This months episode features an artist that has been part of the scene for a longer time:
Berlin based dj, producer and label owner Florian Meindl.

Florian runs his own label FLASH Recordings since 2006, released countless singles and EPs, remixed artists like Hot Chip or Röyksopp and runs his own highly successful loops & sample label “Riemann Kollektion”.

The Grasshopper Warbler is distributed by syndicast.co.uk.

www.florianmeindl.com
www.heron-music.com
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www.mixcloud.com/Heron



Heron presents: The Grasshopper Warbler 013 w/ Florian Meindl

Booking:   sensentechno@gmx.de

Bio:
*** english version below ***
Daniel Derball ist ein Mensch, durch dessen Adern elektronische Musik pulsiert.
Bereits mit der ersten Schalplatte des Genres, die er mit 10 Jahren hörte, war es um ihn geschehen. 
Das Album Equinoxe von Jean-Michel Jarre, veröffentlicht in Daniels Geburtsjahr wurde zur Geburtsstunde seiner großen Liebe. Er hörte fortan nichts anderes mehr.
Als er im Wendejahr ein Kofferradio geschenkt bekam, verbrachte er die Nächte damit auf DT64 (Fritz) noch mehr elektronische Musik aufzusaugen und  so Stück für Stück eine neue Sprache zu lernen.
Auf die ersten Raves folgte mit 17 Jahren der erste Besuch im Tresor und eine lebensverändernde Zeit begann, in der Daniel sein Herz an den Dancefloor verlor. Jede freie Minute verbrachte er damit, dem Bass von einem Berliner Club zum nächsten zu folgen und so ein breites Spektrum an Musik kennenzulernen.
Im selben Jahr, kam er das erste Mal durch einen Freund mit dem Auflegen in Kontakt. Er stand an Plattenspielern und Mischpult, war sofort gefesselt und spürte den Beginn einer neuen Faszination, einer neuen Art der Musik nah zu sein und die neu gelernte Sprache zum ersten Mal selbst zu sprechen.
Das digitale Zeitalter brach an und auch diesmal ließ Daniel sich von seiner Begeisterung leiten und eignete sich schnell neues Wissen und Fähigkeiten an. Von all den unterschiedlichen Spielarten der elektronischen Musik erfüllt, fand er als Künstler Ausdruck in zweierlei Gestalt:
Als "SENSEN" beherrscht er die härtere Gangart und bringt mit Musik von Ben Klock, Green Velvet, Jeff Mills und vielen anderen Klassikern den Dancefloor zum Glühen.
Als "Daniel Derball" zaubert er treibende, verspielte Sets mit melodisch progressivem Techhouse und rollt mit Artbat, Victor Ruiz, CamelFat und weiteren Beatzauberern einen bouncigen Teppich aus auf dem die tanzende Menge dahinfliegen kann.
Auf vielen Secret Raves durften tanzwütig, musikliebende Menschen schon in den Genuss von Daniels Sets kommen. Aber auch auf Festivals wie der Wilden Möhre, Sonara und dem Lusatia hat er bereits begeistert. Die meisten kennen ihn wohl vom Wurzelfestival, wo er jedes Jahr, mit seinem DJ Freund @aglsofficial , die tanzende Menge zum Abschluss der Veranstaltung vom Gelände lockt um die letzte Energie bei Sonnenuntergang auf dem Rollfeld heraus zu tanzen.

Es gäbe noch so viel mehr zu sagen, aber auf den Punkt bringen lässt sich am ehesten so: 
"GLÜCK IST WENN DER BASS EINSETZT"

NEXT...
01.05.25  Berlin Mai-Day Gisela
31.01.24  Silvester Royal Gisela
13.12.24  VerrücktEntzückt Gisela 
10.10.24  Wendisch Rietz Secret Location
13.09.24  VerrücktEntzückt Gisela 
06.09.24  Erkner Secret Location
08.08.24 Wilde Möhre Kiosk
01.08.24  Praerie Warm/Up Kiosk
05.07.24  Erkner Secret Location
09.06.24  zurück zu den Wurzeln Festival
01.06.24  Erster Biss Festival
01.05.24  Berlin Mai-Day Gisela
20.04.24  Berlin Bautrockner-Bar
13.04.24  Berlin VerrücktEntzückt Gisela
22.03.24  Storkow Wellenbad 
01.03.24  Berlin Secred Location
23.02.24  Berlin Hafer-Disco- Stall Gisela
16.02.24   Berlin Secred Location
10.02.24   Braunschweig Himmel & Hölle
2023 
31.12.23  Wilhelmshaven Secret Location
09.12.23  Berlin Mauersegler
13.10.23  Storkow ClubNacht
15.09.23 Erkner Secret Location
08.07.23  Erkner Secret Location
07.07.23  Storkow ClubNacht
24.06.23  Sonara Festival
11.06.23  zurück zu den Wurzeln Festival
26.05.23 Berlin Dance Music Event
28.04.23 Storkow/Mark ClubNacht
22.04.23 Gifhorn Secret Location
03.03.23 Storkow ClubNacht
20.01.23 Brandenburg Secret Location
2022
02.12.22  Storkow ClubNacht
21.12.22  Lauchammer Secret Location
08.10.22  Wendisch Rietz Secret Location
30.09.22 Storkow ClubNacht
27.08.22  Beeskow ClubNacht
21.08.22  Wilde Möhre Festival 6h Closing
18.07.22  Prenzlau Secret Location
12.07.22 zurück zu den Wurzeln Festival
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29.08.21  Lusatia Festival 15h! Closing b2b DerJ
13.03.20  Wellenbad
11.03.20  Loft Club @ P11
18.01.20 Winter Bunker Rave
20.12.19   Istanbul @ Temple Club
14.12.19   Wellenbad
22.12.18  Istanbul @ Temple Club
-- 23.10.1996  TRESOR BERLIN --

Bio english:
Daniel Derball is a person with electronic music pulsing through his veins.
Since he stumbled upon the first record of that  genre, at the age of 10, it was his fate.
Jean-Michel Jarre's album Equinoxe, released in the year Daniel was born, marked the birth of his great love. From this moment he was listening to nothing else.
When he received a portable radio as a gift in the year of the reunification of Germany, he spent the nights soaking up more electronic music on channel DT64, learning this new language little by little.
The first raves followed, than his first night at Tresor Club at the age of 17.  A life-changing time began in which Daniel lost his heart to the dance floor. He spent every free minute following the baseline from one Berlin club to the next, getting to know a wide spectrum of music.
In the same year, through a friend ,he came into contact with DJing for the first time. He was immediately captivated when he was standing behind the turntables, and felt the beginning of something new. A new way of being close the music he loved, now being able to speak the language he learned for the first time.  
The digital age dawned and once again Daniel let his enthusiasm guide him and quickly acquired new knowledge and skills. His heart filled with all the different varieties of electronic music, he found expression as an artist in two forms:
As SENSEN, he masters the art of harder styles and ignites the dancefloor with music from Ben Klock, Green Velvet, Jeff Mills and many other classics.
As Daniel Derball, he creates driving, playful sets with melodic, progressive Techhouse.  Using the music of  Artbat, Victor Ruiz, CamelFat and many others, he rolls out a bouncy carpet on which the dancing crowd can fly away.
Music loving Dancers have been able to enjoy Daniel's sets at many secret raves. He also has impressed people at festivals like Wilde Möhre, Sonara and Lusatia. 
Most people probably know him from the Wurzelfestival, where every year at the end of the rave, with @aglsofficial , he guides the dancing crowd from the festival ground, to dance away the last amount of energy at sunset.

There is so much more that could be said, but the best way to sum it up:
"Luck is when employing the Bassline"

TECHNO/HARD-TECHNO/HARD-TRIBAL/PROGRESIVO/BUMPING/HARDCORE ..... ▶🎧🔈🔉🔊🔥🎶🔥🎵🔥👊🔛🖤🖤🖤👊🆘

Many times, biographies of techno acts start by singing their praise of an extremely early,
extraordinary talent on synthesizers and other electronic devices.

In Heron’s case, things are different. Because Martin Spittel has been shaped musically since his childhood, the influences were as diverse as music can be.

On one side, there was his grandfather, who played various instruments, and to whom young Martin related closest to and whose influence still lasts until today. On the other side there were his cousins who were not much older than himself, enthusiastic about AC/DC, and band members themselves. Over the course of the following years, he explored the diversity of Black, Death and Trash Metal, EBM and Industrial, right up to Detroit Techno.

Ever since then, Heron's environment served as compensation to ferce parties and expanding his musical horizon. This symbiosis from the love of nature and the musical influences from his early childhood are a direct reflection of Heron’s entire life.

Following the scream of the waders (limicoline birds), he moved to picturesque island Norderney in 2003. There, exploring the island’s national park, he decided to live up to his enthusiasm about nature by going to study landscape ecology at the University of Münster. It turned out: The relocation to Münster was the initial spark for his career; the months in Norderney were inspiration for the name of his label “Limikola” which was founded in late 2008 and enjoyed enormous support by both DJs and fans.

After launching his now very successful °Schaltkreis-parties with four friends in mid-2007, everything went quickly: His first own radio show “The Grasshopper Warbler”, contacts to prominent players like Someone Else and Heartthrob, and finally the moment in early 2008 during the season’s opening at Time Warp, when Richie Hawtin played all three tracks from Heron’s Retro EP. It was merely his second EP, released on a netlabel (Minisome), and it became immediately successful. A knightly accolade.

The journey that Heron started lead to his bombshell track “Welcome to the Adventure Club” that charted in the Beatport charts in 2008, and continued with remixes and releases for Synewave, Supdub, Swap, micro.fon, Prosthetic Pressings and Sleaze Records. In 2010, it culminated with a tour across North America during the summer.

Two years later he released his very first EP on the legendary Detroit label KMS Records, owned by Kevin Saunderson, followed by remixes for Drumcomplex, P-Ben and Chris Gekä, one collaboration project with Inner City's Ann Saunderson and his second solo release „Ride The Pride“. Furthermore he made the step into the Soma family by publishing three solo EPs and an EP with Kevin's son Dantiez Saunderson, as well as he started to release on Florian Meindl's FLASH Recordings.

Bookings: hello@heron-music.com

https://linktr.ee/heronmusic