DJ/Producer

For booking requests, please contact Karl at:

karl@goldroomgroup.com

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Since 1989 I listen to Hard House and Techno. 

In the Beginning i have been influenced by Hardcore Techno to Industrial Techno. After that i listened to "Jeff Mills - Live at the liquid Room Tokyo" and realized how powerfull a DJ can create a set. Chicago and Detroit Techno nearly completely influenced my career. After that my musical roots started to expand and I decided to buy 2 Turntables and start mixing. 

1994 I participated in the German Rave and Hardtrance Scene. 1994 The Mayday Rave Olympia was one of the best Raves in Germany ever. The Technician , who had to watch the Sound in the Dortmunder Westfalenhalle, told during an interview that he had problems to switch the sound system louder than the crowd was screaming! Best Life Act has been Ilsa Gold. After the commercialization throughout Marusha's Somewhere Over the Rainbow i quit the Rave Scene. That time i visited Stammheim in Kassel preaviously called Aufschwung Ost. I was born and grew in Kassel. This Clubscene influenced and formed my musical basics. I enjoyed it to listen to DJ Markies Sets. He has even tought to catch the crowd. Powerful guy. 

Turntable Tools was founded in 1998 by myself.

It was distributed via Neuton. Then I quit the Techno Scene in order to examinate. After a "short" Break (Studies, Law Science) I now decided to relaunch my Label Turntable Tools. After the modern methods I remastered the analog Dat Sequence of the Turntable Tools 3 from 1999 with the Digital new methods.

Actually I enjoy the the rejuvination of Rave, Acid and Trance I have ben starting with back in these days.

TEACHERS and Inspirators/My Respect goes to:

Jeff Mills (Kat Moda, Drama, Purpose Maker), Robert Hood (Minimal Nation), Woody Mc Bride (Stairway to Headphoes), Richie Hawtin (for Plastikman and Call it what you want), Sven Väth (Omen and Metal Masters), Hardfloor (TB Resuscitation), Harthouse (Assign, Cybordelics - Adventures of Dama), Peacefrog (Planetary I - VI), Axis (11), Umek (Brothers Yard Lourinya), Misjah (Shake your Ass about so Cisco), Green Velvet (Cameras ready prepare to Flash), Rave (Sports), Chicago (Where's Rush?), Detroit (Made in), Kniteforce (On the Move), Maurizio (Vainqueur - Lyot Reshape), Neil Landstumm (Brown by August), Bonzai (Cherrymoon I, Blue Alphabet - Cybertrance), Vitalic (Poney, Cowboy, Remixes!), Plus 8 (Circuit Breaker, Vapourspace - Gravitional Arch of Ten) , Concept (for that I bought the Entire 12er Box ;-)), X-Trax, Missile, Tim Taylor, Dan Zamani, Planet of Drums, Pump Panel, Overdrive, Cherrymoon, NIP Collective, Force Inc, PvD, Peacefrog, Luke Slater, Planetary Assault Systems, Morganistic (Double 12er , Gotcha finally), Damon Wild (Synewavin), Joey Beltram (Trax 1989 - ff.), Underground Resistance (Unexploitable), Brian Molko (and Placebo), Metallica (early Blackened), Nirvana, William Orbit, Tiesto, Important Records, DJ Plank, Acrid Abbeyance, 2 Live Crew for Me So Horny, Beasty Boys for Intergalactic Planetaric (nice sample isn't it), Union Jack - Two Full Moons and a Trout (Caspar Pound RX, R.I.P.), Basic Channel, Robert Armani - Circus Bells, Depeche Mode, 80ies Synthiesounds, My Mother for Having "my" first Turntable (Damn no backspin possible), My aunt for gifting me my first records as a child, My mother for having bought an EQ - Compact - Turntable - Tapedeck, Modulating and mixing since a was 6 years old.

Followers of Karsten Mandolini