THREE DECK WIZARD!
started telling their friends about what they were will go back – to be inspired like that. The rave scene was
witnessing. Four thousand people soon became six the same, no matter how you perceive it, it brought
The five definitive DJ sets
thousand people, which went onto eight thousand. The people together. It didn’t matter whether you were black,
reaction of the crowd was incredible; people were passing white, Chinese, gay, rich or skint. No-one cared as long SunriSe - 1989
him hats, beads, coats, anything they could give to register as you were dancing to Todd Terry or Primal Scream or “The one that made me completely and utterly
their appreciation. Graeme Park or Sasha… fantastic. That’s why it grew. famous. I was relatively unknown at the time,
According to Carl, this collective and communal ethos Because for once in our life, we were unified by and as a result was booked to play early in the
immediately reminded him of the early rave days, where something we could all enjoy. Breaking down the barriers morning, at 10am. I suppose it was expected
barriers were broken down and people came together, of negativity… and Burning Man certainly has that people would be leaving while I was playing,
united by the music. It was, he admits, inspiring. ethos.” but nobody left. There were three turntables
“It’s not just about electronic music either,” he proselytizes. set up, and I had been practising with three,
“It’s about folk music, drum circles… it’s about whatever Soul music not to any great extent, but I knew I could do
you feel. Salsa dancing… it had everything. They had this It’s this inclusive aesthetic that informs ‘Black Rock it. People might have thought they had heard
soul train going across the Playa. It was this old steam train, Desert’, too. Yes, it’s tough and uncompromising, but everything, but they hadn’t heard this. I
and there was a couple of guys and girls dressed up in ’70s deep within its mechanical grooves and brutal techno remixed Lil Louis’ ‘French Kiss’ live. It was a
gear playing funk music. I was thinking, ‘I just don’t believe workouts beats the heart of community. This is techno — moment. I never looked back. The legend of
this!’ Funk music on a soul train in the desert and people and all shades of the techno canon are on display here; The Three Deck Wizard was born. My girlfriend
dancing behind it. Some people had probably never heard from the stylish Germanic man machine minimalism of at the time handed out business cards, and my
funk music before, and yet there it was! Tiefschwarz to Robbie Rivera, Joachim Garraud and Joey life changed.”
“And there was a London bus too, which picked people up Beltram — as soul music. Techno as rebel music. It’s a
and took them around the Playa. The mentality of buying a clarion call for all techno devotees and those dissatisfied Dance Valley, amSterDam, 1992
London bus, shipping it to America, modifying it, and then with what other music gives them. No wonder Cox “Me and Billy Nasty were the only English DJs
driving people around the Playa… for no reason. I think believes it to be one of his most significant releases ever. asked to play the first Dance Valley festival. We
that is unbelievable. That’s one of the reasons I loved it and “I think it will truly show people who I am as a person,” played the last set — I was playing a lot of
tough techno records from Germany and
Belgium and it was the birth of Dance Valley.
Based on how we finished it off. It made my
name in Europe.”
the Omen, FrankFurt, 1995
“I started making a name for myself in
Germany, playing there at Sven Väth’s
residency and at the Dorian Gray. I was one of
the first British DJs to go over to Germany, to
break that mould, to break down those
barriers. But this was particularly special
because it was here where I first played an
eight-hour set. I was booked to play a
four-hour set but ended up playing for eight
because Sven was late. I had to play all the
B-sides! It was a breakout gig for me in
Germany.”
Space, ibiza, 1995
“This was where the Terrace was born. Because
there was no Terrace as we know it today.
Brandon Block used to play records behind the
bar, but it wasn’t a proper set-up. However, I
was asked to play there as part of a Radio 1
party. So I went back to my mobile disco days
and set it up. I played from two in the
afternoon to eight in the evening. It was
unbelievable. I remember playing Daft Punk,
“The things that I
but the record got blown off by a gust of wind.
So there was no music. The record got passed
back to me, I scratched it in and the whole
experienced at
place went completely mental. Pepe, the
owner, was there and he built a booth after
Burning Man, the
that gig. The Terrace was born.”
things that I saw, the
bOnDi beach, SyDney, 1999/2000
“The turn of the millennium. I was being
people I met, how I
recorded for Radio 1 – they had 12 DJs doing
an hour set each across the world. I played the
felt about it when I
first hour from Australia – probably 1pm in the
UK. Welcome to the 21st Century. I played for
left, it gave me
three hours and then left in the year 2000 and
then took a flight for eight hours across the
another purpose to
dateline to Hawaii. Landed at 7.30pm, and got
my passport stamped with 1999. I went back in
live.”
time, and did the last hour set for Radio 1. I
bent time!”
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