Due to the high frequency of good club tunes in the charts of that era, Da Tilt fell in love with dance music. Acts like Inner City, The KLF, The Shamen, 808 State, Soul II Soul, Mantronix, Adamski, and 49ers were among others early inspirations. In 1991 De-Construction became Da Tilt’s favourite label with top acts like K-Klass, Usura, Bassheads and N-Joi.
1992 was the year of UK hardcore from
labels such as Suburban Base, Moving Shadow, and XL Recordings. In that time Da Tilt didn’t knew much about all the great white labels flooding around in the UK. He experienced that stuff in the early 21th century by joining forums such as www.backtotheoldskool.co.uk and www.oldskoolanthemz.co.uk . While until 1992 Da Tilt only listened to music from self-recorded tapes, he started to buy vinylz in 1993, His first 12” was The Family We Never Had by Hyper-on-Experience. Da Tilt’s vinyl collection can be viewed here:
http://www.discogs.com/user/Tribaltek. From 1993 to 1995 Da Tilt was following several different styles of dance music: Drum n Bass (mostly the jungle stuff), UK- and Eurohouse (Rollo, Livin Joy, Nush etc), and the german acid and hardtrance stuff. In that time he followed regularly the Steve Mason Experience on BFBS radio, which had a huge impact on Da Tilt’s development of style. From 1995 – 2005 Da Tilt was following mostly house (Speed Garage, Disco House) and trance music (1999-style: Ferry Corsten, Lange, The Space Brothers). In the beginning of the 21th century he also started to listen to techno again. In the second half of the 00s his techno style was turning away from the harder techno into the direction dubtechno and deep house. Parallel he starts to listen to the deep and dub-influence dubstep. You can listen to a fine dubstep mix from Da Tilt covering lots of classics at
http://soundcloud.com/datilt/sets/da-tilts-classic-dubstep-mix-1/ Furthermore Da Tilt played lots of newskool jungle in the 00s. Da Tilt came back to the jungle sounds, because he found a great mix from the Champion Puffa recorded on the web in 2005. Afterwards Da Tilt was following the Puffa show regularly through web radio. These Friday nights are legendary. In the last couple of years Da Tilt has played at several locations in Greifswald and in the Ruhr area in Germany. Major styles are Ragga, Bass, Techno, House and Ambient
