It seems like we're finally back at this. It's been a while dear friends, we can't wait to see you on all the dancefloors again.

This is a recording from our Freistaat Fätzikon night at Kauz in Zurich with Sentiment (Till), Coco Fresco, Nico Sun & Luke Redford.

Welcome back Stranger - Freistaat Fätzikon live (Coco Fresco, Sentiment, Nico Sun, Luke Redford)

Thanks for this super sweet Saturday. It's been a while and we were eager to get back behind the decks. We had a lot of fun and recorded our set for you. There are some parts where the crowd bumped into a turntable and Nico had to play some vinyls that are annoyingly difficult to mix. Sorry for that. 
Track IDs on request. See you all soon!

Indie Dance Express - Nico Sun & Luke Redford @ Kauz Between

Fätzli Fäscht - Freistaat Fätzikon 2022

I mixed some of my favourite tracks from now and then together into an easy and relaxed mix.

Tracklist:

	• 1  Senorita Tristeza (Original Mix) - SCSI-9

	• 2  Aux Figues (Lake People Remix) - Nicolaj

	• 3  Stone On Your Back (Frank Wiedemann Remix) - Kalabrese

	• 4  Mono Desire feat. Manu Delago (Original Mix) - Pitto

	• 5  Pure (Original Mix) - AKRA

	• 6  Purgatory Five - Skinnerbox

	• 7  Un Seul Sourire Pour Nous Deux (Dave DK Remix) - SCSI-9

	• 8  Essaouira (Acid Paulis Berber Edit) - Constantjin Lange

	• 9  Kafi Lied Feat. Sarah Palin (Original Mix) - Kalabrese

	• 10  The Misery Feat. Nils Corssen (Nu And Pauli Vs Acis Remix)

	• 11  Le Vent Nous Portera - Noir Desir & Manu Chao

Photo by Joana Kruse -> http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/joana-kruse.html


Le Vent Nous Portera

this was mental - thank you so much for entering other dimensions with us..

Lighthouse Closing Set - AfrikaBurn 2015 - Nico Sun & Luke Redford

after a lot of ethno and downtempo sets our music tends back towards more energy and drive with some elements of disco and industrial.

Nico Sun & Luke Redford - Eisbær 28.11.15, Kauz

Back to reality, my thoughts remain in the dust.. what a burn! Thanks to all the people who danced at the Lighthouse, we had the time of our life playing for all of you.

So this is the first of two of my sets I recorded at the lighthouse at AfrikaBurn this year. It’s a very eclectic mix exploring the connections of house, disco, acid and downtempo music. I started off at around 118 bpm coming down to 90 bpm at one point. It’s not a set that I would usually play in a nightclub. There are a lot of changes and historical references in it, references to last years burn, to cosmic dancefloor moments that changed my life.. In my opinion AfrikaBurn is a place that asks for such special, emotional sets. Stuff that you can only play once a year, but ahhh how I love to play all these old gems..

For all those who have asked, here is a list of all the DJ’s with links that played at the lighthouse. I made a playlist with all the Sets that are uploaded and will add more soon as more sets appear. 

Monday: Rumlaut, Rearte, Nici Faerber & Sven Thomas
Tuesday: Off
Wednesday: Bruder Gill, Luke Redford, Rearte, Leon Kostner, 
Thursday: Acid Pauli & Nico Stojan, Be Svendson, David Maers, Madmotormiquel, Unders
Friday: Bruder Gill, Markus Kenel, Pierre Estienne, ?
Saturday: Rumlaut, Markus Kenel, John Player, Nici Faerber & Dj Offroad, Story of Tides & Marc Feldmann
Sunday: Luke Redford, Popper-D, Rearte, John Player

One of my absolute favorite Zurich based djs and producers, also founder of the Arche Musik imprint. He is the definition of groove:
Markus Kenel: https://soundcloud.com/markuskenel

Zurich’s best when it comes to deep tech, long sets, afterhours:
Rumlaut: https://soundcloud.com/rumlaut

Usually playing with Vinyl only together with his brother aka GILL & GILL, hosting Zurichs finest sunday partys. Ahh we love him.
Bruder Gill: https://soundcloud.com/sebastian-gill

Played a long set with Nico on wednesday.
Acid Pauli: https://soundcloud.com/acidpauli

From Downtempo to Disco, Acid and back.. very unique style and amazing productions, check his latest Vinly release on Miteinander Musik.
Rearte: https://soundcloud.com/rearte-musik

Played a long set with Acid Pauli on Wednesday.
Nico Stojan: https://soundcloud.com/nicostojan

Played a long set into the the Sunrise in Thursday, Madmotormiquel kind of became part of the Lighthouse crew until now. 
Madmotormiquel: https://soundcloud.com/madmotormiquel

Sunrise into the storm, what a morning.
Unders: https://soundcloud.com/undersmusic

Played his Wedding Dj-Set at the Lighthouse :-D
Be Svendson: https://soundcloud.com/besvendsen

Played a super nice and intense Live-Set on thursday.
David Maers: https://soundcloud.com/david_mears

John & Pierre seem like legendary counterparts in different Cities. Cape Town - to Zurich and Back. 
John Player: https://soundcloud.com/johnplayer
Pierre Estienne: https://soundcloud.com/pierre-estienne

I still don’t know the name of the guy who played with him on sunday morning, ideas? Got it, it was: soundcloud.com/dj-offroad/
Nici Faerber: https://soundcloud.com/nicifaerber

Played a long long set on monday and the funniest morning at bubbles and bass.
Sven Thomas: https://soundcloud.com/svnthms

Part of Berns/Zurichs Trinidad and members of the Zurich imprint Miteinander Musik.
Marc Feldmann: https://soundcloud.com/marcfeldmann
Story of Tides: https://soundcloud.com/trinidad

Approached us with a super nice mix and a the most polite request to play. And then blew our minds with an amazing set.
Leon Kostner: https://soundcloud.com/leon-kostner
Luke Redford: https://soundcloud.com/lukeredford

The Lighthouse @ AfrikaBurn X

This my second set and last upload from AfrikaBurn. Its the Set that i played after the burn of the lighthouse on Sunday night with some minor changes. A very special and fulfilling night. I love these moments on a dancefloor when its not about hands up, when the people in the crowd are dancing towards their inner self, dreaming, aware, eyes closed.. and even more connected to each other.

Thank you again, all burners, dancers of the lighthouse, for this wonderful week with so much energy. It took me almost two weeks to come back to the outer, so called 'real' world and now I realise what an amazing time we had.

You can listen to this while meditating, taking lsd, making yoga or love.. its a trippy mix with many layers of soundscapes and texture, references and some mistakes, haha.

Photo credit to Martin Seger, thank you kind sir!

Burning The Lighthouse - Sunday Closing Set, AfrikaBurn X

Fusion festival means a lot to me. Here I had this very key moment in understanding techno music years ago. So it was a big honour to come back and play a set at Bachstelzen. My partner in crime @rearte-musik joined me for the trip and since we’re on an amazing flow together right now we tag teamed for this set. So we asked ourselves what we wanted to do with this very nice slot at Saturday 9pm. The temptation was big to play a standard repertoire of 120bpm tech-house, the crowd was super ready and we would have had all the classic bangers ready. But that was what many before us had done and no challenge. What we’re currently super interested in are constant build ups. Get rid of this repeating break drop break arrangement and try to build one constant curve of energy. Sometimes this results in a very hypnotic atmosphere because the crowd get’s caught in it builds up a lot of energy but never really knows when to release it. We started of at 95 BPM and ended up at 120, Ruede Hagelstein played after us and despite my first thoughts, was a really good match to our set. Madmotormiquel took over the flow for a perfect evening. Enjoy the three set together in this row if you can.
Thank you for dancing, thank you for this amazing time!

Redford & Rearte @ Fusion, Bachstelzen 2016

Hey Lovers, this is a part of the set I played at Somewhere Festival in Denmark last weekend. I played on the beautiful german stage at the beach from 6-9 in the morning. I didn’t expect that many dancers at that hour, but before me there was a proper techno-rave going on, people stayed and I had the super chance to turn the dancefloor from night-time into a morning afterhour. so i started off around 124 bpm constantly driving the tempo down but keeping the energy high and in one flow. the first tracks I played what i often call ‘safe’ using some of my dancefloor proofed and tested favorites and then getting more and more eclectic and experimental (altough I wouldnt consider this set one of my more experimental ones, it was pretty much straight to the floor, except of the tempo changes). have listen and let me know what you think! I always appreciate any feedback! :-)

ahh that was such an nice festival! hopefully it will take place again next year!

@ Somewhere Festival, Denmark

Coming back to Cape Town is always super special for me. I found so many new friends and inspiration here. This city got me instantly hooked.. thank you Rocking the Daisies for getting me down. I have to admit that im almost surprised how well my music worked in both sets, the crowd was super open minded. With all the familiar faces from the burn.. the vibe was just perfect. This is the middle part of my Headspaza set when i went for that driving Disco/Acid grooves that I love. I edited the first track in since its a Joburg local that did it (the original) I played it at the burn too and it was my inspirational starting point for the set.  I really hope to see you guys again soon!

@ Rocking The Daisies - Headspaza Disco Session

Hey Burners,

this year was a tough one. A lot of people got sick.. less art but many big soundsystems and stages loaded with masculin energy. In my opinion most of them failed to really create a vibe, to bring in some love. The whole burn seemed like a proper full on rave. Why does it always need to be so big? Why so over-ambitious? Make it small, cosy, welcoming with a soul.. The music was very forward, bigroom, techno or trance heavy. Not so inspiring to me. I dont think ill be back in Tankwa anytime soon. So this is also a bit of goodbye music for all these wonderful souls that we’ve met onto this big journey that started here with a lighthouse over two years ago. Its a compilation of the tracks that i’ve played at my gigs this year, mostly the owl on friday and hauptbahnhof on tuesday.

enjoy
x
L

Afrikaburn 2017 - Welcome Home Stranger

Yooo... mein Set vom Sonntag im Wald. In der Mitte fehlt ein kurzer Teil. Easy angefangen und dann in der Verlängerung als Mika Verspätung hatte die Gassenhauer ausgepackt. Witzig wars, mega schöner Floor & grosses Kompliment an alle die mitgewirkt haben. Auch das 3D Soundkonzept war geil zum rumspielen. Auf Bald!

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