noughties, releasing Bangkok on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound imprint and Cycle on Lektroluv Records (complete with a remix from Etienne De Crecy), with the likes of 2manydjs, Boys Noize and Laurent Garnier all throwing their weight behind his updated sound.

After the electro scene became saturated and the times progressed once again, he metamorphosed into the producer we know him as today, taking a modern approach to classic house music that draws on multiple influences. “I constantly check for new tracks and absorb what’s out there” he says of his hunger for new sounds and styles. “We all change constantly!” he adds of his—and indeed others’—evolution over the years. “I don’t want anyone to pigeonhole me”. And nor should they. When you have as much musical talent as Dlugosch, it’s criminal to keep making the same sounds over and over again.

A Boiler Room Berlin set in 2013 introduced him to a new generation of house music lovers, and his regular In The Mix uploads on SoundCloud give a good idea of what can be heard in his rocking club and festival sets. Upfront house meets garagey classics and disco cut-ups, dashes of electro, acid and deep melodic moments to give a well-rounded selection that perfectly marries house music’s past, present and future. 

He is also an erstwhile label owner, having set up Golden City Sounds in 2013 with Digitalism’s Isi and HEY TODAY!’s Raik Fargo—but the imprint is currently dormant. He’s eyeing up the possibilities of launching a new label, but only when it feels right and makes sense on a creative level. We live in hope.

A true legend who continues delivering the goods today, Boris Dlugosch is one of house music’s real treasures.

Front 13.Geburtstag 1996

Boris Dlugosch

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