soundscape | dj | music programmer

recent gigs:  

Oct - Mad Tropical - Brooklyn, US 
Sept - Today's Art - The Hague, Holland 
Aug - Sisyphos - Berlin, Germany
Apr - Tankwa (AB) - Capetown, South Africa
Jan - Le Baron - Lisboa, Portugal

As a producer, musician, DJ and serial collaborator, Chris Schwarzwälders distinctive style of deep, restrained house is hard to pin down, but you’ll always know it’s him when you hear it. 

Born in Frankfurt am Main in the 80s, he started playing hiphop in the 90s. While making beats on his MPC2000, he dropped into Offenbach’s Robert Johnson club and fell in love with techno. 

In 2009, Chris moved to Berlin and started DJing at KaterHolzig, where he found a group of people who thought about music in the same way he did. In contrast to the trends of the late 00s, the sounds being made from this little paradise on Berlin’s river Spree were slower, softer, and more soulful than a lot of what was being played in clubs at the time. 

It was here that Chris began to cement his reputation as both a solo producer and collaborator, who was capable of bringing his trademark sounds to a whole number of side-projects - many of which have gone on to play to crowds around the globe. He joined the Feathered Sun collective in 2013, together with a group of friends including Acid Pauli, Nu, Jo.Ke and Raz O’Hara. Dreamy, groovy and often improvised, the collective represented a special kind of musical freedom in which a group of producers came together to create something new in a singular, live moment. 

At the same time, Chris’ friend Mira was making moves of her own, and they started to play back-to-back sets, soundtracking the legendary Monday mornings of KaterHolzig, and now, Kater Blau. The two, who are both residents at Kater Blau, have now been playing together internationally for almost a decade, and have formed a common musical understanding that translates throughout every one of their sets - deep, clubby and melancholic. This partnership has also carried on into the studio, where they have collaborated on numerous hits. 

His most light-hearted side comes out in collaboration with Iannis Ritter, where the two musicians take on a weirder, more melodic & electro approach than Chris’ other proejcts. 

If you were to ask him, Chris would describe himself as reserved, logical, rational, melancholic and humorous. Which is why you’d never hear him telling you about the hundreds of nightclubs and festivals he’s played around the globe, or the number of hits he’s had with his productions. If you’re lucky though, Chris might tell you about his favourite synthesizers, and get lost in a conversation all about electronics and sound. Which is exactly where Chris wants to be - lost in electronics and sound.

Anfisa Letyago Naples based Dj and Producer

MANAGEMENT:
dima@fantastic-management.com

I've been a DJ for a while. I kind of like it.

Music has always been a major part of the life of Danilo Braca aka danyb. His father was an avid record collector of rock & roll and r&b from the 50’s and 60’s, and a collector of vintage musical instruments. He founded the first Hi Fidelity magazine in Italy in the early 70’s and was an obvious influence on Danilo’s choice of a career path. 

This early exposure to all things musical led Danilo to build his own music collection very early on, and to confidently start mixing for parties in Perugia at the age of13, just around the time of the burgeoning popularity of house music. Many opportunities followed until he found himself playing at major local clubs like Etoile 54, Bibos or DejaVu. His career then moved further along, allowing him to play in Rome, Bologna, Florence, Treviso and many other cities around Italy, followed by international credits such as Cuba, Dominican Republic, Canada, Spain, France or the famous Air Club in Tokyo. 

An autodidact with an obvious passion for new technologies and a gift for mastering computer programs, Danilo also became highly skilled in the field of Sound Engineering (live mixing and studio recording & editing) and Music Production. 

The combination of his depth of music knowledge and technical skills led him to design and create a continually operating web radio station, TSoNYC, The Sound of New York City. The name of the radio refers to a specific genre of dance music, that Danilo always had a keen interest and taste for, based on the history of New York’s clubs like Paradise Garage and The Loft (with their protagonists Larry Levan and David Mancuso) and by extension the influence of Chicago (with The Warehouse and The Music Box, where Frankie Knuckles and Ron Hardy created the house music movement). The sophisticatedly elaborated radio program combines a large selection of rare Disco, Funk, Soul & electronic music representing Danilo’s unique collection, as well as guest DJ mixes. Some of TSoNYC’s collaborators and featured artists include renowned DJ/producers like Frankie Knuckles, Ashley Beedle, Sadar Bahar, DJ Spinna, DJ Rocca, Hector Romero or LTJ Xperience 

Through the creation of TSoNYC, Danilo hopes to bring various generations of music and people together and spread the discovery and rediscovery of quality sounds through events and podcasts.

Guy Gerber's RUMORS 

Anything that might have or will happen and people will be talking about.

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