Do you remember the moment you found your true calling?
Dash
Berlin: That moment began at 14 when my older sister took me to my first club
experience. For any party goer, it’s common to look for people you know and
want to meet. For me however, I found my eyes fixated purely on the DJ. After
convincing the DJ to let me sit with him in the DJ booth, i watched in awe as
this artist wowed the crowd all night and the rest is history.
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HC:
You were first inspired by your father who played the drums for a jazz band.
How did electronic music interest you?
DB:
I was a fan of electronic music from my high school days and worked in a record
store and became a collector of vinyl trance music.
HC:
There was a time when you had to face personal problems before Dash Berlin was
formed.
DB:
I think I would be jobless actually. Before Dash Berlin started, I lost my job
and at that time I still had my friends backing me up; we had great times but I
was unsure what life was going to bring me. Then ‘Till the Sky Falls Down’ got
picked up by Armada Music as a record company.
HC:
How was Dash Berlin formed and why did you decide to call it so?
DB:
Well it sparked in the Love Parade in Berlin itself, in Germany in 1999 or
2000. I was performing under different aliases at that time and I witnessed one
of the most crowded Love Parade editions ever being held at one million people,
going through the city streets of Berlin, following the trucks with electronic
music playing. You have to see these DJ booths which are placed on the trucks. People
were dancing on the trucks but also following the trucks through the city and
it was just one big gathering of people who like electronic music. And when I
saw that whole spectacle going by I climbed up a lightning pole took pictures
like a panoramic view; I still have those pictures. And I knew from that moment
on I wanted to do something with Dash Berlin or with Berlin at that point, with
Berlin as a name for my DJ name eventually.
HC:
Have there been times when your friendship and partnership has been tested?
DB:
We have our differences but in the end we also have the same goal and that’s
enjoying what we do and doing something we’re good at. And we can always throw
stuff at each other like, okay what if we do it like this or what if we bring
down the tempo or what if we bring in this melody. And we are always able to
listen to each other and I think that makes Dash Berlin unique also in terms of
looking at the future. We don’t want to stand still and do the same thing we
did. We want to move forward. And I think that’s also one of the things dance
music stands for. It is really fast, it is really ongoing but that’s also what
you know keeps you really sharp as a producer. As a DJ, you want to stay on top
that’s a drive you need to have to keep going. If you’re standing still, you’re
looking backward. It’s not going to happen, it’s not going to work.
