Mijk Van Dijk Dj Sets

It’s been way too long since I uploaded my first Japan City Pop DJ-Mix, which became an overnight success and with 11.600+ listeners to date my most popular mix on Mixcloud by far. It’s really amazing, how many people seem to share my passion for City Pop (シティーポップShitī Poppu), the sound, that emerged from booming urban Japan in the late 70s and early 80 and I want to take once again the opportunity for a very warm-hearted “domo arigato gozai-mashita” (-_-) for all the love and support you have been giving that mix. This time I start in 1977 with "Summer Connection" of Taeko Ohnuki’s wonderful album “Sun Shower”, play many sun-kissed vibes by Tatsuro Yamashita, Toshiki Kadomatsu and more to end the mix with a song called “Sun Shower”, produced in 1989 by Japan’s Proto-House pioneer Soichi Terada, whom I had the pleasure to meet one year ago at the Kaga Music Festival. Mixed last night before the hottest day in German history (40°C max) this truly deserves the name “Sunshower Mix”.

Recording from Mijk van Dijk's slow Techno set at LSBmaze(02), kicking off chilled, becoming intense and chilling out again at the end, all below 120 bpm. Enjoy!

And now for something completely different: Attention: this DJ-Mix contains no Techno or House music. Just Krautrock from 1970 to 2019, from Germany, England, Japan…. But why? This music had a huge influence on my musical upbringing. Before German New Wave (NDW) there was German music that was totally unique. I tried to play Michael Rother’s shining guitar melodies on my acoustic guitar, clapped on my knees to the stoic beats of Jaki Liebezeit and wished I had a synthesizer. On June 13th 2019 I took the opportunity to play only Krautrock during a Liquid Sky Berlin event that I hosted with my friend 10cars at Maze Club in Kreuzberg. I played all those upbeat German Krautrock tracks from the 70s and added some new Kraut by bands like Camera, Minami Deutsch / 南ドイツ, Verstärker, Stereolab and so on. I guess many of you might discover something new! Hope you enjoy the experience!

In 1990 'Mijk van Dijk' was one of the first artists to emerge from the early Berlin Techno scene.In 1992 Mijk mixed Techno beats with emotive sounds and together with Cosmic Baby coined the term „Trance“ with the compilation Tranceformed From Beyond, the first of it’s kind. In 1993 together with Marcos Lopez he wrote the Marmion classic Schöneberg. Throughout the 90s and 00s Mijk has been working with artists as diverse as DJ Hell, Claude Young, Takkyu Ishino, Thomas Schuhmacher, DJ Rok, Toby Izui, Tanith, Namito, Rob Acid, Tom Wax, Martin Eyerer and remixed Moby, Denki Groove, GTO, Frankie Bones, Humate and Emmanuel Top, to name but a few. He has been touring worldwide and developed an especially strong bond with his fans in Japan, where he released on big and small labels like Sony Music or Frogman Records. Microglobe is now Mijk's home for all the different shades of his musical style.

This is Part 2 of Mijk van Dijk's DJ-Set at Sisyphos Hammahalle, 2019-05-03 I played a few of my new unreleased productions but decided to gently cut them out of the mix in order not to reveal them too early. :-p Listen to Part 1 here: https://www.mixcloud.com/mijkvandijk/mijk-van-dijk-dj-set-at-sisyphos-hammahalle-2019-05-03/

This is Part 1 of Mijk van Dijk's DJ-Set at Sisyphos Hammahalle, 2019-05-03

This is my 7th DJ-set at Walfisch Revival Party. Keeping the tradition of playing tracks that I did not play at Walfisch so far, I started easy with almost housy beats and vibes. Then I payed tribute to the late Keith Flint of The Prodigy (which truly was a "Firestarter" on the floor) and prepared the following rave bombs, until finally Hardy Hard took over. Thanks to Steffi, Felix FX, Henriko M. Sagert, the whole WRP-Crew and - YOU! Hope you enjoy my set as always. ;-)

Mijk van Dijk's DJ Set at BASE Revival Party, Club Paula Dresden, December 22nd 2018. Oldschool Vibes for Christmas, y'all! Big thank you and best wishes for the New Year to eventprductions_dd, DJ Doorkeeper, TINY. Mike Dub and everybody who made that night at Club Paula so much fun! Playlist to follow, later.....

Mijk van Dijk's 6th DJ-set at Walfisch Revival Party August 3rd 2018 and 4 hours long!! We divided this into two parts. Part 1 contains many tracks and mixes, Mijk hadn't played at Walfisch Revival yet. Hope you enjoy this trip as much as the everybody at the party.

This is the complete DJ-set that I played at "Oiran Warm Up Music" Radio Show by Venus Kawamura. The first bits were transmitted live from Oiran Shibuya on Block.fm radio in Tokyo, so I played all my new productions. Then I just kept on mixing and you can discover some new tracks I like, some old gems and even some of my unreleased productions works in progress. Which do you like best? Big thank you to Venus for having me on her incredible show.

House/Techno/Rave Classics 89/00 Holenderski EVENT w Polsce The Beginning / Perception Berlin / M Code EVENTS / Projekt Pralnia zapraszają Dr. Motte [Praxxiz Rec. Berlin / www.drmotte.de] Jaydee [R&S, Ellum] Mijk van Dijk (Berlin, www.microglobe.de) Alexander Koning [The Beginning] Angelo Mike [Warehouse / Sentence] Carla Roca [Black Point] Pablo Rouve [pawel wadowski] [M Code, DJ's Magazine] więcej info niebawem NO HARDCORE!!! 9zero Studio - VIDEO Magdalena Anna Duda - FOTO [mcoderecordsTEAM/DJ'sMagazine] partnerzy/media: DJ's Magazine [PL] naklubowo.eu I @CubeStage BeautifulNight.pl I ClubZone.pl @cpclubtv Mix recorded with Evermix. https://evermix.fm/mix/08d957b9-b93c-420e-ab6f-420cd5007df0/

Second half of the 90s with a techno attitude. Tracks that still sold fresh today. Starting from Detroit and reaching out to Hongkong. Mixed with black gold at Suicide Circus Berlin on May 12th 2018. Thanks to DJ Jauche and all you ravers for that great night!

The mission is Acid Techno. The music is timeless. The records are from 1988 to 2018. This is my set from C:T:R:L on Acid at Elipamanoke Leipzig, March 10th 2018. Join me on a 3 hours 20 minutes journey through all the shades of Acid Trax and beyond until the grand final which claims that "War is good for absolutely nothing!" Since I played mostly vinyl, you can hear the people screaming during breaks and especially at the end.

Come with me to Tokyo and let me introduce you to my latest guilty pleasure: City Pop, the funky soundtrack of the Japanese 80s. It’s all there: flamboyant arrangements, electronic beats and synths, cute girl vocals and cool AOR. So put that tape in your Walkman, look out of the windows of the Shinkansen and discover 15 artists to look out for. Groove to the music of Taeko Ohnuki, Minako Yoshida, Junko Ohashi, Junko Yagami, Hitomi Tohyama, Yoko Oginome, Yurie Kokubu, Toshiki Kadomatsu, Makoto Matsushita, Cosmos, Vizion, Myx, Katsumi Horii Project, Mariya Takeuchi and her genius husband, the ever so mighty Tatsuro Yamashita!

In January 2018 I was invited by the Goethe-Institut Kigali to come to Rwanda and give workshops and play a DJ-set. After gathering inspiration at Inema Arts Center, THE party to be in Kigali on a Thursday night, I played a lot of new and old Tribal Techno tracks on Friday at lovely Open Air Club Mamba in Kigali before I went all Techno during my almost 5-hours-set. Great response by the very mixed crowd. Techno is on the map in Rwanda. Big thanks to Goethe-Institut Kigali, the Urban Gorilla Collective and Mamba Club. If in Kigali, definitely check this club out. It’s got a pool, a playground, a volleyball court and the only bowling track in Rwanda for afternoon activities. And a billiard table, a bar and occasional parties in the evening. It even got guest rooms. This recording comes into two pieces, look for Part 1 on my Mixcloud.

In January 2018 I was invited by the Goethe-Institut Kigali to come to Rwanda and give workshops and play a DJ-set. After gathering inspiration at Inema Arts Center, THE party to be in Kigali on a Thursday night, I played a lot of new and old Tribal Techno tracks on Friday at lovely Open Air Club Mamba in Kigali before I went all Techno during my almost 5-hours-set. Great response by the very mixed crowd. Techno is on the map in Rwanda. Big thanks to Goethe-Institut Kigali, the Urban Gorilla Collective and Mamba Club. If in Kigali, definitely check this club out. It’s got a pool, a playground, a volleyball court and the only bowling track in Rwanda for afternoon activities. And a billiard table, a bar and occasional parties in the evening. It even got guest rooms. This recording comes into two pieces, stay put for Part 2

Greetings from Shenzhen/ China, where 2018 started 7 hours earlier than in Berlin! My NYE gig at Oil Club in Shenzhen was fantastic. Great sound system, good people and truly great Techno. Loved it!For those of you who don’t know Shenzhen: it’s a ever-growing city next to Hong Kong, now with 13 million inhabitants, the future “Chinese Silicon Valley”. That NYE party was part of the Future Mix 20th Anniversary Festival, hosted by Nibing, the presenter of the Future Mix radio show. Even those not listening to his show might know his voice as the presenter on the legendary Technasia Future Mix debut album. Recorded and first uploaded with MixBox2. https://evermix.fm/mix/7cd5fa48-ded0-4b21-822b-decea10e3857/

Wow, that was a wicked night at WALFiSCH Revival Party! As always I played mostly tracks I did not play so far at Walfisch Revival Parties so when you listen to my Walfisch mixes you won't get the same 20 records in alternative combination but a complete picture of my Old School Techno narrative. Many British guests this time and so I played in the first hour a lot of piano tracks and breakbeats vinyls, that I hadn't played in two and a half decades, literally! Thanks to Steffi, Felix and the Walfisch Crew to make it happen once again! Hope you enjoy this "British Breakbeat Inferno" ;-)

During my 29th tour to Japan I recorded a 45-minute DJ set only of my latest tracks and remixes for the Oiran Warm Up Show at Block.fm Radio in the heart of Shibuya. It was live on Friday September 29th at 20:00h Japan time. Thanks to Venus-san and Taku-san for having me on their wonderful station. This is the music that I’ve produced and released in the last 12 months. Also two unreleased tracks included. Can you spot them?

This is a recording from a live set in 2009 I was invited to play my classic tunes at the 17th anniversary party of legendary Distillery club in Leipzig/ Germany and decided to revamp the music to today's standards. So this is all at a 125 bpm speed, even those fast LoopZone tracks that used to be beyond 150 bpm back in the days. The set is also a bit wild and loose, you can really feel how nervous I act in the beginning. But as the music goes and as the crowd gave more and more love to me, I warmed up and the "Schöneberg"-version at the end is totally X-rated heat ;-) Big thanks to the great staff and crowd at Distillery Leipzig, they really made me want to play live on a regular level again. For the spec war sharks amongst you: I've been using Ableton Live 8 on a MacBook, a Vestax VCM-600 controller, Yamaha RS7000, Korg nanoPad, Korg Kaossilator, MFB Synth Lite II, Boss VT-1, a Shure microphone and a small Behringer Mixer. The recording is slightly edited and mastered! And here's the tracklisting: 1. Sex