dollop Present the CitiPost Warehouse Series
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Justus Köhncke
From punkrock to acid, ballads to techno, "Whirlpool" to "KOMPAKT" - cologne-based producer, singer and DJ Justus Köhncke has surely come a long way.
Justus started off in the late 80s with his first project "Blood And Honey", a Düsseldorf-based duo doing nothing but electronic versions of Amanda Lear songs. After moving to cologne in 1990, Justus, heavily influenced by house music, began producing tracks with different people, especially DJs Hans Nieswandt and Eric D. Clark. At this time, he started spinning his own special mixture of records in the cologne scene as well.
From 1992 to 2000 he, Eric and Hans, under their "Whirlpool Productions" moniker, released four full-length albums for Ladomat, Motor and WEA, as well as countless 12 inches and remixes. They are especially known for their 1996 club classic "From: Disco To: Disco" which became a major hit across europe and held the #1 spot in the italian pop charts, summer 1997, for five weeks.
After WPP split up, Justus started releasing under his own name. His first solo album, "Spiralen der Erinnerung" (1999), consisted of very personal electronic interpretations of his favourite classics by the likes of John Cale, Neil Young or Hildegard Knef and also introduced Köhncke as a fragile and soulful vocalist.
But disco was never dead for him. He continued rocking the cologne bars and dancefloors as a DJ and developed his very own sci-fi-techno-disco production style. After signing with his old cologne rave buddies on the reowned KOMPAKT label in 2001, he dropped his now-trademark 12 inches "Jet/Shelter" and "2 After 909" as well as his series of Chic-Hommage-Tracks, "SCIENCE 210X".
2002 saw the release of his first solo album for KOMPAKT, "Was Ist Musik", which combined the clubby side of his music and his very special approach towards german-language electronic pop songs. "Doppelleben", the 2005 album release, pushed this duality even further, prompting the US paper "Seattle Weekly" to coin the term "nü-german compu-soul".
2004's 12" release "Timecode" turned out to become his biggest disco smash so far, ruling the floors that summer. His club tracks have been licensed on countless compilations and mix-CDs, including ones by Erlend Øye, Steve Bug, DJ Hell or Felix Da Housecat. In recent years, Justus has produced remixes for Chelonis R. Jones, Ladytron, Mylo, Andreas Dorau, Erasure, Stereo Total and Hot Chip, among others.Whether it’s working at the DJ booth, a club stage, or some grimy bar, Justus is forever passionate and heartfelt, never forgetting why the 4/4-bassdrum was invented in the first place.
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Dj Fra:
Fra Soler is the resident, for over 10 years now, of one of the best clubs ever: the Nitsa @ Apolo based in Barcelona. Many refer to him as a walking encyclopedia as far as Techno and club music is concerned and it proves right in his DJ sets. Soler manages to combine the past 15 years of club music into a refreshingly complex eclecticism that retains a homogeneous quality throughout his sets. As a taste-maker and responsible for bringing in talent regularly to the Nitsa, Soler is respected as one to recognize and support up-and-coming trends in club music but to veer away from the temporary sensationalists that exist in dance music as he feels that these new movements are part of a greater whole. At Nitsa, Fra has shared the dj booth with some of the most important electronic artists of all times, such as Todd Terry, Derrick May, Kevin Saunderson, Mr.Fingers, Carl Craig, Dave Clarke, Aphex Twin, Michael Mayer, David Holmes, Andrew Weatherall and hundreds more. He has a big profile in Spain, voted every year among the best spanish djs by spanish magazines like Rockdelux, considered 'the bible' of music in Spain, or Go Mag. In 2005 he was considered the best Spanish Dj by Rockdelux Magazine.He's djed all over Spain in dozens of clubs and festivals like Primavera Sound, Sonar and Benicassim, and also many international clubs like Rex, Bataclan, Elysee Montmartre and Le Pulp in Paris, Studio 672 in Cologne, Panorama Bar, Maria and Weekend in Berlin, Zoobizarre in Montreal, Velvet in Mumbai, Orange Room in Delhi, Nasa in Reykjavik, Magazzini Generali in Milan... Together with Maxi Ruiz, they have the project called FERENC, and they have just released their debut album "FRAXIMAL" on KOMPAKT, the trend-setting Cologne label runned by Michael Mayer, Wolfgang Voigt and Jurgen Paape. Ferenc have performed live all over Europe delivering their trademark amalgamation of wild pitch house, the good side of trance and classic techno.
Events in the series:
Friday March 11th
dollop / FACT Magazine 04:
Instra:Mental, KiNK - Live, FACT djs, dollop djs.
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Friday March 18th
dollop / Trailer Trash 05:
Sinden, Homework, Trailer Trash djs, dollop djs.
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Friday March 25th
dollop / Adventures In The Beetroot Field / Factory Floor 06:
Factory Floor - live (Quadraphonic Sound), JD Twitch (Optimo), dollop djs.
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