DJ Booga

02/07/2024

Reverie Code playlist · tracks to recall moments of joy feat. Sinistarr, BSN Posse & Ginkø, Schmeichel & Shane Lizard, Maltin Worf, Sun People, Kiat, Jermaine Soul & Utelka and others 🔮 https://playlist.link/reveriecode on Apple Music, Spotify, Bandcamp, Beatport

25/06/2024

Club tracks around 150 bpm 🔑 https://playlist.link/150 on Bandcamp · Beatport · Apple Music · Deezer · Spotify feat. Sam Binga, Sun People, Amy Kisnorbo, Ron Mercy, Sister Zo, Arcane & Jon1st, Deft, Patrik Cure, DJ Nasty, Machinedrum, Luke Vibert, DJ Earl, Om Unit and others.

07/06/2024

06/06/2024

05/04/2024

wrk.dat is not one of many words, he prefers to just make tracks. It is the understatement of the year. 💛

29/03/2024

Good guy Robin.

The founder of Through These Eyes Records reveals the reason for the closure of his label and details of his work as a blogger and DJ.

25/03/2024

Through These Eyes Rec. (2016-2020) focused its releases on Halfstep/Jungle, following an independent and DIY approach. I'm preparing an q&a with the owner Robyn. I'd like to at questions/statements to the interview. Please dm.

Through These Eyes is a record label based in Berlin, Germany that was founded back in 2016 by Robin (aka RBYN). Through These Eyes is a label that encompasses everything around its artists and their quality music repertoire and its up-tempo resonance. It focuses on Halfstep and Jungle sounds within...

22/03/2024

The short version is funny. The long version is just as dramatic. https://www.djbooga.com/the-epic-games-bandcamp-deal/

10/03/2024

Tonight at 7pm on Radio Blau - Bass Music Leipzig History Sessions Part 1: Porpoise & Francis in conversation with Malcolm, Snoopy and me about the beginnings of Jungle / Drum and Bass in Leipzig in the 90s. The discussion with questions from the audience took place in January and is the result of the loosely organised Bass Music Group. If you fancy some slightly dusty but still very original anecdotes from Leipzig's 90s club culture with a strong Saxon accent, feel free to tune in. I think it's great that we still have a good connection after all these years and try to shed some light on the era from today's perspective. Long live breakbeat music and people with their hearts in the right place. One love.

16/02/2024

In 2012 I got hooked on Chicago footwork thanks to the Bangs & Works compilations on Planet Mu and the tempo crossover to jungle by Machinedrum, Rashad, Om Unit, Fracture, Ital tek & co. A dozen years later, Schmeichel (Leipzig) and Shane Lizard (Berlin) managed to build a musical bridge to the hometown of footwork and JANA RUSH, one of the genre's most active protagonists. Oh happy day! Schmeichel + Shane Lizard - Daphne (Jana Rush Remix) on Defrostatica is out now everywhere.

02/02/2024

Tonight!

02/02/2024

Welcome wrk.dat to the label!

24/01/2024

With Last Week Despite, I want to try something new on my blog. I'm linking articles about the music industry from the perspective of an indie label owner and sorting out my thoughts on the subject. This could be relevant for artists, producers and remixers and, in the best case, trigger a discussion on the topics. The first issue is about the film The Creator, the relationship between Google and Spotify, news about Bandcamp and the new owner Songtradr.

founded Defrostatica, this is my blog

19/12/2023

Spectrum 004 is out now! Nine bass music recommendations feat. Jana Rush, Alza54, Ghostwhip, Patrik Cure, Garneau, Dance Maniacs, A.Fruit, Quartz and Breakage.

Nine bass music recommendations feat. Jana Rush, Alza54, Ghostwhip, Patrik Cure, Garneau, Dance Maniacs, A.Fruit, Quartz and Breakage.

15/12/2023

Jermaine Soul and Utelka spoke in an interview about the genesis of Seven Sisters, how they deal with depression and suicidal thoughts as artists and why passive empathy - in the sense of being there and listening - is also very important. https://www.djbooga.com/jermaine-soul-utelka-interview/

12/12/2023

Red flags: tech over trust, "free services" over craft, elbow mentality over shared experiences, shortcuts over context.

05/12/2023

Third issue of writing on bass music releases I discovered on Bandcamp, this time including a recorded mix and a playlist on Apple Music, Spotify and Deezer.
✨ https://www.djbooga.com/spectrum-003/

29/11/2023

Boom! Out now: https://pablodread.bandcamp.com/album/nobody-pablo-dread-remix

28/11/2023

https://playlist.link/spectrum for the Bandcamp / Apple Music / Spotify / Deezer people

26/11/2023

Bandcamp music purchases I recommend. https://www.djbooga.com/spectrum-002/

17/11/2023

23 hybrid bass music tracks ♠️ https://playlist.link/fya

17/11/2023

My latest music purchases on Bandcamp. https://bandcamp.com/djbooga

19/10/2023

28/06/2023

moin · pt1 autonomic · pt2 electro

Daniel Myer invited me to play the opening set as Square7 at the 30 years HAUJOBB anniversary show on Whitsun 2023 "Wave & Gotik Treffen" festival weekend in Leipzig. Daniel requested me to record the

03/06/2023

Recorded the Square7 set from the WGT weekend. One hour Autonomic and one hour Electro. If you are interested, please contact me directly.

12/03/2023

"Sometime ideas, like men, jump up and say 'hello'. They introduce themselves, these ideas, with words. Are they words? These ideas speak so strangely. All that we see in this world is based on someone's ideas. Some ideas are destructive, some are constructive. Some ideas can arrive in the form of a dream. I can say it again: some ideas arrive in the form of a dream." – Log Lady

19/02/2023

"Good evening, this is the intergalactic operator, can I help you?"
"Yes, I'm trying to reach flight commander P. R. Johnson, on Mars, flight 2-4-7"
"Very well, hold on please, you're through"
"Thank you, operator"

04/02/2023

All Colours Are Beautiful

27/01/2023

What has changed in terms of equal rights in music and drum and bass in particular since 2012? Looking back at this interview by Tina makes it clear that there is still a lot work to be done.

DJ Storm, Alley Cat and DJ Flight are talking to Tina about being female players in a male-dominated drum and bass scene.

23/01/2023

The highlights of last weekend in London in no particular order, as I am still reeling from the energy of the friends and their love of the music that is so close to my heart: Alley Cat blending Universe by Marcus Intalex into Axis by Spirit at Planet Wax / nerding with Dispondant about Fruity Loops vs MPC vs modular / paying contactless literally everywhere / accidental and cordial first meeting with Jon1st and Piotr in the front row on the Exit mainstage floor / experience Sinistarr‘s excellence in djing two nights in a row / random chat with a lad on the Exit night floor who had no love for halftempo / clinical beats on a function pa delivered by dBridge & Skeptical / amazing hospitality by the Planet Wax crew for the label takeover alongside Subsidance and Futurepastzine / first time meeting with Defrostatica artists Rawtrachs (Made2Faze), Utelka and Jermaine Soul in the dance at Planet Wax / excited exchange with Piotr & Benncart from Poland / it‘s a long and cold way from East to West London after midnight / reconnecting with Charlotte & Christian from my hometown Leipzig in the dance at Planet Wax / having the best spicy Chicken Wings ever / watching Sun People dj in the flow / relaxing down by the River Thames in Hammersmith / thank you Joe Press for the invitation / big thanks to my friend Elena for having me - best night out this Saturday, innit?! :)