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DJ --- "I did my first ever DJ gig in 1984. A school disco with two turntables, a tape deck, and a bunch of italodisco and synthpop records -plus cheesy heavyrock and ballads to please the crowd. And I was called DJ Bon Jori..."

"I got introduced to the art of DJing through radio; hearing shows like Rakt Över Disc and Metropol on the Swedish radio made me interested in what it was all about. In the early 90's DJ Kapa, a resident at a club called DisCemi, became my first real connection to actual DJing; how to beatmix, build an evening etc... Watching him work in the DJ booth for a couple of years almost every weekend gave me a good idea how to work even a difficult crowd."

"But my DJ career did not really start until 1995 when I heard Derrick May's DJ set from the Swedish radio, recorded at a club called Monday Bar in Stockholm. Simply an awesome selection. That's when I decided to buy a pair of decks to complement the record collection I had acquaired during the years. Also, this was a time when I realized I could actually end up playing in places where I didn't have to make any musical compromises. My first real DJ gig was in 1996 in the city of Joensuu, and another soon after that in Vaasa. My third ever DJ gig was at the Transmusical Festival in France in December that same year infront of thousands of ravers... After that I've played clubs and festivals all over the world from Singapore to Sao Paolo, Hong Kong to San Francisco, Sydney to Montreal, Moscow to Miami, Irkuts to New York... not to mention all over Europe and the UK."


LIVE --- I never intended to do any live gigs, and I'm still not quite sure how I discovered myself playing my first ever live gig - an F comm party at the REX Club in Paris in September 19th 1996, just when my first F comm album was released. The show was a success, and I played actually more as a live act between 1996-1999 than as a DJ. At the time the live equipment I used were Amiga 500 for sequencing and sampling (as a monitor I used an old 4" LCD-tv, from which I could barely see which files to load -but that was enough), Yamaha DX-100, and Roland R8mkII, plus an odd effect. Later in '97 I updated the setup as the Amiga fell apart during a gig (I had to play two gigs in Spain by using only the R8mkII), and the MPC-2000 became the backbone of the live."

"In 1999 I decided to focus on making music and DJing, meaning that I was fed up with taking equipment from the studio with me every weekend, then plugging them back in after the weekend gigs and hope that nothing was broken. Also, I was frustrated with the idea that people were coming to see a live act, good music wasn't enough anymore, you needed a performance. Unfortunately this also meant that my last live gig took place in Lisbon, 29.6.1999."

"In 2003 I prepared a new and improved live act. Still just me alone on stage with my machines, no vocalists or musicians, but new (and suitable old) technology that allows more freedom musically, and I wanted to do something I hadn't done for a while. I still play live occasionally but it has to be the right place and the right time."

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