Booking: mailto.hade@gmail.com

HADE is a DJ and producer based in Cologne, Germany. Besides releasing footwork-inspired records as HADE + DWFL, and house, wave and disco mutations under his own name, HADE has played clubs and festival stages across Europe and the US alongside the likes of Hunee, Palms Trax, Jan Schulte, Phuong-Dan, Beesmunt Soundsystem, Elena Colombi and many more.

HADE also co-runs two club nights at Cologne’s Gewölbe, TIME TO: and Palms. In the past years, he helped launch Local Talk’s new sub-label Tune with the “Freek Tool” under his Theo Walbeck moniker, linked-up with Brooklyn’s Razor-N-Tape crew and released an EP of all-German edits on Berlin’s OYE Records. Most recently he started his show „Finds w/ Fiends“ with fellow selector Owns at Düsseldorf‘s Callshop Radio.

As a DJ and collector, HADE is fueled by a real passion for digging up German synth oddities, all things wave, dub and disco, under-the-radar raps, trancey wrong-speeders and Afro-Caribbean curveballs

One of the most charming DJs in the business. A musical ambassador and a veteran of acid house, a champion of techno, a dance music pioneer, label owner, King of Ibiza – you name it, Carl's been there and done it, never losing sight of his passions – playing music, breaking tunes.

Discovering the best new music, curated by Annie Mac

Management: mattie@involvedmanagement.com
UK / EU bookings: jason@earth-agency.com 
US bookings:  brent@good-direction.agency + caroline@good-direction.agency

From early breakout hit "Phat Dope Shit" in 2002 to "Heavy Heart", a new collaboration with Skrillex and Fireboy DML, Dice has always been in the headlines. After his debut album "7 Dunham Place" on his own now long-running and well-regarded Desolat in 2008, came the major label follow-up "Underground Sound Suicide" on Ultra Music with guests like Giggs, Just Blaze, and Neneh Cherry, then the agenda-setting and club-focussed house and techno showcase that was "Love Letters" in 2018. 

Add in tens of EPs on Ovum, Minus, Cocoon, to name a few, and his remixes from everyone from Kevin Saunderson to Moby, Black Coffee to Disclosure, Warren G to Basement Jaxx, Loco Dice has always been at the beating heart of the electronic scene. 

His DJ sets, too, always brim with personality, whether in a small underground basement or on an iconic main stage at some of the world's top festivals like EDC Ultra, Tomorrowland and Coachella to name a few, playing to thousands. He has had era-defining residencies at iconic Ibiza super clubs like Circoloco at DC-10 and on the Amnesia Terrace as well at Space Miami. 

His lockdown move has been to unveil En Coleur, a label reserved exclusively for his own music produced at that time. SB Recordings followed. A new label open to all styles of dance music.

Since day one Loco Dice constantly pushes the boundaries of techno and house music production, from his appearance in 2004 PlayStation2 game "Decks & FX" to cooking up his own ideal fusions of hip hop and electronic music with his FKD side project or writing critically acclaimed runway soundtracks for Italian fashion designer Marcelo Burlon during Men’s Fashion Week in Milan for both FW20 and SS20.

Dice's distinctive fashion sense and strong visual aesthetic manifest in his collaborations with Amsterdam fashion label Daily Paper, pro sports hat purveyors New Era and in his own clothing brand Seran Bendecidos. 

All of this and his longevity prove that Loco Dice is undoubtedly an insatiable creative force most interested in the uncharted territory between genres and styles, the elements that link everything together.

the pied piper of dance ...and occasionally known to spot the odd tune...

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