Heavy podcast for Clubbing Spain
   recorded at Musikfreunde, Dresden

EBM Yugoslavian Italo Industrial Synth Pop JustRhythms NDW plus an inofficial Mick Wills edit – my recent set from Musikfreunde @ Sektor Evolution (30th of May) became the podcast for Clubbingspain.com. Each single track was edited. The third quarter was sheer madness – N:trance. And the closing is an edit of somewhat of a leftfield Donna Summer. I feel love. Along with an interview in Spanish about recent music and gossip, amigo mio. The English version further down if you feel like while listening …

BTW – after me played Monomood (shtum) his techno live set and Bronko T (Private Message/VMBT) a fabulous set of American house on the authentic and hard side of things. What a night … ! oOoOoh!

Read here (Spanish; English version down here):
clubbingspain.com/podcast/2015/cs-podcast-184-sneaker.html

And again this photo …




For an intro for the podcast we’ve got a few questions answered by Sneaker DJ:

What are you busy in these days?

My Holistical EP on Lunatic just hit the shops and now I am trying to get grip on our project for Otto Kraanen’s Bordello A Parigi label. Our band is called Bionda E Lupo (the blonde & the wolf). People get really confused with all my names, but I like alter egos and clichés, so this is the one for synth pop ballads, krauty wave and space disco.

How do you focus summer time in terms of production/gigs? Is it so different than winter time?

Sure it is. As I am a club DJ – preferably with fog and strobe – I am playing less in summer and I use the time to be in the studio to prepare an EP of ghetto house for autumn named ‘Meet The Heat’ (though I obtained an AC for the hot season), an EP for Rat Life and a one-shot joint venture named Dérive with my Greek buddy June on Uncanny Valley.

Do you feel yourself playing in Ibiza?

Haha, certainly not! Unless you invite me to some Balearic / Cosmic session.

Explain us something about your Dunkeltier alias?

Dunkeltier is a German name on purpose. Unlike in the house music circuit, German wave itself has a strong identity until today. Under this moniker – which means dark animal – I subsume edits, remixes, sets and productions of wave music.

Your bio introduces you as the voice of Serial Error aka Lupo. Explain us something about that?

Serial Error is a loose project of Jacob Korn, Credit 00 and me that we came up with for Red D.s project ‘Our House Is Still New’ on We Play House Rec.. Among others Jaques Renault and Optimo have chosen aliases in tribute to the Belgian New Beat sound – so did we. In October I will release the Meet The Heat EP with a new Serial Error track in collab with DJ Smiley – a Dresden old school acid head known for his Planet Underground releases.
I lend my voice to both tracks and I do the male vocal parts in our synth pop project Bionda E Lupo.

What do you enjoy more: producing or singing?

Don’t ask daddy who’s his favourite cutie!

How was first contacts with Frigio?

I sent Juanpablo the Twilight Ritual and the Esplendor Geometrico remix after he started the label. I thought a guy who releases Traxx must be very open minded. And he was more than that – he became a friend.

By the way, Juanpablo’s record label is very different that other labels you are collaborating with like Macadam Mambo? Did you see your self in a record label like Macadam Mambo few years ago? How many record labels are you collaborating so far?

I was always as versatile as I am now. No single label could manage my escapades. Closely affiliated I am with Frigio, Uncanny Valley and their dirty shoot-off Rat Life.

You did a remix of Esplendor Geométrico. How did you get in contact – in terms of music – with spaniard industrial band?

I received their music along with albums by Nitzer Ebb, Portion Control, Tommi Stumpf and all the old school electro. So it was rather about the time of production and genre than the local origin. Juanpablo made the contact by Andrés from the Rotor shop in Madrid.
Later I explored the classics like Aviador Dro, Diseño Corbusier and the Bakalao scene.

Where you get ideas for your music? References?

It’s always the history educating me. I am not watching clouds, birds or something like that. Basically I am referencing the electronic 80s – from NDW (the ‘New German Wave’ scene) to Big Apples Nu Groove Records.

Have you ever played in Spain?

I played in Madrid for Zodiac, who keep the stakes high. I’d love to play Femur, but they are focussed on live-PAs, which I am not going for soon. Barcelona should happen at some point – I am sure. I wonder what happened to the Valencian Bakalao scene?

Are your parties ElektroTekknoKlash still working? And record label?

Nope, it’s defunct since I left the town. My friends there moved into obscure things like 9-5 jobs and family.

Btw, are you from Jena? Explain us something about old electronics music from your city? Where you come musically when you were young in your city? Do you have old synths from DDR?

I was born in Jena. I was dancing and gazing at the turntables all night long at parties in squats and abandoned buildings for the first time at the innocent age of 15. And before there ain’t really old electronic music before we got drown in capitalism. But to stay within our domain I wanna mention The Exaltics who nowadays run Solar One Music and released Andreas Gehm and Helena Hauff. So they have this Panzerkreuz/Bunker joint to the Netherlands.



What do you try to show with your podcast?

I try to break established concepts and closed boundaries without denying the ‘order to dance’. Therefore I edit and dub Yugoslavian disco synth pop, indulged into trippy industrial, layered electroacoustic experiments from the early 70s on rhythmic loops from the early 80s. I played this risky set at a huge club and people digged it really well. In fact I believe that the recording can not transport the intense and demanding athmosphere especially of the third quarter of mad percussion in this hour. This won’t change – you have to have the club experience! My studio is the foreplay and payback to the scene, a podcast just a teaser for next weekend.

Projects for the future?

After the Algerian Rai EP for Rat Life and the Meet The Heat EP I’m in the mood to dig deeper into odd rhythms from even odder drum machines. But also low profile drum machines like the DR-660 are triggering me to trigger them in exchange to spit some bouncin ghetto house beats full of low end and syncopated percussion!
And finally there has to be an EP for Frigio! Again I will remix hidden European treasures plus some classic Detroit techno influenced by Kevin Saunderson on the flipside.