Opening night of SWEET SUNDAY a weekly early sunday evening party at Hamburg's infamous CAFÉ KEESE Nightclub.

Sweet Sundays 23.6.96 Boris

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

FRONT 05.06.1994 Boris Dlugosch

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

Silvester an der FRONT Dlugosch 31 12 1995

The Heartbeat of the Dance Floor is  grateful for David DePino’s generosity in sharing with us these rare recordings of Larry Levan playing live at the Paradise Garage.  Digitized from the original cassettes they were recorded on, David had unique access to the equipment in Larry’s DJ booth enabling him to record the cassettes. We felt these files would be a perfect accompaniment to David’s interview on our podcast THBOTDF, Episode #005

Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor Paradise Garage SOUNDCLOUD for David DePino episode #005

Heartbeat Of The Dance Floor Paradise Garage NYC

1. MORPHENA & NARCISS Per Aspera Ad Astra
2. RED RACK’EM Italo Disco Banger
3. THIS AIN’T CHICAGO Ride The Rhythm
4. SOUND ON SOUND Sweat
5. JOVONN Pianos Of Gold (Ian Pooley)
6. 90ASES Streetpoet (Axel Boman)
7. KARIZMA DNA Dub
8. MOODYMAN I Can’t Kick (Riva Starr Edit)
9. MATEO & MATOS Release The Rhythm
10. TIGER STRIPES I Heard It Through The Bassline
11. Z FACTOR Gotta Keep On (Salt City Orchestra)
12. SYNCBEAT Music (B.Dlugosch Mix) 
13. LOOSE ENDS Emergency (Dial 999)
14. SUPERSHY Feel Like Makin Love 
15. MOOD II SWING Move Me
16. CARIBOU Come Find Me

Boris Dlugosch October Mix 2024

Tracklist:

BLACKBYRDS Mysterious Vibez (Sam v. Hoorn) // Fantastic Voyage
TIGER & WOODS Ginger & Fred // T & W Rec.
THE RAW INTERPRETER Dusty Funk // Warm Sounds
DJ SNEAK The Hot Shit // Magnetic
CASH OUT FEAT. WALE 'Hold Up' (DJ E-Clyps) // Promo
TRAUMPRINZ NY Diva has been set on Fire // Traumprinz
HOUSE OF STYLEZ Buttermilk Bottom // H.O.T.
LUKAS NYSTRAND VON UNGE In my Heart // Barnhus
KAPOTE Uhh Baby (Brame & Hamo) // Toytonics
808 STATE In Yer Face (Bicep) // Feel my Bicep
UNIT 2 Sunshine (KiNK) // Running Back
YELLO Bostich (Jamie 326 Edit) // Strobelight Honey
BFC It’s a Shame // Fragile
ZAPPE Larry’s Exotic Blend (Joesky) // Classic
PHIL GERUS Make Time // True Romance
BLACK LOOPS Sex // Toytonics

Boris In The Mix #8

Short promo mix of forthcoming Mastermix:

Hamburg’s Front club was already the stuff of legend, when it was still open. When I was teenager on the outskirts of Frankfurt in the very early nineties - and before the name Klaus Stockhausen rang a bell - Boris Dlugosch was not only at the helm of said club, but also one of Germany’s finest purveyors of house music. Front was his home as well as the playground for a colourful bunch of club kids from all walks of life. Its roots went back to the eighties as a gay club and it branched out to anyone who couldn’t „even dance straight “. 
The rumours about this club were strong enough to get people like Playhouse’s Ata on a road trip and have youngsters like me fantasizing about it. The musical menu during that time was the monster house sound from the US and the UK that rotated deepness with hysteric glamour.  
Of course, Front’s sound was finely nuanced. Boris Dlugosch learned his craft from Klaus Stockhausen, who stopped his DJ career in 1992 (because - as he told me in an interview about ten years later - „every Bratwurst wanted to be a DJ all of a sudden“) to pursue a career as fashion editor and stylist.  Stockhausen’s thing as a resident (which actually meant to play at ONE club EVERY week during that time), was a mixture between electro, US-American R&B, British street soul, new wave and the emerging house sound. If you manage to dig up old recordings on the internet (a musical diet I lived on for a few years), there are striking similarities to the way classic US-American DJ would play, while adding a fierce uniqueness that won’t let it pale in comparison. On the contrary, the sound of Front is one of the most interesting, you will ever lend your ears, too. 
So, why a Front mix and compilation 21 years after the club closed its doors? On the one hand, because it’s story hasn’t been told yet and it’s worth telling. On the other one, German clubs like Robert Johnson or Berghain - as divergent as they might are - both resemblance Front’s spirit, diversity and musical open mindedness. And finally, because dancing is still fun.
Even, if putting a compilation like together this took over one year in the making, is peppered with licensing horrors and other obstacles to dreadful to share them here, we are happy to have it done. Spread over a double-CD and two compilation LPs that are mainly chronological, Klaus Stockhausen and Boris Dlugosch picked and mixed some of the club’s most cherished records and sweetest moments. This is the sound of Front. And even, if I was never able to move my feet on its dance floor, I for one would be a very different DJ without it. I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

Front Part 1 Mixed Klaus Stockhausen & Boris Dlugosch (PROMO MINIMIX)

Front Live Mix

Front Boris (B)

DEMI RIQUISIMO Wuya A Samu // SEMI DELICIOUS
LOVE HRTZ Music makes me High // LOVEHRTZ
JAMES PEPPER- Dancefloor Anthem // ESUOH
D.D.S. You can’t go Wrong // AZTONK
JOHNICK  Wild Kingdom // HENRY STREET
TEDDY PENDERGRASS You Can't Hide (Matty Rework) // PEPPERMINT JAM
JOHANNES ALBERT Street Pack // FOUL and SUNK
FELICE Ich Kann auch Saufen Ohne Mich Zu Amüsieren (SHAN) // TURNLAND
ROMAN FLUGEL Garden Party // RUNNING BACK
BLANCMANGE Living On The Ceiling (R.Flugel) // LONDON
ENDRIK SCHROEDER Everyday of Your Life (M.Passarani) // ZONE
SPACE DIMENSION CONTROLLER 2 Synths & An 808 // DEKMANTEL
M.FULTON PEGGY GOU_Jigoo // GUDU
THE VISION Mountains (D.Krivit Edit) // DEFECTED

Front Boris (B)

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