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BarbNerdy: I started DJ'ing in 1990 in Munich with Garage House, NY Style, changed later to Chicago House and ended up with Detroit Techno (1994) but decided to play “Freestyle” very early (1996) as I got bored of playing the same kind of music all night long. In the 90ies I played a lot of gigs all over Europe along all the big names at this time. Even Tony Humphries, Jeff Mills, Colin Faver, DJ Hell. In Clubs like Tresor Berlin, E-Werk Berlin, Museum of Modern Art in Copenhagen, Flex inVienna, Raves in Italy, small and big Festivals and many many more. 1997 I moved to Hamburg where I started a monthyl club night called Club Neu at Club Tempelhof. There we played a really cool freestyle programm, from Hip-Hop to Djungle, from Electro via Disco to House or Beatz. And the crowd there was really cool. They danced to everything we "served". I also organized there a really cool night with Cheap Records from Vienna meets Clear Records (Matthew Herbert) or the huge DJ Hell at Rote Flora event. Somtimes I had a chance to play the famour Pudel Club which was also big fun!
In 1999 I moved to Berlin where I started "Support Your Local Ghetto" which was the name of my weekly Radio Show on Twen.FM a pirate radio here in Berlin. I had a lot of fun playing my fave tunes plus having guests from all over the world. Mostly my guests where just from the neighborhood. I love my hood. There are so many talented artists which have to be heard. So, lets stay local. But local not only in the meaning of territory, local means also all the friends and people you have in your neighborhood. Will never forget the outstanding show with Blake Baxter and Abe Duque or with the Stones Throw Dudes. Some recordings of this shows must still be in the interwebs. Will try to find and publish them here.
In 2011 I reactived the "support your local ghetto" This time at the lovely Panke in Berlin Wedding as a monthly club night. Every last friday of the month. This event I did for 3 years until April 2014.
Work in Music: I started working in the music – biz also very early - in the very early 90ies in Munich where I started the booking agency around the Label Disko B and the Club Ultraschall. (Artists: DJ Hell, Blake Baxter, Abe Duque, Patrick Pulsinger and many more).
In ’96 a major label called and I moved to Hamburg to promote great artists like: Goldie, Roni Size, Money Mark, Portishead etc… Parallel I had a weekly residency at Club Tempelhof, where I played my “Freestyle” program. Of course way too early, so after 1 year it was done. After my experience with a Major Label I did some freelance jobs till the next milestone in my live started: Press Speaker Assistant of the Loveparade ’99 in Berlin. I moved to Berlin, worked for the Sonar Kollektiv (Label collective of Jazzanova) until a friend of mine hired me to help him setting up the Software Startup go_Disko*. I was really happy there but one day I received a mail from iTunes, where they offered me the Job as “Head of Editorial” for the German iTunes store. I started working there right after they opened in Germany – in a team of 2 people – for the next 3,5 years. Great Time it was!
After this great experience I was totally focussed on the topic “future of things.. ” and changed after some nice little jobs for BPitch Control, Puppetmastaz etc..from the music biz to the online biz. Cause at this time (and most is still) every cool new thing was / is forbidden by law in Germany. I organized the re:publica 09 (started 6 weeks before and put all strings together) and now I’m an Online Project Manager, have my 2 own blogs, still do DJing and diggin music. I’m very curious about new strategies, recommendation systems, apps and have a dream of an aggregated platform with something like a semantic search, where you can find everything about your fave artist, movie etc.. Where you can listen for free, pay for a download or even pay per stream. All in one platform. Since 2 years I’m a paying Spotify customer. Started in Sept. 2007 using Soundcloud for my DJ mixes. All my 23 Mixes where played 15.000 times, downloaded 3.100 times in 107 countries since than. I dig music all through the internet, get recommendations from my social network, share my findings and pay wherever I can pay. I’m a very proud owner of 15.000 Vinyls and have around 160 GB well sorted music on my hard drive.
–> My philosophy: Sharing means caring – knowledge is growing when its shared.
This set was recorded live at the #rpTEN conference in Berlin. It was the "background" music for the really huge networking area. Tracklisting on my --> BLOG http://hallama.org/?p=2664&preview=true Tracklist: The Unused Word – How many guesses Shamana – Smoke Blunts MC 900 ft. Jesus – The City Sleeps Dank Lotion – J K M Crator of Waves Chester Watson – Spliffs ft. Bobby Raps Os Mutantes – Le Premier Bonheur du Jour Bibio – Petals RJD“ – Ghostwriter Mos Def – Sunshine Drishti Beats – Journey (Escaping Animals RMX) Mark Pritchard – Beautiful People (feat. Thom Yorke) Sieren – Glow CLNK – CPR – Taprikk Sweezee Rmix Breton – Certain little Facts D.N. Hürter – Omni Sieren – Mountain Flare David August – JBY Aleph – Saint Killer (Video Edit) Chassol – Reich Darwin (Red Bull Studio Paris exclusive) Call Super – Sulu Sekou (7“ Version) Rachael Boyd – Pace it (Kelpe Rmix) Olafur Arnalds & Nils Frahm – Four Opal Blue – Time Travel Gorillaz – Feel good Inc. (Swindail RMX) Photay – Monday Sieren – Staircase Thomas White / Timbah – Love Letter Submerse – Here’s Looking at You Radiohead – Lotus Flower Photay – No Sass Le Motel – Blood Dean Blunt – Meditation
Vol. 12 of my Mixtape series is here! It first appeared on Johannes Musicblog Progolog http://www.progolog.de/2015/12/adventskalender-2015-tag-11-barbnerdy-sharing-means-caring-vol-12-progoak15/
It contains some of my most played songs in 2015 and its, as always, a ride through many styles: German HipHop meets the 60*ies, Aphex Twins rework of a fantastic PinkFloyd track next to Beat Spacek (Modern Streets = one of the best albums in 2015), absolutely must have: Little Simz along Alessia Care and Yppah, best tracks of Dean Blunt, Kelela, James Pants and even The Notwist showed up. Not to forget the happy sound of My Toys Like Me. I wrote a bit about the process of producing this series here: http://hallama.org/music Enjoy!
Tracklist: Jean Grae - 38 Special ft. Tanya Morgan Fatoni & Dexter - Authitenzität (Instrumental) Dicht & Ergreifend - Weydundagang Little Simz - Dead Body, Pts.2 & 3 (feat. Stromzy & Kano) A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebum (Pharrell Williams Rework) Wu Tang vs The Beatles - Got Your Money A/T/O/S - A Taste of Struggle ANIMA! - No Mind, Never Matter Aphex Twin - 20 Pink Floyd The Gaslamp Killer - Fuck SBTRKT - Relics (feat. TEV N) Alessia Cara - Here Wevie Stonder - Shredni Vashtar Bibio - Petals Francesca Belmonte - Strange Beat Kelela - Rewind Dean Blunt - War Report James Pants - Strange Girl Yppah - Bushmills Beat Spacek - I wanna know Romare - Motherless Child The Notwist - Moron Portico - Bright Luck (feat. Jono McCleery) KRTS - My head is jumpin’ (feat. Tito and Charles) My Toys Like Me - Superpowers LA Priest - Oino Josh One - Wrong Way (Amp Live Remix) Swindail - Brief Guide To Inflation (Lars Fucse Rmx) Flume - Some Minds (feat. Andrew Wyatt) Branko - Let me go Ticklish x Boogie Dan - Wanna Be Your Lover
Picture by BarbNerdy: https://www.flickr.com/photos/barbnerdy/
Here is my set from the #32C3 - Chaos Communication Congress 2015 which took place between Christmas and NY in Hamburg. My set time was at the last day, started at 3PM when it was just about getting dark. DJ Zeerone who played before me just finished his nice set with some really cool soul music. Everyone on the 4th floor was a bit sentimental and moody as it was time to leave this fantastic Congress soon, so I started with some very melancholic music. After 20 mins my Traktor crashed but The Binh (also one of the DJ’s) just plugged in his phone and played these 2 fantastic songs —> Megalomaniacs -Mad World and "Space Oddity - Major Tom - Chris Hadfield performed on the ISS", which was a perfect match to the mood and my set. Thank you! After a while it got dark outside and the beautiful lights inside returned to make magic out of this place. The DJ after me was Michael Rosen and I knew he would play a bit more electronic so I made a slow change to electronics and finished with one of my most loved songs this year: Flume - Some Minds —>This is not the original recording but a re_recording with the original tracklist<—
Krake & Bense - Krisennummer Marlena Shaw - Woman of the Ghetto Malena Shaw - California Soul Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle The Beatles - Michelle Johnny Mandel - Suicide is Painless (from the TV Series M.A.S.H.) Warpaint - Love is to Die Megalomaniacs -Mad World Space Oddity - Major Tom - Chris Hadfield performed on the ISS Erik Sumo - Friday I’ll be Dead Gorillaz - Hong Kong Pink Floyd - Julia Dream Radiohead - Wonderwall (Oasis Cover) Faultline - Greenfields Nina Gordon - Straight Out Of Compton Mary Hopkin - Lullaby of the Leaves Sandrine Kiberlain - Girl Take Berlin - Vermona M. Craft - Emily Snow Dorando - Didn’t I Coconut Records - Summer Day The Doors - People are Strange Norman Palm - Boys Don’t Cry The Beatles - When I’m Sixty-Four Billy Swan - I can help The Make-Up - I am Pentagon Lykke Li - Rich Kids Blues Damon Albarn - Everyday Robots Alt-J - Tesselate (SARM acoustic version) Knowsum - Ghost feat. Anna-Louise Hoffmann) 28 - LSD FKA Twigs - Glass & Patron KRTS - My Head is Jumpin’ 2ndSun - Come Home (Sinistarr Rmx) Flume - Some Minds (feat. Andrew Wyatt)