Celebrating 15 years of DJing 🎧
Actually, it’s 16 years, my first event on Resident Advisor was in 2010. I was 18 years old.
There’s always a moment when your heart is beatmatching with the bass, and that’s the reason why I’m still doing what I’m doing.
I’ve always been a producer and a DJ, a poet ever since I quit being the singer of an indie punk band, something that shaped me and my sound forever. From tech house to house, from deep house to harder sounds, from experimental stuff to everything in between always evolving, but always constant.
What would I want to hear on the dancefloor? What would surprise me? Sometimes with vocals, sometimes without. But always with a cowbell. There were so many big names and labels who supported me - there were options to get things to another stage. But I always chose the underground. I just wanted to do my thing. Founded a book publishing and a record label called Do The Taboo, and the name speaks for itself.
I played dream shows in Berghain/Panorama Bar, Ibiza, saw to much nice festivals and stages. I traveled across nearly every continent. I saw beautiful places, beautiful hotels, beautiful beaches, beautiful smiles, beautiful dancers, and beautiful sound systems. I made a lot new friends! I went to the most fucked up afters. Sometimes I got bored. Sometimes I got annoyed. Because being a traveling DJ can cost you everything. You’re always alone - whether you’re on the other side of the world or just a block away.
But you do it for the people, you do it for the party, and of course, you do it for yourself.
Tomorrow I could die from cancer or get hit by a car, and it’s all over. It’s an unreal feeling to bring people together through music. Music makes people dance, and that’s therapy for me in an ugly world.
But how did Leonard Cohen say back in the day? „We’re ugly, but we have the music.”
Slides:
From now back to Baby-Bryan
Ps: playing at
@kater.berlin
With my friend
@fangodegustibus tomorrow🎶
Love,
B. #bryankessler
