Within the 10 years of his career in the music industry, DJ Kitsune has turned from a music lover to one the most influential djs in the german urban music scene.

After being named the new dj and co-host of the country’s biggest rap-mixshow “Dope Beats” on Frankfurt radio station XXL radio in 1999, he began producing his first mixtape trilogy “Forces of Nature” that helped spreading his name on a nationwide level. After XXLfolded by the end of 2003, he moved on to be the resident of the “Clubnight” on youfm until 2006, a mixshow format on national tv and the oldest and most legendary mixshow in Europe with viewers and listeners from all over the continent.
Being the official live-dj for Azad, DJ Kitsune released several award-winning mixtapes in less than 12 months, which immediately resulted in numerous requests to do live shows with most of the biggest german rap artists, making him one of the most requested djs of the country.
2006 turned out to be another milestone for DJ Kitsune, as he was named the first german dj to join DJ Whoo Kid’s (50 Cent / G Unit) Shadyville DJ coalition. Around the same time his mixtape with german rap star Curse hit the billboard charts in Germany and Switzerland and his own label released highly acclaimed mixtape-albums with Rasul, benefitting from europewide distribution through the SonyBMG powerhouse. DJ Kitsune also played club shows all over Europe in top-level venues like the “Kaufleuten” in Zurich, the “Splash!” Festival in Germany, the “50 Grad” in Mainz, the “Unity” in Frankfurt, or in hot spots like New York City or Tel Aviv.
Within a time span of only few weeks DJ Kitsune did shows for Eminem’s satellite radio station “Shade45″ and several other BDS monitored stations in markets like Cincinnatti or the Bay Area, released his newest mixtape “Victory 3″, was nominated for the award of the “Best International Mixtape DJ 2006″ at Justo’s Mixtape Awards and did a brief club tour through Germany with SonyBMG recording artists Curse. The beginning of 2007 was even better with Kitsune winning the award for “Best National DJ 2006” at the HipHop.de-Awards.
In 2008, DJ Kitsune took his award-winning mixtape series “Victory” to an all-concluding next level by putting together an all star cast album of the same title, combining some of the greatest talents of the USA, Germany, Switzerland and Canada. The album’s first single “This Little Thing (Remix)” featuring Talia “The Doll” Coles and D-Flame received heavy rotation airplay on german music video stations.
After holding down a legendary Saturday night at Frankfurt’s top club “Unity” for 5 straight years, DJ Kitsune moved on to focus on playing selected clubs all over Europe while showcasing his musical talents on his weekly radio show for Germany’s leading urban radio station Jam FM. In early 2010, DJ Kitsune became the first hip hop dj to be requested to play a special performance alongside one of Germany’s most renown classical orchestras, the hr-Sinfonieorchester for an audience of more than 3000 people.

Today, DJ Kitsune is one of Europe’s leading djs and musical tastemakers and CEO of his own management and publishing company. His influence and musical guidance helped the careers of many European artists and created a worldwide attention span. While one of Germany’s biggest daily newspapers “Sueddeutsche Zeitung” refers to DJ Kitsune as the “hardest working man in German hip hop”, he is considered to be one of the most skillfull, influential and well-rounded djs in Europe.

Playing & collecting music since 3 decades

In today’s electronic music world there are not many artists who can lay claim to a legacy like that of DJ T. Born in Dusseldorf, DJ T. (aka Thomas Koch,) re-located to Frankfurt with his family in the late 70s. During his formative years, he fell for the hypnotic grooves of disco, inspired by his parents’ record collec-tion. At the age of nine he was already completely enraptured by music and that love affair continues until this very day. He began an obsessive quest to collect music, feeding his soul with everything from Disco and Hi-Nrg, through to early Hip-Hop and Electro, Soul, Funk and R’n’B. The groovy, infectious rhythms of all those genres continue to permeate into the music he makes and plays today, providing an intrinsic part of his sound ethic. 
He took up breakdancing, before becoming a DJ, playing at private parties ini-tially before landing his first professional gigs in the late eighties. This period proved to be a pivotal moment in his life as Acid House swept through Europe, landing in Frankfurt and taking over with the launch of Sven Väth’s legendary Omen club in 1988. The first wave of House and Techno took hold and T. was there at the forefront, absorbing all the fresh new sounds from Chicago, Detroit and the UK. He picked up a residency at the infamous Music Hall and held resi-dencies at countless clubs across the city during the next 10 years from Plastik and Dorian Gray to The Box. By the end of the nineties, he was one of Frank-furt’s best-known selectors. 
In 1989 DJ T. tapped into another side of his creative energy to set up Groove Magazine. Identifying a gap in the market and fuelled by a need to satisfy his own desire for specialised music journalism, which focused on his interests – namely underground dance music. Under his leadership the magazine was launched into the public’s consciousness and he guided Groove to become one of Europe’s premier dance music publications, which it still is today. 
DJ T.’s progression continued at a pace, as he launched his own club, Monza, using the experience gained through a decade of club events and tours under the Groove Magazine banner. He also invested his skills and knowledge into con-ceiving Get Physical – a label, which remains one of the world’s best- known House and Techno platforms. Though he left in 2010, T. still occasionally A&Rs for the label, lending his uncanny ability to uncover new talent to the seminal label. 
Production-wise, he has been consistent ever since his debut release, the ‘Mon-sterbaze’ EP with Steve Bug, which was released on Poker Flat in 2000. Since then, T. has released several well-received EPs, a slew of remixes and three al-bums, ‘Boogie Playground’ in 2005, ‘The Inner Jukebox’ produced with Tho-mas Schumacher in 2009 and ‘Pleasure Principle’ in 2011. His special touch has also been employed by numerous labels to curate compilation mixes , including ‘United Under The Ball – 30 Years Of Disco’ in 2011 and ‘The House That Jack Built Vol 1 & 2’ in 2012. In 2013 he celebrated 25 years of DJing with a very personal mix compilation, followed also by ‘Body Language 15’ and col-laboration with Defected and Strictly Rhythm to celebrate the latter’s 25th anni-versary. DJ T.’s reputation for being a master selector has been cemented by these superlative collections of music, each of which has received widespread praise, often featuring many of T.’s own edits of classic tracks. 
Despite so many accolades, his passion for music remains staunch, recently making several key changes to his professional life that have inspired him to explore new terrains. With hot new releases on AUS Music, Moon Harbour, True Soul and Jackathon representing his continued to desire to push his crea-tive boundaries. 
A highly-skilled DJ and producer and an A&R with an uncanny ability to dis-cover a nurture new talent, DJ T. is a master selector and one of the industry’s most influential figures.

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