Position: Export Manager / Label Manager (Jamaican Music)
Date of birth: 25.10.1958, Engers-Neuwied
Other places you have lived: 1979 – 1987 Berlin, 1988 – 2004 Hamburg
First record ever bought: UFO “Prince Kajuku” (7Inch)
Five all time favourite records: Too many to mention – there are minimum 10000 songs, tracks and mixes I really recommend, and besides the artists the musicians, producers, (re)-mixers and as well the label identity are very important for me – and everyday I get to learn new ones !!! But I give it a try for a few name droppings and connections of artist / musicians / producer names who influenced me already quite a while ago in no particular order: Prince Far I, Adrian Sherwood, Tackhead & Sugarhill Posse, James Brown, Afrika Bambaataa, Time Zone, Soul Sonic Force, King Tubby, Scientist, Prince Jammy, Roots Radics, Mikey Dread, Jackie Mittoo, Madonna, Nile Rodgers, Jellybean, Arthur Baker, Latin Rascals, Francois Kevorkian, Shep Pettibone, Kraftwerk, Can, The Clash, Sex Pistols, The Ramones, UK Subs, The Ruts, Buzzcocks, The Cure, Crass, Human League, Cabaret Voltaire, Fad Gadget, Tuxedomoon, Residents, Chrome, David Bowie, Iggy Pop, Lou Reed, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Jimi Hendrix, The Doors, Rare Earth, Temptations, Pink Floyd, T.Rex, Deep Purple, Rolling Stones, The Beatles, Udo Lindenberg …
Party/club/concert that changed my life (or was at least very influential for me): Again, too many to mention but here are some to give you an idea: 1. Aftershow party in 1980 when being DJ and barkeeper in the Berlin Punk/New Wave pub/club ‘Shizzo’ with having the original four The Ruts members dancing with me on the bar after their Kant Kino concert 2. Limelight N.Y. – Underground Resistance with the original three members Mike Banks, Jeff Mills & Rob Hood (this was at the time of a New Music Seminar – I lost the year, who can help ?) 3. Visiting the Summer Jam Festival in Cologne every year from 1994 to 2007 – with the ‘Who Is Who’ of the Jamaican Music circuit, in the crowd and backstage!
Favourite food: The cooking of my wife Walou
Learned profession: bank merchant & economist
Music is my life but I also like very much: reading crime thrillers & detective novels, having a 10 to 12 hours sleep
Groove Attack member since: 2004
Favourite internetsite: www.discogs.com, www.skysaw.org/onu
Favourite sports team: Schalke 04
