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Gabriela Penn (DE): “Afterwards, all I felt was love”
As many others, techno talent Gabriela Penn started out with vinyl. She remembers her DJ debut very well. In 2017 she told me her story. “They say: eat bananas when you’re nervous. So I did.”
Fire Between Us (NL): “Thinking back, I still feel the rush”
After our first meet in 2015 we never stopped talking about music. In December of that year Kai Guissepin aka Fire Between Us told me about his first gig in his hometown Zwolle. “Thinking back, I still feel the rush.”
Edwin Rutgers (NL): “Waiting for the sound equipment”
We met at the opening of the Recycle Lounge Gallery Club in Amsterdam, where he was playing in the garden area. Not much later I asked Dutch DJ Edwin Rutgers about his first gig. “Our goals with Drie Nul Drie was to organize small-scale, beautiful and intimate events at special locations.”
Felix Kröcher (DE): “Within 20 minutes the floor was packed”
In 2006 German DJ/producer Felix Kröcher was elected Best New DJ by the music magazine Raveline. In 2020 he’s still going strong! In 2015 we had a chat about his DJ debut. “Did I make any mistakes? Where to start?”
Damion Pell (AUS): “That performance went terrible!”
The Australian Damion Pell performed mostly in the UK and Europe and is the managing director of Decoded Magazine. In 2016 we spoke about his DJ debut. “It’s an honor to DJ, not a right.”
Calm Chor (IND): “Music was my lifeline”
Our first real conversation took place while walking through Amsterdam during ADE 2016. Later the Indian Calm Chor aka Ashvin Mani Sharma told me about his surprising DJ-debut. “I had two faders per channel and small fiddly EQ knobs.”
