Explorador de la música. Me robaré una cita de una gran amiga: "La música no se crea, se descubre".

Good voodoo. It´s not only Kiki´s most well known track (with the lovely vocals of Chela Simone) and the name of his radio show on Ibiza Sonica and Proton Radio, but it symptomizes perfectly that moment, when you loose yourself on the dance floor and see him smiling, while he plays music you didn´t know you want to hear.

Joakim Ijäs was born in Helsinki, but has now found his home in Berlin. Initial forays into making sounds with violins and pianos soon gave hway to the mechanical beats of hip-hop, mixed together with more popular sounds whilst playing at school discos before he was even a teenager. With such an early start it was no surprise that before he was old enough to enter a club, Kiki was holding down a weekly residency at Helsinki’s Tempo club, which was swiftly followed by another at the Smile club. A move to Berlin in 1994 to study Architecture was the catalyst for Kiki to step in to the realms of a serious DJ. Impressing the legendary Masters At Work at a Marlboro DJ competition led to him securing gigs at Berlin’s three cathedrals of techno -Tresor, Pfefferbank and WMF. Gigs in Berlin and Germany were soon followed by a string of international bookings and the release of an infamous three deck mix for Sonnenhaus which led to DE:BUG worrying about the health of his, fingers.

With his profile as a DJ growing it was two short steps to releasing his first record on Ellen Allien’s BPitch Control label in 2001, who through a happy coincidence he had met when the pair were double booked to play the same DJ slot. Since then Kiki has become an integral part of the BPitch family growing into a truly international artist, sharing his love of energetic and hypnotic music across the globe from Mexico, to Tokyo and making a little bit of history along the way. With an output that has been nothing short of prolific, Kiki has released a number of genre defining records both as himself and later with partners in crime Silversurfer, Sasse, Chaim, Joyce Muniz and many more. Kiki was the first artist asked to put together a mix for the now legendary Boogy Bytes series, and has been asked to provide remixes and productions for labels as diverse as Bugged Out, Playhouse and Crosstown Rebels where he had the honour of being the first artist releasing on the label. His debut album Run With Me, released on Bpitch Control, was an international success, and led to the video for “Shake Off” (a collaboration with Silversurfer and Captain Comatose) being playlisted by MTV. More recently a collaboration with Sasse and his Moodmusic imprint led to the release of the excellent Grand Cru – a modern club classic already.

However, as he has grown and matured, a yearning to explore deeper and more personal forms of expression in music, has led to Kiki working on his follow up to his debut album: Kaiku, that spawned the single "Good Voodoo".

After "Kaiku" and especially the huge success of the album single "Good Voodoo", Kiki has put out "Cinema Obscura" & "Morning Maniacs" (with a ridiculosuly funny video) on Bpitch, started a radioshow on Proton Radio in 2010 in collaboration with Noice!, that  evolved into his own show Good Voodoo on Ibiza Sonica and Proton in 2013. He is producing singles for Anja Schneider and Ellen Allien and keeps touring all 5 continents. 2014 also saw the highly succesful collaboration with Joyce Muniz, "Warriors" hit MTV and Viva with a video... 

“Caught Up In The Fire” ft. JONAH 🌹 
Out Now: https://benbohmer.lnk.to/caughtupinthefireSO


North & South America bookings:
Alex Becket alex.becket@caa.com
Evan Greenberg evan.greenberg@caa.com

Rest of World bookings
Roman Trystram roman.trystram@caa.com

A summer evening in a swampy clearing, in the middle of a lush, dark forest. The exquisite musical humming of dragonflies. This is Arold’s most deeply engraved memory of his awakening to the world, somewhere in Dordogne, in the southwest of France. He grew up alone in this harsh, hilly, ancestral landscape, steeped in mystery. During his wanderings, his spirit at once alert and meditative, Arold collected flint stones, which abound in the region. One day, he discovers a rocky crevice, hidden behind a tangle of vegetation. He decides to explore it. He crawls along a tunnel just big enough to give him passage for over a kilometer before emerging into a large space. He lights up the cavern by rhythmically striking two flint stones together. The flying sparks light up the walls, revealing images from the depths of time. The rhythmical sound of the flints as they are struck, and the stroboscopic light that they produce, make the colorful wall paintings spring to life and dance as Arold watches. The pulsing beats, echoed back by the luminescent rocky walls, wrap him in a swell of bewitching sound. The images multiply and whirl around Arold, magnifying, sharpening, heightening his senses. Intense smells, bestial and atavistic, sweep into the reptilian depths of his brain. Suddenly, Arold is catapulted into a deep trance, an upswell of sweetly timeless and infinitely soothing hyper-consciousness, a state of total fusion with the space-time continuum. When Arold emerges from the cavern, he discovers that his two flints are now pointed, sharp as boar teeth. He looks around, smiles. The world is his oyster. From now on, he will call himself Arold Flinter.

// Resident DJ: Eden Garden, Lighthouse & original Guy's Bar (Koh Phangan)
// Labels: SoundFocus, Hollystone, Zatar, Poesie, Bunny Tiger, Bar 25 Berlin, Sirin, Highway Records
// Genres: Melodic House & Techno, Indie Dance, Progressive House

Acrobat has found his own style between melodic house, techno and progressive vibes. Naturally crossing these musical genres he keeps his finger on the pulse of underground trends and beats. Deep tech grooves, rolling basslines, hypnotic  percussions, melodic & atmospheric synths are the main elements of his sound. 

Through his music Acrobat connects with the dancefloor and it is an amazing place to be when he is playing. He always surprises party people with the best tunes from his collection. He leads the dance floor, giving a global audience a chance to enjoy an unforgettable experience, a moving story full of passion, energy and great vibes.

Khruangbin is a band from Texas, started in 2011 by Laura Lee (bass), Mark Speer (guitar), and DJ (drums). We like to make music in a barn. 

I wander endlessly toward the shores
Forever watching the vast greatness of deep blue skies and the ocean 
meeting in the horizon as one single line
While clouds cast shadows softened by the haze
The solitude and beauty of my former land brings inner peace 
Creative harmony transmuted into perpetual sounds 
Mono &The Ocean

- Visions meeting realities in tune with Universal laws, Mono &The Ocean is an Italian DJ and producer based in Koh Phangan (TH) and London (UK), working solely on the bases of purely underground sounds and the design of new sonic journeys. Blending emotional melodies with punchy and impactful kicks, M&TO will be releasing his first EP, Monogram - DUB Edit and Monogram - Extended Edit, in February 2024 on a well know Record Label. 

- Co-curator of the new hub and record label Conscious Expansion home of PapaLoko.

- M&TO specializes with Melodic House || Deep House || Melodic Techno || Deep Techno || Techno & selected Progressive House music.

MGMT: management@darkheartofficial.com
BOOKINGS: charlie@spinartistagency.com / jules@spinartistagency.com
PROMO: promosfordave@gmail.com

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