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.

Merve was in on the action when House Music swept through Germany in the eighties. She spent every weekend at Hamburg's legendary gay club FRONT, where the DJs Klaus Stockhausen and Boris Dlugosch played House Music for the very first time in Germany. Merve's passion for magical house beats and DJing was born! In 1991 she started working as a DJ and quickly rose to success, establishing a name for herself in the club scene. The DJ Agency Housefrau signed her, and Merve toured the clubs in Germany.

: : STATIONS : :
BERLIN: E-Werk, Globus/Tresor, Love Parade, SchwuZ
BREMEN: Delight
FRANKFURT: Ebene 7
HAMBURG: Absolut, Camelot, EDK, Front, Fundbureau, Kontor, L-Beach-Festival, Slam, Uebel und Gefährlich, Unit, Voila
LÜBECK: Eishouse
MANNHEIM: Yellow Kitchen
MÜNCHEN: Parkcafé
NÜRNBERG: Mach 1
STUTTGART: Unbekanntes Tier
Außerdem: Dresden, Hannover, Kassel, Köln, Pforzheim, Biel/Bienne (Schweiz), Bern (Schweiz)

Contact: housefreundin@gmail.com

(Photo by Katja Ruge www.katjaruge.de)

Booking requests: matt@thepool-london.com & thomas@thepool-london.com
Contact: cocktaildamore@gmail.com

For the Silverilning Dubs stuff, please check out the Bandcamp page.

For DJ Bookings: jp@special-force.com

Eva Be has been a key figure on the development of Berlin underground club culture, and half of dj and producer duo LoYoTo
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After a musically inspired youth, the East-Berlin born Eva Be first dove into the Berlin club scene in 1995.
The "Delicious Doughnuts" club in Berlin-Mitte is a defining place for her carreer - it ́s here she met the boys who would later be known as "Jazzanova", this world renown electronic sensation had an immense impact on her musical development- changing her path indefinitely.
Eva never had a musical carreer in mind, however being in the right place at the right time and meeting people who were convinced about her musicality put her on that course.
She soon curated her own club nights during her residency at the "Akba Club", where she began to experiment, defining her sound on the turntables.
This was quickly followed by regular gigs at "Cookies", "WMF", "Boogaloo", "Kurvenstar" and "Cafe Moskau", where Eva presented her very own mix of Dub, Trip Hop, Breakbeat, Drum 'n' Bass and Experimental Electronics.
Out of this growing scene around Jazzanova, Dixon, Micatone,Slope, Eva Be and many other artists, such as the legendary "Sonar Kollektiv" evolved - a collective that to this day releases styledefining records.
This was also the label, where Eva released her first solo EP "Below" followed by several 12inches as f.e. "Eve ́s Time Tonite" ( in cooperation with Fat Freddy ́s Drop Singer Joe Dukie ) and "Allee Viree" as well as her first remixes.
Musical and personal relations to the now aspiring "Vienna Scene" led to regular gigs in Austria and numerous other European capitals.
As a resident DJ in the early " Watergate" club in berlin she played side by side ( if not back to back ) with the heroes of the genre like Kid Loco, Kruder & Dorfmeister, King Britt, Rainer Trüby etc., then touring through Europe with the Berlin based band project Ye:Solar and often DJ'd supporting Bands and Acts like "Fat Freddy ́s Drop", Omar and Jamie Lidell ( f.e. @ Apollo Festival ).
During that period she found the time to produce her successful debut solo artist album "Moving Without Traveling", demonstrating her deep love for Dub and Reggae.
After the huge reception of this record, Eva then described as "berlin ́s next rising star" by the uk jazz magazine "Straight No Chaser", decided to form a band "Eva and the BEs" to present the album live throughout Europe, partly together with "Fat Freddy ́s Drop" and "The Black Seeds".
After a short baby break in 2007, Eva returned to the club scene adding more house music to her repertoire.
Having produced remixes for the Sonarkollektiv, Maertini Broes, Marcus Enochson, Recloose, Horace Andy and Jah Wobble, ... .
She - while still working on a lot of solo material - teamed up with singer Ben Ivory, to release various singles ( f.e. "Closer" on Poesie Music / Get Physical ).
Moving forward Eva started gigging at "Panoramabar", "Ipse", "Wilde Renate",
"Kater Holzig" or "Tresor" where she met DJ Cle in 2013. Both instantly got along very well personally and musically and decided to form the project "LOYOTO" combining their common love for underground House music and Dub.
The first LoYoTo record "Looking At The Starz EP" appeared on Upon You Records in 2015, the second 12" "Lonely Young Tourist EP" was released on Watergate Records in 2016. „Karmadog EP“ & "Buchi EP on Foul&Sunk in 2018 and 2019. Due to the strong demand for remixes, the duo worked their magic on several tracks over that time. 
In 2019, the two impulsive musicians decided to create their own Recordlabel. "LYT Recordings is a publishing platform for music in the shades and between the bars."
Also, Eva finally feels inspired to work on her solo thing again, consequently leading to her ° Belight EP °, a straight up Bomb, distilling her talent and knowledge from almost 20 years of music work.
Check it out on Poker Flat Recordings!

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