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Ninna V (PRT): “Once I started, I got into the flow”
Portugese Ines Ninna Ramada aka techno DJ/producer Ninna V remembers her first gig very well: “Honestly, I was a train wreck.”
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Gino Lightner (USA): “I won them over in the end”
In 2014 American DJ/producer Gino Lightner told me the story of his DJ debut. “I convinced them that a DJ was more cost-effective.”
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Enrico Sangiuliano (ITA): “24 hours of non-stop pure madness”
We met at an ADE network event in 2014. That same year Italian DJ/producer Enrico Sangiuliano told met the story of his first gig. “For the first time I realized the real meaning of the word ‘amazing’.”
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Lisa Lashes (UK): “I was shitting myself”
In 2016 I interviewed Lisa Lashes about her DJ debut. “Unknown to me, two promoters were on board.”
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Dosem (ESP): “I remember those days well”
We met in 2016 at a beach party in Noordwijk (NL). Of course, I seized the moment and asked Spanish DJ/producer Marc Dosem if I could interview him about his DJ debut. A few months later I did. “We rented a ‘secret’ house halfway some mountain.”
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Prinz (BEL): “Models, gays and party people”
In 2015 I met the legendary Café d’Anvers DJ Prinz (Vincent Buss). Not long after that he told me about his debut. “Models, gays and party people.”
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Skuffa (NL): “The response was quite positive”
A birthday party at a motor club. That’s where Dutch hardcore producer and DJ Skuffa had his first gig in front of an audience. In 2015 he told me the story of his DJ debut “The music hit me like a bomb.”
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Jaydee (NL): “Just being silly behind the decks”
‘My first DJ gig, what can I say about that?’, whas the first thought that came to Robin Albers’ aka Jaydee’s mind when I asked him for this interview. After giving it some thought, he decided to share the story of his debut with me. “That’s where I got punched in the nose for the first time.”
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Raw Underground’s Jasper Wognum (NL): “Pff, I was seriously nervous”
Raw Underground-member Jasper Wognum started his music career solo. His first gig took place in 1991. In 2014 he told me his story. “That’s when I learned: never leave the house without your vinyl.”
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Georgio Schultz (NL): “All I cared about was music, music and more music”
When we met in 2015, we appeared to share several good friends. No wonder that we instantly got along as well. Dutch DJ/producer Georgio Schultz remembers his first gig in Haarlem very well. “My DJ debut was at a party in a large town house.”
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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.”
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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.”
