+ Tell us about your experiences in the early nineties when you organised parties in Lichtenberg Youth clubs how did that come about?

I was 15 years old and Paul Kalkbrenner and me, we organized our first parties in the East Berlin ghettos where we grew up. In the beginning we had to play with pop chart DJ’s and hip hop DJ´s during the same night, but after some months our sound became more and more successful and we began to run the whole night, actually “evening”, cause these youth clubs opened every Friday and Saturday from 8 pm till midnight. We didn’t have enough records to play so sometimes we played one track 3 times! After these parties we went to the “real” clubs like bunker Walfisch or e-werk to see and dance to our dj-idols.

+ You are quite the prolific remixer, how do you go about tackling a project from when you first get approached to the final mix-down?

I always try to find the mood of the original track and reproduce this mood. For me it’s not the point to use melodies the same way, it’s more interesting to play with the feeling of the original. I general I prefer doing a remix for not too clubby tracks. It’s more interesting to play with the instruments or vocals and set it up in my personal club version, instead of having just one minimal hook and percussions.

+ Although you are very closely connected to the German techno network which other labels and artists have informed your music from the rest of Europe and beyond?

There are many more but off the top of my head Dial, Kompakt, Freude am Tanzen and Dynamic.

+ This year marks ten years for Bpitch, having worked alongside Bpitch for a while now where do you see the label developing for the next ten years?

I still see us as a very eclectic label. We express electronic music in so many different ways, especially on albums. We always tried to set the focus on more than just 12″ club tunes. For every one of us it would be too boring to do that. I listen to so many other different music styles. I am sure we shall continue this way.

+ What plans do you have for future releases, collaborations, and a follow up to 2008’s Mango?

I finished a track for our 10th anniversary and a new single is almost done, a few remixes as well. And I will definitely start with a new album soon.

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