Resident Advisor Page

Every man and his dog seems to have a Resident Advisor DJ Page these days, and if you can't beat them, then join 'em! DJ Charts and first person DJ bio attached ;-)

http://www.residentadvisor.net/dj/adamdaniels

Ostgut Ton Party 28th Jan

In their opening party of 2011, Detatched team up with renowned German techno label Ostgut Ton. Launched in 2005 by the team behind the infamous Berghain club in Berlin, the label has quickly become synonymous with the uncompromising techno and experimental sounds associated with the club and stands now as one of the most influential house and techno labels over the past five years. For the first of their two collaborations with... the label this year, Detached welcome SHED (live) and MARCEL FENGLER to the Beaverworks warehouse.

KILL THE DISCO will be hosting Room 3 at this event, providing deep house and disco beats as an alternative to the techno assault in the main room. With Twaddle doing their thing in the basement and more quality sounds emanating from the bar, this event provides the perfect solution to wash away the January blues.

A limited number of early bird £10 Tickets are on sale now through: www.detatched.co.uk and are expected to sellout before xmas.

Full price tickets only £12 ___ Door £12 (nus) or £14

Doors open at 10pm and please note that this is a FRIDAY night and not the usual Detatched Saturday!

Happy New Year!

Not posted on here for a while so thought I would do a quick round up of our New Year celebrations.

First off, we had a wicked NYE spent at Distrikt, where Kill The Disco teamed up with This Way Up for a free party that ran through until around 5am. We all played our sets and then all went back to back for a free for all at the end; unfortunately by this point a combination of Jagermeister, Peroni and Champagne had got the better of me and I had to be escorted from the decks! Start as you mean to go on and all that! Midnight tune was none other than Kool & The Gang - a bit predictable perhaps but a sing-along always goes down well as the clock strikes twelve.

Wax:On with PBR Streetgang

I'm playing for Wax: On again this weekend, at The Mint Club in Leeds. Headlining are Asylum & We Love Sundays @ Space residents PBR Streetgang. Asylum has easily been the best night for music at The Mint Club over the last three years of working there, and I was close to shedding a tear when they announced there was to be no more at the end of last year. I don't think I need to say too much about We Love!

Event details here - http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?203296

Distrikt Videos

Distrikt's 1st birthday was really good fun last weekend. Maurice Fulton was wicked, amazing music and he mixes old disco with live drums absolutely effortlessly - not a dropped beat or hi-hat clash all night! I took a couple of videos throughout the night when Me & Seb were playing and thought I would bang them on here. There is a link at the bottom to the pics Soonnight took also - some really good shots.





Soonnight Pics here - http://uk.soonnight.com/leeds/photos-distrikt-bar-1st-birthday-party,3,343605.html

FULTON, MARK E, DOTB AND KILL THE DISCO!

Absolutely buzzing about this coming Friday night in Leeds - one of the biggest lineups of the year for disco heads in the North.


First up is Distrikt's 1st Birthday party, which kicks off at 9pm. Distrikt is a wicked venue, hidden in the basement of a side street just round the corner from the Corn Exchange in Leeds. They host some wicked free parties and loads of good pre-parties for all the best nights in Leeds (Think Basics, Mono_Cult, Louche, Dirty Disco etc..) and this year alone has seen Mr C, Moodymanc, Tim Sheridan, Simon Baker, Ryan Elliott and loads more come down and play on the decks. It is their first Birthday this friday and disco legend Maurice Fulton is the main guest of honour. Me and Sebastian Budniak have been asked to provide warm up duties and we are incredibly looking forward to it!

As soon as this finishes we will head over to the Loft, where Throwback host Mark E for what promises to be another cracking party. Support comes from residents Death on The Balcony and the Last Waltz DJ's from Geordie Land. Friday can't come round soon enough!

Distrikt with Maurice Fulton here - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=155484734472160

and here (notice Kill The DJ instead of Kill The Disco.. ha ;-) http://www.residentadvisor.net/event.aspx?191199


Throwback here - http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=119567

Wax:On This Friday

I have managed to swing at set at Wax:On's weekly hoedown at the Mint Club in Leeds this coming Friday and I am immensely looking forward to it! Unfortunately Azari & III of Reckless Love fame have had to cancel at the last minute due to a double booking in Berlin but MagicBag Music production duo People Get Real still top the bill.

Wax:On has had a bit of a change of direction over the last few months and after making it's name in electro, nu-rave and more recently dubstep amongst other genres, they have decided to host a weekly friday night at The Mint Club dedicated to house, disco and techno as well as their monthly parties with Metropolis at the 4500 capacity Leeds University. The line-ups they have coming up over the new few weeks are very much up my street, and expect to see Ivan Smagghe, Optimo and Aeroplane amongst many others.

Here's the info for this week - if you are in the area pop down.


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Wax:On continues this Friday for the third week of it's blinding new residency at The Mint Club. After Rory Philips and The Sonic Emporium absolutely tore the dance floor to pieces at the last party, this weekend we see Wax:On resident and MAGiCBAG production duo People Get Real joined by Kill The Disco's very own resident and promoter Adam Daniels. Expect nothing more than the finest house, techno and disco throughout. See you ...on the dance floor!

Friday 8th October

People Get Real [Wax:On / MAGiCBAG Music]
Adam Daniels [ Kill The Disco ]

£5 Before 11:30pm // £6 After
11pm - 5am
Mint Club. 8- 10 Harrison Street, Leeds


DRINKS OFFERS

£1.50 Carlsberg Export
£1.50 Sambucca Shots
£1.50 Tequila Shots
£1.50 Jaeger Shots
£2.00 Jaeger Bombs
£2.50 V Double Vodka & Mixer


We’ll also be booking occasional headline guests, over the coming months we’ve got some great artists lined up including;

Ivan Smagghe
Erol Alkan
Optimo
Azari & iii
Rory Phillips
Aeroplane
Justin Robertson
Heidi
Matt Walsh

And a few more....


Full Details of Wax:On Fridays Here...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=143991142308580

Happy Birthday Cognosco!

Some of my good friends that promote Cognosco celebrate their 1st birthday this month and I have prepared the promo blurb for their forthcoming party. Their parties always go off and I am pretty sure this one will be no different! The guests will be joined by residents Marsden, Dan Hare and David Hulme.

COGNOSCO 1st Birthday with Giles Smith & Lovebirds

Who would have though it – We are One! After a couple of soirees in the Hyde Park Social, Cognosco launched itself into the Leeds nightlife scene with a belter of an opening party at Oracle twelve months ago in the company of Secret Sundaze co-founder and house music boffin Giles Smith. Having rocked the dance floor into the wee hours first time around, we thought it only fair to invite him back to celebrate our coming of age. This time our invitations are extended and we welcome Sebastian ‘Basti’ Doering aka Lovebirds, as he joins us and brings to the table his magic bag of deep house and disco treats.

It’s been a cracking year for Cognosco in our new found home at The Loft and guests such as Florian Kruse, Matthias Meyer and Alex Niggeman have ensured that each and every one of our events has been packed to the rafters. Our Fresher’s party across three rooms in conjunction with Louche and Mono_Cult at the end of September was an unbridled success but it’s back to business as usual for our upcoming celebration as we pay homage to the low ceilings and intimate atmosphere of The Loft once more.

Giles Smith launched Secret Sundaze alongside James Priestly in the summer of 2001 as a outdoor Sunday afternoon party, and their musical talents alongside a knack of booking the highest calibre of underground house and techno artists have seen their parties skyrocket over the last nine years. Voted club of the year in the 2006 Mixmag Awards, Secret Sundaze has continued to grow, and parties at Sonar, Snowbombing and numerous one-offs in Ibiza have cemented the night as one of the ‘must go to’ events in Europe.

Producing alongside Dan Berkson as Two Armadillos, their tracks have been snapped up and released by Steve Bug’s Dessous, Buzzin’ Fly and Four:Twenty records and charted by almost every self respecting house and techno DJ under the sun. Giles’s Resident Advisor podcast in the middle of last year eschewed the formulaic Ableton/laptop route and was instead mixed at home with two 1210’s and a mixer. Needless to say, the raw vibes and ‘live’ feel tickled the ears of everybody that gave it a listen and we are sure Giles will do exactly the same and more when he lands at the Loft for our next party.

‘The Modern Stalker EP’ was the track that really made people sit up and take notice of Lovebirds in the summer of 2007, and after it was rinsed by the likes of Prins Thomas, Ashley Beedle and Jimpster, Bill Brewster named it as tune of the month in I-DJ magazine. Managing to merge deep and melancholic house music sounds with more than a nod back to the underground disco vibes of the 70’s and 80’s, Lovebirds knack of fusing such styles has seen his production efforts released on Freerange, OM and Winding Road amongst many others. Now firmly part of the deep house cognoscenti, it was only a matter of time before he found himself behind the turntables at the Loft and we thought there was no better time to do it than our first birthday celebrations.

It has 12 months for them and everyone involved that is twinged with sadness as head promoter Matthew Mckeown tragically passed away earlier this year at the very young age of 25. I think it is fair to say Cognosco would not be where it is today without his input and this party is held in memory of him. Absolute top guy. RIP.

EVERY CLOUD HAS A SILVER LINING...

After a rather grand few weeks in Ibiza the season was finally to come to an end for me today and I was bound for the UK just before midnight tonight. Thanks to the French Air Traffic Control strike action however, my flight has now been cancelled and I find myself with an extra few days on the White Isle.

On the downside, no return to Leeds in time to catch The Revenge and Death on The Balcony at Throwback, but on the plus side there is now the possibility of both the We Love Sundays at Space and Circo Loco at DC10 closing parties to contend with. My every dwindling funds may yet say otherwise though!

I have had an absolute amazing summer playing at the Ibiza Rocks Bar and sincerely hope I get the chance to play there again next year. It's been ace to play bits of disco, house and techno right in front of the sea, and apart from the odd slightly angry request for the Swedish House Mafia or David Guetta, the sound seems to have gone down well. Thank you again Ibiza Rocks!

DISCO FUTURE HEROES?

The amount of legitimate free music that I am aquiring and actually loving to death at the moment is phenomenal - soundcloud is surely the best thing in the world at the moment for aspiring disco/re-edit producers and fans.

Check these guys out - they are the absolute fucking bomb!

Touchsoul - re-edit genius

Latest tracks by touchsoul

Reset* - Check out the automatic edit...

Latest tracks by Reset*

Leftside Wobble - Just picked up on the Grapevine Boogie edit... Wicked!

Latest tracks by Leftside Wobble

IBIZA ROCKS..

I have landed a residency at the Ibiza Rocks Bar (formerly Bar M) for the summer season in Ibiza. I've been playing 2/3 times a week for the preparties for the nights at Eden, Amnesia and Es Paradis such as Cream and Pete Tong's Wonderland. It's so far been very fun but also very challenging as rather than knocking out my normal set of disco through to pitched down house music I have had to adapt (quite a lot!) when warming up for DJ's playing the bar such as Zane Lowe..... The first two hours are where I can really play the music that I want but I have enjoyed the challenge of having to play and mix music that is a lot faster, tougher and harder than the kind of stuff I would normally put on!

Definitley having a lot of fun out here though, loving the lifestyle, sunshine and ridiculously cheap alcohol.

I normally play Saturdays and Sundays and one night during the week - if you are out on the White Isle this summer pop in for a quick sangria!

DANCING WITH SOME WOLVES THIS WEEKEND...

KILL THE DISCO crosses it's magic cosmic sword this weekend with Raised By Wolves as we don our disco hats once more and joint host the backroom at Detached @ Beaverworks... We had a cracking time playing there last month and with loads of comfy sofas, cool visuals and a lovely soundtrack we think it's the perfect alternative to the booming techno emanating from the main room...

Full Event Details here... http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116882018337763&ref=ts

Online Promo/Spam below..................

Kill The Disco and Raised By Wolves join forces to host the VIP room at Beaverworks on the first Saturday in June.

Raised by Wolves have been doing their thing for a while on the Leeds scene, layering together a delicious mix of Disco, Cosmic, Boogie, Italo and loads more at various venues across the city. They've christened the intimate surroundings of the Smokestack as their new home and one Thursday a month treat Leeds music aficionados to a tropical cocktail of beats.

Kill The Disco is no stranger to Detached; Only last month they came down and filled the VIP room at the residents party with an 8 hour soundtrack of House, Disco and Slo-Mo. After such a cracking time we thought we should come and do it all again!

There is plenty going on at the next Detached; The Ecknosketch boys will be doing their house/techno/minimal thing in the newly refurbed basement, whilst the bar plays host to a dubstep/breaks/ravecore/bass mix off between Data-Trace Records and Noodle. Detached steal the show by flying in the ace 'proper techno' duo Dualtek in from Japan for a 3 hour back to back set, with support from The Forward Strategy Group. All in all, that is what you call a line up!

If it all gets a bit much, come and find us in the VIP room, which is opposite the entrance as you walk into Beaverworks. It's a cracking room with loads of comfy chairs, some ace visuals and a top quality soundsystem, topped off with a soundtrack for the evening that you are going to love! A bit of disco, a smattering of funk, a few beats of cosmic and a big dollop of Italo... Get yourself involved! X


KILL THE DISCO VS RAISED BY WOLVES @ DETACHED ROOM 4

Marsden (Cognosco / Kill The Disco)
Stu Fear (Raised By Wolves)
Maverick (Kill The Disco)
Mark Patton (Raised By Wolves)
Adam Daniels (Kill The Disco)
Joss Bibby (Raised By Wolves)

10PM - 6AM

Beaverworks, 36 Whitehouse Street, Leeds, LS10 4AD

www.detached.co.uk
www.oddsocksnopants.blogspot.com

RAISED BY WOLVES - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6814054369

KILL THE DISCO - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7008375478&ref=ts

DETACHED - http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=7651040411&ref=ts

FULL EVENT DETAILS HERE...

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=116882018337763&ref=ts

Tickets £10 from here ... http://www.detatched.co.uk/store
£12 OTD

KILL THE DISCO @ DISTRIKT..

Kill The Disco take over Distrikt in Leeds City Centre this month; cracking new(ish) bar/club venue that is just over the road from The Space and is ran by dance music heads who have a real passion for underground beats and have top quality lineups on (DJ's/Bands or otherwise) pretty much running through Tuesday to Sunday. It's our turn this month and we are well looking forward to it!

http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=121127794577939&ref=ts

SEMI-DETACHED BBQ THIS WEEKEND

We had a cracking time playing at the Cognosco afters at Stinkys Peephouse in the early hours of Saturday morning last weekend and after a couple of days rest we now have our eyes firmly planted on the weekend ahead. After a couple of years in the wilderness we launch Kill The Disco again this weekend as we host the VIP room at Beaverworks for the first of Detached's summer BBQ parties.

Detached have really been on fire this year and have had the likes of Ben Sims, Oscar Mulero and Derick May spin some tunes at their wicked warehouse venue on the outskirts of Leeds. I've had the privelege of knocking out some disco in the backrooms quite a few times and each time I have thoroughly enjoyed the experience.

It' all kicks off around 10pm and there will be a BBQ in the courtyard for the first couple of hours - We have invited our friends from Filthy Habit to come and play after they hosted such an excellent boat party a couple of weeks ago. Full event details are here - http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=112753342088331&ref=ts AND HERE... http://www.residentadvisor.net/forum-read.aspx?id=102169

FULL LINEUP SO FAR..

Detatched residents in the basement___

Tony Adamson // Adam Rayner
Horror Brawl // Sputnik
Systemic vs Siege // Oriel vs Laura Hemsley
DJ Skirt // Lisa Woollard


Kill the Disco in the VIP room___

Marsden (Cognosco / Kill The Disco)
Filthy Habit DJ's
Sebastian Budniak (Kill The Disco / Farmhaus Records)
Adam Daniels (Kill The Disco)
Maverick (Kill The Disco)


room3 tba later this week.


only £5 on the door !
Free bus from Leeds city centre & hyde park from 9.45 until 1am.

HAPPY DAYS!

COGNOSCO...

It's been 2 months since Florian Kruse packed out the loft and it's now time for Cognosco once again. Liebe* Detail's Matthias Meyer headlines on Friday and no doubt it will be absolutely packed out once again. Afterparty shenanigans for me this weekend as I once again team up with Seb Budniak to knock out some house flavoured disco at the as yet to be announced afterparty venue around the 7am mark.... Best catch up on my sleep this week!

AHOY SAVELOY!

Quite a few gigs coming up in the next couple of weeks, starting off with the fabulous Filthy Habit Boat Party which kicks off at 7PM next friday and spends the next 4 gloriously sunny (hopefully!) hours cruising along the The River Aire. The party continues at a 'as yet to announced' secret venue until the wee hours of Saturday Morning. I shall be playing on the boat party with fellow disco comrade Sebastian Budniak and it promises to be a cracker. Only 75 tickets available for the boat priced at £10 so best be sharp!

EVENT DETAILS HERE - FACEBOOK JOB!

GOODBYE SHADY VINYL RIPS...

Ahem... not that I would EVER be guilty of the above, but Instruments of Rapture brought light into my monday morning when I noticed their back catalogue online on Juno download - bloody immense news! I've waxed the plastic and invested in most of them today - stand outs are 'Ooft - This Sound' and the delicious Revenge rework of 'Just a Memory'....

Fingers crossed for a Jisco back catalogue 320 release soon eh?

Taster...

REVIEW: FLORIAN KRUSE TOUCHES DOWN IN LEEDS

Just finished off a review of Cognosco's party last month, where Florian Kruse made his leeds debut at the the Loft. I should be writing a few more reviews/articles for soonnight over the coming months, so keep your eyes peeled.



(pic courtesy of tillate.com)

" Fatboy Slim once famously chimed ‘We’ve come a long long way together’ and although Cognosco may not quite yet have hit the heady heights that Norman Cook did during the late nineties, they’re certainly getting there. What started out as a free party at the Hyde Park Social in May 2009 has quickly developed into one of the ‘must go to’ nights on the house and techno circuit in Leeds. You need look no further than the queue outside The Loft at just past midnight for proof of that: it seems Florian Kruse has attracted the biggest Cognosco crowd to date.

Each time this team has held an event at both the Loft and The Oracle, I have been impressed with their attention to detail; it would be impossible to accuse them of simply sticking a pair of speakers in the corner of a room and calling it a club night. The usual ‘Punch and Judy-esque’ DJ booth at the far end of the club has been tucked away and, in its place, is a large table that allows much more of a focus on the DJ. Long black drapes hang along the length of the ceiling on the left hand side, giving the effect of a much more intimate room and providing easy walking access both to the toilet and the bar. Sadly, rumoured noise complaints from the neighbouring flats forced an early closure of the courtyard as a smoking area, but we’re lucky to be here at all after the furore surrounding it’s closure as The Northern Light a few short years ago, again due to sound issues.

Deep house is very much the order of the night back inside, and as Brad Mercer polishes off an impressive set and hands over to German DJ and producer Florian Kruse for his Leeds debut, the downstairs area of the Loft was packed out from the DJ booth to the back of the bar. It is fair to say that Cognosco always attract a crowd that have an ear on the DJ rather than an eye on the cameraman; a steady mix of glammed up girls mix with guys in t-shirts and trainers but the emphasis is always very much on having a party and tonight is definitely no different.

Kruse may not be a name on the tip of everyone’s tongues at the moment but the previous bookings of Giles Smith and Alex Niggemann have proved that Cognosco have a knack of snaring high calibre guests that are a little off the beaten track of the tried and tested house/techno route. DJ’ing off a laptop with an impressive looking Vestax midi controller, Florian plays for the best part of two hours with a very steady and levelled mix of deep 4/4. Resident Marsden ups the pace a little with some jackin’ grooves and, when he drops the Frankie J remix of Bryan Jones – ‘Body Move,’ can’t help a cheeky grin creeping out the side of his face as it’s met with a more than enthusiastic response.

We leave The Loft a little after 4am, just as David Hulme is cueing up his second or third record to a crowd of people that had barely diminished in numbers since the night had reached its peak; indeed, the day after, tales crept back to us that the after-party in a secret Hyde Park location rolled on until gone 10am. And, it seems, with Liebe*Detail’s Matthias Meyer lined up to headline the next event, Cognosco itself will keep rolling onwards and upwards… "

READ THE FULL INTERVIEW HERE

NEWSPAPER SCANDAL!

Charlie Brooker tells it how it is.. Cracking article on the guardian website..

"It's perhaps the biggest threat to the nation's mental wellbeing, yet it's freely available on every street – for pennies. The dealers claim it expands the mind and bolsters the intellect: users experience an initial rush of emotion (often euphoria or rage), followed by what they believe is a state of enhanced awareness. Tragically this "awareness" is a delusion. As they grow increasingly detached from reality, heavy users often exhibit impaired decision-making abilities, becoming paranoid, agitated and quick to anger. In extreme cases they've even been known to form mobs and attack people. Technically it's called "a newspaper", although it's better known by one of its many "street names", such as "The Currant Bun" or "The Mail" or "The Grauniad"."

Read more here... LINK

AN INTERVIEW WITH FLORIAN KRUSE (NRK/NOIR MUSIC)

I recently prepared a short interview with Florian Kruse for the Ugroove website ahead of his gig for Cognosco at the Loft this coming Friday... Check out what he had to say here.


It’s been a very busy last couple of years for Florian Kruse. After a number of years perfecting his studio skills in Hamburg, Florian finally burst onto the deep house scene in 2007 with a number of releases on Om Records, Heya Hifi and SlipNslide. Collaborations with Nils Nurnberg and Stel followed in 2008, as well as a number of solo releases that found their way onto forward thinking dance floors the world over.

Florian’s expert skill in infusing dub influenced melodies with the more conventional deep and tech-house grooves have found his production skills and DJ sets in high demand, with his recent remix of Scope’s ‘This Rhythm’ on NRK holding a top ten place in the Beatport deep house chart for six weeks. This feat was crowned with a headlining set at the Cocoon Club in Frankfurt at the end of January this year.

We managed to grab five minutes from Florian’s busy schedule ahead of his Leeds debut at Cognosco to discover what has been making him tick over the last couple of years.

Hi Florian! We are all very excited to catch you playing at Cognosco on the 26th. Leeds has a reputation in the UK as the clubbing capital of the North; are you looking forward to your debut in the city?

Oh yes, I’m really excited! I met Steve Jones from Leeds last year at Sonar (Barcelona) and he told me something about the club scene. It sounds all good and promising!!! I also read an article in the DJ Mag last week; Leeds – I’m coming! Hahaha....

You were recently booked to play Sven Vath’s Cocoon Club in Frankfurt... surely one of the greatest accolades a DJ can receive! How was this for you?

That was amazing! My studio buddy Nils Nuernberg and I had a good time in Frankfurt, we played with Motorcitysoul’s C-Rock and met some guys from Hed Kandi. We were really pleased to play at Cocoon and totally enjoyed it.

Your releases have been championed in house and techno clubs the world over in the past couple of years. What releases and remixes do you have in the pipeline?

Lately I’m doin’ a lot together with Nils Nuernberg. We are joining forces and sharing a studio in Hamburg. We are pretty busy at the moment and have a long list of remixes and originals upcoming. I’m so proud of the new releases for example 'Drenched’ on Kolour Recordings including remixes by Motorcitysoul, Kris Wadsworth & Don Melon and the remix we did on Will Saul’s Simple Records. We have an 2 track EP upcoming on Slip N Slide including remixes by DJ Sneak & Scope and a lovely release on Noir Music called 'Lovers n Fighters' coming soon with a fantastic floor filler remix by DJ Madskillz. We also did a remix for Santos and there are a few other things coming. We have no reason to slow down... hehe ;-)

Which artist’s productions find their way into your record bag? Which track is really doing it for you on the dance floor at the moment?

Well, there are a few good artists around. Really hard to mention names here. I’m so flashed by the track of Hermanez called 'Soms’ at the moment, this one is massive for the maintime. For the warm up set Shur I Kan’s upcoming release on Dark Energy really hits me, especially the track 'Joe’s Joint’. Just brilliant!

And what is your favourite record of all time? Do you have a ’never fails’ record that always keeps its place in your bag?

Yeah, there is one tune from Irfane called 'Just A Lil’ Lovin’, I don't have this in my bag anymore, but this record was in there for a long, long time!!! It’s such a positive vibe and a secret weapon for special hours ;-)

You’re most well known and respected for your house productions; how did you get into the electronic music scene initially?

My older brother is Vincenzo, so I've always grown up with house music ! I’m still his biggest fan ;-)

In the UK, Germany (especially Berlin!) is known as almost some kind of house/techno ‘Mecca’. How do you feel the UK compares to your home scene?

You are right, Germany is known for good electronic music and we have a big scene especially in Berlin, but I think that the UK, for example, London, can compete with it. You have so many big labels in the UK and a few good clubs. It’s funny, but I’m actually working more with international than German labels and most of them are coming from the UK (Simple, NRK, Slip N Slide, Urban Torque...).

What has been your favourite gig over the last 12 months?

Cocoon, for sure, but I also enjoyed last year the party at Sonar at 'La Terrazza’. I played with Marc Romboy, Shur I Kan and Mike Monday, that was big fun...

And finally; what does 2010 hold for Florian Kruse?

I’m goin’ to marry this year. I wanna play live’ and hopefully see many places in the world I’ve not been to.

Read the Interview here at Ugroove.TV