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One of Germany’s leading house music lights, Boris Dlugosch’s chameleon-like approach has helped him to amass an incredibly enviable catalogue of grooves that continues to grow every year.

Releasing on illustrious labels like Gerd Janson's RUNNING BACK,  Classic Music, Defected, Suara, Toolroom Records and Poker Flat Recordings in recent times, Dlugosch’s chunky basslines, crisp percussion and earworm melodies have found their way to all corners of the house music scene. His successful working relationship with Purple Disco Machine yielded L.O.V.E. and Set It Out, which both hit the #1 spot on Traxsource and the Top 5 on Beatport, as did Peppermint Jam’s 20th anniversary remix package of his classic Keep Pushin’.

Keep Pushin’ was the track that broke him through onto the global house scene in the mid-’90s in a big way. Germany wasn’t exactly a hotbed of house music talent at the time—making him somewhat of a rarity—and it soon became clear with further anthems like Hold Your Head Up High that he was a producer with a serious sense of musicality as well as dancefloor prowess. After this series of club smashes, the big-name remixes started to roll in: Aaliyah, Mary J Blige, Adeva, Randy Crawford… and then came that remix for Moloko’s Sing It Back, a huge crossover track that became the official radio version and hit #4 in the UK Singles Chart. Next came reworks for Daft Punk, Basement Jaxx, Jamiroquai, Mariah Carey, Moby…

Eventually growing wearisome of the declining funky house / garage sounds of the era, Dlugosch discovered a new-found love for the French electro scene in the mid-noughties, releasing Bangkok on Erol Alkan’s Phantasy Sound imprint and Cycle on Lektroluv Records (complete with a remix from Etienne De Crecy), with the likes of 2manydjs, Boys Noize and Laurent Garnier all throwing their weight behind his updated sound.

After the electro scene became saturated and the times progressed once again, he metamorphosed into the producer we know him as today, taking a modern approach to classic house music that draws on multiple influences. “I constantly check for new tracks and absorb what’s out there” he says of his hunger for new sounds and styles. “We all change constantly!” he adds of his—and indeed others’—evolution over the years. “I don’t want anyone to pigeonhole me”. And nor should they. When you have as much musical talent as Dlugosch, it’s criminal to keep making the same sounds over and over again.

A Boiler Room Berlin set in 2013 introduced him to a new generation of house music lovers, and his regular In The Mix uploads on SoundCloud give a good idea of what can be heard in his rocking club and festival sets. Upfront house meets garagey classics and disco cut-ups, dashes of electro, acid and deep melodic moments to give a well-rounded selection that perfectly marries house music’s past, present and future. 

He is also an erstwhile label owner, having set up Golden City Sounds in 2013 with Digitalism’s Isi and HEY TODAY!’s Raik Fargo—but the imprint is currently dormant. He’s eyeing up the possibilities of launching a new label, but only when it feels right and makes sense on a creative level. We live in hope.

A true legend who continues delivering the goods today, Boris Dlugosch is one of house music’s real treasures.

&nbsp;I Feel This (www.myspace.com/i_feel_this), Global House Connection, Word and Sound Distribution
Hamburg based music lover Constantin Groll is one of Germanys finest DJ’s in soulful and deep
music from all across the board. House, Disco, Boogie, Broken Beats, Detroit Techno and a variety of other styles of retro and future Soulmusic find their way into Constantin’s sets. 
His biography to date is kind of classic: He got a lifelong addiction for music, started to spin records while studying in Passau in the early 90’s, quit university a few years later to concentrate on DJing and a variety of dayjobs in the music industry and kept following this path ever since .
Especially after moving to Hamburg in ’98 things started to fall into place. While he’s been spending his days working for several distributors and records shops over the past years (PP, Container , presently since 2001 Word And Sound ) alongside writing liner notes for several album releases and reviews for music mags such as ‘Groove’, he’s been regularly rocking the decks at some of Germanys finest clubs at night and also threw it down in other European countries like Switzerland, Austria, Italy and Russia.
Apart from playing clubgigs Constantin also got into webradio. He started an excellent online-radioshow entitled ‘GLOBAL HOUSE CONNECTION’ back in ’98 together with his ex-flatmate, reknown Housemusic producer Lars Berenroth, who had been Constantin’s regular DJ-partner before Lars moved to LA in 2004. The show is on hiatus for some time now but you can still listen to the archives. 
In 2005 Constantin joined the infamous St Pauli Sound Supporters, an 8piece DJ collective that has been responsible for several legendary nights of madness and mayhem at FC St Pauli’s very ownpub located next to the clubs stadium in the heart of Hamburg’s red light district. 
Since February 2008 Constantin hosts and organizes the influential " I FEEL THIS"together with Heiko Jahnke ( Vaddex ) and Lars Ehehalt ( Larris )and played alongside guests such as Morgan Geist, Maurice Fulton, Greg Wilson, Mark E, The Revenge, Todd Terje and many more. Besides he warmed up for the likes of  Moodymann, Theo Parrish and Omar S. 
Able to keep a crowd moving with a pure soul/ disco / boogie oldschool selection as well as with the finest in contemporary house music, he prefers long sets encompassing different styles, tempos and decades of deep dance music.If you’re into a DJ who can rock a place with knowledge, wisdom and deepness – don’t look any further….


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