https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7ajh9C7IMY

DJ HELL - Live At Mixmag Lab London / Rare Edits DJ Set

10 Years of Erick Khalifa / Vol. 4

Insanity

RA Live - 2015.07.27 Nina Kraviz, RA BBC R1 Dance Radio Takeover

Sven Väth - live Hr-Xxl-Clubnight (11.10.2003)

sorry guys I had to delete the 2002 afterhour set. the guy who recorded it complained to me and I deleted it. However here's a Little "Trostpflaster" for your ears. A rare 6 hours set directly from the OMEN, 1996. Even better than the one before...

the Flyer is the original one...

Sven Väth after birthday gathering @ Omen / Frankfurt, Nov 1, 1996

DJ Hell at Tresor Berlin - 20 Years Gigolo Records Anniversary - New Wave Rave Festival

Compiled, mixed and edited by Sven Väth and Richie Hawtin

Also released by Novamute (NOMU109CD)

Richie Hawtin & Sven Väth: The Sound Of The Third Season (2002) MINUS13CD

TROY PIERCE on:
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/troypierce
- SoundCloud: @troypierce

HOW I MET THE BASS on:
- Facebook: www.facebook.com/howimetthebass
- Twitter: www.twitter.com/howimetthebass
- Mixcloud: www.mixcloud.com/HowIMetTheBass

3 QUESTIONS to TROY PIERCE:

Q: Going through your mix offers a huge spectrum of electronic music. Tell us about your selection. How did these tracks have an impact on your later doings?

A: I was a bit overwhelmed at first by the concept of this mix actually, there is so much amazing music that I wanted to include. The more I thought about it though it started to make sense to focus on my time in New York, before I started making music and before I moved to Berlin. I move to New York in January 1994 to attend photography school. When I moved there I went alone and didn’t know a single person in the city, seems kind of crazy now thinking about it but at the time it seemed totally rational. By March 94 I bought my first turntables/mixer and started buying a lot of records. NYC at the time had some great record stores and I lived within walking distance to some of the best ones. The music I was discovering from 1994 - 2002 really formed the foundation of my style and I still play most of these tracks on the mix to this day. There are a quite a few tracks that are “pre” 94 that I came across in shops, some gems that I might have heard on a mix tape or remember from some Chicago/Detroit party. “We Are Phuture” and “Heat It Up” where Chicago classics while “Lyot”, “Glob” and “The Groove” where Detroit bombs. I felt it was really important to include those as I didn’t really find them until I was in NYC. While I was selecting tracks for the mix I was having a hard time editing the selection down so I came up with a “test” for each track… “Does it give me chills”? This simple criteria made it really easy to cut my track listing down from more than sixty to the nineteen  I used on the mix. I have listened to the mix a few times since finishing it and I feel like it’s a really accurate window into where I came from musically. There is a common thread of spooky weirdness that still runs through the music I make and play today. Looking back on this track list I feel really lucky to have been able to experience parties in Chicago and Detroit at such an influential moment in electronic music. The music I heard at those parties guided me through the record stores of New York and helped cultivate my sound.  

Q: You´ve been a producer and DJ for decades. How do you still find motivation and inspiration to keep things running?

A: Not to over simplify it but I still think it’s fun making/playing music that people enjoy.  
 
Q: A statement in your biography says: “I like making and playing weird music for weird people”. So which weird Pierce-music can we expect soon and what´s coming up next on Items & Things?

A: I have a few different projects in the works, one of my oldest friends from New York Jaesun Celebre and I have been working on stuff the last year… spooky techno, what a surprise! There are some older tracks from Marc Houle and I that are planned for Items & Things as well as a new collaboration between us. I also have a collection of “Lost Tracks” that I would like to release, music from the last years that never made it out of the studio but I really like so lets see how that goes.

Troy Pierce - HOW I MET THE BASS #122

Extrawelt live @ Loft Electroclub, Lausanne - Switzerland

Extrawelt live @ Loft Electroclub

All diese Momente werden nicht verloren sein... Wer die mittlerweile dann doch recht lange Geschichte der elektronischen Musik miterlebt hat, hat zahllose DJ-Sets gehört, etliche Nächte durchgetanzt, hunderte Diskurse geführt und viele crazy Storys aus erster oder zweiter Hand erfahren. Musikalische Strömungen und ihre Protagonisten kamen und gingen, Genres und Untergenres entstanden, Stile und Moden entwickelten sich rasant, teils parallel – kurzum die letzten dreißig Jahre hatten für den Connaisseur viel zu bieten.

Wenn dann ein DJ nach all diesen Jahren noch immer für hohe Qualität, Originalität, Coolness und Fortschritt steht, ist das an sich schon etwas sehr besonderes. Wenn aber an einem Abend gleich zwei Protagonisten – auf die dies zutrifft – in einem Club spielen, darf man wohl getrost von einer legendären Nacht sprechen.

DJ Hell und DJ Jonzon stehen für Techno und auch für ihre 1995 auf Disko B erschienene „Hell+Jonzon ‎EP“. Helmut Geier alias Hell stammt aus München, jobbte seinerzeit im Berliner Hardwax hinterm Tresen, bevor er sein Label International Deejay Gigolo Records aus der Taufe hob. Der Berliner Jonzon veranstaltete 1988 gemeinsam mit Dr. Motte die ersten Acid-House-Partys und war Resident im ersten Berliner Techno Club UFO, Tresor und E-Werk. Beide sind DJs, die über Jahrzehnte das Genre geprägt haben, auch mit eigenen Produktionen, vor allem aber durch ihre stilprägenden DJ-Sets. Zwei Gentlemen, die weniger durch Theorie als durch Praxis so viele von uns mitgerissen und inspiriert haben. Beide besitzen die Gabe, einen Club mit einer irisierenden Energie zu füllen, ohne dabei mit Firlefanz und billigen Taschenspieler-Tricks zu blenden – hier erleben wir die verbindende Kraft, die Techno erzeugt, wenn er mit Wissen, Funkyness und Courage präsentiert wird.

Wer wie ich das große Glück in der Vergangenheit hatte, des Öfteren mit einem der beiden die DJ Booth zu teilen, hat immer etwas mit nach Hause genommen. Lehrstunden in Integrität, Attitude und Wagemut, und als Gast fühlt man sich herausgefordert und gleichzeitig safe. Merkwürdig genug, dass beide sehr lange nicht mehr gemeinsam gespielt haben, umso spannender, dass es an diesen Abend im Kassablanca wieder stattfindet. Und wie es der Zufall will, Hell war genau vor 20 Jahren zu Gast im ehemaligen Lokschuppen.

Dazu gesellt sich Maik von der Solid Rotation Crew, welcher Resident im mjut (Leipzig) ist und dort seine eigene Veranstaltungsreihe „Futuro Grande“ betreibt. Italo & Acidhouse steht auf seiner Flagge, getreu der Devise: Rave Strikes Back! ... und ich habe mir den Termin schonmal eingetragen, euer DJ Clé.

DJ Hell @ Rave Strikes Back, 02.10.2019

unframed live - #resist with DJ Hell - 27.12.2020

Unframed live - #resist with DJ Hell - 27.12.2020 (Full Set)

Bookings: jessica@blivemusic.art (Worldwide)
diana@provocateur-booking.de (Gsa)

An unequivocal industry visionary, DJ Hell's career has embodied and then transcended his many guises: Anti-Superstar DJ, International DeeJay Gigolo Label Boss, GQ Man of the Year, Playboy, Jetsetter, Bon Viveur, Munich Machine, New York Muscle. Seeing, and envisioning - that is of enormous relevance to Hell. He managed to convey pure artistic prowess as well as pure style during his thirty year DJ career. The individual look, the do-it-yourself approach, the elitism. That's how it grew.

DJ Hell @ Rave Strikes Back, 02.10.2019

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